New paper alert! Cuyahoga Valley National Park is pock-marked by reclaimed surface mines, but the park can’t get trees to grow on these sites to achieve true restoration. In this paper, we investigate what’s up with the soil physical and hydrologic properties and how a deep-ripping process might help the …
The Watershed Lab in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont seeks a graduate student to work on a fully-funded project on microplastics in Lake Champlain, beginning in June 2024. Lake Champlain is an 1100 km2 lake between Vermont and New York, and this …
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It’s been about a year since I’ve updated this blog, but it’s not that I didn’t have anything to say. Instead, members of the Watershed Hydrology lab were doing so many great things that I just didn’t do a good job of stopping to write them down here. But below, …
What did I do in the past year? Let’s make a go at counting. One NSF proposal funded and going. Read about the STORMS project, in which we’re trying to connect stormwater decision making to hydrologic and ecologic outcomes at the watershed scale. Two papers published, both open access. Read …
Congratulations to Catherine Ruhm, who defended her MS thesis in Geology in mid-November. Catherine took on a complicated and intensive project on the soils and hydrology of abandoned mine lands in Cuyahoga Valley National Park, collecting absolutely critical baseline data on the properties of five sites which had been mined …
Two Graduate Assistantships to study urban streams We are seeking two graduate assistants for an NSF-funded collaborative project aimed at understanding how stormwater management decisions translate to hydrologic and environmental outcomes in urban streams in Cleveland (Ohio) and Denver (Colorado). These funded graduate student researchers will join an interdisciplinary team …
Garrett Blauch defended his MS thesis on “Abundance, Mobility, and Geomorphic Effects of Large Wood in Urban Streams” on June 19, 2018. He then won 3rd place in the University Council on Water Resources conference poster competition less than two weeks later. Garrett spent hundreds of hours in 11 stream …
Laura Sugano successfully defended her MS thesis on April 2, 2018 and is all set for graduation next week. Laura’s thesis “Comparing Bioretention Cell and Green Roof Performance in Parma, OH” was the culmination of three years of work at the Cleveland Metroparks’ Watershed Stewardship Center, an innovative research and …
Congratulations to the Watershed Hydrology Lab’s two first year MS students for each achieving two big accomplishments. They have both successfully defended their MS thesis proposals, putting them in a great position to be productive on their research this summer. Also, both Caytie and Garrett were awarded Geological Society of America student …