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 …
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 …
The Watershed Hydrology Lab will be at the Geological Society of America annual meeting in early November. Graduate student Jeff Timmons will be giving a poster in the Hydrogeology session on Sunday, November 4th. Come visit him at booth 162 in the poster hall and learn about the isotopic landscape …
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 …
This year’s symposium occurred on October 5-6, 2016, and featured the theme of “Sustainability and Resilience on the Land-Water Continuum.”
Watershed Hydrology lab undergraduate Cody Unferdorfer will be representing the lab at this year’s Geological Society of America meeting in Denver in September. The work that he will be presenting will build on preliminary work that won the Kent State University Undergraduate Research Symposium Geology/Geography division in April, and Cody …
You are invited to attend Eric Traub’s public MS thesis defense in Geology. “The Effects of Biogeochemical Sinks on the Mobility of Contaminants in an Area Affected By Acid Mine Drainage, Huff Run, Ohio.” (Co-Advisors: David Singer and Anne Jefferson) Monday, Feb. 22, 12:30 pm in McGilvrey Hall, room 339, …
There are a number of good jobs for students looking for field experience ranging from zoology to botany to geography to hydrology available with Cleveland Metroparks this summer. Check them out: http://www.clevelandmetroparks.com/Uploads/Public/Documents/Jobs/2015NaturalResourcesSeasonals.pdf
via Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park Cuyahoga Valley National Park (CVNP) and its nonprofit friends group, the Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park, have a variety of summer internships and jobs to offerKent State University students. Ranging from Creative Writing and Guest Services Management to Environmental Education and Resource …
In a few minutes, I’ll be giving a cyberseminar in CUAHSI’s fantastic sustainable urban streams seminar series. You can join the seminar live at 3:30 pm, or watch a recording of it later. Either way, https://www.cuahsi.org/Posts/Entry/13551 is where you want to go to watch and listen. If you want to …