Congratulations to long-time collaborator and newly minted Ph.D., Dr. Colin D. Bell. Colin has been working on monitoring and modeling the downstream effects of stormwater ponds and wetlands in Charlotte, NC since he started graduate school there in 2011. Five years later, he’s defended his Ph.D. on June 30, 2016 …
Graduate student Laura Sugano will be representing the Watershed Hydrology lab at this year’s Geological Society of America conference in September. Even though this summer has been very dry, Laura has lots of great data to share with conference goers. Update: Laura will be giving a talk in the Urban …
The Watershed Hydrology Lab will be represented at the CUAHSI Biennial Symposium in July in West Virginia. Pedro Avellaneda and Laura Sugano have been awarded travel grants to present their research. Here’s Pedro’s abstract: Long-term simulation of green infrastructure effects at a catchment-scale Pedro M. Avellaneda1, Anne J. Jefferson2, Jennifer …
As a first product of post-doc Pedro Avellaneda’s work at Kent State, we were pleased to submit the following abstract to the 2016 Low Impact Development Conference. A short version of the work will be published as a conference paper in August, and we are preparing a more detailed version for …
Come one, come all to the internet phenom, the most nerdy fun alternative march madness event ever: Mammals March Madness 2016! http://mammalssuck.blogspot.com/2016/02/mammal-march-madness-2016.html?m=1 Will the snow leopard be upset by the Siberian chipmunk in the first round?* Unlikely. But what happens when the #8 seed Schoolcraft College Ocelots face the #9 …
2015 was an incredible year of scientific adventures for the Watershed Hydrology lab. Here are some of our highlights: These Piper diagrams show the geochemistry of flowback water from fracking operations in the Marcellus shale of Pennsylvania, relative to literature values of groundwater contaminated with road salt, septic waste, and animal …
Our work with Cleveland Metroparks on assessing the effects of retrofitting bioretention cells, rain gardens, and rain barrels into residential neighborhoods in Parma, Ohio has been been featured in several news stories thanks to a nice press release issued by Kent State. On November 20th, Cleveland.com ran the story: “Kent …
At the Geological Society of America meeting, Anne will be giving an invited talk in (T106) From Green Roofs and Gutters to Urban Streams: Advancing Urban Watershed Hydrology through Innovative Field and Modeling Approaches. On Monday, November 2nd, at 1:35 pm in BCC room 342, Anne will be talking about: …
There’s a fantastic podcast called “People Behind the Science” that “explore the lives and experiences of the people behind the research and scientific discoveries of today.” It was my honor to be interviewed on the podcast and talk about my own journey into research and my life outside of science. …
Can you see the Clean Water Act in there? And how much newer the phrase “green infrastructure” is? “Growing up” as a geomorphologist, I learned about stream restoration much more quickly than I did about stormwater management, but the Google Ngrams show pretty clearly that we’ve been talking and writing …