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Watershed Lab’s 2024 in Review

We are one amazing research group. We are a faculty lead (Anne), a technician (Andrea), a post doc (Lakelyn), a PhD student (Suffiyan), 2 MS students (Nurjahan and Sabrina), 6 undergraduates (Casey, Kayleigh, Arden, Morgan, Hope, and Henry), and 1 closely-affiliated faculty member (Liz). We published great science in four …

New paper! Effects of reclamation and deep ripping on soil bulk density and hydraulic conductivity at legacy surface mines

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 …

Surface runoff from a closed landfill and the effects on wetland suspended sediment and water quality

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 …