I’m super excited to share that recent PhD graduate Zia Ul Hassan published his first paper, and it’s a big one. The effects of climate change will continue to intensify over the coming decades, with bigger and more intense rainstorms. In urban watersheds, that means more stormwater reaching urban streams, …
The Watershed Hydrology Lab will be at the Geological Society of America annual meeting in early November. Anne will be giving a talk in the session on “Human Alterations of Landscape Connectivity” on Sunday, November 4th from 10:55-11:10 am. The session (which she’s also co-convening) at the Indiana Convention Center …
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 …
I’m pleased to announce that I’m leading a new multi-institution NSF-funded project investigating how stormwater decision making translates to environmental outcomes at the watershed scale. I’m collaborating with Aditi Bhaskar (Colorado State University), Kelly Turner (UCLA), and Dave Costello (Kent State University) on the project we’ve christened STORMS, for STream …
Later this month, Caytie, Garrett, and I will be representing the Watershed Hydrology Lab at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington. Garrett will be presenting the following talk on Monday at 2:55 in Conference Center Chelan 5. Abundance and Geomorphic Function of Wood in Urban Stream …
On March 15th, I’ll be at the Cleveland Metroparks Watershed Stewardship Center in Parma to talk with a very special group of people: the people in the Watershed Volunteer Program. The volunteers in this program take part in the active management and monitoring of the park system, becoming certified watershed …
Yesterday, I posted an epic analysis of my scientific reading habits in 2016, but I didn’t tell you about the papers I read last year that made my heart sing. And I didn’t take much time to brag about my own contributions to the scientific literature. So I’m going to …
On Thursday of @highlyanne’s week @realscientists, she was putting finishing touches on a research proposal to do new, cool science on stormwater managment. She also wanted to get people to realize that stormwater managment is already happening in their neighborhoods, so #SpotTheSCM was born.
For a week in October 2016, I had over 38,000 twitter followers as I took a turn hosting the @realscientists account. Of course, I spent a bunch of my time preaching the gospel of stormwater management. Here are tweets over two days synopsizing its history in 140 character bites.