Congratulations to Dr. Colin Bell

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 at Purdue University under the mentorship of Dr. Sara McMillan. Colin’s PhD dissertation title was “INFLUENCE OF STORMWATER CONTROL MEASURES ON WATERSHED HYDROLOGY AND BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING.”

Colin was a key contributor to a 2015 paper on using isotope hydrograph separation to understand the contribution of stormwater ponds to urban headwater streamflow. He’s currently got two first author papers in review and much more still left to turn from dissertation to manuscript, so we’ll be seeing more good things coming out of his PhD work for the next several years.

Colin’s next stop is a postdoc with Dr. Terri Hogue at the Colorado School of Mines.