If you’ve spent time in or along urban streams, you’ve probably seen trash hanging out in or near the channel. This trash (or anthropogenic debris) can range from plastic bags and bottles to shopping carts and car tires. But some sections of urban streams have more trash than others. We …
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, …
Next week, the Watershed Hydrology Lab will be well represented at the CUAHSI 2014 Biennial Colloquium. We’ll be presenting four posters, so here come the abstracts… Development of hyporheic exchange and nutrient uptake following stream restoration Stuart Baker and Anne Jefferson Stream restoration is a multi-million dollar industry in Ohio, …
Next week, the Watershed Hydrology Lab will be well represented at the CUAHSI 2014 Biennial Colloquium. We’ll be presenting four posters, so here come the abstracts… After the dam comes out: groundwater-stream interactions and water quality impacts of former reservoir sites Krista Brown and Anne Jefferson Over that past decade, …
I got this email from someone at the Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park, and I thought I would share it here. Cuyahoga Valley National Park (CVNP) and its nonprofit friends group, the Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park, have a number of spring and summer internships and jobs to offer to …
Cross-posted at Highly Allochthonous This summer we were treated to not one but two dam removals on the Cuyahoga River, ~10 miles downstream from Kent. Those following me on twitter know that I obsessed about these removals all summer long, first as they were delayed by weeks of high water, …
Cross-posted at Highly Allochthonous It all began at the end of February, when I travelled to La Crosse, Wisconsin to the Upper Midwest Stream Restoration Symposium, which was a really stimulating and vital mix of academics, consultants, and government folks all interested in improving the state of the science and …
The 100th anniversary of Ohio’s greatest disaster is just days away. This epic hydro-meteorological event utterly ravaged river towns from Illinois to Ohio and beyond, but it seems like the event has largely been forgotten in history’s annals. Even flood-obsessed me had lived in Ohio for a few months before …
Cross-posted at Highly Allochthonous I’m not joining the exodus of geoscientists to AGU this week; I’m still recovering from November. I’m not sure whether I spent more time in Ohio or outside of it last month. The month started with the rain and runoff from our brush with Superstorm Sandy, …
These maps have come in awfully handy as I’m getting my bearings on Ohio’s geography, geology, and hydrology. Physiographic regions of Ohio Bedrock geology map Glacial map of Ohio Ohio 8-digit hydrologic units Ohio’s rivers (Figure B-1 on page 8 of the 2012 Integrated Report by Ohio EPA has more …