Monthly Archives: June 2017

Real rain events create crowding at the lab benches

Both Chelsea Kanaley’s and Jim Berglund’s ISCO samplers triggered for a storm this month so we had almost 100 samples to filter all in one day.  The lab bench got crowded but no one mixed up samples.  Undergrad assistant Arnetia … Continue reading

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Fake rain for a geophysical survey

We don’t wait for rain if we don’t have to:  a sprinkler was used to create a rain event to monitoring using various geophysical techniques.  Grad student Vince Carsillo and undergrad assistant Tyler Wong are measuring the rain before the … Continue reading

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Assessing streams & teaching 3rd graders

Grad student Chelsea Kanaley and undergrad assistant Hayley Dashnaw were busy this month initiating a stream assessment campaign.  They will characterize 6 reaches of the Wissahickon for geomorphology, grain size, embeddedness, light, algae cover, and bank vegetation.  They also took … Continue reading

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