Monthly Archives: February 2019

Cold weather slug test

The undergrad hydro class learned how to slug test wells this week.  We went out to the Ambler campus where I have some wells in the Stockton formation, a nice sandstone aquifer.  Cold weather didn’t affect our test results, just … Continue reading

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Undergrad research on OM in stormwater sediment

Undergrad research assistant Ashlynn Young has helped us develop a technique for measuring organic matter the stormwater sediment samples that grad student Liz Cushman collected.  People keep asking us how much organic matter is in the sediment — now we … Continue reading

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Frozen stormwater

Postdoc Sarah Beganskas and I went out early in February to install some temperature loggers for citizen science monitoring and ran into a limitation: the stormwater was frozen in the culverts and pipes.  We were also scouting sites to install … Continue reading

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