Author Archives: Laura Toran

I just got back from the All Hands Critical Zone Network meeting at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory.  Great group of talks on how far the network has developed.  The tour of Lamont was interesting too.  The painted street with … Continue reading →

Coarse resolution (30-m) impervious cover (IC) tends to underpredict total IC compared to fine (1-m) resolution. Furthermore, using % IC as a metric to describe urban watersheds is problematic because parameters such as flashiness that correlate linearly over the full … Continue reading →

I published a book on how to make groundwater head maps as a contribution to the Groundwater Project. This project provides free learning materials on all topics groundwater. Check out the book and my interview!

I was interviewed for Talking Environment, a podcast from U Penn student Gevorg Ghazaryan.  We talked about topics ranging from stormwater management to karst hydrology!

I taught my last class at Temple U. this month!  I’ll be full time in the fall, but only doing research, then switch to part time as a research adjunct for a few more years.

Ashleigh Kirker PhD 2024 started a tenure track position at Virginia Tech in Jan 2025. Jim Berglund PhD 2019 is a tenure track faculty member at University of Wisconsin Platteville.  He stopped by the Temple booth at the recent NE-Central … Continue reading →

It’s nice to see the end of the winter (and digging loggers out of the ice to download data). But it has clearly been a heavy salting year for our area streams.  Most of the area streams I am monitoring … Continue reading →

Ryan Frederiks joined the USGS office in New Jersey after completing his postdoc at Temple.  Congratulations Ryan!

I spend the first week of December at AGU in Washington DC.  The NSF-funded critical zone group had 6 posters on data collected in our urban stream network.  My former postdoc, Ryan Frederiks, presented on noisy data in urban systems … Continue reading →

Ryan Frederiks presented on hydrograph separation techniques at the Society for Freshwater Science conference in June 2024.  He is finding our urban watersheds have similar amounts of new fraction (or stormwater) at low flow, but deviate at high flow.  TTF … Continue reading →