Author Archives: Laura Toran

Graduate student Paul Zarella and undergraduate Kelly Devlin and Ashley Newman are helping with monitoring at the bioretention basin outside the new science building on campus.  Ashley is downloading data from the wells while Paul and Kelly install soil moisture … Continue reading →

  Along with my graduate student Emily Arnold and undergrad assistant Chris Witzigman, I’ve been busy installing water quality loggers on the Tookany.  We are assessing baseline water quality and trying to develop some techniques for evaluating the effectiveness of … Continue reading →

Two of my graduate students, Haley Rodack and Trevor Klein successfully defended their masters theses and graduated this May. Haley’s thesis was on fracture flow modeling and Trevor looked at nitrate retention in Pennypack Creek.  Here Haley is helping Trevor … Continue reading →

Today I took several students to see the green and blue roofs on the apartment complex next to the campus.  Probably the only blue roof in the city, it works like a green roof except without the plants.  We are … Continue reading →

Trevor and I have been trying to figure out what the nitrate signal at the water treatment plant (WTP) looks like.  We have data downstream that looks like a diurnal signal with some funky switches.  Does the WTP have a … Continue reading →