Author Archives: Laura Toran

Our team (MS student Kyle Collins, PhD candidate Gina Pope, Dr. Jon Nyquist and myself) installed a solar powered resistivity monitoring line at a stormwater basin in Upper Moreland Township.  One of the largest basins in the region, with a … Continue reading →

I found a new technique to install loggers and sample inside stormwater pipes.  I found a pipe seam wide enough to hold a meter stick, then attached the sensors to the meter stick.  It has held in place for several … Continue reading →

We were able to get out and survey our first stormwater basin using Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) to look at sediment distribution.  The GPR acted like a plow through the cattails in the basin.   We will compare the GPR data … Continue reading →

My graduate students and postdoc are slowly resuming field work to keep our loggers functioning and collect data while socially distancing.  We have forayed into the suburban watersheds and soon will have access to our Philadelphia stormwater basins.  It is … Continue reading →

My article on Groundwater-Surface Water Interaction was highlighted in the new edition of Encyclopedia of Water.  Free download! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/book/10.1002/9781119300762/homepage/samplecontent.html?campaign=dartwol|5257352606  

Like everyone else, I am teaching online now.  It is a 3-computer production as you can see from my setup: When I am not teaching or zooming into meetings, I am trying to keep an eye on our field equipment … Continue reading →

This month was full of meetings … but the field season is not far away.  On the last day in January (too late for blog), I met with area hydrogeologists at Rutgers University to talk about textbook author John Cherry’s … Continue reading →

I started teaching a 1 credit drone course this semester to introduce students to the joys of unmanned flights  I have 3o undergrads and 10 grad students in the class. The course gives me an excuse to keep in touch … Continue reading →

Dr. Sarah Ledford and I just got a paper accepted in Hydrological Processes on our nutrient monitoring in Sandy Run (tributary of the Wissahickon).  We used hysteresis plots to distinguish nutrient cycles caused by uptake versus variable source term.  A … Continue reading →

Our group attended the Delaware Watershed Research Conferencen Nov 19 at the Academy of Natural Sciences.  This conference is sponsored by our funding agency, the William Penn Foundation. Postdoc Sarah Beganskas presented on our analysis of a network of temperature … Continue reading →