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I won the College of Science and Technology research award for 2018!  At the award dinner, there were 5 teaching awards for faculty and 1 research award.  My colleague Dr. Sujith Ravi won the mentoring award, giving our department two … Continue reading →

Three students presented abstracts at the annual GSA meeting in Indianapolis this month: Berglund, James, Toran, Laura, and Herman, Ellen.  Ca/Zr ratios and REE patterns as tracers for karst flow paths.  Geological Society of America Annual Meeting Indianapolis, IN November … Continue reading →

I was part of a panel to talk to the community about a coalition to develop a water quality improvement plan for the Wissahickon Creek.  The creek is challenged due to its urban setting and it will take a community … Continue reading →

Dr. Sarah Beganskas joined our group in mid-September.  She joined Temple University after getting at Ph.D. with Dr Andy Fisher at UC-Santa Cruz.  We waited about 2 seconds to get her out in the field to help with stream characterization … Continue reading →

Masters student Liz Cushman conducted a LiDAR survey of her field site at Roychester park with the help of Dr Jon Nyquist.  She recently completed flow routing analysis (right figure above) so she can map where stormwater flows down from … Continue reading →

Ashleigh Kirker joined my research group Fall semester 2018.  She comes from College of Charleston where she conducted a stormwater sampling project for her undergraduate thesis.  We connected over stories of chasing storms.  We plan to further explore research interests … Continue reading →

I spent the last week of this month visiting Russia and caught a ladybug colored street sweeper in action. Moscow is a busy but clean city!

Post doc Sarah Ledford departed for a faculty position at George State University. We spent our last day together catching up on a stream assessment at one of the logger sites we missed last summer. I’ll miss Sarah a lot, … Continue reading →

Vince defended his thesis on characterizing an urban lot using geophysics. He compared EM to ERT and ERT won this round. To be continued in PhD student Gina Pope’s research project… Congratulations Vince!

A team from Temple and Villanova worked hard on a report on our first year of monitoring the rain gardens by I-95.  Our hard work was recognized by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials as one of … Continue reading →