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I attended the last meeting of the National Academy of Sciences committee on the Edwards Aquifer Habitat Conservation Plan.  We met at Woods Hole to finish our final report — peaceful place to do writing.  After four years, it was … Continue reading →

Leanne Wiskemann began working on a project this summer to sample sediment from urban streams and look for sediment-bound P.  We are exploring different digestion methods.  Unfortunately, the ICP is down this summer, which makes it hard to analyze P.  … Continue reading →

It wouldn’t stop raining this month!  Luckily we were trying to monitor a few more storms on the Wissahickon with our nutrient loggers. Photo of the loggers at the site upstream of the Upper Gwynedd Wastewater Treatment plant.     … Continue reading →

PhD student Jim Berglund and I finally got to do a tracer test in the sinkhole near Tippery Spring in central PA.  Ellen Herman from Bucknell joined us to monitor the injection water.  We used our new fluoroscein loggers to … Continue reading →

Emily Arnold and I published her masters research on bank pin and turbidity monitoring in a special issue of the journal Water focusing on streambank erosion. Arnold, E., & Toran, L. (2018). Effects of Bank Vegetation and Incision on Erosion … Continue reading →

Chelsea Kanaley successfully defended her thesis on “Turbidity and nutrient response to storm events in the Wissahickon Creek, Suburban Philadelphia, PA” April 19.   Her work was funded by the William Penn Foundation. Congratulations!  

A collaboration with Penn State researchers Henry Lin and Guo Li resulted in an article on examining infiltration patterns using geophysics.  Jon Nyquist and grad student Lacey Pittman are also co-authors. Photo of dye trace in a trench surveyed with … Continue reading →

Liz Cushman and I started installing her stormwater samplers this month, in between snow events.  We will be putting stormwater bottles on hillslopes to capture stormwater runoff.  She also successfully defended her thesis proposal, so the research is off to … Continue reading →

Ellen Herman, Jim Berglund and I had two new papers accepted this past month.  The first is a book chapter summarizing our recent data from central PA springs and comparing it to the data from Shuster and White (1972).  We … Continue reading →

I met with faculty and students at Bucks County Community College in their new science building this month.  The students had a lot of questions about the job market and I explained some programs in our department at Temple University … Continue reading →