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Ken Schlosser successfully defended his MS thesis “Monitoring infiltration from natural storms using time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography”.  Congratulations Ken!  He will be returning to Weston Solutions in West Chester PA where he has been working on geophysical surveys to characterize … Continue reading →

I gave a presentation at EPA Headquarters this month as part of the webinar on STAR Performance and Effectiveness of Green Infrastructure Stormwater Management Approaches in the Urban Context: A Philadelphia Case Study Progress Review.  My talk summarized monitoring strategies … Continue reading →

Grad student Jim Berglund, undergrad Rachel Crowley, and I designed a sampling program for hormones in karst springs near Valley Creek just east of Philadelphia. We sampled springs varying distances from septic systems and roads, as well as in Valley … Continue reading →

This has been a busy month for the PennDOT project on the I-95 corridor.  All of the co-PIs are writing progress reports about our monitoring of plants, stormflow, and baseline water levels and water chemistry.  Postdoc Rob Rossi and I … Continue reading →

We have 46 data loggers on the Wissahickon as of April 2017.  That is one well instrumented stream!  Postdoc Sarah Ledford and I also created a web site to share data with collaborators:  http://sites.temple.edu/wissdata

This month saw a lot of projects for the Geopath project to help students enhance their preparation for careers: college approval of a new HAZWOPER course and associated certificate first set of internship applications sent to employers career night where … Continue reading →

Dr. Rob Rossi, PhD from University of Pittsburgh, arrived March 13 (just in time for that snow day mentioned in the previous post).  He is working with Rob Ryan and me on modeling and monitoring in the Wissahickon and at … Continue reading →

Over spring break we were supposed to do hormone sampling in Valley Creek Springs, install data loggers on the Wissahickon, put the ISCO samplers back out in Central PA , and do an infiltration test at the science building (SERC) … Continue reading →

I am meeting with a couple of undergraduates this semester for independent studies. Rachel Crowly is reading papers about contamination in karst systems, and will follow up with some sampling of local springs.  Trevor Murray is reading about groundwater-surface water … Continue reading →

We pulled our urban monitoring data loggers  and karst spring ISCO samplers to keep them from freezing over the winter and do some calibration.  Looking at all of the data we collected inspired us to write up some of the … Continue reading →