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  How do you get a snapshot of water quality along 20 miles of the Pennypack Creek? A lot of people, a lot of stream walking, and a lot of sample filtering… a hearty team of volunteers from Temple University … Continue reading →

    What used to be McKinley Branch of Jenkintown Creek became McKinley Pond. Beavers created a new habitat and made it hard to find the temperature sensor we were using to monitor the creek. Instead of 10 cm deep water, … Continue reading →

The Temple Ambler Campus was hit by an EF2 tornado (est 130 mph winds).  The tornado blew the roof off several buildings on campus and devastated an old growth forest that was part of the campus field station (see drone … Continue reading →

Sarah Ledford, Jake Diamond, and I published an article on fine resolution monitoring of DO to understand urban stream metabolism.  Check it out in PLOS ONE. This article upsets some of the notions of nutrient impact (it is limited spatially) … Continue reading →

The Research Coordination Network for Carbonate Critical Zones published a summary of our first workshop in EOS. https:eos.org/science-updates/a-new-focus-on-the-neglected-carbonate-critical-zone

For the Urban Critical Zone project funded by NSF, I am collaborating with the Dust Critical Zone Team.  Jeff Munroe at Middlebury College sent me some dust collectors, which I have installed around Philadelphia.  Stay tuned for results. Dust collector … Continue reading →

One task this summer and fall is to calibrate some turbidity loggers in streams to suspended sediment sampling. It means guessing when a storm is going to hit and how often to sample.  Grad student Ashleigh and I hit it … Continue reading →

The Temple team joined with University of Maryland (Mong-Han Huang, Karen Prestegaard and students) to conduct seismic surveys along Pennypack Creek.  We visited 4 sites in each of the geologic provinces.   University of Maryland, dropping off their equipment at … Continue reading →

Kyle Collins, Ashleigh Kirker, Naomi Morgan, Jon Nyquist, Gina Pope, Sarah Beganskas           Three members are leaving the hydro group this month.  Naomi Morgan, who finished her MS last month, accepted a position at the Michigan … Continue reading →

I recently accepted a position as one of three Executive Editors for the journal, Groundwater.  Working with the editor-in-chief, Leonard Konikow, we assign reviewers and make editorial decisions. My very first paper was published in Groundwater (Isotopes in Groundwater Investigations, … Continue reading →