I used to teach a class in data visualization because I was frustrated with the quality of graphics in student work and that I was seeing in papers I was reviewing for journals. I just saw an article from my colleagues at Penn State that provides an excellent overview of effective data visualization principles. The article …
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This week Dr. Michael Campana is visiting as part of the Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Resources Graduate Student Symposium. Dr. Campana will be the keynote speaker for the symposium. More information on his seminar can be found on the Water Center’s homepage and you can find out more about Dr. Campana from his …
I want to thank Nic Zegre for visiting with us in the lab this week. Nic was invited to Tech for a seminar in the Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation. He packed the seminar room with his talk on “Characterizing the impacts of mountaintop removal mining on catchment hydrology.” Nic is an assistant …
Another REU opportunity! I am also participating in an REU program based at Virginia Tech. It’s an interdisciplinary program with a focus on the local Blacksburg watershed. The program is called Dynamics of Water and Societal Systems: An Interdisciplineary Research Program at the Virginia Tech StREAM Lab. My component falls under the physical sciences section …
Another undergraduate research program opportunity! Read More »
The National Science Foundation is funding two REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) positions at Hubbard Brook this summer as part of the Long Term Ecological Research program (see the HBRF webpage for details or our opportunities webpage) ($5000 stipend for the summer + living expenses). One of the those positions is with our Hydropedology project and …
Hillslope hydrology undergraduate research opportunity at Hubbard Brook Read More »
It’s been a while since we’ve posted so I thought I would provide a few updates… Next week, Dr. Scott Bailey is visiting the group. He is on JP and Cody’s graduate committees and they are both presenting their study plans next week and having a regular committee meetings. Scott is a Co-PI on our …
Wednesday: Characterizing the Hydrologic Impacts of Mountaintop Mining Using Stable Isotopes; Nicolas Zegre and Kevin J. McGuire, H31A-1120. Thursday: A Hydropedological View of Critical Zone Structure and Function at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, New Hampshire, USA; Scott W. Bailey, Kevin J. McGuire, Thomas D. Bullen, and Donald S. Ross, B41H-07. Rare Earth Elements as …
American Geophysical Union Fall 2011 presentations by lab members and collaborators Read More »
Dear Watershed 3 Fans – thought I would catch you up with some news from the catchment. We had a bit of a dry spell this summer, which was great for all the digging, coring and installing that JP and Maggie B had going on. Zimmer et al. (in review) contains a classification of stream …
Heads up… To stay up to date on Virginia’s water resources, follow Virginia Water Central News Grouper. It’s maintained by Alan Raflo of the Water Center. Here is Virginia Water Central’s monthly water-status report for July 2011. First, here are National Weather Service preliminary precipitation totals for July at eight Virginia locations. Locations below the …
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I saw this blog post today in the Chronicle’s Innovation blog. It’s so true – we learn a lot from our students and that’s one of the aspects I find most exciting about being a professor. Thanks mentees! Article: http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/?p=30022 By the way…I hate the term mentee, but I don’t know of a better one. Interestingly, …