It is hard to believe that the summer field season is almost over here at Hubbard Brook. Time flies when you are having fun. Whether believable or not, the summer is just about gone, so we’ll be saying goodbye to our Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) student, Bridget O’Neill next week. Bridget has been an […]
Salty slugs. or: Thanks Bridget! Read More »
Cody Gillin received a 2012 Virginia Lakes and Watershed Association Leo Bourassa Scholarship for his academic and personal accomplishments in the field of water resources. Congratulations to Cody!! The VLWA is a non-profit organization dedicated to conducting scientific and educational efforts to protect the quality and uses of Virginia Lakes and Watersheds. For more information on
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I just launched our new webpage today! All the same content is here, but, as you can see, our blog and website are now under one umbrella. I’m still working on a few bugs and broken links, so please bear with me. Also, feel free to subscribe to the blog (or our Facebook page) for
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We are nearly two-thirds of the way finished with rainfall simulation experiments to measure sediment delivery from forest road approaches to stream crossings at the Reynolds Homestead. We have been doing three rainfall simulation experiments at intensities ranging from 20 to 60 mm/hr at each of six road approaches with the following treatments: 1) fresh
The field season is well underway up here at Hubbard Brook. Cody is finished with his total station surveys and has moved in to characterizing soils, while I have been installing lysimeters and otherwise preparing for a big storm sampling push. Another thing that has been on our minds, however, is validating some points on
Breaking records in Watershed 3 Read More »
JP and I will be living in New Hampshire this summer as we conduct field work for our graduate research projects. I was the first to arrive at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest last Thursday evening. The weather forecast through the weekend was rain-free and warm, so I wasted no time and got right to
Summer Field Season at Hubbard Brook Begins Read More »
Earlier this year I was awarded a grant from the INTERFACE network based at Purdue University to travel to Utrecht in the Netherlands to work with Dr. Karin Rebel on an ecohydrological model. The grant is aimed at facilitating collaborative exchange between modelers and experimentalists, and as I am more of an experimentalist but have
Greetings from Utrecht! Read More »
Congratulations to Maggie Zimmer, winner of a 2011 Outstanding Student Paper Award at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting. Maggie presented her Hubbard Brook research that began with an REU project during the summer of 2010. Maggie is now a graduate student at Syracuse University. Zimmer M., Bailey, S., McGuire, K., 2011. Fine scale variations of surface water
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To continue on the theme of my last post on communication, writing is also a challenge many of us face. Here is a nice blog from Scientific American on the topic. For me, I’ve had to stay home on Thursdays this semester to make writing progress, but I’m still behind. Being behind is inevitable, but
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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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About a month ago, JP and Cody drove up to Hubbard Brook to spend their spring break running a ground-penetrating radar (GPR) survey in Watershed 3 to estimate depth to bedrock and glacial till thickness. Both JP and Cody’s projects are part of our Hydropedology project, which is focused on explaining the spatial and temporal variation
Project update: Spring break ground-penetrating radar & REU Read More »
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
WaterWired – Campana’s visit Read More »
This tuesday morning at our weekly meeting over coffee at the London Underground Pub, (which now offers some tasty coffee and breakfast) a photographer from the local paper asked if we minded being photographed for a review he was writing. We agreed, and now are featured alongside the review of our morning lab coffee spot! Check
Our lab group featured in local breakfast spot review! Read More »
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
Dr. Nicolas Zegre from WVU visited this week Read More »
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 »