Environmental justice in coal regions tends to be tied to the active and legacy mining impacts of coal extraction on natural and human communities. However,… Read More »Public Perceptions of Brownfields in a Revitalizing Coal Town: A Community-Engaged Course with a COVID-19 Pivot
Amphibians have many biological characteristics that make them sensitive to changes in environmental conditions, particularly climate change. These characteristics allow researchers to use amphibians as… Read More »A Long-term Study of Salamander Populations in the Susquehanna River Valley
The microbiome of the Susquehanna River is largely neglected in the scientific literature. In the last decade my lab has been exploring the metabolic diversity… Read More »Bacterial diversity in the Susquehanna River and Bucknell Landing
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the productive and innovative collaboration between Bucknell students, faculty, and staff and community leaders in the post-industrial river town, Milton,… Read More »Ready Set Fit and Covid-19: Challenges to Collaborative Community-Engaged Student Research in a Pandemic
This presentation will summarize the findings and recommendations of a USDA NRCS Conservation Innovation Grant that explored the feasibility of municipalities achieving required stormwater pollutant… Read More »Stormwater Offsets: Applying Agricultural BMPs to help meet Municipal Obligations
Storm and flood water are managed separately in Pennsylvania due to legislation in the 1970s. Already one of the most flood prone states in the… Read More »Creating a Better System: Managing Stormwater and Floods in Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) Bureau of Geological Survey (BGS) has compiled a comprehensive workflow that will be used to generate… Read More »Using Elevation Data to Produce an Updated Hydrography Dataset for the State of Pennsylvania
The Clean Water Institute at Lycoming College has been conducting field and laboratory analysis on the urban streams of Lycoming County MS4 region since 2015.… Read More »Coliform Trends in Urban Streams receiving Stormwater within Lycoming County MS4
Spending time in areas with aquatic features (‘blue space’) may benefit health through ‘restoration’ from attentional fatigue and emotional stress. Salutogenic effects of blue space… Read More »Factors related to recreational visit frequency to freshwater ‘blue space’ in Pennsylvania: the role of restoration and associations with perceived stress
Florida regulations require residential and commercial developments to install stormwater detention ponds, for the purpose of reducing nutrient pollutants in runoff to receiving waters. The… Read More »Role of Constructed Stormwater Detention Ponds vs Natural Systems in Mitigating Flooding from a Suburban University Campus in Southwest Florida