Warming stripes plots are a simple yet powerful way to convey large amounts of data. These plots show a series of bars filled with colors… Read More »Aquatic Warming Stripes: Visualizing Climate Change Impacts to Freshwater Ecosystems
If you are a landowner interested in installing conservation practices on your property, it can be daunting to figure out the full scope of options… Read More »Restoration Reports: A landowner outreach and communication tool from design to farmer outreach
Aquatic insects have complex life cycles which often involve interactions with aquatic and terrestrial environments. Many insects rely on the presence of instream habitats, like… Read More »Improving stream restoration projects: how instream habitat influences recruitment and distribution of aquatic insects
Microblogging platforms provide an opportunity to reach audiences with a speed and scale much greater than traditional communication methods. They also present a vast source… Read More »Going Rogue: Science communication lessons from Twitter “alt” government accounts
The Clean Water Act regulates discharges of pollutants into streams and rivers, which includes point source discharges. This research aims to determine a framework for… Read More »GIS-based prioritization system for MS4 compliance projects
Federal regulations for municipal separate storm sewers (MS4) in the United States have been in place since 1990 as part of the Nation Pollutant Discharge… Read More »Challenges, barriers, and misunderstandings for implementing small-municipality MS4 programs
Demographic assessments of all four cryptobranchid salamander species have continued to indicate declines over the past several decades. One of the conservation challenges facing all… Read More »Assessment of small tributaries as possible habitats for larvae and juveniles of Japanese giant salamanders, Andrias japonicus, by coupling environmental DNA with traditional field surveys
Regionally in the northeastern hardwood forest ecosystems, the use of alien plants for ornamental horticulture, the escaping of those plants as invasive species, and the… Read More »Carrying Capacity in Suburban Ecological Communities
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
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