8/16/09 UMBC welcomes new IGERT trainees Aaron
Churchill, Nick Magliocca, Laura Merner, Anna Johnson, Danielle
Schwartmann, and Sheena Young.
8/10/09
Recent grant notifications received by CUERE include "The Use of
Retrospective Hydrologic Forecasts for Forecast System Improvement
Using Hydrologic Forecast Verification Concepts" from NOAA (Stu
Schwartz, PI); and "Integrating Real-Time Chemical Sensors into
Understanding of Groundwater Contributions to Surface Water in a Model
Urban Observatory" from NSF (C. Welty, PI).
8/1/09
Congratulations to Bernadette Hanlon of CUERE for her two books in
press: Once the American Dream:
Inner-ring Suburbs in the Metropolitan United States,
Temple University Press, due out December 2009; and Cities and Suburbs: New
Metropolitan Realities in the US (co-authors John Rennie
Short and Thomas J. Vicino), due out Routledge, October 2009.
7/31/09
Today was Christiane Runyan's last day at CUERE.
She is off to U VA
to pursue a PhD in environental science. She will be missed
by all!
6/5/09
Stu Schwartz, Senior Scientist at CUERE, has received
notification of a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
to develop specifications for subsoiling techniques to enhance
stormwater infiltration. A press release can be found at http://www.chesapeakebay.net/news_insrg09.aspx?menuitem=36474
4/29/09
UMBC, together with USGS, MDE, MDP, and MGS, co-hosted a
workshop
entitled "The Roles of Science, Planning, and Regulation in Water
Supply Management in Maryland's Fractured Rock Aquifers" held at UMBC's
South Campus. The workshop was sponsored by Maryland Water
Monitoring Council.
12/15/08 The IGERT
Visualization
and
Computation
Lab
in
TRC
001
was recently completed.
11/3/08
UMBC is pleased to announce hosting of the 2009 Darcy Lecturer Dr.
Peter Cook from CSIRO Land and Water, Australia who will speak on
"Environmental Tracers in Modern Hydrogeology: Reducing Uncertainty in
Groundwater Flow Estimation". The lecture, hosted by the
National
Association of Groundwater Scoentists and Engineers, is scheduled to be
held on May 5, 2009 at USGS in BW Tech Research Park.
9/16/08
IGERT Fellow Robin Van Meter is senior author on a new article in the
September issue of Wetlands.
8/27/08
CUERE ran a highly successful pervious concrete workshop
today. View the UMBC
press coverage and a video of the pour on You
Tube.
8/19/08 UMBC welcomes new IGERT trainees Aditi Bhaskar, Jonathan Dandois, Garth Lindner, Michael Pennino, Jeanne
Ragsdale, and Tara Willey. Their profiles are posted at http://www.umbc.edu/cuere/igert/profiles.html.
8/15/08 CUERE
is
pleased to announce
its
first Pervious Concrete Workshop
to be held on
8/27/08, organized by Dr. Stu Schwartz and sponsored by
Chesapeake Bay Trust.
Read more about it at http://www.umbc.edu/cuere/pdf/PerviousConcrete.pdf
8/11/08 Ian Yesilonis of the USFS is
senior author of two new articles on lead in Baltimore soils.
(See CUERE's publications
page).
Modified 8/16/09
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