News

(in reverse chronological order)

Nov 2007: Art Gold and Kelly Addy delivered talks at the 2007 Biennial Estuarine Research Federation Conference.

September 2007: URI Watershed Hydrology Lab, CT NEMO, and Arizona State University team up to work on USDA-CSREES Integrated Project.

August 2007:
Alison Milliman defended her M.S. Thesis on In-Stream Denitrification.

April 2007:
Art Gold gave keynote address "Small town science: Constraints and successes in ecosystem management" at the Emerging Issues Alosn Urban/Rural Interfaces II Conference.

February 2007:
Art Gold gave talk entitled "Bio-Infiltration and Bio-reactors: New Water Quality BMPs for Agricultural Applications in Southern RI?" at the Souther New England Chapters of the Soil and Water Conservation Society.

January 2007:
Alison Milliman, WHL graduate student, presented poster on in-stream denitrification at the 2007 USDA-CSREES National Water Conference.

November 2006:
Art Gold gave talk entitled "Denitrification in Engineered Systems: Applications, methods, modeling challenges" at the NSF Denitrification Research Coordination Network's Denitrification Modeling Workshop at IES in Millbrook, NY.

Series of high flow 15N stream dosings completed in pilot stream.

Caitlin Chaffee, recent WHL M.S. graduate, became a coastal policy analyst for the RI Coastal Resources Management Council, where she focuses on coastal buffer zone issues in suburban areas as well as coastal habitat restoration.

September 2006:
WHL awarded grants to study Enhanced Infiltration Systems to Enhance Nitrate Removal by NRCS and Target Riparian Management to Enhance In-Stream Nitrogen Removal by the RI Agricultural Experiment Station.

August 2006:
First series of 15N stream dosings completed in pilot stream under low flow conditions.

Tara Watson, recent WHL M.S. graduate, became Coordinator of the URI Coastal Fellows Program.

May 2006:
Kelly Addy and Q Kellogg make presentations at the American Geophysical Union conference in Baltimore, MD.

April 2006:
Tara Watson, M.S. candidate, successfully defended her thesis, "Groundwater Nitrate Removal Capacity in Urbanizing Watersheds."

December 2005:
Addy et al. Estuaries paper published.

September 2005:
Q Kellogg, recent WHL PhD graduate, became PostDoc on the URI Coastal Institute IGERT Project (CIIP).

August 2005:
Q Kellogg, PhD candidate, successfully defended her thesis, "The Influence of Geomorphic Setting on Ground Water Denitrification in Forested Riparian Wetlands."

WHL awarded grant to study In-Stream Denitrification by CSREES NRI.