Aug 29, 2019 | Project 3 (Fate & Transport), PROTECT Team, PROTECT Trainees
PROTECT Trainee Jill Riddell completes KC Donnelly Externship at University of Arizona SRP in Tucson Jill Riddell is a geology PhD Student at West Virginia University working on PROTECT Project 4, which focuses on tracing the passage of pollutants and other chemicals...
Jun 27, 2019 | Project 3 (Fate & Transport), PROTECT Team, PROTECT Trainees, Trainee Spotlight
Trainee Spotlight – Norma Torres Norma Torres is a PhD candidate pursuing a Civil Engineering Degree at the University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez, focused in the area on Environmental and Water Resources Engineering. Since spring 2011, Norma has worked under the...
Dec 4, 2018 | Project 3 (Fate & Transport), PROTECT Events and Presentations, PROTECT Team, PROTECT Trainees
PROTECT Project 4 Trainees Autum Downey & Jill Riddell Present at the Geological Society of America 130th Annual Meeting PROTECT Project 4 team members recently presented study findings that organic carbon concentration in cave sediments can be used as tracer of...
Oct 29, 2018 | News on Environmental Health, Project 3 (Fate & Transport), PROTECT Research, PROTECT Team
Phthalates are widely used in many consumer products; DEHP is the most frequently used plasticizer in the market. Their extensive use results in spatially-widespread sources that are difficult to identify. Their presence in groundwater is related to land use patterns...
Oct 17, 2018 | Project 3 (Fate & Transport), PROTECT Events and Presentations, PROTECT Research, PROTECT Team
How important are subsurface sediments to the overall function of karst aquifers? All aquifers contain a “matrix” – the solid component through which the water flows – but karst aquifers also contain sediments that can move dynamically between mobile (readily...
Sep 4, 2018 | Project 3 (Fate & Transport), PROTECT Team
PROTECT Project 4 Leader Ingrid Padilla to Participate in International Karst Research Project PROTECT Project 4 leader Dr. Ingrid Padilla is collaborating in a new international research project, financed by the German Science Foundation, to assess the effect of...