Regardless of their stance on fracking, residents of the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania and southern New York all agreed that the fracking should be monitored. An interstate agency, the Susquehanna River Basin Commission, manages water resources within the watershed with an expansive monitoring network. Their 58 stations continuously monitor temperature, pH, specific conductance, dissolved oxygen and turbidity.

Read more about this giant monitoring effort: www.fondriest.com/news/susquehanna-river-monitoring-netwo...

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Using dendrochronology to calculate the age of a Pine tree

Visitors at the information fair during lunchtime in the Octagon

Environmental studies students doing field work studying zebra mussels in Lake Winnebago.

Environmental studies students doing field work studying zebra mussels in Lake Winnebago.

Visitors had the chance to visit four info points, or Islands, during the lunchbreak to find out all about life at QMUL and the School of Geography

Dr Alex Henshaw talks to visitors in the new River Lab

Dr Alex Henshaw talks to visitors in the new River Lab

Dr Alastair Owens talks about the Boston field trip

A Fieldtrip to Devon Great consols with the MSC Environmental Consultancy Group.

Dr Sven Lukas talks to visitors in the Micromorphology Lab

Transition between mountains and coastal plain

Dr Al James talks about the Mumbai field trip

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Flow gauging using impeller and electromagnetic flow meters

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Geography Society member Jacob Moore chats with visitors during the day

Visitors listen to talks in the Octagon

Visitors chat with Dr Louise Slater during the lunchtime info fair

Visitors chat with Dr Kate Spencer during lunch in the Octagon

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Our editor, Daniel Kelly, got to go in the field with Northern Kentucky University scientists studying constructed wetlands. Green infrastructure sites are getting more popular these days and this study looks to investigate their costs and benefits.

NKU researcher Sarah Stryffeler gathers a gas sample using a syringe.

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Geography Ambassador Katherine Parker chats with visitors

Thin section under the microscope in the Micromorphology lab

Front row (L to R): Li (Dan), Yangmin (Haley), Feiting (Darren), Xinrui (Christina), Ying (Amy) & Qiwei (Daniel)

Middle row: Chengxiang (Michael), Jingjing (Carrie), Dewei (Ivy), Kailin (Katherine), Mengdi (Mandy), Shuang (Elsa), Meng (Lemon), Linjue (Joy), Carey & Odette

Back row: Dafei (Jack), Liangren (Alan), Chubing (Simon), Weiguang (Paul) & Jin

Surveys of drought-weakened Sierra Nevada streams are turning up sparse numbers of fish.Researchers with the University of California, Davis' Center for Watershed Science gathered insights that could aid in conservation efforts that are expected to grapple with climate change.

Read the full story: www.fondriest.com/news/sierra-nevada-streams-researchers-...

Photos courtesy of UC Davis Watershed Sciences Center

Dr Alex Henshaw talks to visitors in the new River Lab

The international edition of "Environmental Science: Earth as a Living Planet" by Botkin and Keller is excellent introductory book but the Canadian edition sucks big time

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Geography Ambassador Georgina Brightwell gets ready to take visitors to one of the talks

Dr Alex Henshaw talks to visitors in the new River Lab

ES & EP 2 field trip to Drumclif as part of the Aquatic Ecology Module at IT Sligo

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Laura Peterson, Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Chemistry, leads a Paideia Texts and Issues Lecture regarding "Back to the Future: Understanding the Anthropocene." March 15, 2016. Photo by: Annie Goodroad '19

Dr Kate Spencer chats with visitors at lunchtime