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Research Group, April 2023. Front row L to R: Jinjun Kan, Alexis Yaculak, Shree Inamdar; Back row L to R: Joe Galella, Matt Sena, Bisesh Joshi, Moklesur Rahman, and Marc Peipoch.
July 2023 - Lab group celebrating Joe Galella's marriage with cupcakes! Congrats Joe! Left to right - Moklesur Rahman, Bisesh Joshi, Rachel Johnson, Alexis Yaculak, Joe Galella, Evan Beltz, and Matt Sena.
December 2023 - Inamdar gives an invited talk at the 2023 AGU Fall meeting titled " Humans leave a mark: Anthropogenic legacy effects are imprinted on multiple levels in natural ecosystems."
December 2023 - Former Postdoc Erin Peck's work on the EPA project is published - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rec.14070
December 2023 - Bisesh Joshi's first PhD manuscript is published - Congrats Bisesh! - https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/water/articles/10.3389/frwa.2023.1254225/full
July 2023 - Inamdar Lab is awarded another new grant - this one from the Chesapeake Bay Trust (CBT) to investigate soil health of restored floodplains.
June 2023 - Another new publication from our research projects - this one looking at microbial communities in riparian legacy sediments associated with milldams. Congrats to Dr. Jinjun Kan for publishing the article -
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1161043/full
June 2023 - Group students Bisesh Joshi, Matt Sena, and Alexis Yaculak present their research at the 2023 Gordon Research Conference on Catchment Science in Andover, New Hampshire! Their work was very well received and we all had a great time at the meeting! GRC Conference web site with program -
Summer 2023 - Evan Beltz joined our group on a summer internship looking at soil health in restored floodplains under the guidance and mentorship of Postdoc Dr. Joe Galella.
Evan created an excellent video of his internship research - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQR0UfOLdm0
April 2023 - Heartiest welcome to two new postdocs - Dr. Moklesur Rahman and Joe Galella!!
March 2023: New USDA NIFA Soil Health grant funded - Anthropogenic Soil Memories!
More publications from our milldam NSF research project -
Peck et al. 2023 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11368-023-03507-w
Inamdar et al. 2023 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2022JG007138
Congratulations to our students! Our group's multiple research articles related to milldams have started to come out! Here are some of the links -
Peck et al 2022 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2022JG007004
Hripto et al 2022 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00027-022-00894-z
Sherman et al. 2022 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2022WR033038
July/August 2022 - Welcome to Bisesh, Alexis and Matt as new students this summer/fall 2022! Its great to have them!
August 2022 - Congratulations to Sophia Bradach for completing excellent research this summer on her undergraduate internship. Her internship videos and poster are available on Youtube -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlD8gCk1BiU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGkDiKRiYnk
January-February 2022 - Congratulations to Melissa and Johanna for successfully defending their Master's Theses. Best wishes to them for their futures.
November 2021 - Our Roller mill dam (Chiques Creek, PA) study site (NSF project) is featured on the cover of JGR Biogeosciences Issue Vol 126 (8) https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jgrg.21665
November 2021 - Congratulations to Chelsea! Her MS thesis paper "After the Storm:............." has now been published in the Water Journal. LINK: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/13/22/3182
August 2021 - CONGRATULATIONS TO EVAN - His publication on mill dam removal effects for water quality - "Draining the landscape....." is now posted on JGR Biogeosciences:
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021JG006444
Summer 2021 - Justin Paul Berina completes a summer internship looking at diatoms in stream bank legacy sediments. Nathaniel Levia has also joined the group and is looking at how milldams affect stream and riparian insects upstream and downstream of the dams.
Spring 2021 - New Postdoc joins research group from Oregon State University! Welcome Erin Peck! Erin will be working on two new USDA NIFA projects as well as assisting with existing NSF and other projects.
Spring 2021 - Many Congratulations to Evan Lewis for successfully defending his MS thesis on milldam removal and its impacts for water quality. His manuscript has now been submitted to JGR Biogeosciences.
January 2021 - New perspective article on our milldam research - "Ghosts of landuse past......." now published in Environmental Research Letters -https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abd9f5
Fall 2020 - New news article on CANR website highlights the recent work of our graduate students and the new grants that have been awarded.
Summer 2020 - Congratulations to Katie Mattern - her MS thesis article is now published in the journal - Water
Spring 2020 - Shree Inamdar publishes an invited article on legacy sediments stemming from Nate, Alyssa, and Grant's work on legacy sediments -
Spring 2020 - Congratulations to Nate, Alyssa, and Grant for successfully publishing their MS thesis manuscripts -
Spring 2020 - Our research group, in collaboration with Drs. Marc Peipoch and Jinjun Kan from Stroud Water Research Center receives two new USDA NIFA grants to study - (a) nitrogen processing in legacy sediment plumes in streams and (b) nitrogen and microbial recovery of buried, relict, organic soils following stream restoration.
Spring 2020 - Congratulations to Katie for successfully defending her MS thesis research!
Winter 2019-2020 - Melissa Sherman joins the group as a MS student! Welcome Melissa!
Fall 2019 - Ghosts of Landuse Past - New NSF grants and student work featured in UDaily article. Congrats Evan and Justine for their work on the projects!
Fall 2019 - Johanna Hripto joins the group as a MS student! Welcome Johanna!
Summer 2019 - Shree awarded new NSF Hydrologic Sciences Grant to investigate how existing mill dams influence hydrologic regimes and nitrogen processing in streams and riparian zones.
Summer 2019 - Dr. Holly Barnard and her PhD student Hallie visit to take tree cores to study tree rings.
July 2019 - Welcome to Ginny who started as a new Water Science & Policy program PhD student in the group! Ginny has received one of the few and highly competitive UNIDEL Fellow awards! Congrats!
Summer 2019 - Justine Paul Berina from Wooster College in Ohio did an undergraduate research internship with us this summer. He did excellent work and mapped all the historic mill dams in Cecil county Maryland and New Castle, Kent and Sussex counties in Delaware!
Summer 2019 - Alyssa was also awarded the Best MS student Benton Award from the College! CONGRATULATIONS ALYSSA! Here she is being recognized at the convocation ceremony!
Spring and Summer 2019: Its been a busy time for the group! CONGRATS to Alyssa, Grant, and Nate for successfully defending their Masters thesis!! All three of them have also submitted their thesis manuscripts for journal review - what more could an advisor ask! WELL DONE GUYS! All three have started new jobs! Best wishes to them in their new careers!
Spring 2019 - Group picture time!
January 2019 - Welcome to Evan Lewis, a new MS Water Science & Policy student in the group! Evan will be working of the new NSF funded RAPID award.
Fall 2018: Inamdar receives new NSF RAPID award to study how dam removals could affect nitrogen processing in riparian zones. The work is being conducted in Chiques Creek in PA where a dam was removed on July 9, 2018.
Summer 2018: Congrats to Dan Warner and Chelsea Krieg for successfully defending their PhD and MS degrees! Good work guys!
Spring 2018: Katie Mattern join the research group on a new project evaluating the effectiveness of stream restoration for legacy sediments at Gramies Run in Maryland. Welcome Katie!
Winter 2017: Erin Johnson's thesis manuscript is published in special issue of JGR Biogeosciences.
Fall 2017: Three new students join our group on the new grant on Legacy sediments - welcome Grant, Alyssa and Nate!
Summer 2017: Congrats to Erin Johnson for successfully defending her MS thesis! Erin heads to MA for a new job. Best wishes...
March 2017: Dan Warner talks about his research in this UDaily article - LINK
March 2017: Richard Rowland's POM research is published in Biogeochemistry! Congrats Doug! Link
January 2017: Dan Warner's article is published in Ecosystem's Journal. Congrats Dan! Link
January 2017: New USDA Grant funded to study release and fate of nutrients from stream bank legacy sediments - UDAILY Article
January 2017: Inamdar successfully hosts the AGU Chapman Conference in San Juan, PR! Our research group makes multiple presentations at the meeting.
December 2016: Erin, Chelsea, and Dan present their research at the AGU Fall meeting in San Francisco.
September 2016: 3rd Annual Water Science and Policy Symposium held successfully!
Summer 2016: Richard Rowland and Catherine Winters successfully complete their MS degrees, Congratulations!
September 2015: 2nd Annual Water Science and Policy Symposium set for September 25, 2015 in Townsend Commons!
July 2015: UDaily story on France Collaboration & Research
July 2015 - Erin Johnson and Chelsea Krieg join our research group as new MS students on the newly funded USDA grant. Welcome Erin and Chelsea!
June 2015 - Inamdar makes return visit to Rennes, France to visit with researchers at the University of Rennes and CNRS and visit their study watershed - Kervidy-Naizin. Inamdar provided an invited talk and developed new partnerships and collaborations.
March 2015 - French scientists from University of Rennes visit our experimental research watershed to further strengthen the collaborations between UD and University of Rennes. Drs. Jaffrezic and Jeanneau also gave an invited talk with the PLSC department on Dissolved organic matter in watersheds! It was great to have them over. We plan to make a return visit to France in June 2015!
January 2015 - Guillaume Humbert, PhD student from France, will visiting with our research group for the next 3 months! Welcome Guillaume! During this time Guillaume will work with us to develop a PARAFAC model on his EEMs data.
December 2014 - Catherine and Doug presented their NEWRnet research at the AGU meeting!
December 2014 - Awesome news! New USDA project funded! Grant will investigate the transport and fate of particulate nitrogen following large tropical storms.
August 2014 - Thomas Parr joins the group as Postdoc on the EPSCoR Track 1 grant. Welcome Thomas!
June 2014 - CONGRATULATIONS to Matt Bachman for successfully completing his MS degree in Water Science & Policy - the first graduate from the new program! Best wishes to him for his future endeavors!
Fall 2013 - Two new projects funded! One is a NSF-EPSCoR project in collaboration with researchers from Delaware, Vermont and Rhode Island whereas the other is a USDA project in collaboration with Dr. Rodrigo Vargas from U. of Delaware!
January 2014 - Inamdar visits tropical watershed sites in India - some of which are being considered as Critical Zone Observatories.
December 2013 - Research group makes multiple presentations at the 2013 Fall AGU meeting.
August 2013 - Dr. Art Gold from U. of Rhode Island visits Fair Hill watershed study sites.
August 2013 - Gurbir's Biogeochemistry paper is now "In Press"! Congrats Gurbir!
April 2013 - Shatrughan Singh has successfully defended his MS thesis! Congratulations Shatrughan!
March 2013 - Inamdar gives invited talk on "Extreme storms and runoff C exports" at the 2013 Northeastern Ecosystem Research Cooperative Meeting in Saratoga Springs, NY.
March 2013 - Inamdar returns from the US-Japan Catchment Science seminar in Hawaii after presenting an invited talk on group research!
March 2013 - Gurbir's Geophysical Research Letters paper is now in "In Press"! Congrats Gurbir!
February 2013 - Water Resources Research (WRR) paper is accepted and is now "In Press"!
Feb 2013 - Rachael Vaicunas's paper comes out in print in JAWRA. Congrats Rachael!
December 2012 - AGU Meeting in San Francisco - Three presentations from our research group. Inamdar gives invited talk on hormones and antibiotics.
August 2012 - Gurbir successfully defends his MS thesis! Congratulations Gurbir! Gurbir leaves for Canada to pursue a PhD at University of Saskatoon (looks like he loves freezing weather!)
June 2012 - Fair Hill Experimental Watershed featured on UDaily - http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2012/jun/fair-hill-watershed-062512.html
June 2012 - Kayla will be working with as an undergraduate intern this summer on our newest water quality project funded by USDA investigating the impacts of vegetation biodiversity on water quality. Welcome Kayla!
June 2012 - Matt Bachman joins our group as a MS student - Matt is a MS student through the new Water Science and Policy Program! Welcome Matt!
May 2012 - Rachael graduates with MS degree! Congratulations Rachael!
April 2012: - Rachael Vaicunas is awarded the 2012 W.J. Benton Award for the Best MS Student in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources!!! CONGRATULATIONS Rachael!
Nov 2011 : - European and US Scientists visit the Fair Hill Study Watershed (Nov 10, 2011) as a part of the SoilTrec (http://www.soiltrec.eu/) conference held in Newark, DE!
Nov 2011: - Dr. Inamdar receives new grant from USDA to study how vegetation diversity impacts water quality and ecosystem services.
New article from Fairhill Watershed research is published in Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences - the article is ranked in "Most Popular" articles!
Dr. Inamdar is the Director of the new Water Science and Policy Program
Sudarshan Dutta wins the 2011 Benton Award for best PhD student from the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources! Congrats Sudarshan!
Sudarshan Dutta successfully defends his PhD!
Rachael Vaicunas wins best student poster award at the 2010 Annual AWRA Meeting!
Sudarshan Dutta's paper is cited by Journal of Environmental Quality!
Two new students join the Watershed Hydrochemistry Group this Fall 2010 - Weinan Pan and Gurbir Singh! Welcome aboard!
Dr. Inamdar & team return from study visit to India!
Article on India visit in the UD Review.
Sudarshan Dutta's article on hormones published in JEQ!
Sudarshan's JEQ article selected for Press Release!