Guest blog submitted by IUPUI undergraduate, Jacki Renforth (jmguyer@umail.iu.edu), a Senior in the Communications Studies Program. Jacki’s news story, which focuses on environmental initiatives at IUPUI and the Earth Day Indiana Festival, is a part of her course final project in J200 – Reporting, Writing, and Editing. Earth Day is over, but not for the… Read more »
Danielle Follette, CEES Staff, and Jacob Burch, CEES Undergraduate Intern, have become quite familiar with the agricultural landscape over the past few months as the April showers are providing data for CEES’ Edge of Field research project. During a rain event, collection of water samples is triggered by water flow volume and collected in ISCO samplers.
Guest blog submitted by IUPUI undergraduate student Michael McCormick (mccormim@imail.iu.edu), Environmental Science Major . I have always been very interested in science, specifically animals and plants. Due to this interest, I decided to pursue an internship with the Department of Public Works Land Stewardship Program. In this internship, I am working to restore native plant vegetation… Read more »
In our quest to work out the details in regional mapping for Indiana’s Fluvial Erosion Hazard (FEH) Mitigation Program, we developed a new technique to enhance meander scar zones, the remnant paths of streams and rivers. Using LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) from the 2011 – 2013 Indiana Orthophotography and Elevation… Read more »