- 05/24: In the News – Auburn researchers seek to improve water quality using a holistic approach with $300K award
- 05/24: Congratulations to recent GeoIDEA Graduates!
- 05/24: New Paper Alert! A new perspective on water quality: Exploring spatial and temporal patterns of impaired water in Alabama
- 04/24: Jordan receives two prestigious awards
- 10/23: New Paper Alert! Investigating the Relationship between Surface Water Pollution and Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems now available
- 09/23: New Paper Alert! Fundamental practices for drone remote sensing research across disciplines now available
- 08/23: Jordan accepted into I-Guide Summer School
- 06/23: Neupane awarded NASA internship
- 05/23: Flach awarded Undergrad Research Fellowship
- 04/23: Fernandez-Figueroa awarded the Auburn College of Science and Mathematics Dean’s Research Award
- 01/23: Foust awarded prestigious scholarship
- 01/23: Kaye offered US Bureau of Reclamation internship
- 12/22: In the News – National Honey Bee Colony Losses
- 11/22: New Paper Alert! – Earthquake induced liquefaction in the New Madrid Seismic Zone
- 11/22: Capped Brood Monitoring info and map
- 11/22: New Paper Alert! Winter weather predicts honey bee colony loss at the national scale
- 11/22: Jordan awarded Auburn graduate school Presidential Graduate Research Fellowship
- 09/22: Kaye poster wins 2nd place
- 09/22: Foust publishes undergraduate research work
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05/24: In the News – Auburn researchers seek to improve water quality using a holistic approach with $300K award
From the COSAM news: Assistant Professor in the Department of Geosciences Stephanie Rogers is leading a project entitled Inequities in pollution exposure: Examining the relationship between onsite wastewater system prevalence and water contamination, which takes a holistic approach in understanding the human and environmental risks associated with aging, unmaintained, and/or unregulated onsite wastewater treatment systems (OWTS), or septic systems, in coastal areas of Mississippi (MS) and Alabama (AL). The $305,944 award has been funded by the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium (MASGC) and includes contributions from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and appropriations from the state of Alabama (click the image below to learn more).
05/24: Congratulations to recent GeoIDEA Graduates!
Adeline Flach completed her BS in Environmental Science. She has accepted a job at Atlantic Coast Consulting. Congrats, Adeline!
Bethany Foust completed her BS in Geography and is currently working as a Research Associate in the GeoIDEA lab. Congrats, Bethany!
05/24: New Paper Alert! A new perspective on water quality: Exploring spatial and temporal patterns of impaired water in Alabama
In this paper we investigated how river impairment has been changing over the last 24 years. State-wide, it has not been significantly different, but when you zoom into the watershed scale, the story changes. Check out the new publication led by Mallory Jordan here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.120983 or email to obtain the author’s copy.
04/24: Jordan receives two prestigious awards
Congratulations to PhD student Mallory Jordan who has recently awarded:
– 3rd place for her presentation at the Auburn Student Research Symposium in the University-Wide Graduate Winners in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics category
– One of the Auburn Graduate School’s top 10 doctoral students for 2024!!
10/23: New Paper Alert! Investigating the Relationship between Surface Water Pollution and Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems now available
Onsite wastewater treatment systems (OWTSs) are important nonpoint sources (NPSs) of pollution to consider in watershed management. However, limited OWTS data availability makes it challenging to account for them as an NPS of water pollution. In this study, we succeeded in obtaining OWTS permits and integrated them with environmental data to model the pollution potential from OWTSs at the watershed scale using GIS-based multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA). Our results demonstrated that OWTSs are a significant contributor to surface water pollution, and future efforts should be made to improve access to OWTS data (i.e., location and age) to account for these systems as an NPS of water pollution. To read more about this study, check out the paper, or send an email and ask to obtain a copy.
09/23: New Paper Alert! Fundamental practices for drone remote sensing research across disciplines now available
If you’re interested in integrating drones into your research, this paper will help you get started. Click the image below to download the open-access article.
08/23: Jordan accepted into I-Guide Summer School
August 2023: Auburn PhD students Mallory Jordan (GeoIDEA Lab) and Sukanya Dasgupta (UrbanPRism Lab) participated in the competitive, NSF funded, I-Guide Summer School in Boulder, CO, with a cohort of 34 other graduate students and early career faculty members from across the country. Congratulations to you both!
06/23: Neupane awarded NASA internship
MS student Dinesh Neupane has been awarded a internship with NASA and Space Systems, LLC this summer. Dinesh has been helping NASA scientists improve their air quality processing workflow using Python. Congratulations, Dinesh!
05/23: Flach awarded Undergrad Research Fellowship
Adeline Flach has been awarded an Undergraduate Research Fellowship spanning the next year to study the effects of biochar on wildflower health and production using Unoccupied Aerial Systems (UASs) or drones. This project is in collaboration with the Auburn Bee Lab.
04/23: Fernandez-Figueroa awarded the Auburn College of Science and Mathematics Dean’s Research Award
April 2023: GeoIDEA lab postdoctoral fellow Dr. Edna Fernandez-Figueroa has been awarded the prestigious Dean’s Research Award for 2022-2023 from Dean Ed Thomas in College of Science and Mathematics. Congratulations, Edna!
Edna has also recently accepted a tenue-track position at the University of Tampa commencing in August 2023. She will be an Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies with a focus in Natural Resources Management. All the best, Edna!
01/23: Foust awarded prestigious scholarship
MS student Bethany Foust has been awarded funding as a National Research Trainee as part of Auburn’s NSF NRT Program for Climate Resilience. Congratulations, Bethany!
01/23: Kaye offered US Bureau of Reclamation internship
MS student Kelly Kaye has commenced a position with the United States Bureau of Reclamation as part of the Pathways Internship Program. She will be part of their team of Geographers who assist in making logistical decisions using GIS. Congratulations, Kelly!
12/22: In the News – National Honey Bee Colony Losses
Recent honey bee colony loss work with collaborators from Auburn (Dr. Geoffrey Williams and Dr. Roberto Molinari) was highlighted in an “Expert Answers” article to discuss causes of national decline in Apis mellifera. Check out the article here along with the associated publications by Overturf et al (2022) and Insolia et al (2023).
11/22: New Paper Alert! – Earthquake induced liquefaction in the New Madrid Seismic Zone
Congrats to former MS Geology student Can Güven, his main thesis advisor Dr. Lorraine Wolf, Dr. Tish Tuttle, and Dr. Rogers on the publication of this work entitled “The influence of sedimentary architecture on the formation of earthquake-induced liquefaction features: A case study in the New Madrid seismic zone”. A nice team effort and a lot of heavy lifting involved.
11/22: New Paper Alert! Winter weather predicts honey bee colony loss at the national scale
November 21st, 2022: Congratulations to recent GeoIDEA grad Kaj Overturf for publishing one of his MS thesis chapters! We worked closely with the Bee Informed Partnership and the Auburn Bee Lab to wrangle nine years of colony loss data and environmental variables to show that weather conditions during winter were better predictors of loss than other month and that a spatial approach is needed when investigating losses. Check out the open access paper here.
11/22: Jordan awarded Auburn graduate school Presidential Graduate Research Fellowship
Mallory Jordan is a first year PhD student in the GeoIDEA lab and has recently been awarded the prestigious Presidential Graduate Research Fellowship funded through Auburn’s Presidential Office, COSAM Dean’s Office, and the Graduate School. The fellowship will last for three years and supports Mallory’s research which uses novel geospatial methods and concepts for increasing our understanding about water quality issues across Alabama and the southeastern United States. Mallory is an exemplary student and researcher who’s work will have great impacts on the scientific community. Congratulations, Mallory!
09/22: Kaye poster wins 2nd place
MS student Kelly Kaye was awarded second place for her poster “Commercially available UASs for monitoring water quality: best practices and data collection methods” at the Alabama Water Resources Conference.
09/22: Foust publishes undergraduate research work
MS student Bethany Foust has recently published her undergraduate research work (PDF) in the Auburn University Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship, with co-authors Mallory Jordan (PhD student) and Dr. Rogers.
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