Congrats to @MollyELandon for successfully defended her thesis Wetlands Monitoring and Adaptation in Stormwater: Optimizing Floating Treatment Wetland Design and Leveraging Citizen Science for Sustainable Natural Wetland Monitoring! 🎉 @NCStateEngr@NCStateCALS
Humans are front and center in the new water cycle diagram from the USGS. It’s the first update to the educational chart used by hundreds of thousands of students in more than 20 years.
https://t.co/chFvVIu3WO
I am happy to announce that I am a finalist running for the 2022 Precision Agriculture Scholarship! The winner will be decided by majority of votes. Below is a link to the voting platform and should not take more than 20 seconds. I appreciate your support! https://t.co/vSxdaFzqFu
If you look close enough, you can even see some of the many critters who call this vast root network home! So happy to see that floating treatment wetlands not only can improve water quality but also provide valuable aquatic habitat to macroinvertebrates
It was a lovely day for some plant biomass sampling last Friday! Very exciting to see how much these roots have grown since we last sampled 3 months ago. Can't wait to get the tissue analysis back to see how much nutrients they have taken up during that time as well 😁
Excited to be getting some nice root growth at one of my floating wetland research sites! Long, dense root systems provide more surface area for biofilm growth which will promote particle filtration, nutrient uptake, and pollutant degradation
Equipment installation in Wilson, NC yesterday. Our water quality samplers will help us see what effect strategic floating treatment wetland placement has on nutrient and sediment removal in stormwater ponds!
Ponder the prospect of perfectly placed plants in ponds.
With “geese-resistant” plants this floating wetland should be able to remove nutrients from the pond through biomass harvesting.
@BeematsWetlands
Next up is @MollyELandon , our VP!
Molly is an MS student working with @Storm_Doc and @NCState_Wetland studying floating treatment wetland design for improved stormwater treatment.
Molly enjoys cooking, crafting, and walking her dogs, Ruby and Pepe!