Beverley returned July 1 after a 6-month sabbatical leave in Ecuador. Based in Cuenca in the southern part of the country, she taught a GIS course at the Universidad Politecnica Salesiana and conducted research on mountain stream morphology and water quality in the eastern Andean cordillera. 
Nitin Singh has joined our group as a post-doctoral scholar, housed in the Gund Institute. Nitin recently completed his PhD at North Caroline State University with Dr. Ryan Emmanuel. Nitin will work on a project sponsored by The Nature Conservancy to evaluate opportunities for green infrastructure investments in the Lake Champlain Basin to improve water quality. See Nitin’s full bio and link to his CV here. Welcome Nitin
Congratulations to Gordon Clark (UVM ’12) on completion of his masters degree in environmental engineering at University of Massachusetts! We’d like to think we launched him onto a successful career. Gordon’s undergraduate research at UVM quantified sediment and phosphorus production on rural roads in the Winooski River watershed, work that has subsequently been used in the development of the new TMDL for segments of Lake Champlain. Gordon has had a great year with two papers on his work (undergrad and masters) recently submitted to journals. Watch for him on Research Gate!
Beverley presented preliminary results of the Mazar River project at this week’s AGU Chapman Conference on Emerging Issues in Tropical Ecohydrology in Cuenca, Ecuador. It was a great chance to connect with other ecohydrologists working in Latin America and elsewhere! Beverley starts a 6-month sabbatical in Cuenca in January 2017.
Nash Hall (UVM ’12) has just made his decision — he will attend the University of Michigan School of Law starting fall 2016, focusing his studies on water law. Nash’s thesis research at UVM examined Vermont’s “current use” taxation program as a de facto form of watershed protection in the state’s major public water supply watersheds. A future in environmental law seems a natural fit for the future. Way to go Nash!!
Lindsay Jordan (UVM ’13) Wilson was recently accepted into a master’s program at Yale University. She’ll study environmental management in the internationally acclaimed Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Lindsay’s undergraduate thesis research at UVM focused on historical reconstruction of channel migration on the Mad River in central Vermont. Lindsay’s research was supported by the undergraduate internship program of Vermont EPSCoR and our grant from the National Science Foundation on Research on Adaptation to Climate Change (RACC) in the Lake Champlain Basin (EPS-1101317).