On Earth Day, Saturday, April 22, 2017, tens of thousands of people participated in rallies, walks, and marches held in Washington D.C. and in hundreds of other cities across the world. The March for Science saw an outpouring of support for science that was “unprecedented in terms of the scale and breadth of the scientific community involved,” according to Robert Proctor, a professor of the history of science at Stanford University.
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Mercury is a toxic metal that is negatively impacts the health of humans and wildlife that consume fish throughout the northeastern United States. Humans have increased the loading of mercury to aquatic ecosystems in this region through combustion of coal, incineration of waste, and other industrial processes. Soils act as a strong accumulator and ‘natural barrier’ preventing much of the human-derived mercury from entering lakes and rivers. However, exotic and invasive earthworm species threaten the stability and retention of mercury in the forest soils.
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Underlying much of New York, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, the Marcellus Shale has gained a great deal of attention as the largest natural gas reservoir in the United States. However, despite the surge in gas drilling, little is understood about the processes that contributed to the formation and preservation of the organic-rich shale. The aim of my research is to identify the conditions and processes occurring in the western New York Marcellus Shale after its deposition.
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The Becoming Faculty workshop series, organized by the School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, saw high attendance at sessions discussing the steps to becoming faculty.
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The objective of my graduate work is to elucidate the dynamics of the debris-covered glaciers in the Himalayan region of HMA and to quantify their melt. Glaciers whose melt zones are covered in rock from the surrounding valley walls comprise a significant portion of the ice in HMA; roughly two-thirds of glaciers in the South Central Himalaya have at least 20% debris cover. But these glaciers behave quite differently than clean ones, and their melt is more difficult to detect and model.
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