Kyle Farrington successfully defended and submitted the final version of his MS thesis: “Silicate weathering and mineral chemistry in the Critical Zone of the Maryland Piedmont”. Congratulations Kyle!
He will continue in his position at the Maryland Department of Environment.
Congratulations to Emily O’Donnell for successfully defending and submitting her MS thesis entitled “Drivers of specific conductance: Spatial trends of dissolved constituents across regional and urban gradients within the urban Critical Zone”.
The plan for her near-term future is to wrap up her student position at the US Geological Survey and be converted to a full-time employee.
Kyle Farrington has started a position in the Water Supply Program at the Maryland Department of Environment. He has completed his lab work and will continue writing and revising his thesis.
Kyle Hurley, who graduated in July 2023, started a new position at the MD-DE-DC Water Science Center, US Geological Survey (USGS).
In his role as a data scientist, he’ll have the opportunity to use his impressive coding skills to contribute to interesting USGS science. Kyle did a lot of coding in R – including trends modeling with the USGS Weighted Regression on Time, Discharge, and Season approach – as part of his M.S. thesis.
Greg Woodward successfully defended his M.S. thesis in Environmental Science: Effects of De-icing Salt on pH And Ion Concentrations in Soil, Groundwater, and Surface Water.
In addition to working on his M.S. thesis, one of Greg’s big adventures in the last several years was being one of the founders of Baltimore Music Company, a new music store.
Greg has already started a job at the Maryland Department of Environment in the Water Supply Program.
During his time in the lab, Greg collected field samples, analyzed samples on the ion chromatograph, and much more. Among the projects he helped out with (several years back) was setting up a meteorology station at the Towson University Field Station in Monkton, MD.
MS student Emily O’Donnell started a part-time position at the MD-DE-DC Water Science Center of the US Geological Survey. She will continue her MS thesis work alongside her USGS work.
Emily started working in the lab as an undergraduate and has continued as MS thesis student. The Moore lab contributions to the NSF-funded Urban Critical Zone Cluster, including analysis of 1000s of water samples, would not be possible without Emily.
Congratulations to Kyle Hurley on successfully defending his Environmental Science MS thesis: Quantifying Four Decades of Chloride Pollution Inputs from Road Salt to the Baltimore City Region Drinking Water Reservoirs
After doing his undergrad in Geology at Towson, Kyle taught for a couple of years and then returned to do his MS.
His thesis included analysis of ~40 years of Baltimore City Dept of Public works data for tributaries feeding the Baltimore drinking water reservoirs and also new data collection, including water sampling in some of those same tributaries, collection of high-frequency data, and lab analyses.
He has already started in the Water Supply Program at the Maryland Department of Environment.
Kyle Farrington, a MS student in the lab, was the focus of a write up to highlight a current Environmental Science MS student.
He is in year two of his thesis work investigating regolith geochemistry and mineral weathering in two watersheds in the Baltimore region. His research is part of the Moore lab contribution to the Urban Critical Zone Cluster.
We have partially moved into the new Science Complex, which houses
Much of the instrumentation that we use in the Urban Environmental Biogeochemistry Laboratory is still in Smith Hall with new instrumentation in the process of being installed in the Science Complex.
Congratulations and a fond farewell to Melinda Marsh who has successfully defended and completed her masters thesis entitled: Using high-frequency data and concentration-discharge relationships to describe solute mobilization and transport in suburban and urban watersheds
Melinda’s very cool research is one of the first studies to use multiple ions and concentration-discharge (C-Q) relationships to investigate on the effects of impervious surface area in urban areas on solute mobilization and transport. Her next adventure is doing a Ph.D. at Penn State with Jon Duncan in the Watershed Ecohydrology and Biogeochemistry Lab.
