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Environmental Education BIOL 602 - "Cycles in Watershed Systems"

June 16-27, 2008 on-campus at Millersville University, Caputo/Roddy buildings

Speaker and Session Information

• Speaker: Dr. Julie Ambler – Dr. Ambler is a Professor in the Department of Biology, where she teaches ecology and courses about the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed, ecosystem processes, applications of Geographic Information System for ecologists, and biological oceanography. She has published experiments about the nitrogen cycle for the classroom as well as much research about food web dynamics in the ocean.

  Description of Session: Dr. Ambler will focus on the carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus biogeochemical cycles, and the biological processes in these cycles which can perform ecosystem services to remove high concentrations of nitrogen and phosphorus from watersheds before they enter streams.

• Speaker: Dr. Richard Clark – Dr. Clark is a Professor of Meteorology in the Department of Earth Sciences. His expertise is in boundary layers and turbulence and atmospheric chemistry. He has been involved in several extensive field projects and teaches courses in these two principal areas.

Description of Session: Dr. Clark will focus on the hydrobiogeochemical factors that regulate the atmospheric abundances of water, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide and other trace gases. Through use cases, box models, and measurement, the influence of transport, precipitation, deposition, evaporation, and chemical processing will be examined and quantified.

• Speaker: Dr. Charles Geiger – Dr. Geiger is an Associate Professor in the Geography Department. He teaches courses on maps and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), environmental/energy issues, quantitative methods and Pennsylvania. His research has focused on Radon in Lancaster County, electricity production in Pennsylvania, and a variety of GIS applications.

Description of Session: Dr. Geiger will tackle GIS (Geographic Information System) mapping of the watershed landscape to understand the effect of land cover on nutrient and carbon cycles. Field locations from GPS receivers will be incorporated in the GIS maps.

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