Paid REU at Critical Zone Field School

W&L Geology professor Elizabeth Knapp is looking for a student who is interesting in taking advantage of a paid REU opportunity this summer with the Critical Zone Field School at Penn State. This project is part of an ongoing multi-institution collaborative investigation of the critical zone* involving professor Knapp, Dave Harbor, W&L students, and researchers from many other universities. For more information about this great opportunity, please contact Elizabeth (knappe@wlu.edu) or talk to me outside of class.

Note from Elizabeth below:

All,
I wanted to remind you of this great student summer project (flyer below). It is the opportunity to be involved in a multi-institution NSF-funded research project. This REU is associated with the Critical Zone Observatory Shale Hills transect project http://www.czen.org/content/susquehanna-shale-hills-critical-zone-observatory

This work will be a continuation of the research done by Meredith Townsend and Dave Harbor this past summer http://www.wlu.edu/x33876.xml

This coming summer Penn State will host a student from W&L (and the other satellite schools) for 2 weeks to attend a summer Critical Zone field school (fully funded). This summer event will lead the students through a wide range of mostly field activities including measuring and sampling sedimentary bedrock sections, digging soil pits and describing soils, augering and sampling soils, installing lysimeters, drilling and building groundwater wells, studying forest canopy, surface water studies, and the installation and use of the meteorologic/soil moisture-temperature instrument package to be deployed at each of your sites.

The group also will develop a common field-based research project that the we can then implement here at W&L’s transect site after the field school (4-6 more weeks of paid summer work). This is a great opportunity and I look forward to working on it with you.

Please let me know if you are interested or have questions. Please feel free to pass on to others who might be interested.
Take care,
Elizabeth


*The critical zone is the area near the Earth's surface where the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere interact.