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2025

January 2025

• Congratulations to Ayobami Oladapo, Srilani Wickramasinghe, and Shivika Aggrawal on their documentary The Little-known Tale of the Thirsty Chips being selected to the 2025 Colorado Environmental Film Festival!

2024

December 2024

• Srilani Wickramasinghe presented a poster at the 2024 AGU Fall Meeting held in Washington, D.C. Her poster was titled, "Processes controlling the longitudinal variability in δ¹⁵N along the Wabash River, Indiana, USA".
• Ayobami Oladapo and Dr. Frisbee organized an international educational outreach event on the interactions between alpine glaciers and mountain groundwater systems. The event, "Recent Advances in Our Understanding of Hydrogeological Processes in Deglaciating Alpine Watersheds" was held over zoom and the audience included particpiants from Purdue University, the University of Minnesota, Glacier National Park, Mount Hood National Forest, and colleagues at the Instituto Nacional de Investigación en Glaciares y Ecosistemas de Montaña (INAIGEM) in Lima, Peru. Ayobami gave a talk on her strontium isotope research in Glacier National Park and Dr. Frisbee gave a talk on using a suite of isotopes to trace recharge from glacial meltwater.

October 2024

• Ayobami Oladapo, Srilani Wickramasinghe, and Shivika Aggrawal completed their documnetary funded by the CUAHSI Let's Talk About Water program. The documentary can be found here: The Little-known Tale of the Thirsty Chips. A news piece on the documentary can be found here: Purdue graduate students awarded CUAHSI’s “Let’s Talk About Water” grant.

September 2024

• Dr. Frisbee served as the JTPC for the GSA Hydrogeology Division for the 2024 GSA Connects meeting held in Anaheim, CA.
• Ayobami Oladapo presented a poster at the 2024 GSA Connects meeting titled, "Using ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr to identify rock units that support groundwater flowpaths and flowpath connectivity in deglaciating alpine watersheds".
• Dr. Frisbee was a co-author on a talk at the 2024 GSA Connects meeting titled, "Transtensional faulting in the southwestern Great Basin governs evolution of endangered aquatic species" from the IES-funded project on desert springs. 

August 2024

• Dr. Frisbee was a co-author on a recent paper about the East Palestine train derailment. The paper, "Environmental and private property contamination following the Norfolk Southern chemical spill and chemical fires in Ohio" was published in Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology.
• Dr. Frisbee's Lab welcomes Diana Lucia Pinto (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)! Diana joins the lab through the Purdue UREP-C Program and she will pursue undergraduate research on developing a robust, field-ready anion exchange column to extract bromide from natural waters.

July 2024

• Congratulations to Ayobami Oladapo on the successful defense of her M.S. research! The title of Ayobami's thesis is, “Factors Affecting the Preservation of the Isotopic Fingerprint of Glacial Meltwater in Mountain Groundwater Systems". Ayobami plans to stay in Dr. Frisbee's Lab for a Ph.D.

May 2024

• Srilani Wickramasinghe was selected for the WaterSoftHack Program 2024 and was nominated as a WaterSoftHack Fellow '24. This is a NSF funded summer program conducted in collaboration with Clemson University, University of Iowa, and CUAHSI offering training and resources in data analytics, hydrological modelling, and cloud computing for graduate students and early career hydrologists.

April 2024

• Congratulations to Elizabeth Olson on the first publication from her postdoctoral research at Purdue University, "Spatially heterogeneous discharge of glacial meltwater to drainages surrounding the ablating Coropuna Ice Cap, Peruvian Andes" in the Hydrological Sciences Journal.
• Congratulations to Srilani Wickramasinghe for her award at the EAPS Annual Banquet. Srilani was awarded a Darrell Leap Hyrdogeology Graduate Research Award.
• Congraulations to Ayobami Oladapo for her awards at the EAPS Annual Banquet. Ayobami was awarded a Terry R. West Scholarship and a Darrell Leap Hydrogeology Graduate Research Award.

February 2024

• Dr Frisbee gave a talk titled, "How can groundwater withdrawals impact the agricultural and ecological communities in Tippecanoe County?” at the Tippecanoe Soil and Water Conservation District Annual Meeting held at the John S. Wright Forestry Center, in West Lafayette, IN.
• Dr. Frisbee visited Klondike Elementary School in West Lafayette, IN and talked to the kindergarteners about groundwater.

January 2024

• Ayobami Oladapo attended the CUAHSI-SINTER Snow Measurement Field School at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.

2023

December 2023

• Dr. Frisbee gave a talk titled, "Investigating Groundwater and Surface-water Interactions at Ross Biological Reserve, West Lafayette, IN”, for the Which Way Does It Flow? The Interaction between Groundwater and Surface Water and Why It Matters virtual forum organized by White River Alliance.

November 2023

• Ayobami Oladapo gave a talk titled, "Investigating the impacts of alpine glacier meltwater on mountain groundwater flow processes using environmental isotopes” at the 17^th Annual Graduate Climate Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology held at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

July 2023

• Srilani Wickramasinghe and Ayobami Oladapo attended the Inclusive Innovator's Summit 2023 at the University of Minnesota.

June 2023

• Congratulations to Ayobami Oladapo, Srilani Wickramasinghe, and Shivika Aggrawal on their winning proposal to the CUAHSI Let's Talk About Water program. Their proposal is titled, "The Little-known Tale of the Thirsty Chips" and they plan to create a short documentary discussing water use in the semiconductor fabrication industry. 
• Dr. Frisbee gave a talk titled, “A Brief Introduction to Groundwater Processes and Aquifer Systems of Tippecanoe County” for the Pipelines, Progress, and Policy: A Public Forum on Water Use and Transfer public event organized by the League of Women Voters of Greater Lafayette at the Tippecanoe County Fairgrounds Coliseum in Lafayette, IN
• Dr. Frisbee's Hydrogeology Group attended the 42nd Annual Indiana Water Resources Association Symposium held on the Purdue University campus in West Lafayette, IN.
  
  • Dr. Frisbee gave a talk titled, "Using iodine-129 (129 I) to evaluate a conceptual model of
    groundwater/surface-water interactions in the Devil’s Punch Bowl catchment in Shades State Park (Crawfordsville, IN).
  • Srilani Wickramasinghe gave her first conference talk, "Using δ15N isotopes to disentangle nitrogen sources and processes in the Wabash River, Indiana"
  • Ayobami Oladapo presented a poster titled, "Investigating the impacts of alpine glacier meltwater on mountain groundwater flow processes using environmental isotopes"

May 2023

• A new paper was published by the Desert Springs Research Team describing connections between geology, hydrogeology, hydrogeochemsitry, BMI communities, and microbiology communities of springs in the Eastern Sierra in Owens Valley, CA, "Synecological response of spring benthic prokaryotes and macroinvertebrates to Paleozoic roof pendant-derived calcium" in Ecosphere. 

April 2023

• Ayobami Oladapo was awarded a Hydrologists Helping Others (H2O) Research Grant. Ayobami will use this grant to fund her summer research investgating residence times of glaciated mountain groundwater systems and the responses times of those catchments to loss of glacial ice. Ayobami plans to conduct a science outreach event with the watershed groups near Mount Hood, Glacial National Park, and with the Instituto Nacional de Investigación en Glaciares y Ecosistemas de Montaña in Lima, Peru in 2024.

March 2023

• Dr. Frisbee gave a talk about groundwater at a Wednesdays in the Wild event held at the Celery Bog Nature Area in West Lafayette, IN.
• Srilani Wickramasinghe and Ayobami Oladapo attended the Indiana Science Communication Day 2023 in Indianapolis. Srilani talked about science with senators and shared her ongoing research on the dynamics of nitrogen in the Wabash watershed. 

2022

August 2022

• Dr. Frisbee's Lab welcomes Ayobami Oladapo (M.S. student) to the research group! Ayobami will pursue thesis research in EAPS on the importance of alpine glacial meltwater in groundwater flow processes and hydrogeochemical processes across spatial scales in Glacier National Park, MT and Mount Hood, OR.
• The Lab also welcomes Mariana Sierra Arboleda (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá)! Mariana joins the lab through the Purdue UREP-C Program and she will pursue undergraduate research on the role of alpine glacial meltwater on geomorphic processes in Arequipa, Peru. 

April 2022

• A new paper was published describing some of the ongoing research on groundwater/surface-water interactions in the Wabash River watershed, "Using multiple isotopic and geochemical tracers to disentangle the sources of baseflow and salinity in the headwaters of a large agricultural watershed" in Journal of Hydrology. 

March 2022

• Congratulations to Zach Meyers on the second publication from his dissertation, "Extending classical geochemical weathering studies through the mountain block: The effect of increasing scale on geochemical evolution in the Sierra Nevada (CA)" in Chemical Geology. 

January 2022

• Congratulations to Odiney Alvarez-Campos on the first publication from her postdoctoral research, "Evidence for high-elevation salar recharge and interbasin groundwater flow in the Western Cordillera of the Peruvian Andes" in Hydrology and Earth Systems Science.
• Dr. Frisbee's Lab welcomes Srilani Wickramasinghe (Ph.D. student) to the research group! Srilani was awarded an Andrews Fellowship through the Ecological Sciences and Engineering Interdisciplinary Graduate Program (ESE IGP) and she will pursue dissertation research in EAPS on groundwater/surface-water interactions in large agricultural watersheds. 

2021

December 2021

• Congratulations to Jordyn Miller on the successful defense of her Ph.D. research!

June 2021

• Jordyn Miller did some virtual public outreach and presented her research to the Hood Watershed Group. The outreach talk was titled "The Role of Alpine Glacial Melt in Mountain-block Recharge".

May 2021

• Jordyn Miller and Emily Zaretzky, undergraduate researcher in UX Design, completed their work on creating a perpetual educational outreach website on glacial melt and mountain groundwater. The website is titled, The Alpine Glacier-Groundwater Connection.

April 2021

• Dr. Marty Frisbee was promoted to Associate Professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (effective August 2021).
• Congratulations to Zach Meyers on the first publication from his dissertation, "Old groundwater buffers the effect of a major drought in groundwater-dependent ecosystems of the eastern Sierra Nevada (CA)," in Environmental Research Letters. 

March 2021

• Congratulations to Jordyn Miller on the second publication from her dissertation, "Recharge from glacial meltwater is critical for alpine springs and their microbiomes," in Environmental Research Letters. You can read more about Jordyn's research in this EAPS news article, "Simple question" leads to multi-year research study about effects of alpine glacial meltwater on groundwater in mountainous regions.

2020

October 2020

• Congratulations to Lani Tsinnajinnie on the publication of the first article from her dissertation, "Groundwater from perennial springs provides refuge from wildfire impacts in a mountainous semiarid watershed," in the Journal of Hydrology.

June 2020

• Congratulations to Zach Meyers on the successful defense of his Ph.D. research!
• Congratulations to Lani Tsinnajinnie on her recent 2020 UNM Women in Stem award. You can read more about Lani's research in the June 2020 New Mexico Water eNews.

April 2020

• Congratulations to Carolyn Gleason on the second publication from her thesis, "Hydrogeology of desert springs in the Panamint Range, California, USA: Geologic controls on the geochemical kinetics, flowpaths, and mean residence times of springs," in Hydrological Processes.

January 2020

• A new paper was published on the hydrogeology of the Spring Mountains in Nevada and its implications for recharge to the Death Valley Regional Groundwater Flow System, "Groundwater geochemistry and flow in the Spring Mountains, NV: Implications for the Death Valley Regional Flow System," in Journal of Hydrology.

2019

November 2019

• Congratulations to Carolyn Gleason on her first publication, "Hydrogeology of desert springs in the Panamint Range, California, USA: Identifying the sources and amount of recharge that support spring flow," in Hydrological Processes.
  

June 2019

• A new paper was published on a karst hydrogeology study in northern Indiana, "Processes leading to the activation (re-activation) of a paleokarst sinkhole and the subsequent drying of waterfalls in a small catchment located in northern Indiana, USA," in Journal of Cave and Karst Studies. Photos from the field work made the cover of the issue.

2018

November 2018

• Congratulations to Carolyn Gleason on the successful defense of her M.S. research!
• Zach Meyers and Carolyn Gleason gave their first talks at a national conference during the 2018 GSA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, IN.  Zach gave a talk on the response of spring-fed vegetation to extreme drought in Owens Valley, CA.  Carolyn gave a talk on the sources of recharge and groundwater flow processes responsible for springflow generation in the Panamint Range of CA.   

October 2018

• Congratulations to Noah Stewart-Maddox on his first publication, "Identifying the regional extent and geochemical evolution of interbasin groundwater flow using geochemical inverse modeling and ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratios in a complex conglomeratic aquifer" published in Chemical Geology.

September 2018

• Carolyn (Box) Gleason organized an educational public outreach event in Tecopa, CA to discuss her research on the spring systems of the Panamint Range in Death Valley, CA.  Colleagues and graduate students from the University of the Pacific, University of Nevada - Las Vegas, and University of Nevada - Reno also gave educational talks at the outreach event.  This was featured on the EAPS website.  

August 2018

• Dr. Marty Frisbee gave a talk entitled, "Does meltwater from alpine glaciers provide mountain-block recharge? A discussion of evolving conceptual models and methodological challenges." at the Seminario Internacional de Modelamiento Numerico de Fluidos Aplicado a la Ingenierea (SIMFAI-2018) held at the Universidad Nacional de San Augustín de Arequipa (UNSA) in Arequipa, Peru.  This talk highlighted some of the recent results from Jordyn Miller's PhD research in the western United States and presented a discussion of the methodological challenges facing researchers interested in the interactions between alpine glacier and mountain groundwater systems.   

June 2018

• Congratulations to Jordyn Miller on her first publication, "Using 3D Printing to Create a Robust and Compact Peristaltic Field Pump: An Update to the Montana Drill Pump," in Groundwater Monitoring & Remediation.

May 2018

• Congratulations to Lani Tsinnajinnie on the successful defense of her Ph.D. research!

April 2018

• Zach Meyers received the following departmental awards: Outstanding Presentation EAPS Student Research Expo, Darrell I. Leap Hydrogeology Hydrogeology Graduate Research Fund, and Terry R. West Scholarship.

March 2018

• Congratulations to Derrick Slick (co-advised Ken Ridgway) on being awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to investigate alluvial groundwater recharge processes on the Navajo Nation!

2017

December 2017

• Jordyn Miller received the CUAHSI (Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc.) Pathfinder Fellowship.  This fellowship will be used to pay for her travel to the University of Minnesota, where she will collaborate on the development and testing of a new technique, using DNA markers to quantify the amount of recharge occurring from melting alpine glaciers.  They will also identify the role of this recharge in regional groundwater through the mountain-block.  This was featured on the EAPS website.

November 2017

• Congratulations to Noah Stewart-Maddox on the successful defense of his M.S. research!

July 2017

• Noah Stewart-Maddox organized a public outreach event in El Rito, New Mexico. This was featured in the EAPS magazine, Inside EAPS.

June 2017

• Jordyn Miller was awarded an Indiana Space Grant to conduct research on the impact of melting alpine glaciers on mountain groundwater systems.
  

April 2017

• Jordyn Miller was awarded the Jeff and Nina Ahbe Scholarship Grant in Geoscience.  Jordyn will use this funding to quantify the impact of melting alpine glaciers on groundwater resources in alpine communities.
• Carolyn Box was awarded a Hydrologists Helping Others (H2O) Research Grant.  Carolyn will use this grant to complete a synoptic sampling of springs located in the remote, rugged Panamint Mountains in Death Valley.  These springs are thought to be hotspots of biodiversity in an otherwise water-stressed arid environment.  In addition, many of these springs have never been age-dated or chemically characterized.  This data will provide much needed information on groundwater flow in the Panamint Mountains and its impact on biodiversity and spring permanence.  Carolyn plans to conduct a science outreach event to the rural communities and tribal communities in 2018. 
• Carolyn Box was awarded a Darrell Leap Hydrogeology Graduate Research Award to fund a sampling trip to the Panamint Mountains in Death Valley in southern California.
  

2016

April 2016

• Noah Stewart-Maddox was awarded a Hydrologists Helping Others (H2O) Research Grant.  Noah will use this grant to complete research using strontium isotopes to determine the regional extent of interbasin groundwater flow in the Tusas Mountains of northern New Mexico.  This research provided much needed information on regional groundwater flow and its role in generating baseflow in streams and perennial springflow.  Noah plans to conduct a science outreach event to the rural, Hispanic El Rito community in July 2017.
• Noah Stewart-Maddox was awarded an inaugural Darrell Leap Hydrogeology Graduate Research Award to fund ongoing research in the El Rito watershed of northern New Mexico.