Top off the pandemic summer with a historic windstorm that struck Cedar Rapids on August 10 - literally destroying or damaging half the trees on campus and knocking out power and internet (see picture above from the quad door of Peterson during the storm) - and, well...a long strange summer.
We'll miss three CWQL members who graduated this past May - Donald Janda will be pursuing a Ph.D. in chemistry at Pittsburgh, while Daniel Turley will be doing the same at Iowa State University. Good luck, Donald and Daniel! Zoe Bakken-Heck decided to enter the working world, and is an Air Quality Specialist and Asbestos Site Supervisor for the Institute of Environmental Assessment in Minneapolis.
Past grads were in the news. UI grad student Maddy Jensen ('17) was featured in a nice article on Coe's web page about her work in trying to build a better filter for health care workers. Fellow environmental engineering student Danielle Hollingshead ('18) was in the Cedar Rapids Gazette for her work looking at lead in Iowa's drinking water. Madison Mathers ('19) was named a Delta Science Fellow for her Ph.D. work at UC Davis. And Alyssa Olson ('19) received a postgraduate NCAA scholarship to support her medical school studies at the University of Iowa. Congratulations!
Also a nice paper using data from our lab via a collaboration with Keith Schilling at IGSB - "Dissolved phosphate concentrations in Iowa shallow groundwater" published in Journal of Environmental Quality in March 2020.