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Designed Experiences for Quebecois Tourists Visiting North Country Phase II [Completion Report]
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Co-Curriculuar Pathways at PSU
No full textThe Student Development Working Group is developing a co-curricular pathways model at PSU to foster and enhance student learning and development. The model will allow students the opportunity to find and develop their sense of community, be involved in an active and vibrant campus experience, and develop habits of minds and skills for life and work after PSU. Please join session facilitators to learn more about this work and discuss ways to integrate co-curricular pathways across campus
FS Direct: Training for Campus Primary Event Planners
No full textTraining with Campus Primary Planners on the new FS Direct (School Dude) software and process for events
A Comparison of Atmospheric River Catalogs in the Northeastern United States
Get PDFThe purpose of this study is to compare a subjectively identified catalog of Atmospheric Rivers (ARs) over the Northeast U.S. constructed during a Summer 2018 REU project (i.e., the Duncan catalog) to a published objectively identified catalog of ARs by Bin Guan (UCLA/JPL; i.e., the Guan Catalog). This work demonstrates that the Guan Catalog of AR events over the Northeast U.S. is comparable to the Duncan Catalog of AR events in the winter months. The catalogs are most different during the summer months. The Guan Catalog in most cases does not determine the difference between broad regions of enhanced horizontal water vapor transport and more narrow corridors of enhanced horizontal water vapor transport more common to AR events over the Northeast U.S. As a result, the subjective Duncan Catalog dataset is more accurate for determining AR events in the summer months in the Northeast U.S. as compared to the Guan Catalog. Validation of the subjective climatology of AR events in the Duncan Catalog is an important first step in identifying a proper AR dataset to study the relationship between ARs and their impacts over the Northeast U.S. (e.g., flooding)
Does the Presence of Brook Trout Influence the Benthic Insect Community in a Headwater Stream?
No full textBrook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) are native predators in New Hampshire streams, feeding upon a variety of invertebrates. We investigated whether the presence of brook trout might influence the benthic insect community in a headwater stream. To do this, we sampled at three different locations in Kineo Brook at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. The first location was immediately upstream of a cascade, in a section of stream where brook trout did not occur. The second location was immediately downstream of this barrier to trout dispersal, where fish were present. The third location was even further downstream, closer to the confluence of Kineo Brook with Hubbard Brook. We used a Surber net to collect five to six samples of benthic insects at each location in August 2019. We also set up three rock baskets per sampling location. Rock baskets were placed during the month of August in pools deep enough to cover the baskets completely, and they were retrieved in October. All samples were preserved in ethanol and identified to family. We compared the abundance, diversity, and composition of the benthic insect samples between different locations and between our two sampling methods