Photo: Selke River, Germany (M.J. Kurz)
News Archive
2023
December Presenting on classifying and evaluating 'representative' watersheds (H13C-02) in San Francisco at the AGU Fall Meeting. Plus attending the ever-great Berkeley Catchment Science Symposium!
October Kurz & Knapp chapter on Using diel solute signals to assess ecohydrological processing in lotic systems published in S. Krause, D.M. Hannah and N.B. Grimm (Eds.), Ecohydrological Interfaces, John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
July Yun et al. A modified QuEChERS sample processing method for the determination of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in environmental biological matrices accepted in MethodsX.
June Lewis et al. Impacts of divalent cations (Mg2+ and Ca2+) on PFAS bioaccumulation in freshwater macroinvertebrates representing different foraging modes
accepted in Environmental Pollution.
2022
December Yun et al. 'Bioaccumulation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances by freshwater benthic macroinvertebrates: Impact of species and sediment organic carbon content' accepted in STOTEN.
Presenting on PFAS (H12J-0812) and chairing some of the GW-SW Interactions sessions (H35A & H42D) in Chicago, IL for this year's hybrid AGU Fall Meeting.
November Invited speaker at the 2022 SERDP-ESTCP Symposium.
February Ward et al. 'Advancing river corridor science beyond disciplinary boundaries with an inductive approach to catalyze hypothesis generation' accepted in Hydrological Processes.
Lewis et al. 'Exposure pathways and bioaccumulation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in freshwater aquatic ecosystems: Key considerations' accepted in STOTEN.
2021
December Krause et al. 'Organizational principles of hyporheic exchange flow and biogeochemical cycling in river networks across scales' accepted in Water Resources Research.
Another busy AGU Fall Meeting, presenting B54B-01 (invited) & H35O-1214 and convening/chairing the series of Gw-SW Interactions sessions H31D, H32E, H33E, H35A, H35O & H35P.
November PADEP released their proposed regulation setting stricter state-wide limits for PFAS in drinking water, based, in part, on our health effects report.
October Started new position at Oak Ridge National Laboratory! Stay tuned for new projects and updates.
April Invited presenter for the SERDP and ESTCP Webinar Series: Advances in Understanding PFAS Ecological Risks; >500 attendees + recording & slides available here.
2020
December Weitere et al. 'Disentangling multiple chemical and non-chemical stressors in a lotic ecosystem using a longitudinal approach' accepted in Sci of the Total Env.
October Ledford, Kurz & Toran 'Contrasting Raz-Rru stream metabolism and nutrient uptake downstream of urban wastewater effluent sites' accepted in Freshwater Science.
September Featured in the newest Academy Unscripted, a series featuring one-on-one conversations with ANS scientists.
May Panelist for the Academy Conversation "What are we learning about our relationship with Earth during COVID-19?"
April Highlighted in the Academy Blog "Science Never Stops"
2019
December Presented at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, CA. Abstracts: GH13A-1048, H43L-2200 & H12I-12.
Ward et al. 'Spatial and temporal variation in river corridor exchange across a 5th order mountain stream network' and the accompanying data set from the Leverhulme HJ Andrews synoptic experiment published in HESS and ESSD.
November Presented to Science on Tap Philly @ National Mechanics: "The Heartbeat of Streams".
October Ward et al. 'Solute transport and transformation in an intermittent, headwater mountain stream with unsteady discharge' accepted in Water as part of the special issue on Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions.
August Presented upcoming SERDP project at the SETAC Focused Topic Meeting on Environmental Risk Assessment of PFAS.
Spent another great week introducing our GeoDESLA high school students to the wonders of geology in MT & WY. Cant wait for next year's trip!
April Ward et al. 'Spatial and temporal variation in river corridor exchange across a 5th order mountain stream network' and the accompanying data set from the Leverhulme HJ Andrews synoptic experiment posted as discussion papers in HESSD and ESSDD.
New Academy Blog post on What are five things you can do to help the environment in under 10 minutes?
March Kelleher et al. 'Exploring tracer information and model framework trade-offs to improve estimation of stream transient storage processes' accepted in WRR.
February $1.4M SERDP proposal selected for funding to study bioaccumulation of PFAS in stream food webs. Collaboration with Drexel U., Temple U., Lock Haven U., & USGS.
Panelist for the Academy Conversation "Is EPA’s new action plan to address toxic PFAS chemicals too little too late?" discussing the EPA's new PFAS Action Plan.
New Academy Blog post "Toxic Chemicals in Our Water".
January Panelist for the Academy Conversation "What happens if federal regulations protecting clean water are scaled back?" discussing the proposed changes to the WOTUS rule.
2018
December AGU Fall Meeting; Washington, DC. Abstracts: H23H-1984, GH41B-1439, H13C-05, H34E-08, H21O-1899 & GH34A-03; Convening H22D, H23H, H23K, H31D, H32E, H33F & H34E (another bumper year of Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions sessions!)
August Spent a fantastic week introducing our GeoDESLA high school students to the wonders of geology in MT & WY. Cant wait for next year's trip!
July Participated in the fantastically helpful Early Career Workshop by On the Cutting Edge/SERC/NAGT. Check out their websites for lots of great career & teaching resources.
March Blaen et al. 'Woody debris is related to reach-scale hotspots of lowland stream ecosystem respiration under baseflow conditions' accepted in Ecohydrology.
January Phase 2 of the Delaware River Watershed Initiative has begun! See what we're up to... 4states1source.org
2017
December AGU Fall Meeting; New Orleans, LA. Abstract: H13P-06; Chairing H11N (1 of 5 Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions sessions!)
August NSF RAPID grant funded to study ecosystem respiration in urban, wastewater-impacted streams.
Folegot et al. 'Low flow controls on stream thermal dynamics' accepted in Limnologica.
June HydroEco conference, Birmingham, UK.
May Featured in the Academy's Frontiers Magazine.
Soundbites in WHYY's 'The Pulse' and 'StateImpact Pennsylvania '.
March Baranov et al. 'Helophyte impacts on the response of hyporheic invertebrate communities to inundation events in intermittent streams' accepted in Ecohydrology.
February Kurz et al. 'Impacts of water level on metabolism and transient storage in vegetated lowland rivers - insights from a mesocosm study' accepted in JGR-Biogeosciences.
January Delaware Estuary Science & Environmental Summit, Cape May, NJ.
Earth & Environmental Science Departmental Seminar, Temple University, PA.
2016
December AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Abstract H31B-1355; Convening 5(!) Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions sessions (H41H, H42C, H43D, H51L & H52D).
November Khadka et al. 'Synoptic estimates of diffuse groundwater seepage to a spring-fed karst river at high spatial resolution using an automated radon measurement technique' accepted in J. Hydrology.
September Started new position at ANSofDU, Philadelphia, PA.
July/Aug. 5th Leverhulme H.Z.N. experiment @ HJ Andrews Experimental Forest, Oregon, USA.
July Martin et al. 'Climate control of decadal-scale increases in apparent ages of eogenetic karst spring water' accepted in J. Hydrology.
Vieweg et al. 'Estimating time-variable aerobic respiration in the streambed by combining electrical conductivity and dissolved oxygen time-series' accepted in JGR-Biogeosci.
June GeoEnviron Seminar @ Uni. Tübingen, Germany.
April EGU General Assembly; Vienna, Austria. Abstracts: 13994 (invited), 14291, 3055, 3039, & 8275.
March Schmadel et al. 'Stream solute tracer timescales changing with discharge and reach length confound process interpretation' accepted in Water Resources Research.
2015
December AGU Fall Meeting; San Francisco, CA. Abstract: H31K-04.
Berkeley Catchment Science Symposium; Berkeley, CA.
August Goldschmidt; Prague CZ. Abstract: 07f-10.
June 3rd & 4th experiments of the Leverhulme Hyporheic Zone Network; Urban River Lab, Spain & Sussex UK.
April 5th International Multidisciplinary Conference on Hydrology and Ecology (HydroEco); Vienna, Austria.
EGU General Assembly; Vienna, Austria. Abstract: HS10.11, 12747.
February Kurz et al. 'Diffusion and seepage-driven element fluxes from the hyporheic zone of a karst river' accepted in Freshwater Science 34(1) as part of the special issue on 'Groundwater-Surface-Water Interactions'.
2014
December AGU Fall Meeting; San Francisco, CA. Abstracts: H24D-03, H24D-02 & H33J-0962.
Berkeley Catchment Science Symposium; Berkeley, CA.
July International Workshop on Temporal High Resolution Water Quality Monitoring & Analysis; Magdeburg, Germany.
2nd experiment of the Leverhulme Hyporheic Zone Network; Selke River, Harz Mountains, Germany.
April 1st experiment of the Leverhulme Hyporheic Zone Network; DRI-STREAM mesocosm facility, Hampshire UK.
December Presenting on classifying and evaluating 'representative' watersheds (H13C-02) in San Francisco at the AGU Fall Meeting. Plus attending the ever-great Berkeley Catchment Science Symposium!
October Kurz & Knapp chapter on Using diel solute signals to assess ecohydrological processing in lotic systems published in S. Krause, D.M. Hannah and N.B. Grimm (Eds.), Ecohydrological Interfaces, John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
July Yun et al. A modified QuEChERS sample processing method for the determination of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in environmental biological matrices accepted in MethodsX.
June Lewis et al. Impacts of divalent cations (Mg2+ and Ca2+) on PFAS bioaccumulation in freshwater macroinvertebrates representing different foraging modes
accepted in Environmental Pollution.
2022
December Yun et al. 'Bioaccumulation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances by freshwater benthic macroinvertebrates: Impact of species and sediment organic carbon content' accepted in STOTEN.
Presenting on PFAS (H12J-0812) and chairing some of the GW-SW Interactions sessions (H35A & H42D) in Chicago, IL for this year's hybrid AGU Fall Meeting.
November Invited speaker at the 2022 SERDP-ESTCP Symposium.
February Ward et al. 'Advancing river corridor science beyond disciplinary boundaries with an inductive approach to catalyze hypothesis generation' accepted in Hydrological Processes.
Lewis et al. 'Exposure pathways and bioaccumulation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in freshwater aquatic ecosystems: Key considerations' accepted in STOTEN.
2021
December Krause et al. 'Organizational principles of hyporheic exchange flow and biogeochemical cycling in river networks across scales' accepted in Water Resources Research.
Another busy AGU Fall Meeting, presenting B54B-01 (invited) & H35O-1214 and convening/chairing the series of Gw-SW Interactions sessions H31D, H32E, H33E, H35A, H35O & H35P.
November PADEP released their proposed regulation setting stricter state-wide limits for PFAS in drinking water, based, in part, on our health effects report.
October Started new position at Oak Ridge National Laboratory! Stay tuned for new projects and updates.
April Invited presenter for the SERDP and ESTCP Webinar Series: Advances in Understanding PFAS Ecological Risks; >500 attendees + recording & slides available here.
2020
December Weitere et al. 'Disentangling multiple chemical and non-chemical stressors in a lotic ecosystem using a longitudinal approach' accepted in Sci of the Total Env.
October Ledford, Kurz & Toran 'Contrasting Raz-Rru stream metabolism and nutrient uptake downstream of urban wastewater effluent sites' accepted in Freshwater Science.
September Featured in the newest Academy Unscripted, a series featuring one-on-one conversations with ANS scientists.
May Panelist for the Academy Conversation "What are we learning about our relationship with Earth during COVID-19?"
April Highlighted in the Academy Blog "Science Never Stops"
2019
December Presented at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, CA. Abstracts: GH13A-1048, H43L-2200 & H12I-12.
Ward et al. 'Spatial and temporal variation in river corridor exchange across a 5th order mountain stream network' and the accompanying data set from the Leverhulme HJ Andrews synoptic experiment published in HESS and ESSD.
November Presented to Science on Tap Philly @ National Mechanics: "The Heartbeat of Streams".
October Ward et al. 'Solute transport and transformation in an intermittent, headwater mountain stream with unsteady discharge' accepted in Water as part of the special issue on Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions.
August Presented upcoming SERDP project at the SETAC Focused Topic Meeting on Environmental Risk Assessment of PFAS.
Spent another great week introducing our GeoDESLA high school students to the wonders of geology in MT & WY. Cant wait for next year's trip!
April Ward et al. 'Spatial and temporal variation in river corridor exchange across a 5th order mountain stream network' and the accompanying data set from the Leverhulme HJ Andrews synoptic experiment posted as discussion papers in HESSD and ESSDD.
New Academy Blog post on What are five things you can do to help the environment in under 10 minutes?
March Kelleher et al. 'Exploring tracer information and model framework trade-offs to improve estimation of stream transient storage processes' accepted in WRR.
February $1.4M SERDP proposal selected for funding to study bioaccumulation of PFAS in stream food webs. Collaboration with Drexel U., Temple U., Lock Haven U., & USGS.
Panelist for the Academy Conversation "Is EPA’s new action plan to address toxic PFAS chemicals too little too late?" discussing the EPA's new PFAS Action Plan.
New Academy Blog post "Toxic Chemicals in Our Water".
January Panelist for the Academy Conversation "What happens if federal regulations protecting clean water are scaled back?" discussing the proposed changes to the WOTUS rule.
2018
December AGU Fall Meeting; Washington, DC. Abstracts: H23H-1984, GH41B-1439, H13C-05, H34E-08, H21O-1899 & GH34A-03; Convening H22D, H23H, H23K, H31D, H32E, H33F & H34E (another bumper year of Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions sessions!)
August Spent a fantastic week introducing our GeoDESLA high school students to the wonders of geology in MT & WY. Cant wait for next year's trip!
July Participated in the fantastically helpful Early Career Workshop by On the Cutting Edge/SERC/NAGT. Check out their websites for lots of great career & teaching resources.
March Blaen et al. 'Woody debris is related to reach-scale hotspots of lowland stream ecosystem respiration under baseflow conditions' accepted in Ecohydrology.
January Phase 2 of the Delaware River Watershed Initiative has begun! See what we're up to... 4states1source.org
2017
December AGU Fall Meeting; New Orleans, LA. Abstract: H13P-06; Chairing H11N (1 of 5 Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions sessions!)
August NSF RAPID grant funded to study ecosystem respiration in urban, wastewater-impacted streams.
Folegot et al. 'Low flow controls on stream thermal dynamics' accepted in Limnologica.
June HydroEco conference, Birmingham, UK.
May Featured in the Academy's Frontiers Magazine.
Soundbites in WHYY's 'The Pulse' and 'StateImpact Pennsylvania '.
March Baranov et al. 'Helophyte impacts on the response of hyporheic invertebrate communities to inundation events in intermittent streams' accepted in Ecohydrology.
February Kurz et al. 'Impacts of water level on metabolism and transient storage in vegetated lowland rivers - insights from a mesocosm study' accepted in JGR-Biogeosciences.
January Delaware Estuary Science & Environmental Summit, Cape May, NJ.
Earth & Environmental Science Departmental Seminar, Temple University, PA.
2016
December AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Abstract H31B-1355; Convening 5(!) Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions sessions (H41H, H42C, H43D, H51L & H52D).
November Khadka et al. 'Synoptic estimates of diffuse groundwater seepage to a spring-fed karst river at high spatial resolution using an automated radon measurement technique' accepted in J. Hydrology.
September Started new position at ANSofDU, Philadelphia, PA.
July/Aug. 5th Leverhulme H.Z.N. experiment @ HJ Andrews Experimental Forest, Oregon, USA.
July Martin et al. 'Climate control of decadal-scale increases in apparent ages of eogenetic karst spring water' accepted in J. Hydrology.
Vieweg et al. 'Estimating time-variable aerobic respiration in the streambed by combining electrical conductivity and dissolved oxygen time-series' accepted in JGR-Biogeosci.
June GeoEnviron Seminar @ Uni. Tübingen, Germany.
April EGU General Assembly; Vienna, Austria. Abstracts: 13994 (invited), 14291, 3055, 3039, & 8275.
March Schmadel et al. 'Stream solute tracer timescales changing with discharge and reach length confound process interpretation' accepted in Water Resources Research.
2015
December AGU Fall Meeting; San Francisco, CA. Abstract: H31K-04.
Berkeley Catchment Science Symposium; Berkeley, CA.
August Goldschmidt; Prague CZ. Abstract: 07f-10.
June 3rd & 4th experiments of the Leverhulme Hyporheic Zone Network; Urban River Lab, Spain & Sussex UK.
April 5th International Multidisciplinary Conference on Hydrology and Ecology (HydroEco); Vienna, Austria.
EGU General Assembly; Vienna, Austria. Abstract: HS10.11, 12747.
February Kurz et al. 'Diffusion and seepage-driven element fluxes from the hyporheic zone of a karst river' accepted in Freshwater Science 34(1) as part of the special issue on 'Groundwater-Surface-Water Interactions'.
2014
December AGU Fall Meeting; San Francisco, CA. Abstracts: H24D-03, H24D-02 & H33J-0962.
Berkeley Catchment Science Symposium; Berkeley, CA.
July International Workshop on Temporal High Resolution Water Quality Monitoring & Analysis; Magdeburg, Germany.
2nd experiment of the Leverhulme Hyporheic Zone Network; Selke River, Harz Mountains, Germany.
April 1st experiment of the Leverhulme Hyporheic Zone Network; DRI-STREAM mesocosm facility, Hampshire UK.
Dr. Marie J. Kurz
Environmental Sciences Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, TN |
Email. kurzmj<at>ornl.gov
Tel. +1 (865) 341-1731 Web. https://www.ornl.gov/ |