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| SAFL Hosts NCED Interns | | This summer, NCED Diversity Director Diana Dalbotten welcomed five undergraduate students from across the country to NCED’s Undergraduate Summer Intern Program (USIP) at the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL). These students became the first “Team Marmot” to study the preliminary conditions of the Sandy River (Oregon) above and below the Marmot Dam prior to its removal. Students camped next to the Sandy River for three weeks in July 2007 while they did their field research. Prior to this field study, students participated in experimental runs done in a scale model of the river and dam, which was constructed at SAFL as part of another research project. USIP students were advised by NCED Principal Investigator Peter Wilcock (Johns Hopkins University) and his graduate student, Chuck Podolak, as well as by Dalbotten, NCED Education Director Karen Campbell, and NCED Stream Restoration Project Manager Jeff Marr. At the end of the summer, the students compiled a 60-page report on their research and presented their research at a presentation and poster session. |  | | Left: Team Marmot students, summer 2007. Right: Team Marmot students sample grain size using the pebble-count method. | | |
| MYRES 2008 Conference Follow-up | | The Meeting of Young Researchers in Earth Science (MYRES) 2008 conference, Dynamic Interactions of Life and its Landscape, will focus on the spatial and temporal scales over which various physical, chemical, and biological processes act. This conference for early career scientists will include presentations and discussions based around problems at three loosely defined spatial ranges: micro-scale, meso-scale, and macro-scale. The final day of discussion will focus on humans as agents of geologic change. The MYRES 2008 conference will be at Tulane University, New Orleans, from May 20 to May 23. For more information about the conference, including application information, click here. | | NCED at the Minnesota State Fair | | Last month, August 30 and 31, NCED provided the Elwha Dam Removal Model for the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology exhibit at the Minnesota State Fair. Representatives from NCED, including members of the Youth Park Crew and gidakiimanaaniwigamig (Our Earth Lodge) program, used the model to demonstrate to the public how dams are removed from rivers. |  | | NCED Diversity Director Diana Dalbotten and gidakiimanaaniwigamig members demonstrating the dam model. | | | | | |
