{"id":6872,"date":"2015-04-15T12:12:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T16:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=6872"},"modified":"2017-02-07T15:00:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T20:00:44","slug":"student-helping-to-unlock-mysteries-of-watersheds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2015\/04\/15\/student-helping-to-unlock-mysteries-of-watersheds\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Helping to Unlock Mysteries of Watersheds"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"VanDamcropped\"<\/a>Watersheds still contain\u00a0many mysteries. For example: how, specifically, does water pick up harmful bacteria as it flows toward its destination? And what factors within particular streams, rivers or lakes help filter out bacteria before water reaches its outlet?<\/p>\n

Graduate student Brian Van Dam<\/a> has been researching and mapping the Gulf of Maine watershed and early indicators point to wetlands as a potential filtering factor.<\/p>\n

\u201cEarly results suggest that the presence of wetlands in our watersheds may correlate significantly with lower bacteria levels near the watershed outlets, so that is one factor that we\u2019ll be keeping an eye on going forward,\u201d Van Dam said.<\/p>\n

Van Dam is a master\u2019s student in 91¸£Àû\u2019s School of Earth and Climate Sciences and the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions. He is also a graduate research assistant on the New England SusTainability Consortium (NEST) Safe Beaches & Shellfish project. He\u2019s part of a team investigating how watershed characteristics on land affect bacteria levels in coastal waters after rain events. See more here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Watersheds still contain\u00a0many mysteries. For example: how, specifically, does water pick up harmful bacteria as it flows toward its destination? And what factors within particular streams, rivers or lakes help filter out bacteria before water reaches its outlet? Graduate student Brian Van Dam has been researching and mapping the Gulf of Maine watershed and early […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":613,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":613,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11632,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions\/11632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}