Thiel environmental science students, state departments team up for stream crossings project

GREENVILLE, Pa.-- Thiel College environmental science students collaborated with two state environmental departments to survey road-stream crossings and provided data and information to a 13-state water quality assessment group as part of a class project this fall.

On December 6, class members Katie Aaron ’24, Zoe Heckathorn ’23 and Roy Wilt III ’23 also presented the work to members of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources senior staff including Secretary of Conservation and Natural Resources Cindy Adams Dunn.

In early September, Professor of Environmental Science and Chemistry and Chair of the Department of Environmental Science Anna Reinsel, Ph.D. ’06 and students in her Applied Environmental Science class visited and surveyed road-stream crossings in the Greenville area. This project served as a part of the students’ lab component for the semester and involved gathering data and providing information for the North Atlantic Aquatic Connectivity Collaborative Road-Stream Crossing Assessment Partnership. The partnership is a network of individuals from universities, conservation organizations, and state and federal natural resource and transportation departments focused on improving aquatic connectivity across a thirteen-state region, from Maine to West Virginia

Students worked with both the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission to help improve aquatic connectivity across the state. As such, the students who took part in the project have joined a coalition of aquatic organism passage practitioners and are contributing to the overall goal of improving aquatic ecosystems and the populations that they support.

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