Ben is a current graduate student in Environmental Engineering who will be graduating in December 2020. Ben came to us from Shippensburgh University with a background in geoenviromental studies. Adding a strong student with this background to our program has been great. He has actively participated in several research projects, including stormwater monitoring and modeling on the Penn State Harrisburg campus and helping determine sampling sites and collect samples for an analysis of the effectiveness of restoration of Lititz Run. For his master's project, Ben is combining his geology background with engineering to investigate infiltration rates on the Penn State Harrisburg campus. The campus is highly developed, having been a former pickle farm and military base. Ben is measuring infiltration rates, soil moisture, soil texture/particle size distribution, and compaction. He will be relating his infiltration measurements to these basic soil characteristics (building on the work of Pitt et al. 1999 on infiltration in disturbed urban soils). These results will be funneled into the Middletown/Penn State Harrisburg modeling activities that are being done by students in various advanced classes. Ben's background also helped us in spring 2020 move that modeling activity along by improving the analysis of the system and groundtruthing several features.

Ben is a current graduate student in Environmental Engineering who will be graduating in December 2020. Ben came to us from Shippensburgh University with a background in geoenviromental studies. Adding a strong student with this background to our program has been great. He has actively participated in several research projects, including stormwater monitoring and modeling on the Penn State Harrisburg campus and helping determine sampling sites and collect samples for an analysis of the effectiveness of restoration of Lititz Run. For his master's project, Ben is combining his geology background with engineering to investigate infiltration rates on the Penn State Harrisburg campus. The campus is highly developed, having been a former pickle farm and military base. Ben is measuring infiltration rates, soil moisture, soil texture/particle size distribution, and compaction. He will be relating his infiltration measurements to these basic soil characteristics (building on the work of Pitt et al. 1999 on infiltration in disturbed urban soils). These results will be funneled into the Middletown/Penn State Harrisburg modeling activities that are being done by students in various advanced classes. Ben's background also helped us in spring 2020 move that modeling activity along by improving the analysis of the system and groundtruthing several features.

Ben is a current graduate student in Environmental Engineering who will be graduating in December 2020. Ben came to us from Shippensburgh University with a background in geoenviromental studies. Adding a strong student with this background to our program has been great. He has actively participated in several research projects, including stormwater monitoring and modeling on the Penn State Harrisburg campus and helping determine sampling sites and collect samples for an analysis of the effectiveness of restoration of Lititz Run. For his master's project, Ben is combining his geology background with engineering to investigate infiltration rates on the Penn State Harrisburg campus. The campus is highly developed, having been a former pickle farm and military base. Ben is measuring infiltration rates, soil moisture, soil texture/particle size distribution, and compaction. He will be relating his infiltration measurements to these basic soil characteristics (building on the work of Pitt et al. 1999 on infiltration in disturbed urban soils). These results will be funneled into the Middletown/Penn State Harrisburg modeling activities that are being done by students in various advanced classes. Ben's background also helped us in spring 2020 move that modeling activity along by improving the analysis of the system and groundtruthing several features.