Tag: water resources

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Healthy Planet homestories Student Research

Meadowlands

Across parts of the West, green meadows have given way to eroding banks like this creek near Izee in Eastern Oregon. The white layer is ash from the eruption of Mount Mazama, which led to the creation of Crater Lake more than 7,000 years ago. (Photo: Gordon Grant)

Can beavers restore this eroded stream channel?

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Earth Healthy People Student Research

Arsenic in Rural Oregon

When it comes to water, Lauren Smitherman doesn’t mind getting a little personal. As a graduate student in Water Resources Science at Oregon State University, she asked people in rural Oregon for permission to collect samples of their drinking water. Assured of confidentiality, most people welcomed her into their kitchens where Smitherman ran a stream of cold water from their faucets for a few minutes before filling a plastic bottle.