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Outdoor Elements: Measuring Streams (VIDEO)

Notre Dame Biology Professor Gary Lamberti and ND-LEEF Assistant Director Brett Peters join St. Joseph County Parks Director, Evie Kirkwood, as she hosts the PBS show Outdoor Elements. In this segment, Evie joins the two aquatic biologists to learn both low and high tech ways to measure stream velocity.

Notre Dame and St. Patrick's County Park Team Up On New Cutting-Edge Environmental Facility

  The University of Notre Dame and St. Joseph County Parks are launching a new partnership to build a cutting-edge environmental research and education facility at St. Patrick’s County Park. The new facility will be called the Notre Dame Linked Experimental Ecosystem Facility (ND LEEF) at St. Patrick’s County Park....

The Environment Report: River Gypsies

This summer, a group of scientists are studying five large rivers in the Midwest… including the St. Joseph, the Muskegon and the Manistee rivers in Michigan. It’s part of a three year study of how large rivers process fertilizers – and how things like farming and wastewater affect the rivers....