{"id":9456,"date":"2021-02-18T16:19:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T21:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=9456"},"modified":"2021-08-20T15:08:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T19:08:13","slug":"bowne-talks-impact-of-legacy-sediments-to-uc-davis-seeds-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2021\/02\/18\/bowne-talks-impact-of-legacy-sediments-to-uc-davis-seeds-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowne Talks Impact of Legacy Sediments to UC-Davis SEEDS Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elizabethtown College Associate Professor of Biology <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etown.edu\/depts\/biology\/faculty-biology.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">David Bowne<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was an invited speaker by the University of California Davis chapter of SEEDS (Strategies for Ecology, Education, Diversity and Sustainability) club to lecture on the topic of floodplain restoration via the removal of legacy sediments.<a href=\"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/index.php\/2021\/02\/18\/bowne-talks-impact-of-legacy-sediments-to-uc-davis-seeds-club\/david-update\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10418\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10418\" src=\"http:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2021\/02\/David-update-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2021\/02\/David-update-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2021\/02\/David-update-739x1024.jpg 739w, https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2021\/02\/David-update-768x1065.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2021\/02\/David-update-1108x1536.jpg 1108w, https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2021\/02\/David-update-1477x2048.jpg 1477w, https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2021\/02\/David-update-1080x1497.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2021\/02\/David-update-scaled.jpg 1846w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">His talk, \u201cUnderstanding the past to inform the future: The impact of legacy sediments on aquatic ecosystems and their restoration,&#8221; explored the genesis of sediments and nutrient pollution in Lancaster County streams, which can be traced back to mill dams built hundreds of years ago by European colonists.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis sediment came from slopes cleared of trees and collected behind the dams, which buried the pre-existing wetlands,\u201d explained Bowne. \u201cAs the dams failed, streams were able to easily cut through the sediment and give us the stream structure that we see today.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Along with several colleagues, Bowne tested a new method to improve water quality by removing the legacy sediment and restoring the floodplain wetland for Big Spring Run, a stream near Willow Street, Pa. He spoke with the UC-Davis students about this general process, the effects of this restoration on water quality,\u00a0and his own role in investigating its effect on amphibian species.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The SEEDS club also has a chapter at Etown, <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">of which Bowne was the founding advisor and now co-advises with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etown.edu\/depts\/biology\/faculty-biology.aspx\">Dr. Diane Bridge<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabethtown College Associate Professor of Biology David Bowne was an invited speaker by the University of California Davis chapter of SEEDS (Strategies for Ecology, Education, Diversity and Sustainability) club to lecture on the topic of floodplain restoration via the removal of legacy sediments. 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