Lijing Wang, an assistant professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, led a study that examines how beaver ponds influence groundwater movement under varying subsurface structures. The work uses a combination of field data, geophysical surveys, and a neural density estimator to calibrate a hydrologic model of a mountainous alluvial floodplain in the Upper Colorado […]

Two UConn scholars, including Department of Earth Sciences Professor Robert Thorson, published an essay in the Atlantic on why Concord, Massachusetts is the source of many historically significant events. For instance, it is the site of the first armed resistance to British rule in April 1775 when local militia defeated British troops, an event later […]