This summer, eleven students from across the country participated in research in the REU program. Faculty from Geography and Planning, the new Earth, Ecological and Environmental Sciences Department and the College of Law are involved in this interdisciplinary project and each faculty member mentored a student or two. The students worked on projects ranging from identifying crop type from Landsat-7 imagery to the heat island effect in Toledo. One of the students looked at the impacts of land use on sediment in the Ottawa River. She collected water samples from 15 sites from the headwaters to the outlet of the Ottawa.
Sediment runoff is a major environmental problem in the western basin of Lake Erie.
Dr. Czajkowski teaches Weather, Climate and Remote Sensing Courses. In addition, he directs the research of six graduate students and three undergraduate students. Through his research, he is able to support several of these students on stipends.