Megan Rippy, Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech
News — Winter weather is here and whether it’s products you use around your home or on the roads when the weather gets icy, researchers at Virginia Tech say spreading salt for deicing comes at a cost to the environment. Virginia Tech researcher says it’s “a slow-moving train wreck” because it plays out so slowly that it’s easy to overlook that our streams, lakes, and drinking water resources are becoming progressively saltier. She’s available to talk about what happens when all that salt hits our streams and what is being done to mitigate this problem. More .
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Dr. Megan Rippy is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at VT, stationed at the Occoquan Watershed Monitoring Lab in northern Virginia. Her professional interests include 1) the effects of urban stormwater on aquatic ecosystems and public health, 2) characterization and modeling of green infrastructure co-benefits and their social, ecological, and hydrological drivers and 3) urban water security (particularly during times of drought). She is currently working on extending ecosystem service valuation frameworks to include constructed urban greenspaces like green stormwater infrastructure, and is part of a multi-university team working together to characterize how green infrastructure is perceived by the public, and what drives those perceptions.
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