Frankel Featured by the Fredericksburg Free Press

Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences Tyler Frankel and his students were featured in an article by the Fredericksburg Free Press titled “UMW team tests the waters — literally — with weekly coliform monitoring along Rappahannock.”

The piece describes how UMW students collect river water to measure dissolved oxygen, temperature, pH and salinity. The sample they collected on a recent Wednesday in May, will be taken to campus and analyzed in a lab. Frankel and his students are looking for harmful bacteria, similar to what was discharged into the Potomac River just a few months ago. Read the article in the Fredericksburg Free Press.