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Cheryl L. Nicholas, associate professor of communication arts & sciences at Penn State Berks

Jeremy Blum, associate professor of computer science at Penn State Harrisburg

The George We. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching is one of many awards given during Penn State's annual Awards Recognition Ceremony. More information on Penn State's award ceremonies can be found at http://awardsrecognition.psu.edu/. 

In the field, the researchers do some analysis in the stream, and then bring water samples back to the labs for further testing. 

Sarah Ryan collects water samples. The consensus of the group is that the there is value in broad restorations that reconnect the stream to its floodplain – the area of land adjacent to a stream or river. 

Rachel Smolinski and Elizabeth Bell examine sediment samples from the creek.

Students Larissa Ogora and Jeremy Ricketts testing the waters of the Conoy Creek in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. The two are a part of a group studying the impact of stream restorations on the Chesapeake Bay, the world’s largest estuary and a major fishery and ecological resource. 

Matthew Woessner, associate professor of political science and public policy at Penn State Harrisburg