Environmental Monitoring

Two scientists inspect a solar-powered weather and climate observation instrument array
Climatologist Dan Leathers and Kevin Brinson, director of the Delaware Environmental Observing System, inspect one of the 50 observing stations located across the state.

Responding appropriately to environmental challenges requires that we have the data we need to make sound decisions. Researchers affiliated with DENIN are engineering novel monitoring technologies as well as collecting and analyzing the data they record and providing meaningful visualizations and data products that can assist decision makers and emergency managers.

Detecting environmental changes while they are still small is essential to heading off irreversible damage. Our researchers are developing tiny, portable sensors that are convenient to deploy and sensitive to minute changes in the chemistry of soil, water, and air. These sensors can then funnel their measurements to a network of monitoring systems that aggregate the data for use by other researchers, policy makers, and educators. Thanks to researchers affiliated with DENIN, Delaware has one of the densest networks of environmental monitoring stations and technologies in the nation.

Acquisition of precise and accurate real-time data through monitoring, as well as transformation of these data into a fundamental understanding of environmental change, is essential to developing predictive models and new strategies for responding to these challenges. The institute facilitates the necessary interplay of the observational science, the engineering required to make the observations and build the models, and the policy innovations necessary changes to meet these challenges.

Senior Scientist, Hydrogeologist, Delaware Geological Survey, UD
Delaware Geological Survey
University of Delaware
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Professor and Chair, Entomology and Wildlife Ecology, UD
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Professor, School of Marine Science and Policy, UD
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Professor, Chemistry, and Associate Dean of Interdisciplinary/Collaborative Sponsored Research, Wesley College
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Graduate GIS Certificate Director and Associate Professor
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Assistant Professor, Physical Ocean Science and Engineering, UD
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Associate Professor, Plant and Soil Sciences, UD
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Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, UD
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Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, and Director, Delaware Water Resources Center, Institute for Public Administration, UD
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Professor, Geography, and Delaware State Climatologist, UD
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Professor, Geography, UD
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Associate Professor, Geological Sciences, and Hydrogeologist, Delaware Geological Survey, UD
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Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, UD
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Associate Professor, Oceanography, UD
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Professor, Agriculture and Natural Resources, DSU
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Laboratory Manager, Advanced Materials Characterization Laboratory, UD
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Associate Professor, Entomology and Wildlife Ecology, UD
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Associate Professor and Biostatistician, Agriculture & Natural Resources, DSU
Delaware State University
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Associate Professor, Computer and Information Sciences, DSU
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Associate Professor of Environmental Studies
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Profesor, School of Marine Science and Policy, and Chair, MARACOOS, UD
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Professor, Oceanography, UD
School of Marine Science and Policy
University of Delaware
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Associate Professor, Plant and Soil Sciences, UD
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Professor, Geography; Director, Environmental Science major and Climate Scholars program; Co-Director, Climate Hub, UD
Department of Geography
Gerard J. Mangone Climate Change Science and Policy Hub
University of Delaware
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Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UD
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Delaware
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University of Delaware
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Edward J. Jefferson Chair of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, UD
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Senior Scientist, Hydrogeologist, Delaware Geological Survey, UD
Delaware Geological Survey
University of Delaware
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Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UD
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Professor and Chair, Entomology and Wildlife Ecology, UD
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Assistant Professor, Entomology and Wildlife Ecology, UD
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Professor, School of Marine Science and Policy, UD
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Edward C. Davis Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UD
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University of Delaware
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University of Delaware
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Professor Emeritus, Geography and Spatial Sciences, UD
Department of Geography
University of Delaware
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Associate Scientist, Hydrogeologist, Delaware Geological Survey, UD
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University of Delaware
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Assistant Professor, Physical Ocean Science and Engineering, UD
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Professor, Plant and Soil Sciences, UD
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Edward C. Davis Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UD
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Director DENIN, and Unidel Fraser Russell Chair for the Environment, Geological Sciences, UD
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Associate Professor, Oceanography, UD
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Professor, Agriculture and Natural Resources, DSU
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Computer and Information Sciences
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Professor, Geological Sciences, UD
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Assistant Professor, Geography, UD
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Associate Professor, Entomology and Wildlife Ecology, UD
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Associate Professor, Computer and Information Sciences, DSU
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Profesor, School of Marine Science and Policy, and Chair, MARACOOS, UD
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John Bartram Assistant Professor of Urban Forestry, Plant and Soil Sciences, UD
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Associate Professor, Plant and Soil Sciences, UD
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Professor, Geography; Director, Environmental Science major and Climate Scholars program; Co-Director, Climate Hub, UD
Department of Geography
Gerard J. Mangone Climate Change Science and Policy Hub
University of Delaware
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Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UD
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Delaware
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Senior Scientist, Hydrogeologist, Delaware Geological Survey, UD
Delaware Geological Survey
University of Delaware
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Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UD
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Assistant Professor, Entomology and Wildlife Ecology, UD
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Mary A. S. Lighthipe Chair and Professor, Oceanography, UD
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Department of Geography
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University of Delaware
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Professor, Agriculture and Natural Resources, DSU
Delaware State University
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Associate Policy Scientist, Public Policy and Administration, UD
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Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UD
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Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, UD
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Professor, Geography, and Delaware State Climatologist, UD
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Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington Professor of Oceanography, UD
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Associate Professor, Geological Sciences, UD
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Associate Professor, Geological Sciences, and Hydrogeologist, Delaware Geological Survey, UD
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Associate Professor, Oceanography, UD
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Professor , Civil & Environmental Engineer Associate Chairperson , Civil & Environmental Engineer
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Professor and Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UD
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Profesor, School of Marine Science and Policy, and Chair, MARACOOS, UD
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Professor, Oceanography, UD
School of Marine Science and Policy
University of Delaware
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Associate Professor, Plant and Soil Sciences, UD
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Professor, Geography; Director, Environmental Science major and Climate Scholars program; Co-Director, Climate Hub, UD
Department of Geography
Gerard J. Mangone Climate Change Science and Policy Hub
University of Delaware
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Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, UD
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Mary A. S. Lighthipe Chair and Professor, Oceanography, UD
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Professor, Plant and Soil Sciences, Director, Water Science and Policy Program, UD
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Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, UD
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Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, UD
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Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington Professor of Oceanography, UD
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Dean, Professor, College of Education, UD
College of Education
University of Delaware
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Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Director, W.M. Keck Advanced Microscopy Facility, UD
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Associate Professor, Oceanography, UD
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Distinguished Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, UD
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Delaware
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Laboratory Manager, Advanced Materials Characterization Laboratory, UD
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Karl W. and Renate Boer Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, UD
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Interim Director, Institute of Energy Conversion, and Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, UD
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Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, UD
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Professor and Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UD
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Profesor, School of Marine Science and Policy, and Chair, MARACOOS, UD
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Professor, Oceanography, UD
School of Marine Science and Policy
University of Delaware
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Associate Professor, Plant and Soil Sciences, UD
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