Thanks to Carver intern James Pinkney, Jr. for a great summer!

Congratulations and thanks to James Pinkney, Jr., for successfully completing his summer George Washington Carver research internship with the Applied Geomorphology Lab and the Geospatial Lab for Soil Informatics! James joined us during his summer break from the University of Maryland - Eastern Shore, where he is a rising sophomore majoring in Environmental Chemistry. James worked this summer with Joshua McDanel to acquire and describe soil cores from the vicinity of a post-glacial stream capture event. By identifying the alluvial sediments present or absent in these cores, James was able to show that capture took place during mid- to late-Holocene. This result not only helps to constrain rates of postglacial drainage network development, but also provides constraints on pre-settlement valley alluviation in upland watersheds.