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Undergraduate Research and Mentoring Faculty Mentor  
Karl

Karl Korfmacher
Associate Professor
Environmental Science

Email: kfkscl@rit.edu
Phone: 585-475-5554
Office: Ross Bld 10-A186

Research Interest

Environmental Science
GIS and satellite remote sensing applications for monitoring land use and habitat change; interactive mapping projects in community-based GIS initiatives; watershed assessment techniques.

Potential Research Project

Stressed Stream Analysis of the Allen Creek Watershed looks to identify areas of non point source pollution from a mixed use watershed (agriculture, forest, wetland, recreational, residential, and commercial/industrial). Allen Creek is a significant subbasin for Irondequoit Bay, a highly nutrient sensitive body of water near Rochester, NY.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0829259. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).