Claire Wittkowski is charging to the end of her collegiate athletic career just as she would approach the wall in her primary swimming event, the 200-yard breaststroke.
Before receiving her Albion College degree in May, Wittkowski is working on modeling the flow of groundwater feeding the Kalamazoo River. She began the work last fall, working with geology professor Tim Lincoln. Starting with data from the United States Geological Survey gauging station near Battle Creek, she showed that recessions, periods of steadily declining river flow when the river is exclusively fed by groundwater, are better mathematically modeled by the sum of two equations than they are by a single equation.
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