Research Teams

Christopher O. Cuhaciyan, Hydrologist
e-mail: ccuhaciyan[at]fs.fed.us
phone: 208.373.4353

Education:

B.S., Physical Science, Washington State University
M.S., Biological Systems Engineering, Washington State University
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Colorado State University

Research Interests:

River and watershed processes including river restoration, sediment transport, hyporheic flow, large woody debris, and forest fuels management. Physical-biological linkages in rivers such as the hydraulics of fish swimming and hydrologic and geomorphic preferences of benthic macroinvertebrates. Climate and land use change on hydrologic and geomorphic forms and processes. Stream temperature modeling, computational fluid dynamics, hydrologic modeling, geospatial information systems, and advanced machine learning algorithms.

Selected Publications:

2008
Cuhaciyan, C.O., Bledsoe, B.P, and N.L, Poff, (in preparation). Hydrogeomorphic classifications of mountain streams for biomonitoring, Ecological Applications.
 

Holburn, E.R., Bledsoe, B.P, Poff, N.L. and C.O. Cuhaciyan, (in preparation). Modeling benthic indices across nested ecoregions of the Pacific Northwest: a hierarchical approach, Journal of the North American Benthological Society.

2007
Cuhaciyan, C.O., 2007. Hydrogeomorphic characterization and classification of Pacific Northwest mountain streams for biomonitoring, Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Colorado Water, April/May 2007.

2006
Poff, N.L., Bledsoe, B.P., and C.O. Cuhaciyan, 2006. Hydrologic and geomorphic alteration due to differential landuse across the united states, Geomorphology, 79:264-285.
Flores, A.N., Bledsoe, B.P., Cuhaciyan, C.O., and E.E. Wohl, 2006. Channel-reach morphology dependence on energy, scale, and hydroclimatic processes with implications for prediction using geospatial data, Water Resources Research, 42(6).

2004
Cuhaciyan, C.O. and B.P. Bledsoe, 2004. Camp Hale: Environmental restoration and historical preservation, Submitted to the Eagle River Watershed Council, Great Outdoors Colorado, and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, 100 pp.+ app.