Research Teams

Watershed Processes Projects

• Fire effects on water repellency, runoff, and erosion

• Effectiveness of post-fire watershed treatments

• Recovery of channels following disturbance

• Scaling of debris flow complexes

• Planning for aquatic ecosystem resilience to fire and management

• Three-dimensional slope stability analysis including root strength

• Mapping spatial patterns in root strength with LIDAR

• Efficiency of landslide mapping from airphotos

• Controls on earthflow location

• Earthflow mass transport rate laws

• Effects of earthflows on channel physical habitat

• Sediment transport in gravel bedded streams

• Spatial patterns in bed particle size distributions

• Modeling changes in channel habitat driven by variations in sediment supply

• Mapping and monitoring channel physical habitat with LIDAR

• Road runoff and erosion

• Inventory and analysis of road and stream networks

• Cutslope hydrology

• Obliteration effectiveness

• Snowmelt effects of forest harvest

• Large scale snowpack representation

• Precipitation and evaporation gauging

• Hyporheic flow patterns in gravel bedded streams

• Stream temperature modeling

• Stream shade distribution from remote sensing