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Science Application &
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Hydrology
Hydrology is the scientific discipline concerned with the waters of the Earth, with their occurrence, distribution, and circulation by means of the hydrologic cycle and relations with living things. It also deals with the chemical and physical properties of water in all its phases. This field focuses greatly on snow hydrology, stream-riparian environments, soils, erosion, climate change, wildfire, geomorphology, etc. |
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Road Erosion
Unpaved and native surfaced roads are critical in forest management for recreation, wildlife, and timber production. Forest road erosion accounts for the majority of erosion in forestlands. Road management for these forest areas receives increasing pressures to reduce the amount of erosion that occurs on forest roads to create the lowest impact on the environment and to keep our natural world as picturesque and untouched as possible.
While soil erosion is an inevitable and naturally occurring phenomenon, it is greatly accelerated by human interaction. In the future, this could potentially result in degraded water quality considering that forest watersheds are highly valuable in protecting and improving water. Increased land development / land use change can threaten the quality of water that flows through watersheds in the U.S. (Grace, 2008).
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Supervisory Research Civil Engineer
See Also: Engineering, Fire/Fuel, and Soils
Moscow Forestry Sciences Laboratory
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Soil erosion
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Modeling
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Forest fuels
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Runoff
Geographical Areas: Arizona; Continental/Maritime Hydro-climate region of U.S. |
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Research Engineer
See Also: Engineering
Moscow Forestry Sciences Laboratory |
Interests:
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BAER
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Road erosion
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Culvert
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Water quality
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Roads impact
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WEPP
Geographical Areas: Clearwater National Forest, Idaho. |
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Research Ecologist
See also: Atmospheric Sciences, Ecology, Stream-Riparian Environments
Fort Collins Forestry Sciences Lab
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Ecophysiology
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Hydrologics
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Stream flow
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Watersheds
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Pine beetle
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Forest productivities
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Species abundance
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Climate change
Geographic Areas: Southern Appalachians; Fraser Experimental Forest; Western Montana. |
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Interests:
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Post-wildfire flood flows and hydrologic responses
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Watershed hydrologic and erosion responses to spring and summer prescribed fires
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Continued development of RMRS-OALS Web Site: “Managing Arid and Semi-arid Watersheds
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Evaluation of restoration success in drylands
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Best Management Practices for harvesting trees in riparian zones.
Geographical Areas: Workman Creek Watersheds, Coon Creek; Stermer Ridge Watersheds, Rodeo-Chediski; Peloncillo Mountains, New Mexico. |
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Research Engineer
See Also: Engineering, Fire/Fuel, and Soils
Moscow Forestry Sciences Laboratory
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Interests:
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Spatial variability
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Hydrophobic soil conditions
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Effects of prescribed fire and wildfire on erosion
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Monitoring methods and mitigation techniques
Geographical Areas: Western Montana, including Bitterroot National Forest; Southern California; North Central Washington; Northern Rocky Mountains; Colorado. |
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