A short paper summarizing the US-Japan Joint Seminar that we held last March was accepted for publication in Hydrological Processes. The paper describes the intent and outcomes of the workshop, which focused on linkages between hydrology and biogeochemistry in forested catchments with an emphasis on climatic and environmental change. The seminar last March spawned several …
If you will be in San Francisco for AGU next week, be sure to check out some of the presentations by or involving those in our group. MONDAY H11D-1178 Comparison of methods for determining the hydrologic recovery time after forest disturbance. 8:00am Moscone West Hall A-C; Tomoki Oda, Mark Green, Nobuhito Ohte, Rieko Urakawa, Izuki …
Presentations by our group at AGU in San Francisco! Read More »
Hydrology isn’t always fun and games, but in this case it is. The watershed hydrology lab at Virginia Tech and the WC (Virginia Water Resources Research Center) bring you “Where does the water go?”. We wrote and rehearsed this song roughly 2 hours before performing, so hang in there on some of the missteps and …
Kris Brown had his first journal article accepted this week in Forest Ecology and Management. Congrats Kris!! Abstract: Forest road stream crossing approaches, or the section of road immediately adjacent to the stream crossing, represent primary sources and nearly direct pathways for sediment delivery to stream channels. This research quantified sediment delivery rates associated with reopening …
Reblog (US-Japan Joint Seminar on Catchment Hydrology and Forest Biogeochemistry): A small group of attendees from the March US-Japan Joint Seminar are meeting next week in Blacksburg, Virginia. The goal is to work on several synthesis efforts that developed from the meeting. More to come soon…
Our department is seeking applicants for a 9-month, tenure-track, research and teaching position in Ecohydrological Modeling and Informatics with emphasis in forested landscapes. This position is part of a cluster hire of seven new faculty in water resources across campus. This position will focus on integration and feedbacks among hydrology, ecosystem processes, and human decision-making using …
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Sectoral contributions to surface water stress in the coterminous United States K Averyt et al. 2013 Environ. Res. Lett. 8 035046 This article seems to be receiving a fair bit of hype. Sandra Postel blogs about the paper on National Geographic’s Freshwater Initiative and the American Water Resources Association has posted about it as well. …
Kevin will be presenting work on the Hubbard Brook hydropedology project at UVA’s Department of Environmental Sciences Seminar today. It always fun visiting our colleagues up the road, but we really need to do it more often.
Paolo Benettin, a Ph.D. student from the University of Padova in Italy, arrived last week and will join our lab group for the next 9 months. He will be working on watershed modeling of transport processes and using stable isotope tracer data from our research site at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in New Hampshire. …
Proceedings from the 18th Central Hardwood Forest Conference in 2012 were published this week. Kris Brown has a nice review paper in the proceedings that documents BMP implementation and effectiveness for water quality protection associated with forest roads and skid trails, streamside management zones, harvesting, site preparation, and stream crossings. It’s the first synthesis of research …
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Cool blog post from Simple Climate on Willi Dansgaard, the father of isotope paleoclimatology and hydrology. Check it out: “How a beer bottle helped reveal rapid past climate change” Ok, so the article is mostly about the impact Dansgaard has had on understanding past climate, but those of us that use stable water isotopes in hydrology also …
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Graduate Research Assistantship Forest Biogeochemistry and Hydrology Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Fluxes along the Hillslope-Riparian-Stream Continuum in Response to Cellulosic Biofuel Systems The Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation and the Virginia Water Resources Research Center at Virginia Tech are seeking applicants for a graduate research assistantship position in Forest Biogeochemistry and Hydrology at …
Last week was an eventful week at Hubbard Brook on the hydropedology project. We began with Steve Arcone from the Army Corp CRREL helping us with ground-penetrating radar surveys of WS3. We ran lines all along the “weasel” road in WS3. This was our second go at GPR and we think it was a big …
Congratulations to Cody for completing his M.S. degree! Today Cody participated in the Spring Commencement Graduate Ceremony after having his final thesis approved by the Graduate School earlier in the month. Way to go Cody!
Tomorrow is World Water Day. This event is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. This year we are celebrating the United Nations International Year of Water Cooperation. Happy World Water Day!