hillslope hydrology

Repeating Famous Hillslope Experiment Provides New Insights

Ray Lee’s Water Resources Research manuscript was highlighted in EOS this week. See the highlight here. Lee, R. M., McGuire, K. J., Strahm, B. D., Knoepp, J. D., Jackson, C. R., & Stewart, R. D. [2020]. Revisiting the Hewlett and Hibbert (1963) Hillslope Drainage Experiment and Modeling Effects of Decadal Pedogenic Processes and Leaky Soil …

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Winter is Coming

I have been going to Coweeta every one or two weeks for the past two months to monitor sprinkling events on the soil model. Although I am measuring only one thing, water, being precise is actually very difficult. There are 5 high-resolution tipping buckets on the hillslope to measure samples of input and one large …

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Sprinkling on the model

Kevin, Brian, and I went to Coweeta to improve the irrigation system. They installed a pressure pump to the water line, then we placed tipping bucket rain gauges at randomized locations, and then Brian turned on the water. Water pressure was high enough! We tuned each sprinkler head so that water reached just to the …

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Filtration, Irrigation, and Preliminary Instrumentation

Kevin, Brian, and I installed a reverse osmosis filtration system, an irrigation line, an electrical line, and several data instruments/loggers. This included pounding a 7-foot copper grounding rod into the ground. The filtration system is used to change the chemistry of local tap water to resemble that of rainfall for our experiment. Sunny weather, with …

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Hoop-House at Coweeta

Construction on the soil model at Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory has begun! We will be using the model for a water and nutrient reaction and transport experiment to answer questions, such as: What is the dominant process (e.g., biogeochemical or hydrologic) for controlling export of nutrients from a hillslope? Under what conditions can we expect these controls …

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Ph.D. student opportunity… assistantship in Hydrology and Biogeochemistry at Virginia Tech

We just circulated the following ad for a new Ph.D. student opportunity… Graduate Research Assistantship in  Hydrology and Biogeochemistry Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation The Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation at Virginia Tech is seeking applicants for a PhD-level graduate research assistantship with an expected start date of fall of 2014. This …

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New paper on the hydropedology of Hubbard Brook

A new paper was accepted this week in the journal Geoderma.  The paper shows how spatial patterns of soil development reflect the influence of transient groundwater within the soil profile in nearly all landscape positions throughout a headwater catchment at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest.  This study was initiated by Patricia Brousseau’s REU project in 2008. …

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Forest Biogeochemistry and Hydrology Assistantship: Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Fluxes in Response to Cellulosic Biofuel Systems

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 …

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Winter Coweeta visit

  We had a great meeting this week at the Coweeta Hydrologic Lab.  Rhett Jackson organized this photo of the hydrologists at the meeting.  It is really amazing to think of the rich research history of this place and what it has meant to the field of hydrology.  

3 more weeks to apply for summer REU position in New Hampshire

Applications for the Hubbard Brook Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program are due by February 6 – that’s just 3 weeks away!  We are seeking a student to work on a hillslope hydrology project looking at how water travels through soils on its way to streams in forested ecosystems.  See our post from Dec. 11th …

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Summer 2013 REU at Hubbard Brook on Hillslope Hydrology project

Hillslope hydrology component of the Hubbard Brook REU: We are seeking applicants for an REU position at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in New Hampshire.  The program is a multidisciplinary project where students participate in a research project and also engage in outreach projects designed to help develop skills in communicating ecosystem information to broad audiences. The program …

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Project update: Spring break ground-penetrating radar & REU

About a month ago, JP and Cody drove up to Hubbard Brook to spend their spring break running a ground-penetrating radar (GPR) survey in Watershed 3 to estimate depth to bedrock and glacial till thickness.  Both JP and Cody’s projects are part of our Hydropedology project, which is focused on explaining the spatial and temporal variation …

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Hillslope hydrology undergraduate research opportunity at Hubbard Brook

The National Science Foundation is funding two REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) positions at Hubbard Brook this summer as part of the Long Term Ecological Research program (see the HBRF webpage for details or our opportunities webpage) ($5000 stipend for the summer + living expenses). One of the those positions is with our Hydropedology project and …

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Hydropedology in action! Installing an intensive site in watershed 3 at Hubbard Brook.

After coming back from the Gordon conference on catchment science last week, Scott, Kevin, Rebecca, and I were all ready to get out in the field to get dirty and get to work on what we had been talking about all week at our posters at the conference.  Maggie lamented our return and the subsequent …

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