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.
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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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 …
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!
Kris Brown attended the 17th Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference in Shreveport, LA last week and won a best student presentation award. Congratulations Kris!
A special issue of the journal Hydrological Processes called “Catchments in the future North: interdisciplinary science for sustainable management in the 21st Century” reports on the results from our North-Watch project. This is a great collection of papers on the future of northern watershed hydrology and how these systems respond to changing climate. Dr. McGuire is …
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The Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation department’s seminar is organized by Kevin McGuire this spring. The line up of speakers is awesome. Should be a great seminar series! February 4 Matt Brinckman – Mid-Atlantic Regional Science Coordinator, The American Chestnut Foundation, Charlottesville, VA. The History, Demise, and Restoration of the American Chestnut February 11 Durelle Scott – …
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I posted a couple of weeks ago about US water policy and commented on the anniversary of the Clean Water Act. Today is the day it turns 40! There are now many more news stories on the anniversary today than I had listed in my previous post. Here are a few to check out: A …
Congratulations to Maggie Zimmer, winner of a 2011 Outstanding Student Paper Award at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting. Maggie presented her Hubbard Brook research that began with an REU project during the summer of 2010. Maggie is now a graduate student at Syracuse University. Zimmer M., Bailey, S., McGuire, K., 2011. Fine scale variations of surface water …
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The liquid sampler for the IRMS is being installed. We worked through the installation of the C and N components over the last 2 weeks and we’ve now moved on to water. Soon we’ll be running water isotopes! We’re also looking for a catchy name for the lab. Any thoughts? We hoping for something better than …
Installing the liquid sampler on the vario “cube” Read More »
Heads up… To stay up to date on Virginia’s water resources, follow Virginia Water Central News Grouper. It’s maintained by Alan Raflo of the Water Center. Here is Virginia Water Central’s monthly water-status report for July 2011. First, here are National Weather Service preliminary precipitation totals for July at eight Virginia locations. Locations below the …
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I’m heading to Hubbard Brook today for this week’s Cooperators Meeting. This meeting is followed next week by the Gordon Research Conference on Catchment Science. Our group has a series of presentations at both meetings so it’s looking to be a busy couple of weeks. Here are a few titles of the presentations: “Hydropedology in W3: …
We’ve had an announcement for a GRA position posted a couple of times since last fall (including on this blog!). There has been a fair bit of interest in the position and I’ve spoken with some excellent candidates. The next month is the last push for student recruiting. So, if you’re out there and interested …
Continued quest for a graduate research assistant Read More »