Until fairly recently, it seemed like this was impossibly far away. I cleaned my desk, have check marks on all the right forms, and my things are all in boxes. It is time to move on! I am VERY excited to say that I will be starting a position as assistant professor in the Geosciences …
Keep your hat on. We may end up miles from here. 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 …
I have been up in New Hampshire preparing to do some snow melt sampling since late February. Initially I was hoping to get prepared, attend a catchment science meeting in Hawaii, and then return to sample. The weather, however, had other ideas. The forecast for the Hawaii week looked warm and ripe for a melt …
There I was, checking the weather forecast for the last few days of my field season, writing in dismay on the blog that I would return home with no storm samples. (See the post below) The forecast had been the same as it was seemingly all summer: 40% chance of thunderstorms. At this point 40% …
It is hard to believe that the summer field season is almost over here at Hubbard Brook. Time flies when you are having fun. Whether believable or not, the summer is just about gone, so we’ll be saying goodbye to our Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) student, Bridget O’Neill next week. Bridget has been an …
The field season is well underway up here at Hubbard Brook. Cody is finished with his total station surveys and has moved in to characterizing soils, while I have been installing lysimeters and otherwise preparing for a big storm sampling push. Another thing that has been on our minds, however, is validating some points on …
Earlier this year I was awarded a grant from the INTERFACE network based at Purdue University to travel to Utrecht in the Netherlands to work with Dr. Karin Rebel on an ecohydrological model. The grant is aimed at facilitating collaborative exchange between modelers and experimentalists, and as I am more of an experimentalist but have …
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 …
Hydropedology in action! Installing an intensive site in watershed 3 at Hubbard Brook. Read More »
Last week, JP, Rebecca, Scott, Erik, Phoebe and I were digging soil pits for JP’s project in Watershed 3 at Hubbard Brook. About 10m upslope of these pits we began to dig the first pit for my project on the C horizon. Over the summer, I will be looking at the C horizon and characterizing …
After a long and dreary drive I have arrived at Hubbard Brook! After getting settled and moved in to the pleasant view farm house Monday I was able to get out and see watershed 3 today. Scott and I downloaded water level recorder data and pumped water samples as we walked through a lot of …