The Water Center’s weekly radio spot, Virginia Water Radio, did a story this week on “the mysteries of hydrology.” In the background is the song by Kris Brown, J.P. Gannon, and Paolo Benettin. Who would have thought that “macropores” would get air play on our public radio? Thanks Alan!
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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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. …
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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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!
Here is a link to some photos from the US-Japan meeting we had last week: http://us-japanhydro.org/photos/
I had a great week with colleagues from the US and Japan at the 4th US-Japan Joint meeting on hydrology. We had a productive week that set us on course for some cross-site synthesis research and paper writing. Thank you to everyone for making it fun and productive. The photo above is from a hike …
The US-Japan Joint Seminar on Catchment Hydrology and Forest Biogeochemistry is next week. We’re ready for it! The revised program is posted and it looks to be an exciting week. Stay tuned and we’ll update you on the outcomes.
Reblog from Writing in Science There are great points made in this blog post on the use of acknowledgements in talks. This blog generally has great advice. “Last words are our strongest. That’s why the punchline comes at the end of the joke and the conclusions at the end of a presentation. The conclusion slide …
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.
Last week on our Hydropedology Project, Scott collected the 1000th water sample from watershed 3 at Hubbard Brook. This is quite a milestone!
We are expanding here on the Virginia Tech campus in the area of water through addition of seven new full‐time, nine‐month, tenure-track faculty members!!! We currently have over 80 faculty in water resources many (not all) of which are listed on our VWRRC website. These positions show the university’s commitment to maintaining excellence in programming and research …