Greetings VT Hydro Lab members and followers! My name is Cody Gillin, and I’m the newest member of Kevin McGuire’s research team. I’ll spend the next two years learning all about hydropedology while pursuing a master’s degree. I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce myself, my background, and goals for my time at Virginia …
Dear Watershed 3 Fans – thought I would catch you up with some news from the catchment. We had a bit of a dry spell this summer, which was great for all the digging, coring and installing that JP and Maggie B had going on. Zimmer et al. (in review) contains a classification of stream …
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 »
We’re in the middle of installing our new Isoprime 100 IRMS with Elementar. In a few weeks we’ll be ready to run CHNO isotopes in liquid or solid material. Woowho!
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: …
Charley presented a poster this week on our Coweeta Water Yield project at the 8th North American Forest Ecology Workshop held in Roanoke, VA. She presented results from a modeling study where we investigated how forest management and climate change may interact to cause unexpected changes in water yield. The extensive datasets from the paired watershed studies …
Forest watershed management, water yield, and climate change Read More »
I was contacted by gethydrologyjobs.com for permission to include our blog as a new resource link on their website. I think it’s a fine idea! It will be highlighted next week in their newsletter and I hope more hydrologists find their way to our blog. For those not familiar with gethydrologyjobs.com, it’s one of the most …
This past week I spent three days at the American Ecological Engineering Society (AEES) conference in Asheville, NC. While not a typical hydrologic engineering conference, I learned a lot about the practical use of materials to assist in restoration in addition to many great talks about the complexity of water flow paths. The talks ranged …
Mountain-top mining seems to be in the news everywhere these days. Josh and Chuck, two of my favorite podcast personalities who host “Stuff You Should Know (SYSK),” had a story on mountain-top mining last week called “What is mountaintop removal mining?” It was informative, probably best for a lay audience, and included a musical performance – …
I arrived at Hubbard Brook two days ago to host a small international workshop for a bunch of hydrologists. What perfect timing! Our North-Watch group is in for a real treat. We’ve had about an inch of rain and several days of mild temperatures so snowmelt is humming along. Not to mention, we might be …
Scott Bailey, a geoecologist from Northern Research Station of the US Forest Service, joins us this week to work on our ongoing research project at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in New Hampshire. Last summer, we were awarded an NSF grant, along with colleagues Tom Bullen and Don Ross, to examine the coupling between soil and …
Rhett Jackson, from the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at University of Georgia, visited us today for a departmental seminar. His topic on forestry best management practices (BMPs) was interesting especially the question at the heart of his talk…how good is good enough? The point he made is that while there are some …
We have 2 new members joining our group this semester…JP and Kris. They are both PhD students in FREC. JP was working with the Virginia Rural Water Association in SW VA and Kris just finished his MS at LSU. JP will work on our hydropedology project at Hubbard Brook and Kris will work on a …