On Saturday, February 11, 2012, Brian Morris, AJ Lang, and I performed our first rainfall simulation experiments on a freshly re-opened forest road approach to a stream crossing at the Reynolds Homestead. I had been looking forward to this day for a long time, for sure. Clay Sawyers had re-opened six of these road approaches …
It’s been a while since we’ve posted so I thought I would provide a few updates… Next week, Dr. Scott Bailey is visiting the group. He is on JP and Cody’s graduate committees and they are both presenting their study plans next week and having a regular committee meetings. Scott is a Co-PI on our …
Wednesday: Characterizing the Hydrologic Impacts of Mountaintop Mining Using Stable Isotopes; Nicolas Zegre and Kevin J. McGuire, H31A-1120. Thursday: A Hydropedological View of Critical Zone Structure and Function at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, New Hampshire, USA; Scott W. Bailey, Kevin J. McGuire, Thomas D. Bullen, and Donald S. Ross, B41H-07. Rare Earth Elements as …
American Geophysical Union Fall 2011 presentations by lab members and collaborators Read More »
On Thursday afternoon our weekend was full of promise as Cody, Kevin, and I approached the airline check-in counter. We were flying to Hubbard Brook to meet with everyone on the hydropedology project for a day of meetings and then a day in the field. It was going to be fantastic. The only thing that …
Today I finished work on connecting sediment collection bags (aka Dirtbags) on six road approaches to stream crossings at the Reynolds Homestead Forest Resources Research Center. Rainfall simulations will be conducted on these sites to measure surface runoff, infiltration, and sediment loads associated with rain events of various return period intervals. The data obtained from …
Forest roads and sediment project: Field work update – dirtbag connection Read More »
Scott Bailey sent an update from Hubbard Brook earlier this week. There was no major damage to the forest or to any instrumentation including our experimental sites in WS3. Rainfall amounts were in the 4+ inch range, which puts Hurricane Irene as the 9th largest precipitation event at HB since monitoring began in 1956. The …
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 »
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 …
July 2011 Water Status Report (via Virginia Water Central News Grouper) 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 saw this blog post today in the Chronicle’s Innovation blog. It’s so true – we learn a lot from our students and that’s one of the aspects I find most exciting about being a professor. Thanks mentees! Article: http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/?p=30022 By the way…I hate the term mentee, but I don’t know of a better one. Interestingly, …
Part of my dissertation research involves the measurement of soil erosion rates from forest roads in the Virginia Piedmont. All of the road segments in this study are located at the Reynolds Homestead Forest Resources Research Center in Critz, VA. The objectives for this particular study are to quantify soil erosion rates from forest road approaches …
Field work update: Forest Roads and Sediment Project at Reynolds Homestead 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!
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 »