Research Topic #3: Hydrology, Streams, Network Dynamics

Key Words: Hydrology, River restoration and engineering, Benthic macroinvertebrates, Sediment transport, Landscape network dynamics: rivers, roads, etc.

Eco-IGERT Students involved in this area: Nicole Czarnomski, Water Resources Engineering; Terry Frueh, Water Resources Engineering; Chris Graham, Water Resources Engineering; Tracy Kugler, Geography;Jorge Ramirez, Mathematics; Dan Sobota, Fisheries and Wildlife; Tiffany Vance, Geography; Jay Zarnetske, Geology

Eco-IGERT Faculty involved in this area: Tom Dietterich, Computer Science; Jason Dunham, USGS, FRESC Corvallis Research Group; Stan Gregory, Fisheries and Wildlife; Roy Haggerty, Geology; Sherri Johnson, U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station; Julia Jones,Geography; Stephen Lancaster, Geology; Jeff McDonnell, Water Resources; Anne Nolin, Geography; Mina Ossiander, Mathematics/Statistics; Malgorzata Peszynska, Mathematics; Mary Santelmann, Water Resources; John Selker, Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering; Ralph E. Showalter, Mathematics; Desiree Tullos, Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering; Ed Waymire, Mathematics/Statistics

Selected Publications:

Czarnomski, Nicole M.; Dreher, David M.; Jones, Julia A.; Swanson, Frederick J.  [In Press]. Landscape-scale dynamics of wood in stream networks of the western Cascades, Oregon. Canadian Journal of Forest Research.

Dereszynski, E. and Dietterich, T. 2007. (Submitted). A Probabilistic Model for Anomaly Detection in Remote Sensor Data Streams.

McGuire, K. J.; Weiler, M.; McDonnell, J. J. 2007. Integrating tracer experiments with modeling to assess runoff processes and water transit times. Advances in Water Resources. 30: 824-837.

Mitchell S.M., Beven K.J., & Freer J.E.. Multiple sources of predictive uncertainty in modeled estimates of net ecosystem CO2 exchange.  Ecological Modelling (In Review).

Mulholland, P.J., Helton, A.M, Poole, G.C.,Hall Jr.,R.O., Hamilton, S.K.,Peterson, B.J.,Tank, J. L.,Ashkenas, L.R.,Cooper L.W.,Dahm, C.N.,Dodds, W.K.,Findlay, S.E.G.,Gregory, S.V.,Grimm, N.B.,Johnson, S.L.,McDowell, W.H.,Meyer,J.L.,Valett,H.M.,Webster, J.R.,Arango, C.P.,Beaulieu, J.J.Bernot, M.J,Burgin,A.J.,Crenshaw, C.L.,Johnson, L.T., iederlehner,B. R., O’Brien, J.M.,Potter,J.D., Heibley, R.W.,Sobota, D.J. and Thomas, S.M. (2008). Stream denitrification across biomes and its response to anthropogenic nitrate loading. Nature. doi:10.1038.

Perkins, R. M.; Jones, J. A. [In Press]. Climate variability, snow and physiographic controls on storm hydrographs in small forested basins, western Cascades, Oregon. Hydrological Processes.

Ramirez, J., Thomann, E., Waymire, E., Chastanet, J. and Wood,.B. 2007. A note on the theoretical foundations of particle tracking methods in heterogeneous porous media. Water Resources Research.

Selker, J.S., L. Thévenaz, H. Huwald, A. Mallet, W. Luxemburg, N. van de Giesen, M. Stejskal, J. Zeman, and M. Westhoff, and M.B. Parlange. 2006. Distributed Fiber Optic Temperature Sensing for Hydrologic Systems. Wat. Resourc. Res.doi:10.1029/2006WR005326

Smith, P. J., Beven, K. J. & Tawn, J .A. 2008. Detection of structural inadequacy in process-based  hydrological models: a particle-filtering approach, Water Resour. Res., 44(1) W01410, doi:10.1029/2006WR005205.