Ecohydrology and Watershed Science

NEWS AND UPDATES (ARCHIVE)

1.5/2012 - Congratulations to Nitin Singh, who received a research scholarship from the NC Association of Environmental Professionals to fund his isotope research at Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory!
2.5/2012 - Ryan is featured on the cover of Winds of Change, the quarterly publication of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society!
3.4/2012 - Josh Rice has been awarded a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to fund PhD studies at NC State. Congratulations! Friends of the Lab Kendra Kaiser and Tim Covino have been awarded NSF fellowships also.
4.2/2012 - Fabian Nippgen’s WRR Paper Featured in Eos - Transactions AGU 93 (8) p. 87.
5. 2/2012 - New PhD student opening; see advertisement below.
6.12/2011 - New Paper: Feature Article in Water Resources Research by PhD candidate Fabian Nippgen: “Landscape Structure and Climate Influences on Hydrologic Response.”
7. 10/2011 - The COSMOS program at Univ. Arizona has installed neutron-detecting probes at two of our field sites to measure soil moisture. See real-time soil moisture data for TCEF here and Coweeta here.
8. 9/2011 - New Paper: Complex terrain and bidirectional responses of soil respiration: Global Change Biology
9. 8/2011 - Congratulations to Kendra Kaiser (MSU) for receiving an Outstanding Student Poster Award from the European Geosciences Union for her research on the ecohydrology of the mountain pine beetle outbreak in Montana!
10. 8/2011 - Congratulations to Secondary Succession Project undergraduates presenting their research in Austin this month at the Ecological Society of America meeting!

ABOUT THE LAB

We focus on quantifying mass and energy exchange between vegetated landscapes and the atmosphere at scales ranging from individual leaves to entire watersheds; exploring the interface of soils, vegetation and the atmosphere in a watershed context; and understanding water and biogeochemical cycles in the face of global change.

Projects are currently underway in North Carolina, Virginia and Montana and include investigations of coupled carbon and water cycles in a variety of ecosystems; understanding vegetation processes in a watershed context; and assessing secondary succession using remote sensing tools.

COURSES

Fall 2011

FOR 595-007: Mountain Ecohydrology Field Course

FOR 420/520: Watershed Hydrology

Spring 2012

NR 521: Wetland Delineation, Regulation and Assessment

STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES

NEW PhD student opening with a focus on soil carbon transformation in heterogeneous landscapes: This new USDA AFRI project is a collaboration between NCSU and scientists at UNL (Diego Riveros-Iregui and Xu Li) and Duke (Brian McGlynn). The Emanuel lab seeks a highly motivated, field and lab capable environmental scientist with experience in soil biogeochemistry, hydrology, and landscape analysis. We anticipate that this position will start in Summer 2012. Contact Ryan for additional information or to submit a C.V. for consideration. See the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources website for general student information including admissions deadlines and degree requirements.