Ecohydrology and Watershed Science

NEWS AND UPDATES

4/2013 - Congratulations to Nitin Singh for receiving a Graduate Research Grant from the Geological Society of America!
3/2013 - Congratulations to Josh Rice for successfully defending his Master’s Thesis on land use and runoff generation in the Southern Appalachians!
3/2013 - Ryan presented at the US-Japan Joint Seminar on Catchment Hydrology and Forest Biogeochemistry in March 2013.
1/2013 - Congratulations to John Buckley for successfully defending his Master’s Project on the hydrologic impacts of inter-basin water transfers in the conterminous United States!
11/2012 - Grad students Nitin Singh and Josh Rice and ASU undergrads Chase Batchelor and Catherine Jones present their research at the Geological Society of America’s annual meeting in Charlotte, NC.
10/2012 - Undergraduate student Brittany Anstead presents her work on the spatial distribution of renewable energy on tribal lands at the American Indian Science and Engineering Society’s Annual Conference in Anchorage, AK.
8/2012 - Fulbright Fellow Wilmer Reyes from the National Agricultural University of Honduras joins the lab as a Ph.D. student.
6/2012 - New Paper in Ecohydrology by Kendra Kaiser on the TCEF mountain pine beetle outbreak.
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!
5/2012 - Ryan is featured on the cover of Winds of Change, the quarterly publication of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society!
4/2012 - Josh Rice has been awarded a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to fund PhD studies at NC State. Read about it on the Appalachian Today website and on the NCSU news feed! Friends of the Lab Kendra Kaiser and Tim Covino have been awarded NSF fellowships also.
2/2012 - Fabian Nippgen’s WRR Paper Featured in Eos - Transactions AGU 93 (8) p. 87.

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

FOR 420/520: Watershed Hydrology

FOR 595-007: Mountain Ecohydrology Field Course

Spring

NR 421/521: Wetland Delineation, Regulation and Assessment

STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES

None at this time - check back periodically for new opportunities.