Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory

Research

Mountain Hydrology:  Current research explores how controls on snowmelt runoff processes change with spatial scale from hillslopes to basins. 

External Links:

Western Mountain Initiative

Loch Vale Project

Snowmelt time lapse videos: 

 

Desert Hydrology:  Current research examines how subsurface moisture in ephemeral streams relates to surface flow and subsurface stratigraphy.

External Links:

Ephemeral Streams Project

 

Post-Fire Erosion:  Current research examines how patterns of hillslope-scale erosion relate to watershed-scale sediment delivery.

External Links:

High Park Fire Project