Hydro-ecology of Flowing Waters
Project Objectives:
- Develop innovative measurements to quantify material transport in flowing waters and apply these new tools in field areas representing many types of channels and floodplain ecosystems. Utilize these new field data to improve our understanding of how river and wetland corridors respond to environmental change
- Integrate field investigations across larger spatial scales using ground-based, airborne, and remotely sensed geospatial data to help characterize cumulative effects of river and wetland corridors on carbon, nutrient, and sediment budgets
- Implement numerical models to reveal the key processes that control material transport and biogeochemical reaction rates in river and wetland corridors. Use models to project how channel and floodplain ecosystems will respond to future changes in hydrologic inputs and human management
- Synthesize a national-scale understanding of flow and biogeochemical transformations that influence the overall sustainability of the nation’s flowing waters and potential for restoration in degraded river and wetland corridors
Current Research
U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey |
National Research Program