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Walker Branch Watershed
Oak Ridge, Tennessee

WELCOME to the Walker Branch Watershed Home Page. Walker Branch Watershed is located on the U. S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Reservation in Roane County, Tennessee. Major funding for Walker Branch Watershed research activities comes from the Program for Ecosystem Research (PER) in the DOE Office of Science and Office of Biological and Environmental Research (OBER). The 97.5 ha Walker Branch watershed has been the site of long-term, intensive environmental studies since the late-1960's by staff from the Environmental Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and staff from the Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division, Air Resources Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

About Walker Branch Watershed

Aerial Photographs and Maps

Historical aerial photos (1924 to 1998)

Virtual Tour Images

Long-term Data

1990's Research Summary

Associated Research

TDE - Throughfall Displacement Experiment (TDE project web site)
EBIS - Enriched Backgroup Isotope Study (EBIS web site)
Terrestrial Feedbacks to Hydrologic Budgets
Continuous Monitoring of Stand-level Carbon and Water Flux (Walker Branch Ameriflux web site)
LINX - Lotic Intersite Nitrogen Experiment (LINX project web site)
EPRI Mercury Air/Surface Exchange (MASE) Project

Staff Directory

Publications

Publications by author

ORNL/TM Reports (All reports are in Adobe PDF format. Download Adobe Acrobat Reader here).
Lietzke, D. A. 1994. Soils of Walker Branch Watershed. ORNL/TM-11606 (107 p).

Begovich, C.L., and Luxmoore, R.J. 1979. Some sensitivity studies of chemical transport simulated in models of the soil-plant-litter-system. ORNL/TM-6791 (114 p, 3Mb).

Curlin, J.W., and Nelson, D.J. 1968. Walker Branch Watershed Project: Objectives, Facilities, and Ecological Characteristics. ORNL/TM-2271 (114 p, 4.5Mb).

Genereux, D., Hemond, H., and Mulholland, P.J. 1992. Field Studies of Streamflow Generation Using Natural and Injected Tracers on Bickford and Walker Branch Watersheds. ORNL/TM-12018 (312 p, 9Mb).

Grizzard, T., Henderson, G.S., Clebsch, E.E.C., and Reichle, D.E. 1976. Seasonal Nutrient Dynamics of Foliage and Litterfall on Walker Branch Watershed, a Deciduous Forest Ecosystem. ORNL/TM-5254 (158 p, 4.8Mb).

Huff, D.D., and Begovich, C.L. 1976. An evaluation of Two Hydrograph Separation Methods of Potential Use in Regional Water Quality Assessment. ORNL/TM-5258 (122 p, 2.8Mb).

Johnson, D.W., Cole, D.W., Horng, F.W., VanMiegrot, H., and Todd, D.E. 1981. Chemical Characteristics of Two Forested Ultisols and Two Forested Inceptisols Relevant to Anion Production and Mobility. ORNL/TM-7646 (34 p, 1.6Mb).

Lindberg, S.E., Harriss, R.C., Turner, R.R., Shriner, D.S., and Huff, D.D. 1979. Mechanisms and Rates of Atmospheric Deposition of Selected Trace Elements and Sulfate to a Deciduous Forest Watershed. ORNL/TM-6674 (556 p, 20.8Mb).

Peters, L.N., Grigal, D.F., Curlin, J.W., and Selvidge, W.J. 1970. Walker Branch Watershed Project: Chemical, Physical and Morphological Properties of the Soils of Walker Branch Watershed. ORNL/TM-2968 (104 p, 4Mb).

Segars, J.E., Minear, R.A., Elwood, J.W., and Mulholland, P.J. 1986. Chemical Characterization of Soluble Phosphorus Forms Along a Hydrologic Flowpath of a Forested Stream Ecosystem. ORNL/TM-9737 (134 p, 3.8Mb).

Timmins, S., and Chason, J. 1991. 1989 Walker Branch Watershed Surveying and Mapping Including a Guide to Coordinate Transformation Procedures. ORNL/TM-11779.

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