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DRY CREEK EXPERIMENTAL WATERSHED

Hydrologic Research Group

Research Director

Jim McNamara - Surface water hydrology, watershed processes

Faculty

Shawn Benner - Water quality and global climate change

David Chandler - Surface water hydrology, watershed processes

Molly Gribb - Vadoze zone processes

Jodi Mead - Computational mathematics

Mark S Seyfried - Soil Scientist with Agricultural Resource Service

Staff

Pam Aishlin - Hydrologic Technician, Outreach specialist - PamAishlin@mail.boisestate.edu

Irina Forkutsa - Post Doc, Soil-water computational modeling - IrinaForkutsa@boisestate.edu

Current Student Research

Rick Friese - Evaluating water residence time in a mountain watershed

Aleshia Hansen - Treeline watershed database management and soils testing

Katrina Ladd - Identifying controls on surface carbon dioxide efflux in a semi-arid ecosystem -

Aurele Lamontagne - Snowmelt dynamics and stream flow generation

Monica Newell - Hydrologic controls on nitrate abundance in a mountain catchment -

Smith, Toni - Soil moisture dynamics in complex terrain

Ben Stratton - Catchment scale hydrologic modeling

Kristi Unholz - Particle size analysis and use of pedotransfer functions for predicting soil hydraulic properties -

Mike Whitson - Lateral flow in snow: Implications for runoff generation

Melvin Kunkel - Spatial variability of carbon in Dry Creek watershed

Pamela Hess -

Warden, Ryan - Hydorheic

Anderson, Brian

Mat Weaver -

Teklu - Application of DHSVM

Completed Theses and Dissertations

Boise State University

Aishlin. Pam(2007) MS Hydrologic Sciences: Groundwater recharge estimation using chloride mass balance.

Homan, Joel (2008) MS Hydrologic Sciences: The Development and Evaluation of Ground, Model and Satellite-based Snowmelt Depletion Curves.

Hoffman, Bernadette (2008) MS Geology: Scale and heterogeneity of hydraulic properties in the Dry Creek Experimental Watershed.

Figueras, Jordi (2007) MS Civil Engineering: Design and validation of an automated multistep outflow apparatus for measuring soil hydraulic properties.

Kormos, Patrick (2005) MS Geology: Isotope hydrograph separation during snowmelt in a mountain catchment.
- Masters Thesis Abstract

Makram-Morgos, Daniella (2006) MS Hydrologic Sciences: Influence of saturted wedge dynamics on hillslope-stream connectivity.

Miller, Carlyle (2008) PhD Geophysics: Inversion and resolution analysis of electromagnetic data: Examples from geothermal and watershed characterization.

Murray, Shannon (2008) MS Mathematics: The Richard's equation and its constitutive relations.

Procsal, Michael (2005) MS Geology: Development of an areal snow depletion curve in the Dry Creek Experimental Watershed using MODIS satellite imagery and the Utah Energy Balance snow accumulation and melt model.
- Masters Thesis Abstract

Rothwell, Eric (2005) MS Geology: The influence of hyporheic flow on stream temperature. Masters Thesis Abstract

Thoma, Michael (2008) MS Geology: Determining Recharge Routes to the Treasure Valley, ID using Dissolved Noble Gas Data.

Williams, Jason (2005) MS Geology: Characterization of the spatial and temporal controls on soil moisture and streamflow generation in a semi-arid headwater catchment. - Masters Thesis Abstract

Yenko, Melissa (2003) MS Geology: Hydrometric and geochemical evidence of streamflow sources in the Upper Dry Creek Experimental Watershed. - Masters Thesis Abstract

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