ResearchWorks at the University of Washington - Western Waters Digital Library

Valley-Scale Landscape Structure as a Component of Hydrologic Response in Complex...
Weekes will describe her research into the underlying landscape structure and its effects on the hydrologic regime of mountain watersheds. She will provide context, outline her research design, and present results and conclusions. 2011-07-26
2011-07-26
2005-02-17

The Use of Remote Sensing, GIS, and Multivariate Vegetation Analyses to Explain the...
Mollot will ask the question: Under what conditions should we restore conifer to stands currently dominated by hardwood in our effort to rehabilitate fish habitat? As a case study, she will consider the Cedar River watershed. She will review... 2011-07-26
2011-07-26
2005-02-17

Maintaining Sustainable Water Supplies: Impacts of Climate Change in the Puget Sound...
Palmer will define sustainability. He will review recent trends in climate research, and consider the potential impacts of climate on sustainability. Next, he will turn to water demands. He will close by outlining strategies for enhancing... 2011-07-26
2011-07-26
2005-02-17

Large Wood Input, Storage, Burial, and Transport in the Queets River Watershed
Latterell will describe a study that quantified the mechanism and rate of riparian wood input, wood distribution, abundance, and characteristics, transport rate and distances, and burial and recapture. The study site was Queets River in Olympic... 2011-07-27
2011-07-27
2005-02-17

Interactions Between Vegetation Patterns, Social Preferences, and Stream Biotic...
Shandas will discuss challenges to urban watershed management. He will consider ecological research in urban areas and human preferences for vegetation along urban streams. He will describe a study that investigated how urban ecological... 2011-07-27
2011-07-27
2005-02-17

Regional-Scale Riparian Vegetation Changes: a Contributor to Hood Canal Dissolved...
Roberts will discuss riparian vegetation changes, and how these may contribute to Hood Canal's dissolved oxygen issues. She will present historical evidence of the shift in plants, based on pollen evidence in Lake Washington. Next, she will... 2011-07-27
2011-07-27
2005-02-17

How Deposition of Mineral Sediments Establishes a Complex Template for Floodplain...
Bechtold will discuss floodplain ecosystem development. He will describe a study that looked into fine particle distribution as a constraint of organic matter dynamics in floodplain soils. He will present study results and implications. 2011-07-27
2011-07-27
2005-02-17

Embracing Disturbance: a New Paradigm for the Precautionary Principle in Riparian Zones
Agee will question the precautionary principle, which works well in some situations, but may lead to negative results. As an example, he will discuss fire regimes in riparian zones. He will argue that in dynamic systems, choices must be evaluated... 2011-07-27
2011-07-27
2005-02-17

Climate and the Future of Water Resources in the Northwest
Mote will consider the roles and behavior of temperature and precipitation on stream flow. He will conclude that warming shifts flow from summer to winter, and that warming will continue, although the effect on precipiation is unknown. 2011-07-27
2011-07-27
2005-02-17

Hydrologic Changes in the Western United States from 1916-2003
Hamlet will provide an overview of hydrologic changes in the Western United States from 1916-2003. He will consider snowpack, water supply, temperature, precipitation, seasonal water balance, runoff, and soil moisture. He will offer some... 2011-07-27
2011-07-27
2005-02-17

Living with Limits: Climate, Water, Salmon, and Sustainability in the Pacific Northwest
Miles will provide an overview of climate variability as a baseline for projecting climate change. He will then present various climate change scenarios. He will outline hydrologic impacts, including snowpack, snowmelt, water supply, and the... 2011-07-27
2011-07-27
2007-02-17

Movement Patterns of Adult Sockeye Salmon in Lake Washington
Newell will present the results of a study investigating the migration behavior of sockeye salmon in Lake Washington. In the study, fish were tagged at the Ballard Locks before they came into Lake Washington. Then they were tracked to correlate... 2011-07-27
2011-07-27
2004-02-06

Seasonal Changes in Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Biomass and Community Structure in Salmon...
Honea will discuss the effect of salmon spawming on aquatic macroinvertebrate communities in streams. He will describe a study that aimed to determine if salmon spawning reaches support a greater biomass of aquatic macroinvertebrates, and to... 2011-07-27
2011-07-27
2004-02-06

Impacts and Land-Use Change on Hydrology of a Mountainous Watershed: Water Resource...
Rattanaviwatpong will describe a study about water resource conflicts in northern Thailand. She will provide an overview of the research, including the study site, the water resource problem, research objectives, implementation, results,... 2011-07-27
2011-07-27
2004-02-06

Nutrient Retention in Riparian Buffers in Puget Lowland Agricultural Streams, Skagit...
Monohan will describe a study investigating the function of riparian buffers. First, she will provide some background about Puget Sound lowland agricultural streams: salmonid and agricultural uses. She will outline a comparison of pasture and row... 2011-07-27
2011-07-27
2004-02-06

Urban Non-Point Source Nutrient Impacts on Seattle Area Stream Chemistry
Brett will review phosphorus transport in Seattle area urban and forest streams. He will describe a study that created a high resolution stream phosphorus concentration database in order to develop statistical time series models of stream... 2011-07-27
2011-07-27
2004-02-06

Characterization of Stormwater Runoff in Residential Catchments
Engstrom will discuss stormwater runoff from residential catchments. She will describe a study that monitored natural drainage systems in Seattle. She will consider construction, performance, and application of knowledge toward future projects. 2011-07-27
2011-07-27
2004-02-06

Making Sense from Measurements -- Statistical Advances that Yield More, but Demand More
Conquest will review traditional sample designs. Next, she will discuss recent advances: ranked set sampling and multiple-panel sampling. She will describe "Visual Sample Plan" software, and then offer some conclusions. 2011-07-28
2011-07-28
2004-02-06

Will Climate Change Impact Water Supply and Demand in the Puget Sound?
Palmer will discuss the impact of climate change on the Puget Sound region. He will consider potential changes to temperature, precipitation, water demands, stream flows, water temperature, floods, sediment loads, and vegetation. He will examine... 2011-07-28
2011-07-28
2004-02-06

Measuring What Matters, Counting What Counts to Sustain Salmon, Rivers, and People
Karr will discuss humanity's effects on salmon and rivers. He will identify the core problem: flawed indicators and models endorse values that promote unsustainable lifestyles. He will argue that we need improved indicators, so that we can create... 2011-07-28
2011-07-28
2004-02-06

UW Earth Initiative
Battisti will introduce the University of Washington Earth Initiative. He will present the goals of the project as well as its proposed activities and future directions. 2011-07-28
2011-07-28
2004-02-06

Measuring Dissolved Oxygen (DO) and Electrical Conductivity
This field protocol describes how to measure dissolved oxygen and electrical conductivity in surface water and sub-surface (hyporheic) water. 2011-08-02
2011-08-02
2013-05-25

Collecting Water Samples
This field protocol describes how to collect surface and hyporheic (sub-surface) water samples. 2011-08-02
2011-08-02
2013-05-25

Installing a Well (a.k.a. Piezometer)
This field protocol describes how to install piezometers into the water table to measure and determine the direction of water movement. 2011-08-02
2011-08-02
2013-05-25

Surveying Stream Cross-Sections
This field protocol describes how to survey stream cross-sections to give a representation of the geology of the channel. 2011-08-02
2011-08-02
2013-05-25