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Forest Service research hydrologist position
Forest Service, California, United States
Apply before: 20 September 2019
Apply before: 20 September 2019
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Position: Research Hydrologist
Apply before: 20 September 2019
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This Research Hydrologist serves the Ecosystem Function and Health Program (EFH) with the Pacific Southwest Research Station. The mission of this program is to lead the development and communication of knowledge and technology required to sustain, enhance, and restore the function, health, and productivity of ecological, hydrological, and atmospheric systems.
For more information about this position, please contact Dr. Chrissy Howell at
chrissy.a.howell@usda.gov
Responsibilities
- Serves as part of a research team conducting research projects on forest and shrubland hydrology and collaborating with scientists on other hydrologic studies.
- Serves as an authority on watershed hydrology, and large-scale hydrologic modeling.
- Determines and analyzes the controls on streamwater sources, flowpaths, and water quality.
- Measures and models basic hydrologic processes such as transpiration and streamflow.
- Develops hydrologic models to scale hillslope and watershed hydrologic and biogeochemical processes in time from hours to decades and in space from plots to catchments.
- Oversees on-going research studies in California including instrumented watersheds on the Kings River (Sierra National Forest) and the San Dimas Experimental Watershed (Angeles National Forest).
- Assesses the sources and residence times of water and sediment in headwater catchments.
- Assesses vegetation and topographic controls on the hydrograph, including the importance of fire and vegetation loss on water quantity and biogeochemical cycling
- Assesses the impact of hydroclimatic variability on water quality and quantity.
- Applies measurements and modeling approaches for analysis of the impacts of land use on water, sediment and nutrient fluxes.
- Monitors climate and hydrologic parameters, and oversee long-term research projects where high quality data are collected.
- Studies the effects of forest harvesting and landscape management practices (forest and shrubland) on streamflow sedimentation, and biogeochemical processes in watersheds.
Of interest for: Hydrology Focus Research Group
