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Poster at AGU 2019 Fall meeting in San Francisco, CA

12/3/2019

The poster at this conference will present some preliminary results from a methods comparison between thermal infrared (TIR) imagery and spatial stream network (SSN) models. The comparison looks at how both methods represent temperature across river networks and how the two methods overlap and diverge in their ability to characterize temperature spatial patterns. In the future we anticipate merging the two methods using TIR data as observed input data for SSN models.

SSN workshop for PNW state and federal agencies

11/13/2019

This one-day workshop was held to introduce spatial stream network (SSN) models and their potential use for state and federal agency water quality programs. The sessions held provided background on SSN models and their nuts and bolts as well as the presentation of a couple case studies using SSN models developed for basins in the PNW USA with temperature total maximum daily loads.

Presentation at SFS 2019 meeting in Salt Lake City, UT

6/20/2019

At the most recent annual meeting of the Society for Freshwater Science I presented the results from a modeling effort aimed at identifying local controls on stream temperature in three different study basins in the Pacific Northwest Region. Within each study basin, we made temperature predictions for several management scenarios to identify how temperatures shifted under individual and various management activity combinations. Results suggested different basins had unique natural and anthropogenic stream temperature drivers which varied in their influence on stream temperature in each basin.

Presentation at SFS Annual Meeting in Detroit, MI

6/29/2018

I recently presented the preliminary results from a modeling project that investigated how much stream temperatures might change as a result of riparian shade restoration along tributaries to the mainstem Columbia River. The major results suggest that about half a degree Celsius of water cooling can be obtained on average for tributaries at their confluence with the Columbia River. Additionally, riparian shade restoration can offset about half the expected future 2040s stream warming for tributaries at their confluence with the Columbia River.

Presentation at ISRS 2017 Hamilton, New Zealand

12/1/2017

I recently presented the results of a virtual experiment that contrasted freshwater mussel life history strategies (related to lifespan and age at maturity) with the relative fragmentation of a river network (movement past dams ranging from 0 to 100% complete barriers). The response variable measured/tracked population genetics statistics over 200 years for subpopulations across the river basin. This work demonstrated how longer lived species may be able to out-live the deleterious genetic effects fragmentation agents impose on species by dividing and isolating subpopulations within a once continuous, free-flowing river network.

Presentation at the SFS Annual Meeting in Sacramento, CA

5/27/2016

Presented preliminary RADseq data from my empirical evaluation of the population structure of Elliptio complanata in the Neuse River Basin. It was a great special session on Next-Generation Sequencing in Freshwater Science.

Causes and Consequences of river fragmentation

10/30/2015

Recently published review paper on the causes and consequences of habitat fragmentation in river networks with co-authors Martin Doyle and David Strayer. Find it here!

Poster at 2015 SFS annual Meeting in Milwaukee, WI

5/22/2015

Shared some preliminary gene flow simulation work at the 2015 Society for Freshwater Science Annual meeting in Milwaukee, WI. The poster describes the model (CDPOP) and some results for 200 years of Elliptio complanata (freshwater mussel) gene flow in the Neuse River Basin of North Carolina.

TIEE manuscript published online

1/20/2015

Cari Ficken, Megan Fork, and I just published a Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology manuscript titled "Patterns and process in Landscape Ecology: Physical template, biotic interactions, and disturbance regime" online. This teaching figure set walks an introductory ecology class through the basic tenets of Landscape Ecology in a single classroom exercise using examples from the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Florida Scrub habitats. You can find it here.