Water resources are crucial to the sustainability and productivity of an ecosystem. Our faculty study many areas of water resources, including forest and wetland ecohydrology, stable isotopes of water, vegetation-atmosphere exchange of water, the effect of climate change on hydrological processes, hydrological modeling, water-resource conservation and sustainability, wetland restoration, classification, mapping, aquatic-terrestrial links, and conservation and management of wetland and upland ecosystems.
Faculty Areas of Interests
Forest canopy structure and function; Forest response to global change; Carbon and water cycling through forests; Tree ecophysiology; Stable isotope ecology; Invasive tree species
Applied wetland ecology; Peatland and wetland restoration; Peatlands; Mountain wetlands; Tropical peatlands; Ecosystem carbon cycling; Wetland ecohydrology
Atmospheric Sciences; Environmental Engineering; Environmental Biogeochemistry and Sustainability
Woody bioenergy; Climate change; Natural resource policy; Water resource policy; Bioenergy policy
Geographic information systems; Cartography; Global positioning systems; Great Lakes Quaternary (glacial) geomorphology
Soil carbon; Plant/soil relationships; Decomposition; Dissolved organic carbon; Wildfire; Black carbon
Forest hydrology; Micrometeorology; Ecohydrology; Carbon cycling; Stable isotopes
Forest carbon dynamics; Soil carbon sequestration; Forest restoration; Isotope applications in forests
Aquatic ecology; Aquatic-terrestrial links; Conservation and management of aquatic systems; Long-term monitoring
Invasion ecology; Road ecology; Applied restoration and weed control; Stress tolerance and competition