Water Team
Water Team
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Discussion
Turbidity is included in the proposed suite of measurements, primarily as an indicator of erosion and sediment movement associated with ...
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Description
Water team members will be monitoring water quality and quantity across treatment and control catchments prior to, and after, treatments. They are investigating impacts of strategic fuel treatments in SNAMP study areas on water quantity and quality.
Researchers
Primary Investigators
Roger Bales
Roger Bales is at U.C. Merced and his diverse fields of research include snow hydrology, alpine hydrology and biogeochemistry, polar snow and ice, contaminant hydrology, and water quality.
Martha Conklin
Conklin is at UC Merced, and specializes in the study of water quality, water movement and the interaction of surface water and groundwater in natural settings. She has conducted extensive research in the field of organic chemical distribution in soil and groundwater and, especially important in California, the chemical processes in snow, which provides a significant portion of the state’s drinking and irrigation supply.
Graduate Student
Sarah is a graduate student at UC Merced.
Staffer
Phil is the staff hydrologist with the project.
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