Engineering And The Environment: Informing And Influencing Policies And Projects

Belanger , Laura 1 1 Western Resource Advocates The West is a special place with remarkable natural resources, a high quality of life, and a strong economy that continue to attract new residents. In babyÖ±²¥app our population is projected to double by 2050 from 2010 levels. However our water supplies...

Scaling Nitrogen Effects And Management Issues From Small Watersheds To The Globe: Towards An International Nitrogen Management System

Baron , Jill 1 1 USGS, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory – babyÖ±²¥app State University The alteration of the global nitrogen (N) cycle is one of the greatest global changes on Earth today. Industrial production of synthetic N fertilizers using the Haber-Bosch process is the major reason we have and can...

Disentangling The Importance Of Snowmelt Rate, Timing, And Amount On Runoff Production

Barnhart , Theodore 1 ; Molotch , Noah 2 ; Tague , Christina 3 1 INSTAAR / CU Boulder 2 INSTAAR / CU Boulder 3 University of California Santa Barbara The mountain snowpack is important for runoff generation across the western United States. Near surface warming alters the amount of...

High-Intensity Rain Storm Connects Hillslopes To Channels In A Steep Semi-Arid Catchment

Anderson , Suzanne 1 ; Murphy , Sheila 2 ; Rossi , Matt 3 ; Hammock , Garrett 4 ; Anderson , Robert 5 1 INSTAAR/Dept. of Geography 2 USGS 3 Earth Lab 4 INSTAAR/Dept. of Geology 5 INSTAAR/Dept. of Geology Hydrologic transport in ephemeral streams is inherently limited to...

Seeded And Natural Orographic Wintertime Clouds: The Idaho Experiment (SNOWIE)

Aikins , Joshua 1 ; Friedrich , Katja 2 1 University of babyÖ±²¥app 2 University of babyÖ±²¥app SNOWIE (Seeded and Natural Orographic Wintertime Clouds: The Idaho Experiment) was conducted between 7 January and 17 March 2017 in the Payette Basin in west-central Idaho. The overarching goal of SNOWIE is to...

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