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About the Department

 

Chris Graham

Watershed Science Program
Department of Forest Engineering
004 Peavy Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331
Tel.: (541) 737-4149
Fax: (541) 737-4316
Email:
Chris.Graham<at>oregonstate.edu


Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Current Position

Ph. D. Candidate, Watershed Science Program, Department of Forest Engineering, Oregon State University
IGERT Scholar

Education
Research Interests
 
  • Subsurface flow paths
  • Hillslope scale field experiments
  • Numeric modeling
  • Evaporation from bare soil and soil cracks
  • Little Panola
Master's Thesis
Evaporation and salt redistribution from bare soil and soil cracks (PowerPoint and Video) (Thesis pdf)
 
Publications
 

Graham, C.B., J.J. McDonnell and R. Woods. 2007. Hypothesis testing at the hillslope scale: conceptualizing lateral subsurface flow and the role of bedrock permeability. In prep for Water Resources Research.

Graham, C.B., H.R. Barnard, W.J. Van Verseveld, C.B. Graham, B.J. Bond, J.R. Brooks, and J.J. McDonnell. 2007. Field scale closing of the water balance. In prep for Water Resources Research.

Barnard, H.R., W.J. Van Verseveld, C.B. Graham, B.J. Bond, J.R. Brooks, and J.J. McDonnell. 2007. Opening the black box: Hillslope ecohydrological responses to simulated summer rainfall in Western Oregon. In prep for Ecohydrology.

Van Verseveld, W.J., H.R. Barnard, C.B. Graham, J.J. McDonnell, K.Lajtha, and J.R. Brooks. 2007. Mechanistic assessment of the double paradox in hydrology and biogeochemistry: A hillslope sprinkling experiment. Water Resources Research In Review

Weisbrod N., M.I. Dragila, C. Cooper, M. Pildersorf, C. B. Graham 2005. Evaporation from fractures exposed at the land surface: Impact of gas-phase convection on salt accumulation, in AGU Monograph Dynamics of Fluids and Transport in Fractured Rock.

 
Presentations and Posters
“Flow and transport at the hillslope scale: New experimental evidence from a whole-hillslope irrigation and excavation” (Graham, McDonnell, Woods), American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2007. (Poster)
“Stripping at Maimai” (Graham, Woods*, McDonnell, Gardener) New Zealand Hydrological Society 2007
“Looking for new approaches to model subsurface flow in steep forested catchments” (Graham*) Ecosystems Informatics Fall 2007 Colloquium
 
“Flow Processes at the Soil Bedrock Interface” (Graham*, McDonnell, Woods) UNESCO-IHE, 2007
“Describing lateral preferential flow experimentally” (Graham, McDonnell, Woods), International Association of Hydrological Sciences 2007 (Poster)
“Linking water pathways and nutrient dynamics in a small head water catchment: results of a controlled sprinkler experiment using a deuterium tracer in western Oregon” (Barnard, v. Verseveld, Graham, Bond, Lajtha, Brooks, McDonnell), International Atomic Energy Agency, International Symposium on Advances in Isotope Hydrology and its Role in Sustainable Water Resources Management, 2007. (Poster)

“Ecohydrology of the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest: exposing patterns and processes” (Barnard, v. Verseveld, Graham, Bond, Lajtha, Brooks, McDonnell), National Science Board Meeting, February 2007. (Poster)

“Past and current research at the Panola Mountain State Park instrumented hillslope” (Graham*, Peters, McDonnell) Panola Mountain State Park, 2006

“Opening the black box: Hillslope ecohydrological responses to simulated rainfall in Western Oregon” (Barnard, v. Verseveld, Graham, Bond, Brooks, McDonnell), American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2006. (Poster)

“Partitioning of the water balance at the hillslope scale: A sprinkler experiment at Watershed 10, HJ Andrews LTER” (Graham, v. Verseveld, Barnard, McDonnell, Brooks, Lajtha, Bond), LTER All Scientist Meeting, 2006. (Poster)

“Linking water pathways and nutrient sources in a small headwater catchment: A controlled sprinkler experiment at the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest, Oregon USA” (v. Verseveld, Barnard, Graham, McDonnell, Brooks, Lajtha, Bond), LTER All Scientist Meeting, 2006. (Poster)

“Conifer transpiration shows little response to simulated summer rainfall: results of an experimental test using a deuterium tracer in western Oregon” (Barnard, v. Verseveld, Graham, Brooks, Bond, McDonnell), LTER All Scientist Meeting, 2006. (Poster)

“Hillslope scale ecohydrological processes: The 2005 Watershed 10 hillslope sprinkling experiments” (Barnard, Graham, v. Verseveld, Bond, Brooks, Lajtha, McDonnell), HJ Andrews, LTER Symposium, 2006. (Poster)

“Current Research at the Watershed 10 hillslope” (Graham*, Brooks, v. Verseveld, Barnard, McDonnell) HJA Day 2006

“ Experimental observation and quantification of convective flux of water vapor from surface-exposed fractures” (Dragila, Weisbrod, Kamai, Graham), Gordon conference on Flow and Transport in Permeable Media, 2006. (Poster)

“A peek inside the black box: hillslope ecohydrological responses to simulated summer rainfall in western Oregon” (Barnard*, v. Verseveld, Graham, Bond, Brooks, McDonnell) Conference of Ford Fellows, 2006.

“Hydrology and Ecohydrology at the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest” (Graham*, Barnard*), Science and Math Investigation Learning Experiences Program Retreat, 2006

“A scale model analysis of hillslope hydrology: A 2005 version of Hewlett’s sloping soil mass” (Graham, McDonnell, Frey), American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2005. (Poster)

“Little Panola: Investigating hillslope processes at a laboratory scale hillslope” (Graham*, Frey, McDonnell) Oregon State University Graduate School Conference, 2005

“Modeling salt redistribution in fractured porous media caused by convection driven evaporation within the fracture” (Graham, Dragila, Cooper, Weisbrod), American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting, 2005. (Poster)

“Physical modeling of hillslope runoff generation: A scaled lab experiment of the Panola hillslope” (Frey, McDonnell, Graham), European Geophysical Union General Assembly, 2005. (Poster)

“A hillslope scale sprinkler experiment” (Graham*, v. Verseveld*, Barnard*) SLICE, 2005

“H. J. Andrews Experiment Forest, Watershed 10” (McGuire, v. Verseveld, Graham, McDonnell), Slope Intercomparison Experiment Meeting, 2005. (Poster)

A new laboratory instrument for defining near-saturation wetting-drying and capillary conductivity. (Vache, McDonnell, Ekanayake, Graham), American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2004. (Poster)

“Evaporation and salt precipitation in soil cracks: Numeric analysis” (Graham, Dragila, Weisbrod), Soil Science Society of America Annual Meeting, 2004. (Poster)

“Evaporation from fractures exposed at the land surface: impact of gas-phase convection on salt accumulation.” (Weisbrod, Dragila, Graham, Cassidy), Second International Symposium on Dynamics of Fluids and Transport in Fractured Rock, 2004. (Poster)

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Sprinkler Experiment Field Trip (Video!)
Little Panola Movie (Video!)
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