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Photos from the Field Hydrology Course

The Hillslope and Watershed Hydrology group at Oregon State University is led by Professor Jeff McDonnell , Richardson Chair in Watershed Science in the Department of Forest Engineering. The group's mission to is develop a general understanding of runoff generation processes in diverse watersheds. We address basic questions like:  

  • Where does water go when it rains? 
  • How long does it reside in the watershed? 
  • What pathway does it take to the stream channel?

Our group conducts field, lab and modeling investigations combining hydrometric and tracer-based techniques with the aim of using this knowledge for land management and understanding environmental change and variability. The Post Docs and PhD students in the group are active experimentalists working on similar questions in diverse watershed settings. Our goal is to seek new understanding and model formulations by conducting watershed intercomparison and exploring the common features of watershed response across diverse scales, climates, and hydrogeological settings.

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