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Jeff McDonnell is the 2011 GSA Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecturer. Link to a podcast of Jeff's lecture at the University of Delaware, "Where does water go when it rains?"

IWW 50th Anniversary Video released!

The Willamette Water 2100 project is here. This is a five-year NSF study investigating how climate change, human population growth and economic growth will impact water availability and use in coming decades.

The Hillslope and Watershed Hydrology group led by Professor Jeff McDonnell, OSU distinguished professor, Richardson Chair in Watershed Science and director of the OSU Institute for Water and Watersheds. Our group conducts field, lab and modeling investigations that center on the following questions:

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

The PhD students in the group are active experimentalists working on similar questions in diverse watershed settings while the Post Docs in the group help to integrate findings through model development and testing. Our ultimate goal is to explore the common features of watershed response across diverse scales, climates, and hydrogeological settings to develop a new theoretical framework for streamflow generation in humid regions.

 

 

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