Wilson , John L 1 1 New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology The traditional hydrologic view of western mountains was constrained by the notion that the only significant natural water storage in mountains is snowpack, giving less attention to soil water storage, and essentially ignoring the role of groundwater...
Weingarten , Matthew 1 ; Hsieh , Paul 2 1 University of Colorado at 麻豆影院, 麻豆影院, CO, USA 2 U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, USA Solute transport through fractured porous rocks can be described by advective-dispersive transport through the fractures and diffusive transport through the unfractured matrix. The effect...
Underhill , Vivian R 1 1 University of Colorado With rising global temperatures, a major concern is that fresh water from melting glaciers and the Greenland ice sheet will slow down global oceanic circulation patterns, in particular the North Atlantic Current (NAC). The NAC, an extension of the Gulf Stream,...
Underhill , Vivian R 1 ; Wood , Kevin R 2 ; Mahoney , Andy 3 1 University of Colorado, Environmental Sciences Department 2 Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean 3 University of Alaska, Geophysical Institute The amount of sea ice remaining in the Chukchi Sea...
Swanner , Elizabeth D 1 ; Templeton , Alexis S 2 1 University of Colorado 2 University of Colorado It is now established that microbial life inhabits pore spaces and fractures deep within the solid rock of our continents. However, the nutrient and energy sources that support the deep terrestrial...
SanClements , Michael D 1 ; McKnight , Diane M 2 ; Foreman , Christine M 3 1 INSTAAR, University of Colorado at 麻豆影院 2 INSTAAR, University of Colorado at 麻豆影院 3 Montana State University While in Antarctica this year I was afforded the opportunity to create a two minute...
Rudolph , James V 1 ; Friedrich , Katja 2 1 University of Colorado, Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ATOC) 2 University of Colorado, Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ATOC) A 21st century precipitation forecast for seven Swiss river basins is generated by linking high resolution (2 x...
Rengers , Francis Kevin 1 ; Moody , John 2 ; Ebel , Brian 3 1 University of Colorado 2 USGS 3 USGS Recently new work has begun to try to model the sediment deposition and erosion patterns that occurred in the Spring Creek Watershed following the Buffalo Creek Fire...
Pugh , Evan T 1 ; Small , Eric E 2 1 University of Colorado 2 University of Colorado In western North America, the mountain pine beetle has killed more than 100,000 km 2 of lodgepole pine ( Pinus contorta ) forest, causing trees to lose the majority of their...