Ongoing research
Our research interests include hydroecology/ecohydrology, hydrogeology, river restoration, remote sensing, vegetative water use, sustainable land-use practices, vegetation patterning, stream-aquifer interactions, ecosystem function/services, human interaction with aquatic ecosystems
Learn more about specific research projects below.
Agrivoltaics: Finding Win-Win-Win Solutions for Food, Energy and the Environment by Combining Agriculture and Solar Power Production
Keywords: solar farm, grazing, groundwater recharge, water budget, ecosystem services
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Sustaining food, energy, and water security in agricultural landscapes of the Upper Mississippi River Basin
Keywords: Food-Energy-Water-Environmental Nexus, Smart tile-drainage, Managed Aquifer Recharge, Ecosystem Services
Groundwater Flooding in South Central Wisconsin
Keywords: Groundwater Flooding, Land use land cover change, Remote Sensing, Climate change
Fen Wetland Project
Keywords: Groundwater, fen, monitoring, modeling, peat, soil moisture,
water table, Environmental Protection Agency
Urban ecohydrology
Keywords: Urban hydrology, soil compaction, green infrastructure, residential development
Impact of Urban Trees on Stormwater Management
Keywords: Urban hydrology, tree canopy interception, stormwater management, emerald ash borer
Pumped Storage Hydropower
Keywords: Water-energy-environment nexus, environmental flows, climate change, water management & sustainability
Ecosystem Services in Stormwater Detention Ponds
Keywords: Urban hydrology, Stormwater management, Green infrastructure, Ecosystem services
Effects of Widespread Urban Greening on Rainfall and Heat
Keywords: Urban hydrology, Urban Heat, Green infrastructure, Hydrometeorology
Influence of groundwater on temperate forests
Keywords: Groundwater-forest interactions, drought vulnerability, tree growth, water stress, groundwater use by trees
Linking Fen Hydrology and Spectroscopy
Keywords: Fen, wetland, groundwater, remote sensing, spectroscopy, nutrients
Hydrologic impacts of the loss of Wisconsin’s winter on surface water-groundwater interactions
Keywords: Groundwater-surface water interactions, ice formation, Wisconsin rivers, hyporheic zone
Impact of Changing Snow Cover and Frozen Ground Regimes on Groundwater Recharge
Keywords: Freeze and thaw cycles, Snow cover, Frozen ground, Groundwater, Climate change
Former projects
Learn more about past projects our group has worked on below.
Water, Sustainability, and Climate: The Yahara Watershed
Keywords: Ecosystem modeling, climate change, governance, societal values, sustainability, future scenarios
Urban Heat Island
Keywords: Urban heat island, evapotranspiration, phenology, remote sensing, water use
Mountain meadow restoration with a changing climate
Keywords: Sierra Nevada, groundwater modeling, groundwater dependent ecosystems
Stormwater Management Research Facilities (SMRFs)
Mountain meadow hydroecology
Keywords: Sierra Nevada, groundwater modeling, groundwater dependent ecosystems
Distributed temperature sensing
Keywords: Restoration, soil moisture, distributed temperature sensing
Municipal compost for use in erosion control
Keywords: Compost, organics recycling, unsaturated flow, erosion control
Ecohydrologic Effects of Land-use change in Argentina
Keywords: Argentina, land-use, agriculture-forest interactions, groundwater
Ecohydrology of Agroecosystems
Keywords: Groundwater subsidy, precision agriculture, soil texture, remote sensing, biophysical modeling, AgroIBIS, HRMET
Particle Organic Matter (POM) transport in the Columbia River
Keywords: Groundwater-surface water interactions, hyporheic zone, particle transport, Department of Energy
