Progress 10/01/14 to 09/30/19
Outputs
Target Audience:The target audience reached by our efforts during this reporting period included the following: 1) Undergraduate and graduate students who gained insight and experience measuring and monitoring hydrologic processes in the field; 2) Field hydrologists and managers in local, state and federal agencies working on water resources and understanding high elevation rangeland watershed processes; and 3) Research hydrologists and collaborators at research universities and water centers in the mountain west with whom we shared research results. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?We continue to use the project sites for ecological site and hydrologic response trainings. The target audiences have included Extension and Conservation District personnel. We continue to train graduate and undergraduate students in hydrologic and hydrogeophyisics methods and approaches, data collection, and data management and analysis techniques. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Research results have been presented at professional meetings including: AGU and UCOWR. In addition, results were published in a peer-review publicaton in 2019 and three additional publications are in review or preparation for submittal. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
1) We continued to monitor the hydrologic processes using the instrumentation that was installed in the watershed. Many of these data are now being used to investigate beaver impact on surface runoff processes. 2) Two large research proposals have been submitted to NSF (CNH2 and EPSCoR) to continue and expand our capabilities of conducting cutting edge hydrologic research and increasing our abilty to measure and model complex hydrologic processes including the partitioning of surface and subsurface flow. 2) We completed a growing season water balance of the Middle Crow Watershed. A key finding was the importance of spring snowmelt in maintaining last season base flow. These results along with the research on lag-time and subsurface flow will be resubmitted for publication in the Journal of Hydrology. 3) At one of our hillslope sites, we continued to monitor the three ERT (electrical resistivity tomography) transects to continuously monitor subsurface flow processes. These measurements are part of a larger project led by colleagues investigating subsurface flow processes in small high elevation catchments. 4) We continue to modify and improve our rangeland watershed models and assessment tools by: a) incorporating ecological sites (management units used by federal and state rangeland management agencies, and b) improving the ability of hydrologic models to partition surface and subsurface processes.
Publications
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Vithanage, J., S.N Miller, G.B Paige, T. Liu, 2017. Improved hydrological modeling using AGWA; incorporation of different management practices in hydrological modeling. AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, 11-15 Dec 2017.
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Theses/Dissertations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
Vithanage, J., 2018. PhD Dissertation. Spatially explicit hydrologic modeling: impacts of land cover and climate change in semi-arid systems. University of Wyoming, Hydrologic Sciences. August, 2018.
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Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
Kotikian, M., A.D. Parsekian, G.B. Paige, and A. Carey. 2019. Observing heterogeneous unsaturated flow at the hillslope scale using time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography. Vadose Zone J. 18:180138.doi:10.2136/vzj2018.07.0138
- Type:
Theses/Dissertations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
Gulvin, C. 2019. Rangeland Watershed Hydrology in Southeastern Wyoming. MS Thesis, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Gulvin, C., and S.N. Miller, 2017. Understanding watershed processes through combined stream measurements in southeastern Wyoming. AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, 11-15 Dec, 2017.
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
Fitch, K.*, Nippgen, F., Albeke, S. E., Watershed-Scale Impacts of Beaver Impoundments on Surface Water Connectivity and Streamflow Persistence, Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, December 2019
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
Fitch, K.*, Nippgen, F., Albeke, S., Delineating Beaver Impoundments with High Resolution Imagery and Machine Learning, University Council of Water Resources (UCOWR) Annual Conference, Snowbird, Utah, June 2019
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Progress 10/01/17 to 09/30/18
Outputs
Target Audience:The target audience reached by our efforts during this reporting period include: 1) local, state, and federal land and water resource agencies; 2) regional and national rangeland watershed hydrologists; and 3) local BLM, USFS, NRCS and Conservation District personnel. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?We continue to use the project sites for ecological site and hydrologic response trainings. The target audiences have included Extension and Conservation District personnel. We continue to train graduate and undergraduate students in hydrologic and hydrogeophyisics methods and approaches,data collection, and data management and analysis techniques How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Research results have been presented at professional meetings including: AGU, SAGEEP and UCOWR. In addition, results from this project were presented in two peer-review publicatons in 2018 and three additional publications are in review or preparation for submittal. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?We will continue our field data collection and spatial modeling efforts investigating hydrologic response and quantifying differences in hydrologic reponses in high alpine and rangeland watersheds using an established network of field instrumentation for watershed hydrologic observations. We will continue our work with hydrogeophysicists to improve our ability to partition surface and subsurface flow and quantifying subsurface processes. We will continue our education and outreach efforts.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
1) We continued to monitor the hydrologic processes using the instrumentation that was installed in the watershed. 2) Using rainfall simulation coupled with geophysical observations on 5 ecological sites in the watershed we were able to quantify surface and subsurface hydrologic responses of ecological sites. These results were accepted for publication in Hydrological Processes Journal. 3) We found a significant lag between a rainfall event in the uplands and the runoff response in the streams. This indicates that the water moves predominately through the subsurface. The natural runoff plots in the uplands have directly supported this observation; very little overland flow has been observed on the plots under natural rainfall. We coupled the lag response from the plots with the lag response at the watershed scale in Middle Crow Creek watershed. 4) We completed a growing season waters balance of the Crow Watershed. A key finding was the importance of spring snow melt in maintaining last season base flow. These results along with the research on lag-time and subsurface flow were submitted for publication in the Journal of Hydrology. 4) At one of our hillslope sites, we installed two ERT (electrical resistivity tomography) transects to continuously monitor subsurface flow processes. We were able to quantify flow rates and identified two subsurface preferential flow paths. This work was submitted to the Vadose Zone Journal and was accepted with minor revision. This fall- a third ERT transect was added to the site. 5) We continue to modify and improve our rangeland watershed models and assessment tools by: a) incorporating ecological sites (management units used by federal and state rangeland management agencies, and b) improving the ability of models to assess the hydrologic impacts due to surface disturbance (energy development) and climate change (changes in vegetation cover and precipitation and temperature regimes). We used the SWAT model coupled with climate change scenarios using WRF to assess impacts of climate change on the eco-hydrologic response of the watershed. The results are being prepared for publication.
Publications
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Accepted
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
Carey, A.M., G.B. Paige, B.J. Carr, S.N. Miller and W.S. Holbrook. 2019. Characterizing hydrological processes in a semiarid rangeland watershed: A hydrogeophysical approach. Hydrological Processes. Accepted DOI:10.1002/hyp.13361.
- Type:
Theses/Dissertations
Status:
Accepted
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
Perlinski, Anthony. 2018. Semiarid rangeland watersheds: quantifying ecohydrologic processes across spatial scales. PhD Dissertation Rangeland Ecology and Watershed Management, University of Wyoming.
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Progress 10/01/16 to 09/30/17
Outputs
Target Audience:The target audience reached by our efforts during this reporting period include local state and federal land and water resource agencies, regional and national rangeland watershed hydrologists, as well as local BLM, NRCS and Conservation District personnel. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?We continue to use the project sites for ecological site and hydrologic response trainings. The target audiences have included Extension and Conservation District personnel. We continue to train graduate and undergraduate students in hydrologic and hydrogeophyisics methods and approaches, data collection, and data management and analysis techniques. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Research results have been presented at professional meetings including: AGU, SAGEEP and UCOWR. Inaddition, results from this project were presentedin twopeer-review publicatons in 2017 and three additional publications are in preparation. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? We will continue our field data collection and spatial modeling efforts investigating hydrologic response and quantifying differences in hydrologic reponses in high alpine and rangeland watersheds using an established network of field instrumentation for watershed hydrologic observations. We will work with hydrogeophysicists to improve our ability to partition surface and subsurface flow and quantifying subsurface processes. We will continue our education and outreach efforts.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
1) We continued to monitor the hydrologic processes using the instrumentation that was installed in the watershed. 2) Using our natural rainfall plots and the nested watershed design, we have been able to identify the dominant hydrologic processes on the UCCW. We have found a significant lag between a rainfall event in the uplands and the runoff response in the streams. This indicates that the water moves predominately through the subsurface. The natural runoff plots in the uplands have directly supported this observation; very little overland flow has been observed on the plots under natural rainfall. We were able to couple the lag response from the plots with the lag response at the watershed scale in Middle Crow Creek watershed. These results are to be presented in a publication, which is under development. 3) At one of our hillslope sites, we installed two ERT (electrical resistivity tomography) transects to continuously monitor subsurface flow processes. We were able to quantify flow rates and identified two subsurface preferential flow paths. A publication is in preparation. 4) We have modified and improved our rangeland watershed models and assessment tools by: a) incorporating ecological sites (management units used by federal and state rangeland management agencies, and b) improving the ability of models to assess the hydrologic impacts due to surface disturbance (energy development) and climate change (changes in vegetation cover and precipitation and temperature regimes). The rangeland tool applications are being incorporated into Rangeland AGWA model and a publication is under development.
Publications
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Carey, A.M., Paige, G.B., Carr, B.J., Dogan, M., 2017. Forward modeling to investigate inversion artifacts resulting from time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography during rainfall simulations. J. Appl. Geophys. 145, 39-49.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Perlinski, A.T., G.B. Paige, S.N. Miller and A.L. Hild. 2017. Hydrologic response of four ecological sites to natural rainfall events within a semi-arid watershed. Rangeland Ecology & Management 70(6):675-682. 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.rama.2017.06.006
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Progress 10/01/15 to 09/30/16
Outputs
Target Audience:
Nothing Reported
Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? We have been able to use this project for ecological site- hydrologic response trainings for Conservation Districts and Rangeland Managers. We have trained undergraduate and graduate students in hydrologic and hydrogeophysics methods and approaches, data collection, data management and analysis techniques. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? These results have been presented at a special session of the AGU 2016 annual meeting and two manuscripts have been submitted to peer reviewed journals for consideration: one has been published - one under revision. The ecological site field plots in UCCW have been used by Society for Range Management for field courses on Ecological Sites as management tools and will be used again in summer 2016 for a field course on Ecological sites by Wyoming Society for Rangeland Management and the Wyoming Association of Conservation Districts. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? We will continue our field and spatial modeling efforts investigating hydrologic response and quantifying differences in hydrologic reponses in high alpine and rangeland watersheds using an established network of field instrumentation for watershed hydrologic observations. We will work with hydrogeophysicists to improve our ability to partition surface and subsurface flow and quantifying subsurface processes. We will continue our education and outreach efforts.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
1) We continue to monitor the hydrologic processes using the instrumentation that was installed in the watershed. 2) Using our natural rainfall plots and the nested watershed design, we have been able to identify the dominant hydrologic processes on the UCCW. We have found a significant lag between a rainfall event in the uplands and the runoff response in the streams. This indicates that the water moves predominately through the subsurface. The natural runoff plots in the uplands have directly supported this observation; very little overland flow has been observed on the plots under natural rainfall. 3) We have modified and improved our rangeland watershed models and assessment tools by: a) incorporating ecological sites (management units used by federal and state rangeland management agencies, and b) improving the ability of models to assess the hydrologic impacts due to surface disturbance (energy development) and climate change (changes in vegetation cover and precipitation and temperature regimes). The rangeland tool applcations are being incorporated into Rangeland AGWA model and a publication is under development.
Publications
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Carey, A.M., Paige, G.B., 2016. Ecological site-scale hydrologic response in a semi-arid rangeland watershed. Rangel. Ecol. Manag. 69, 481 - 490, doi: 10.1016/j.rama.2016.06.007
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Progress 10/01/14 to 09/30/15
Outputs
Target Audience:American Association of Water Resources: Water Researchers, and policy and management groups; Wyoming Water Forum: State, Federal and local agencies and orgainizations interested in water and natural resource management Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?We have been able to use this project for ecological site- hydrologic response trainings for Conservation Districts and Rangeland Managers. We have trained undergraduate and graduate students in hydrologic and hydrogeophysics methods and approaches, data collection, data management and analysis techniques. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?These results have been presented at a special session of the AWRA 2015 annual meeting in Denver CO and two manuscripts have been submitted to peer reviewed journals for consideration. The ecological site field plots in UCCW have been used by Society for Range Management for field courses on Ecological Sites as management tools and will be used again in summer 2016 for a field course on Ecological sites by Wyoming Society for Rangeland Management and the Wyoming Association of Conservation Districts. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?We will continue our field and spatial modeling efforts investigating hydrologic response and quantifying differences in hydrologic reponses in high alpine and rangeland watersheds using an established network of field instrumentation for watershed hydrologic observations. We will work with hydrogeophysicists to improve our ability to partition surface and subsurface flow and quantifying subsurface processes. We will continue our education and outreach efforts.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
We installed hydrologic instrumentation, rain gauges (7) and stream gauging stations (8), in Upper Crow Creek Watershed (UCCW) as part of a nested watershed design. A meteorological station was established (467866.9 m east, 4562880.4 m west) to collect basic climatic data i.e. temperature, relative humidity, wind velocity, etc. Four study sites representing distinct ecological sites were established and equipped with four hillslope plots each, to study natural rainfall-runoff processes. In addition, these same hillslope plots have been used to conduct controlled hydrologic investigations using rainfall simulation to measure infiltration and surface runoff coupled with ERT (electrical resistivity tomography) to measure water movement in the near subsurface. These intensive studies have been implemented to partition rainfall and snow melt into surface and subsurface flow. 1) We have been able to characterize the hydrologic response of ecological sites in the UCCW and directly relate the response to rangeland site characteristics. This information is key for making Ecological sites useful for decision makers and for inclusion in rangeland watershed assessment tools. 2) Using our natural rainfall plots and the nested watershed design, we have been able to identify the dominant hydrologic processes on the UCCW. We have found a significant lag between a rainfall event in the uplands and the runoff response in the streams. This indicates that the water moves predominately through the subsurface. The natural runoff plots in the uplands have directly supported this observation; very little overland flow has been observed on the plots under natural rainfall. 3) We have modified and improved our rangeland watershed models and assessment tools by: a) incorporating ecological sites (management units used by federal and state rangeland management agencies, and b) improving the ability of models to assess the hydrologic impacts due to surface disturbance (energy development) and climate change (changes in vegetation cover and precipitation and temperature regimes).
Publications
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