Ecosystems
Using a multi-disciplinary approach, applied and basic research focuses on the multi-scale linkages across ecosystems affecting stream network processes, structures, and patterns. Investigations of human activities on critical linkages and processes are conducted to assist management and regulation development.
Water quality alterations
Large woody debris, riparian, and floodplain system alterations
Hillslope and channel geomorphologic alterations
General alterations
Water quality alterations
Summer temperatures in small stream sources on managed Olympic Peninsula timberlands (Jenelle Black. 2001)
The variability in stream temperatures in the Wenatchee National Forest and their relationship to physical, geological, and land management factors (Jenna Scholz. 2001)
Application of remotely sensed data to regional analysis and assessment of stream temperature in the pacific northwest streams (Steven Burges, Alan Gillespie, Derek Booth, Keith Cherkauer, Rebecca Handcock, Jennifer Kay, and Nir Naveh. In progress)
Regional, synchronous field determination of stream temperatures in western Washington (Derek Booth. 2001)
Effects of buffer width on organic matter input to headwater streams in the western Cascade Mountains of Washington State (Johnny Grady, Jr. 2001)
The impact of riparian disturbance on physicochemical parameters of suspended particles at summer baseflow (Scott Elliott. 2000)
Spatial and temporal characterizations of Dissolved Oxygen levels in the Mill Creek Basin, (King County, WA) (Virginia Travers. In progress)
Watershed disturbance analysis (Ian Lange. In progress)
Detecting relationships between land use and water quality trends: Questions of association, scale, and independence (Nancy Gove. 2001)
Interactions of salmon, bear and riparian vegetation in Alaska (James Helfield. 2001)
Using turbidity todetermine total suspended solids in urbanizing streams in the Puget Lowlands: in Confronting Uncertainty: Managing Change in Water Resources and the Environment (James Packman, Karen Comings, and Derek Booth. 1999)
Chemical and biological indicators of mine effluent impacts on Alder Creek, north Cascade Mountains, Washington (Dan Peplow. 1999)
Environmental impacts of acid mine drainage (Dan Peplow. 2003)
Large woody debris, riparian, and floodplain system alterations
Impacts of urbanization on riparian aones: Changes in the sources, transport, and fate of litterfall (Mindy Roberts. 2007)
A comparison of historic and current stream shade in eastern Washington (Gardner Johnston. 2002)
Sediment transport in steep tributary streams and the influence of large organic debris (Matthew O'Connor. 1994)
The functions of riparian buffers in urban watersheds (Jennifer Leavitt. 1998)
The influence of large woody debris on benthic invertebrate communities in two King County, Washington streams (Emily Greenberg. 1995)
A new look at the quantities and volumes of instream wood in forested basins within Washington State (Martin Fox. 2001)
Ecological issues and floodplain and riparian corridors (Jeff Shellberg and Susan Bolton. 2001)
Retrospective analysis of changes in stream and riparian habitat characteristics between 1935 and 1990 in two eastern Cascade streams (Jeanette Smith. 1993)
Characterizing lowland streams: Riparian and watershed influences on urban and non-urban channels (Catalina Segura Sossa. 2003)
Nutrient and biological responses to red alder (Alnus rubra) presence along headwater streams: Olympic Peninsula, Washington (Carol Volk. 2004)
Hillslope and channel geomorphologic alterations
Modeling forest road surface erosion using the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) model (Hakjun Rhee. 1999)
Estimating changes in sediment supply due to forest practices: A sediment budget approach applied to the Skagit River Basin in northwestern Washington (Kari Paulson. 1997)
Historical analysis of the effects of changing land use on channel morphology in the Skagit River Basin, Washington (USA), with implications for salmon (Cindy L. Halbert. 1995)
A landslide inventory of the Finney Creek Watershed, Skagit (David Parks. 1992)
The Local Impacts of Road Crossings on Puget Lowland Creeks (Christina Avolio. 2003)
Applications of a sediment budget to assist urban stream restoration (Chase Barton. 2002)
Spatial effects of urbanization on the physical conditions in Puget Sound Lowland streams (Maeve McBride. 2001)
Rates of stream channel restabilization (Patricia Henshaw and Derek Booth. 1999) and Restabilization of stream channels in urban watersheds (Patricia C. Henshaw 2001).
Sediment budget of a mixed-use, urbanizing watershed (Erin Nelson. 1999)
Application and evaluation of a channel migration model (Jeff Barry. 1996)
General alterations
Research on streamside issues through the Wood Compatibility Initiative (Susan Bolton and Cara Berman. 2002)
An overview of urbanization and its effects on natural stream systems (Derek Booth. 1991)
Restoration of Puget Sound Rivers (ed. By D.R. Montgomery, S. Bolton , D.B. Booth, and L. Wall 2003).