Research Group News:
Aug - new publication: Castendyk, DN, MK Obryk, SZ Leidman, MN Gooseff, and I Hawes. 2016. Lake Vanda: A sentinel for climate change in the McMurdo Sound Region of Antarctica. Global and Planetary Change, 144: 213-227.  [link]

Aug - new publication: Wlostowski, AN, MN Gooseff, DM McKnight, C Jaros, and WB Lyons. 2016. Patterns of hydrological connectivity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica: A synthesis of 20 years of hydrologic data. Hydrological Processes, 30(17): 2958-2975. [link]

Jul - new publication: Herbei R, AL Rytel, WB Lyons, DM McKnight, C Jaros, MN Gooseff, and JC Priscu. 2016. Hydrological controls on ecosystem dynamics in Lake Fryxell, Antarctica. PLoS ONE, 11(7): e0159038. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0159038 [link; open access]

Jul - new publication: Buelow, HN, AS Winter, DJ Van Horn, JE Barrett, MN Gooseff, E Schwartz, and CD Takacs-Vesbach. 2016. Microbial community responses to increased water and organic matter in the arid soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Frontiers in Microbiology, 7:1040. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2016.01040. [link]

May - congratulations to Ryan Webb who successfully defended his PhD dissertation, Fate of Snowmelt in Complex Subalpine Terrain at CSU!

Mar - new publication: Wohl, E, BP Bledsoe, KD Fausch, N Kramer, KR Bestgen and MN Gooseff. 2016. Management of large wood in Streams: An overview and proposed framework for hazard evaluation. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 52(2): 315–335. [link]

Mar - new publication: Gooseff, MN, D Van Horn, Z Sudman, DM McKnight, KA Welch, and WB Lyons. 2016. Stream biogeochemical and suspended sediment responses to permafrost degradation in stream banks in Taylor Valley, Antarctica. Biogeosciences, 13, 1723-1732, doi:10.5194/bg-13-1723-2016. [link]

Oct - new publication: Harvey, J, and M Gooseff, 2015. River corridor science: Hydrologic exchange and ecological consquences from bedforms to basins.  Water Resources Research, 51(9): 6893-6922. [link]

Sep - new publication: McKnight, DM, K Cozzetto, JDS Cullis, MN Gooseff, C Jaros, JC Koch, WB Lyons, R Neupauer, and A Wlostowski. 2015. Potential for real-time understanding of coupled hydrologic and biogeochemical processes in stream ecosystems: Future integration of telemetered data with process models for glacial meltwater systems. Water Resources Research, 51(8): 7625-6738. [link]
What happens when permafrost thaws? 
See time lapse movie from the North Slope of Alaska below to find out...
Using scientific UAVs for studying streams:
Classes taught by Dr. Gooseff:
  • Physical Hydrology
  • Introduction to Civil Engineering
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Open Channel Hydraulics
  • Ecological Engineering
  • Surface Water Quality Modeling
  • Initiating your Academic Career
“Thus if the quantity of carbonic acid [CO2 in the air] increases in geometric progression, the augmentation of the temperature will increase in arithmetic progression.” [link]
Svante Arrhenius, 1896
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