Projects :: Hartsough Lab

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Headwaters and
Forest Hydrology

As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know

-Donald Rumsfeld

If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?

-Albert Einstein-

Projects

Current Research Highlights

I have worked on a broad spectrum of projects involving plant-water-soil interactions in both agricultural and natural systems. We work a lot with distributed sensor networks to try and understand spatial dynamics of mass and energy fluxes in the environment. Many current projects involve work in mountain or forest hydrology but past research systems have included everything from deserts to polar sea ice.

Snowmelt processes in the Sierra

Some of our work in the Sierra has focused on intensely monitoring several intsturmented trees. In addition to all of the sensors we have in the ground, cameras are also excellent observation tools.

Root Excavation

To try to gain a better understanding of where roots are in the subsurface, we excavated the root system of a large White Fir tree. Below is a fly through of a model we developed using Terrestrial LiDAR scans of the excavated roots.