Welcome! The watershed ecology group research is centered around the ecosystem services provided by forests now and into the future of the Anthropocene. Our research takes watershed scale views across natural and built environments. We are located in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at NC State- Go Pack! We are also a part of the Center for Geospatial Analytics and affiliated with the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center. Lab group May 2022: Dominic, Elly, PI Katie, Shannon, Katie (L-R) visiting the USFS Coweeta Hydrologic Lab
News Welcome! Titilayo Tajudeen has joined lab as a part of the PhD program in Geospatial Analytics in August. She recently completed her MS in Forestry. She has also been selected as a 2023-2024 SECASC Global Change Fellow! Best wishes DR. Katie McQuillan! Katie successfully defended her dissertation and graduated in May! After spending the summer as a postdoc in our group, she has joined the Global Rivers Group at Virginia Tech. Check our her recent paper below!
Latest Papers Katie, Elly, and friend of the lab Tots are all first authors this year! Hurray!
McQuillan, K.A.*, T. Hwang, and K.L. Martin. 2023. Extended growing seasons and decreases in hydrologic connectivity indicate increasing water stress in humid, temperate forests. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 338: 109525. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109525
Gay, E.T.*, K.L. Martin, P.V. Caldwell, R.E. Emanuel, G.M. Sanchez, K.M. Suttles. 2023. Riparian buffers increase future baseflow and reduce peakflows in a developing watershed. Science of the Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160834
Height, T., K.L. Martin, Z. Leggett. 2023. A call for environmental justice amplification among ecology scholars and practitioners: A black ecology perspective. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America.https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.2039
Greenberg, C., C.E. Moorman, K.J. Elliott, K.L. Martin, M. Hopey. 2023. Breeding bird abundance and diversity greatest in high-severity wildfire patches in eastern hardwood forests. Forest Ecology and Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120715
We are Professionals We will treat members of the group, the scientific community, and society with respect. We will follow the guidelines outlined by the American Geophysical Union's Ethics Policy, which was recently revised to include sexual harassment in the definition of scientific misconduct: Link
Picture right: Coweeta Hydrologic Lab trip May 2022: Dr. Chris Oishi (USFS), Dr. Peter Caldwell (USFS), Elly, Dominic, Katie, Shannon