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
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
Our research featured in NC Sea Grant's Coastwatch magazine and on WHQR in Wilmington!
The NC Sea Grant funded project we're working on with the NC Chapter of Nature Conservancy to identify whether strategically placed riparian buffers can improve coastal watershed health was featured in Coast watch here: Natural solutions and a clean water future for the Cape Fear
AND on the Wilmington, NC NPR Station WHQR: Link
Our research included in an article by Carolina Public Press!
Katie & PI Katie are quoted in Whipsawed by erratic weather, mountain forest ecosystems under stress, which includes information from the recent Landscape Ecology paper by Katie, Mirela Tulbure, & Katie that showed high elevation forests are using more water, even during severe droughts. Link: carolinapublicpress.org/53986/whipsawed-by-erratic-weather-mountain-forest-ecosystems-under-stress/
Katie is a NatureNet Fellow with the Nature Conservancy testing forest management strategies to maintain water resources.
Our research featured in NC Sea Grant's Coastwatch magazine and on WHQR in Wilmington!
The NC Sea Grant funded project we're working on with the NC Chapter of Nature Conservancy to identify whether strategically placed riparian buffers can improve coastal watershed health was featured in Coast watch here: Natural solutions and a clean water future for the Cape Fear
AND on the Wilmington, NC NPR Station WHQR: Link
Our research included in an article by Carolina Public Press!
Katie & PI Katie are quoted in Whipsawed by erratic weather, mountain forest ecosystems under stress, which includes information from the recent Landscape Ecology paper by Katie, Mirela Tulbure, & Katie that showed high elevation forests are using more water, even during severe droughts. Link: carolinapublicpress.org/53986/whipsawed-by-erratic-weather-mountain-forest-ecosystems-under-stress/
Katie is a NatureNet Fellow with the Nature Conservancy testing forest management strategies to maintain water resources.
Latest Papers- 2023 publication year is off to a good start!
Elly's first first author paper is now available! Hurray!
Elly's first first author paper is now available! Hurray!
- 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
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
