Watershed Science and Sustainability Faculty

Steven Fassnacht

Dr. Steven Fassnacht’s research group focuses on snow hydrology and how a changing climate affects water resources in cold land regions. Graduate and undergraduate students have worked on projects examining the spatial and temporal variability of snowpack (and other earth system) properties using a variety of field measurements, station data and remotely sensed data. Some projects have used hydrological and snowpack models to evaluate datasets and model performance, while others have integrated social, ecological and/or hydro-climatological datasets to assess uncertainty, especially in regions with limited on-the-ground measurements.

Steven Fassnacht

Stephanie Kampf

Dr. Stephanie Kampf’s research group focuses on physical hydrology across spatial scales from plots to basins. Projects examine how runoff generation is affected by climate, landscape characteristics, and landscape disturbance. Current research projects explore these topics in mountain and arid environments using field monitoring, remote sensing, and both conceptual and physically based modeling.
Stephanie Kampf

Matt Ross

Dr. Matt Ross is an ecosystem scientist interested in how people control and change the environment and how altered landscapes impact the streams and rivers that drain them. To explore how people reshape landscapes and create novel dominant controls of ecosystem processes, Matt uses a range of approaches including: remote sensing, in situ sensors, field data collection, and use of public datasets with data science techniques. All of this work aims to enhance our understanding of ecosystem change for scientists and society alike.

Matt Ross