Susquehanna River Initiative
Bucknell University
Research areas of the Susquehanna River Initiative
Water quality monitoring
Microvariability in temperature and dissolved oxygen
Sediment transport and loads
Microvariability in temperature and dissolved oxygen
Sediment transport and loads
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Surface Water Hydrology
Water budgets and evapotranspiration rates
Flood hydrology
Water budgets and evapotranspiration rates
Flood hydrology
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Groundwater Hydrology
Aquifer-river interactions
Karst aquifers and landscapes in the watershed
Aquifer-river interactions
Karst aquifers and landscapes in the watershed
• Stream capture
• Drainage basin evolution
• Glacial lake floods
• River valley wetlands
• Glacial bogs
• Drainage basin evolution
• Glacial lake floods
• River valley wetlands
• Glacial bogs
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Fluvial Processes
• Logging Legacy and sediment storage in the watershed
• Process-based stream restoration
• Mapping the geomorphology and flow hydraulics of the West Branch Susquehanna
• Logging Legacy and sediment storage in the watershed
• Process-based stream restoration
• Mapping the geomorphology and flow hydraulics of the West Branch Susquehanna
Building Upon Faculty Strengths
- fluvial geomorphology
- river hydraulics and sediment transport
- catchment hydrology and evapotranspiration
- stream and wetlands restoration
- hydroclimatology and flooding
- historic mills and impacts of logging
- aqueous geochemistry
- groundwater hydrology
- environmental geophysics and
shallow subsurface mapping
- • invertebrate biology and mammalogy
- atmospheric chemistry and deposition
- • environmental impacts of Marcellus Shale
- limnology and dam removal
- groundwater-surface water exchange
- aquatic ecology and river productivity
- nutrient loading and waste water treatment
- biodiversity and climate change
- water policy and environmental law
