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US Forest Service Redwood Sciences Laboratory

Mailing Address

1700 Bayview St
Arcata, CA 95521
(707) 822-3691
(707) 825-2901 (fax)

Site Handbook

Site Supervisor

Mentor

Co-Mentors

Current Members

Mission Statement

Our mission is to gain a better understanding of the physical and biological processes that integrate terrestrial, riparian, and aquatic ecosystems at the watershed scale. To take an interdisciplinary approach to study the production and transport of watershed products (water, sediment, woody debris, nutrients, and heat) and their influence on physical and biological resources (such as water supply and fish populations). Using this improved understanding, to assist in the development of new management strategies for ecoscape management.

Major Projects

Turbidity Threshold Sampling at Caspar Creek [http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/topics/water/tts/]; Large Woody Debris Effects on Stream Habitat and Sediment Storage; Individual Based Model for Fish Ecology [http://www.humboldt.edu/~ecomodel/]

Examples of Work

Winter field work involves maintaining stream gaging stations, downloading data and processing stream samples from 23 stations at Caspar Creek; summer work may involve stream and hillslope surveys, data analysis, and report writing.

Breakdown of Work

Monitoring: 
20%
Restoration: 
20%
Field Surveys and Data Collection: 
25%
Report Writing and Data Entry: 
10%
Lab Work: 
10%
Education: 
7%
Outreach: 
8%