NEWS & UPDATES
November 26, 2024
New Student Opportunity: The Mountain Hydrology Research group & Irrigation Science & Management Center at the University of Wyoming are looking for a Ph.D. student to start in May of 2025. More information available here.
September 10, 2024
New paper, led by undergraduate Nolan Gerdes, in the McNair National Research Journal: "Evaluating the Recovery of Hydraulic Conductivity in Fire-Affected Soils" can be found here.
May 11, 2024
Congratulations to Jocelyn and Kori for graduating with your MS degrees from UWyo. They both did amazing work over the past two years.
March 20, 2024
New Paper in Earth-Science Reviews: "Marginal snowpacks: The basis for a global definition and existing research needs" is now available here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2024.104751
November 8, 2023
New Paper in Cold Region Science and Technology: "Quantifying short-term changes in snow strength due to increasing liquid water content above hydraulic barriers" is available here: doi.org/10.1016/j.coldregions.2023.104056
October 12, 2023
Come join the UWyo Mountain Hydrology Group! We are looking for a graduate student to join the group, more information can be found here: https://findajob.agu.org/job/8021797/mountain-hydrology-research-assistantship-at-university-of-wyoming/ apply by November 17 for full consideration.
June 6, 2023
New paper in Environmental Research Letters: "The Role of Terrain-Mediated Hydroclimate in Vegetation Recovery after Wildfire" is available here.
April, 2023
Our paper in The Cryosphere has been accepted. You can find the initial submission and final publication (once available) here: https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2022-224/
March 29, 2023
Congratulations to Mikael Schlumpf for successfully defending his thesis!
March 24, 2023
Dr. Webb had a great time in Alaska with the NASA SnowEx 2023 team. Learn more about the north slope SnowEx team here: https://youtu.be/AkeAzI-SDhI
May 23, 2022
New paper in Frontiers in Remote Sensing: "A Time Series of Snow Density and Snow Water Equivalent Observations Derived From the Integration of GPR and UAV SfM Observations" is available here.
March 22, 2022
New Paper in Hydrological Processes: "Extending the vadose zone: Characterizing the role of snow for liquid water storage and transmission in streamflow generation" is available here.
March 21, 2022
New Paper in Hydrology: "Drivers of Dust-Enhanced Snowpack Melt-Out and Streamflow Timing" is available here.
November 17, 2021
New paper in Remote Sensing: "In Situ Determination of Dry and Wet Snow Permittivity: Improving Equations for Low Frequency Radar Applications" is available here.
October 21, 2021
New paper in Remote Sensing: "Spatiotemporal Variations in Liquid Water Content in a Seasonal Snowpack: Implications for Radar Remote Sensing" is available here.
August 10, 2021
I am very excited to announce that I will be starting a new position as an Assistant Professor with the University of Wyoming beginning in January 2022.
June 15, 2021
NEW DATASETS PUBLISHED: Datasets are now available for the SnowEx 2020 campaign from Grand Mesa, CO and the Jemez, NM sites on the NSIDC website. (Grand Mesa data are available here; Jemez data are available here)
March 30, 2021
Here's a great video about some of the things we do at the UNM Center for Water and the Environment. https://youtu.be/feQAs9byRj0
March 19, 2021
New paper in The Cryosphere: "Two-dimensional liquid water flow through snow at the plot scale in continental snowpacks: simulations and field data comparisons" is available here.
February 10, 2021
New Project: I am looking forward to collaborating with Dr. Juan Ignacio López-Moreno, Dr. Nik Callow, Dr. Simon Gascoin, and Dr. Hamish McGowan on the CSIC funded project "Marginal Snowpacks: Characterizing and Developing Techniques for Monitoring and Modeling their Hydrological and Ecological Importance and Evolution under Climate Warming". For more information see the summary document here.
July 6, 2020
New paper in Water Resources Research: "Within‐Stand Boundary Effects of Snow Water Equivalent Distribution in Forested Areas" is now available here.
December 20, 2019
New paper in Hydrological Processes: "Hydrologic Connectivity at the Hillslope Scale through Intra-Snowpack Flow Paths during Snowmelt" is now available here.
October 21, 2019
New paper in Water Resources Reserach: "Spatially extensive ground-penetrating radar snow depth observations during NASA's 2017 SnowEx Campaign: Comparisons with in situ, airborne, and satellite observations" is now available here.
December 4, 2018
New paper in Water Resources Reserach: "Combining ground‐penetrating radar with terrestrial LiDAR scanning to estimate the spatial distribution of liquid water content in seasonal snowpacks" is now available here.
July 24, 2018
I am pleased to announce that this Fall I will be moving to the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM in the position of Assistant Research Assistant in the department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering. I am excited to become involved with the Center for Water and the Environment and take on the role as director of the Hydraulics Lab.
June 25, 2018
New project scheduled to start in the Fall of 2018: "Extending the Vadose Zone: Characterizing the Role of Liquid Water Storage and Transmission in Streamflow Generation." I am looking forward to collaborating with Dr. Oliver Wigmore, Dr. Keith Musselman, and Dr. Noah Molotch on this project.
May 21, 2018
New paper in Transport in Porous Media: "The Presence of Hydraulic Barriers in Layered Snowpacks: TOUGH2 Simulations and Estimated Diversion Lengths" is now available online here.
March 5, 2018
New project scheduled to start in the summer of 2018: "Constraining Airborne and Satellite Algorithms for Estimating Snow Water Equivalent through Spatially Extensive Ground Penetrating Radar Observations during NASA's SnowEx Campaign." I am really looking forward to collaborating with Dr. Dan McGrath (Colorado State University) and Dr. HP Marshall (Boise State University) for this project.
February 9, 2018
New paper in Water Resources Research: "The Spatial and Temporal Variability of Meltwater Flowpaths: Insights from a Grid of over 100 Snow Lysimeters" is now available here.
January 23, 2018
New paper in The Cryosphere: "Hydrologic Flow Path Development Varies by Aspect during Spring Snowmelt in Complex Subalpine Terrain" is now available here.
August 8, 2017
Congratulations to Kara Garcia, an undergraduate from Front Range Community College that worked with me over the summer. She gave a great poster and oral presentation of her work last week. Check out her poster here!
July 31, 2017
I am happy to announce that I have been selected as a early career representative for the AGU Cryosphere Focus Group. I will be partnering with Ellyn Enderlin for this role. I look forward to being of service to the Cryosphere science community.
June 23, 2017
Abstracts are now being accepted for the 2017 AGU Fall Meeting. Consider submitting to the session: H108. Runoff Generation in Snow Dominated Regions: Connecting Seasonal Snowpacks and Streamflow Response. This is a crosslisted session between the Hydrology and Cryosphere focus groups. Submit here.
May 24, 2017
Our paper "Defining the Diurnal Pattern of Snowmelt using a Beta Distribution Function" is now available online here.
April 3, 2017
My paper "Using Ground Penetrating Radar to Assess the Variability of snow water equivalent and melt in a mixed canopy forest, Northern Colorado" is now available online here.
April 3, 2017
The Denver Post visited the Mountain Research Station while I was there last week to write about the long-term climate change research and data collection going on. Here is the article and pictures.
March 9, 2017
One of our manuscripts titled "Hydrologic Flowpath Development Varies by Aspect during Spring SNowmelt in Complex Subalpine Terrain" is now available for public discussion during review in The Cryosphere. We welcome all input from the scientific community so feel free to leave a comment. You can find the discussion paper here.
March 8, 2017
Here's a great paper recently published in Nature Climate Change by another snow scientist here in Boulder that came out of INSTAAR. Congratulations to Keith Musselman et al. for their paper: Slower Snowmelt in a Warmer World.
March 6, 2017
Congratulations to Sierra Wasserburger for receiving two special category awards for water and from NOAA for her science fair project in the Boulder Valley School District. I worked with Sierra the past few months on her project testing the potential to use GPS receivers to measure snow water equivalent.
October 2, 2016
I just got back from helping out with the NASA SnowEx fall deployment. Some really exciting data collection will be happening in February. For more information on SnowEx, check out these links: NASA-SnowEx or NSIDC-SnowEx
May 24, 2016
I passed my defense a week and a half ago and begun revisions to my dissertation. There should be no issues beginning my NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in July.
May 5, 2016
I am happy to announce that my proposal for the NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship has been selected for funding. I will be working at CU Boulder and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on a great project "New Approaches to Address Scaling Issues for Lateral Flow of Water in a Layered Snowpack". My mentors will be Noah Molotch (CU), Mark Williams (CU), and Stefan Finsterle (LBNL). For a project summary click here.
March 16, 2016
We are putting together a HEADWATER REGIONS special issue in Frontiers of Earth Science. See the announcement and information for submitting a manuscript here. Expressions of interest to submit are due April 30, 2016.
February 19, 2016
I had a wonderful time judging senior projects at the Denver Metro Area Regional Science Fair. The high school students had some great projects and everyone did a great job. It was difficult to select the winners. The next generation of STEM students are highly smart and talented. Good luck to those who are headed to the state and international level next.
December 22, 2015
The AGU Fall Meeting was a great way to come back from China. I'm looking forward to returning to Colorado in January to finish my PhD.
October 22, 2015
We just finished with a great Headwater Regions Symposium here at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Thank you for all who attended from both Colorado State University and Tsinghua University. A special thanks to the Confucius Institute at CSU for all the support.
August 24, 2015
Another online story has been published concerning our most recent journal publication. Check it out here.
August 19, 2015
Our latest publication has been selected for additional promotional articles. You can see the article on any of the three sites: soils.org, agronomy.org, or crops.org. Or you can follow this link here.
August 9, 2015
Beginning in one month, I will be spending the fall semester in Beijing at the State Key Laboratory of Hydro-Science and Engineering at Tsinghua University.
August 3, 2015
New Publication: Webb, R.W., S.R. Fassnacht, and M.N. Gooseff, 2015. Wetting and drying variability of the shallow subsurface beneath a snowpack in California's Southern Sierra Nevada. Vadose Zone Journal. published August 3, 2015. doi: 10.2136/vzj2014.12.0182. [link]
July 31, 2015
Only a few days left to submit abstracts to AGU! Be sure to consider the session I am co-convening "Soil and Snow Moisture Interactions".
May 17, 2015
I just finished up collecting data at the Dry Lake study site for the spring snowmelt season. This is the last year of collecting this data for my dissertation. Check out the Dry Lake SNOTEL station or the RAWS data, both within the 0.2 square kilometer watershed.
April 21, 2015
Our paper titled Wetting and drying variability of the shallow subsurface beneath a snowpack in California's Southern Sierra Nevada was recently accepted for publication in the Vadose Zone Journal. Thank you for all of the work from my co-authors Steven R. Fassnacht and Michael N. Gooseff as well as the editors and reviewers at the journal. Data for this study were provided by the NSF-supported Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory.
New Student Opportunity: The Mountain Hydrology Research group & Irrigation Science & Management Center at the University of Wyoming are looking for a Ph.D. student to start in May of 2025. More information available here.
September 10, 2024
New paper, led by undergraduate Nolan Gerdes, in the McNair National Research Journal: "Evaluating the Recovery of Hydraulic Conductivity in Fire-Affected Soils" can be found here.
May 11, 2024
Congratulations to Jocelyn and Kori for graduating with your MS degrees from UWyo. They both did amazing work over the past two years.
March 20, 2024
New Paper in Earth-Science Reviews: "Marginal snowpacks: The basis for a global definition and existing research needs" is now available here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2024.104751
November 8, 2023
New Paper in Cold Region Science and Technology: "Quantifying short-term changes in snow strength due to increasing liquid water content above hydraulic barriers" is available here: doi.org/10.1016/j.coldregions.2023.104056
October 12, 2023
Come join the UWyo Mountain Hydrology Group! We are looking for a graduate student to join the group, more information can be found here: https://findajob.agu.org/job/8021797/mountain-hydrology-research-assistantship-at-university-of-wyoming/ apply by November 17 for full consideration.
June 6, 2023
New paper in Environmental Research Letters: "The Role of Terrain-Mediated Hydroclimate in Vegetation Recovery after Wildfire" is available here.
April, 2023
Our paper in The Cryosphere has been accepted. You can find the initial submission and final publication (once available) here: https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2022-224/
March 29, 2023
Congratulations to Mikael Schlumpf for successfully defending his thesis!
March 24, 2023
Dr. Webb had a great time in Alaska with the NASA SnowEx 2023 team. Learn more about the north slope SnowEx team here: https://youtu.be/AkeAzI-SDhI
May 23, 2022
New paper in Frontiers in Remote Sensing: "A Time Series of Snow Density and Snow Water Equivalent Observations Derived From the Integration of GPR and UAV SfM Observations" is available here.
March 22, 2022
New Paper in Hydrological Processes: "Extending the vadose zone: Characterizing the role of snow for liquid water storage and transmission in streamflow generation" is available here.
March 21, 2022
New Paper in Hydrology: "Drivers of Dust-Enhanced Snowpack Melt-Out and Streamflow Timing" is available here.
November 17, 2021
New paper in Remote Sensing: "In Situ Determination of Dry and Wet Snow Permittivity: Improving Equations for Low Frequency Radar Applications" is available here.
October 21, 2021
New paper in Remote Sensing: "Spatiotemporal Variations in Liquid Water Content in a Seasonal Snowpack: Implications for Radar Remote Sensing" is available here.
August 10, 2021
I am very excited to announce that I will be starting a new position as an Assistant Professor with the University of Wyoming beginning in January 2022.
June 15, 2021
NEW DATASETS PUBLISHED: Datasets are now available for the SnowEx 2020 campaign from Grand Mesa, CO and the Jemez, NM sites on the NSIDC website. (Grand Mesa data are available here; Jemez data are available here)
March 30, 2021
Here's a great video about some of the things we do at the UNM Center for Water and the Environment. https://youtu.be/feQAs9byRj0
March 19, 2021
New paper in The Cryosphere: "Two-dimensional liquid water flow through snow at the plot scale in continental snowpacks: simulations and field data comparisons" is available here.
February 10, 2021
New Project: I am looking forward to collaborating with Dr. Juan Ignacio López-Moreno, Dr. Nik Callow, Dr. Simon Gascoin, and Dr. Hamish McGowan on the CSIC funded project "Marginal Snowpacks: Characterizing and Developing Techniques for Monitoring and Modeling their Hydrological and Ecological Importance and Evolution under Climate Warming". For more information see the summary document here.
July 6, 2020
New paper in Water Resources Research: "Within‐Stand Boundary Effects of Snow Water Equivalent Distribution in Forested Areas" is now available here.
December 20, 2019
New paper in Hydrological Processes: "Hydrologic Connectivity at the Hillslope Scale through Intra-Snowpack Flow Paths during Snowmelt" is now available here.
October 21, 2019
New paper in Water Resources Reserach: "Spatially extensive ground-penetrating radar snow depth observations during NASA's 2017 SnowEx Campaign: Comparisons with in situ, airborne, and satellite observations" is now available here.
December 4, 2018
New paper in Water Resources Reserach: "Combining ground‐penetrating radar with terrestrial LiDAR scanning to estimate the spatial distribution of liquid water content in seasonal snowpacks" is now available here.
July 24, 2018
I am pleased to announce that this Fall I will be moving to the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM in the position of Assistant Research Assistant in the department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering. I am excited to become involved with the Center for Water and the Environment and take on the role as director of the Hydraulics Lab.
June 25, 2018
New project scheduled to start in the Fall of 2018: "Extending the Vadose Zone: Characterizing the Role of Liquid Water Storage and Transmission in Streamflow Generation." I am looking forward to collaborating with Dr. Oliver Wigmore, Dr. Keith Musselman, and Dr. Noah Molotch on this project.
May 21, 2018
New paper in Transport in Porous Media: "The Presence of Hydraulic Barriers in Layered Snowpacks: TOUGH2 Simulations and Estimated Diversion Lengths" is now available online here.
March 5, 2018
New project scheduled to start in the summer of 2018: "Constraining Airborne and Satellite Algorithms for Estimating Snow Water Equivalent through Spatially Extensive Ground Penetrating Radar Observations during NASA's SnowEx Campaign." I am really looking forward to collaborating with Dr. Dan McGrath (Colorado State University) and Dr. HP Marshall (Boise State University) for this project.
February 9, 2018
New paper in Water Resources Research: "The Spatial and Temporal Variability of Meltwater Flowpaths: Insights from a Grid of over 100 Snow Lysimeters" is now available here.
January 23, 2018
New paper in The Cryosphere: "Hydrologic Flow Path Development Varies by Aspect during Spring Snowmelt in Complex Subalpine Terrain" is now available here.
August 8, 2017
Congratulations to Kara Garcia, an undergraduate from Front Range Community College that worked with me over the summer. She gave a great poster and oral presentation of her work last week. Check out her poster here!
July 31, 2017
I am happy to announce that I have been selected as a early career representative for the AGU Cryosphere Focus Group. I will be partnering with Ellyn Enderlin for this role. I look forward to being of service to the Cryosphere science community.
June 23, 2017
Abstracts are now being accepted for the 2017 AGU Fall Meeting. Consider submitting to the session: H108. Runoff Generation in Snow Dominated Regions: Connecting Seasonal Snowpacks and Streamflow Response. This is a crosslisted session between the Hydrology and Cryosphere focus groups. Submit here.
May 24, 2017
Our paper "Defining the Diurnal Pattern of Snowmelt using a Beta Distribution Function" is now available online here.
April 3, 2017
My paper "Using Ground Penetrating Radar to Assess the Variability of snow water equivalent and melt in a mixed canopy forest, Northern Colorado" is now available online here.
April 3, 2017
The Denver Post visited the Mountain Research Station while I was there last week to write about the long-term climate change research and data collection going on. Here is the article and pictures.
March 9, 2017
One of our manuscripts titled "Hydrologic Flowpath Development Varies by Aspect during Spring SNowmelt in Complex Subalpine Terrain" is now available for public discussion during review in The Cryosphere. We welcome all input from the scientific community so feel free to leave a comment. You can find the discussion paper here.
March 8, 2017
Here's a great paper recently published in Nature Climate Change by another snow scientist here in Boulder that came out of INSTAAR. Congratulations to Keith Musselman et al. for their paper: Slower Snowmelt in a Warmer World.
March 6, 2017
Congratulations to Sierra Wasserburger for receiving two special category awards for water and from NOAA for her science fair project in the Boulder Valley School District. I worked with Sierra the past few months on her project testing the potential to use GPS receivers to measure snow water equivalent.
October 2, 2016
I just got back from helping out with the NASA SnowEx fall deployment. Some really exciting data collection will be happening in February. For more information on SnowEx, check out these links: NASA-SnowEx or NSIDC-SnowEx
May 24, 2016
I passed my defense a week and a half ago and begun revisions to my dissertation. There should be no issues beginning my NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in July.
May 5, 2016
I am happy to announce that my proposal for the NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship has been selected for funding. I will be working at CU Boulder and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on a great project "New Approaches to Address Scaling Issues for Lateral Flow of Water in a Layered Snowpack". My mentors will be Noah Molotch (CU), Mark Williams (CU), and Stefan Finsterle (LBNL). For a project summary click here.
March 16, 2016
We are putting together a HEADWATER REGIONS special issue in Frontiers of Earth Science. See the announcement and information for submitting a manuscript here. Expressions of interest to submit are due April 30, 2016.
February 19, 2016
I had a wonderful time judging senior projects at the Denver Metro Area Regional Science Fair. The high school students had some great projects and everyone did a great job. It was difficult to select the winners. The next generation of STEM students are highly smart and talented. Good luck to those who are headed to the state and international level next.
December 22, 2015
The AGU Fall Meeting was a great way to come back from China. I'm looking forward to returning to Colorado in January to finish my PhD.
October 22, 2015
We just finished with a great Headwater Regions Symposium here at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Thank you for all who attended from both Colorado State University and Tsinghua University. A special thanks to the Confucius Institute at CSU for all the support.
August 24, 2015
Another online story has been published concerning our most recent journal publication. Check it out here.
August 19, 2015
Our latest publication has been selected for additional promotional articles. You can see the article on any of the three sites: soils.org, agronomy.org, or crops.org. Or you can follow this link here.
August 9, 2015
Beginning in one month, I will be spending the fall semester in Beijing at the State Key Laboratory of Hydro-Science and Engineering at Tsinghua University.
August 3, 2015
New Publication: Webb, R.W., S.R. Fassnacht, and M.N. Gooseff, 2015. Wetting and drying variability of the shallow subsurface beneath a snowpack in California's Southern Sierra Nevada. Vadose Zone Journal. published August 3, 2015. doi: 10.2136/vzj2014.12.0182. [link]
July 31, 2015
Only a few days left to submit abstracts to AGU! Be sure to consider the session I am co-convening "Soil and Snow Moisture Interactions".
May 17, 2015
I just finished up collecting data at the Dry Lake study site for the spring snowmelt season. This is the last year of collecting this data for my dissertation. Check out the Dry Lake SNOTEL station or the RAWS data, both within the 0.2 square kilometer watershed.
April 21, 2015
Our paper titled Wetting and drying variability of the shallow subsurface beneath a snowpack in California's Southern Sierra Nevada was recently accepted for publication in the Vadose Zone Journal. Thank you for all of the work from my co-authors Steven R. Fassnacht and Michael N. Gooseff as well as the editors and reviewers at the journal. Data for this study were provided by the NSF-supported Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory.
