Published: Nov. 2, 2018

Dr. Ellen Wohl head shotPlease join CWEST for a Distinguished Seminar by Dr. Ellen Wohl on Wednesday, November 28th, 11am-12pm in SEEC’s Sievers Room S228. Her talk is titled Rivers of Carbon: Using River Corridor Science to Understand Carbon DynamicsRead her abstract for more information.

Dr. Wohl is a fluvial geomorphologist and Professor of Geosciences at Colorado State University. She is driven by the concept that wood dynamics in mountainous headwater streams are intimately connected to carbon cycling, stream metabolism, and river ecosystem productivity. In the course of mapping logjams in Rocky Mountain National Park, she came across abandoned beaver dams and began to wonder about the effects of these dams on carbon cycling and watershed-scale biogeochemistry. Her current research interests include physical-ecological interactions in river ecosystems, implications of physical riverine complexity for organic carbon storage, large wood in river floodplains, and effects of beaver activities on downstream fluxes of material in river corridors. She has over 200 peer reviewed publications and has advised over 70 graduate students.

CWEST Distinguished Seminars are held in conjunction with the Hydrology and Water Resources seminar series as well as INSTAAR seminar series. Refreshments will be served at 10:45am. Feel free to print and post her seminar flyer in your department hallways.