Sheila Murphy

  • INSTAAR Affiliate
  • Research Hydrologist, US Geological Survey
Address

3215 Marine St, Bldg 6
Boulder, CO 80309

Water quality • Disturbance • Wildfires • Runoff • Surface water

I am a research hydrologist for the USGS Water Resources Mission Area. I focus on how disturbances (such as wildfire, floods, hurricanes, land use change) alter watershed response, water quality, and water quantity. 

My recent research has evaluated the effects of wildfire on water quality in the western U.S., and the hydrologic and geochemical responses to land cover change and hurricanes in a tropical forest in Puerto Rico.

I also coordinate the Aiken Graduate Fellowship, which is open to CU Boulder graduate students doing water-related research.

Murphy's USGS profile