Water Research
Oregon State University has a robust Water research agenda and as an interdisciplinary field, water research is conducted in multiple departments and programs on campus. Several programs are dedicated to water research:
- Water Resources Graduate Program
- Institute for Water and Watersheds (IWW)
- Predecessors of the IWW (CWESt and OWRRI)
Collections
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Institute for Water and Watersheds (2005-present)
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Water and Watersheds Initiative (1960-2005)
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Collection documenting collaborative growth and work of the Water and Watersheds Initiative at OSU.
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Water Resources Graduate Program
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The Water Resources Graduate Program awards both Masters and PhDs. Degrees in the areas of Water Resources Engineering, Water Resources Science, and Water Resources Policy and Management are available. The theses and dissertations produced by students since the program’s inception in 2003 are available here.
Recent Submissions
- Stream channel stability and sensitivity to landscape history and land use changes in Kelley Creek, Portland, Oregon
- Sturgeon Lake restoration : diagnostic/feasilbility study
- Characterizing community impacts of small dam removal : a case study of the Brownsville Dam
- Reactive polyphenols and dissolved nutrients in a nitrogen-limited headwater catchment, western Cascades, Oregon, USA
- Evaluating downstream channel changes in response to a small dam removal on the Calapooia River, Oregon with respect to measurement errors and prior aerial photo observed changes
- A macroscale measurement and modeling approach to improve understanding of the hydrology of steep, forested hillslopes
- Demonstration of fiber optic distributed temperature sensing to differentiate cold water refuge between ground water inflows and hyporheic exchange
- Investigating capillary pressure and interfacial area for multiphase flow in porous media using pore-scale imaging and lattice-Boltzmann modeling
