Extreme water levels generating flooding in estuarine and coastal environments are often driven by compound events, where many individual processes such as waves, storm surge, streamflow, and tides coincide. Despite this, extreme water levels are typically modeled in isolated open-coast or estuarine environments, potentially mischaracterizing the true risk of flooding...
We characterize how regional watersheds function as simple, dynamic systems through a series of hysteresis loops using measurements from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites. These loops illustrate the temporal relationship between runoff and terrestrial water storage in three regional-scale watersheds (> 150 000 km²) of the Columbia...
Previous research has suggested that the use of more authentic learning activities can produce more robust and durable knowledge gains. This is consistent with calls within civil engineering education, specifically hydrology, that suggest that curricula should more often include professional perspective and data analysis skills to better develop the ‘T-shaped’...
This data set includes the calibrated predictions of Depth, Elevation, Water Surface Elevation, Shear Stress, Vorticity, and Froude Number for three reaches in the Mill Creek watershed, a tributary of the Siletz River, Oregon. The predictions are for bankfull flow before and after the addition of Large Wood using Nays2DH,...
We examined long-term changes in daily streamflow associated with forestry practices with two datasets (this one and the original Alsea Streamflow dataset (1972) over a 60-year period (1959–2017) in the Alsea Watershed Study, Oregon Coast Range, Pacific Northwest, USA. In this contemporary period, 2006 to 2017 (12 water years), data...
The purpose of this project was to provide a tool for the Aerial Team of the Robotics Club with an application to control a UAV for automated missions - the Aerial Team's focus is automation of UAVs. This application lays out the foundations to allow future members of the Aerial...
Parking around Oregon State University campus can be severely limited, and for students looking to spend all day studying and going to classes it can be a pain to find parking that lasts for more than two hours. This thesis aims to resolve these issues by developing an application called...
These data set includes calibrated predictions of Depth, Velocity and Shear Stress for seven discharges (0.4 to 3.4m^3, equivalent to 0.12 Qbf to Qbf) at Oak Creek using the Flow and Sediment Transport with Morphological Evolution of Channels (FaSTMECH).
In this dataset we present the environmental effect of solar panels. We had two weather stations, one in a control area and one in an area with solar panels. The weather stations collected wind speed, temperature, solar radiation and relative humidity. We also measured soil moisture in different shaded zones...