Wildfires affect streams and rivers when they burn vegetation and scorch the ground. This makes floods more likely to happen and reduces water quality. Public managers, first responders, fire scientists, and hydrologists need timely information before and after a fire to plan for floods and water treatment. This project will create a method to combine national fire databases with the StreamStats water web mapping application to help stakeholders make informed decisions. When the project is finished, people will be able to use StreamStats to estimate post-wildfire peak flows in streams and rivers for most of the United States (where data is available). There will also be tools that allow users to trace upstream and downstream on a stream or river to find nearby burned areas and stream gages.
Principal Investigator : Katharine Kolb
Cooperator/Partner : Todd J Hawbaker, Peter M McCarthy, Mark P Miller, Sheila F Murphy, Paul F Steblein
- Source: USGS Sciencebase (id: 5e9daa7b82ce172707fb8c9a)
Katharine Kolb
Geographer
Associate National Map Liaison NC & SC
Mark Miller
Staff Scientist
Peter M McCarthy
National StreamStats Coordinator
Paul Steblein
Wildland Fire Science Coordinator
- Overview
Wildfires affect streams and rivers when they burn vegetation and scorch the ground. This makes floods more likely to happen and reduces water quality. Public managers, first responders, fire scientists, and hydrologists need timely information before and after a fire to plan for floods and water treatment. This project will create a method to combine national fire databases with the StreamStats water web mapping application to help stakeholders make informed decisions. When the project is finished, people will be able to use StreamStats to estimate post-wildfire peak flows in streams and rivers for most of the United States (where data is available). There will also be tools that allow users to trace upstream and downstream on a stream or river to find nearby burned areas and stream gages.
Principal Investigator : Katharine Kolb
Cooperator/Partner : Todd J Hawbaker, Peter M McCarthy, Mark P Miller, Sheila F Murphy, Paul F Steblein- Source: USGS Sciencebase (id: 5e9daa7b82ce172707fb8c9a)
- Connect
Katharine Kolb
GeographerAssociate National Map Liaison NC & SCEmailPhoneMark Miller
Staff ScientistEmailPeter M McCarthy
National StreamStats CoordinatorEmailPhonePaul Steblein
Wildland Fire Science CoordinatorEmailPhone