Remote headwater streams are important sources of water that are not well understood. Working with other USGS science centers across the country, we are developing methods for estimating streamflow in these environments. Data from these efforts will contribute to improving our understanding of water availability and how drought may be affecting these stream ecosystems.
Our study objectives are to:
- Facilitate the selection, design, installation, and operation of ecohydraulic monitoring networks in headwater streams in drought-prone watersheds,
- Advance monitoring techniques, their utility, supporting documentation, and data as a foundation for a USGS drought monitoring program, and
- Document techniques that can be used to monitor streamflow in headwaters environments, particularly during low flows.
The following other science projects are associated with this project.
Integrated Water Availability Assessments (IWAAs)
EcoFlows: Understanding Streamflow Dynamics in Small Mountain Streams
Integrated Ecohydrological Science in the Northern Rocky Mountains — the variability of water availability and the effects on ecosystems
- Overview
Remote headwater streams are important sources of water that are not well understood. Working with other USGS science centers across the country, we are developing methods for estimating streamflow in these environments. Data from these efforts will contribute to improving our understanding of water availability and how drought may be affecting these stream ecosystems.
Our study objectives are to:
- Facilitate the selection, design, installation, and operation of ecohydraulic monitoring networks in headwater streams in drought-prone watersheds,
- Advance monitoring techniques, their utility, supporting documentation, and data as a foundation for a USGS drought monitoring program, and
- Document techniques that can be used to monitor streamflow in headwaters environments, particularly during low flows.
Sources/Usage: Public Domain.A USGS hydrologist uses a velocity rod to estimate streamflow as part of a project to develop methods for monitoring streamflow in remote headwater streams. - Science
The following other science projects are associated with this project.
Integrated Water Availability Assessments (IWAAs)
The USGS Integrated Water Availability Assessments (IWAAs) are a multi-extent, stakeholder driven, near real-time census and prediction of water availability for both human and ecological uses at regional and national extents.EcoFlows: Understanding Streamflow Dynamics in Small Mountain Streams
The WY-MT WSC is collaborating with the Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center to understand the dynamics of streamflows in small, mountain streams during the course of the year, and to describe the amount of variability associated with those measurements. These findings will assist fisheries biologists who are researching temperature and streamflow effects on cutthroat trout and will help...Integrated Ecohydrological Science in the Northern Rocky Mountains — the variability of water availability and the effects on ecosystems
Our primary goal is to better understand and characterize how stream environments and the ecosystems they support are influenced by climate change and drought in the Northern Rocky Mountains. - Data
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