Hydrology

Visiting researcher Nicolas Vergara reads the hook gauge to determine stream stage (water depth) in the flume

(from L to R:) Alberto Paredes, visiting researcher from Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile, and Arianna Goodman, graduate student OSU, converse with Greg Downing, USFS Hydrologic Technician, on the location and history of stream cross-section locations in Lookout Creek

Greg Downing, USFS Hydrologic Technician, maintains the automated water sampler in the Watershed 02 gage house

Greg Downing, USFS Hydrologic Technician, maintains the water sampler battery power for the gage house in Watershed 2. The water sampler and data logger batteries are charged by a solar panel.

Visiting researcher Nicolas Vergara, watershed technician, from the Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile, at the gage house of Watershed 02

The flume with low flow v-notch weir plate attached, in Watershed 02. The flume is used to measure the volume of water leaving the watershed. The flume, and streamflow record, started in 1952. Stream chemistry measurements began in 1981.

Nicolas Vergara, watershed technician, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile, and Greg Downing, USFS Hydrologic Technician, at the gage house and flume in Watershed 02

The WS02 stream gage house and flume with low flow v-notch weir plate attached.

The WS02 stream gage house and flume with low flow v-notch weir plate attached.

The WS02 stream gage house and flume with low flow v-notch weir plate attached.