Southern Research Station ************************************ Water Research

1. Southern Research Station************************************ Water Research USDA Forest Service  Research and Development  Southern Research Station

2. facilities FOR long-term research • Experimental forests WITH weirs AND climate stations • -CoweetaHydrologic Lab • -Santee Experimental FOREST • LEVERAGED NETWORKS • USGS, etc. • distributed Networks • -Stream temperaturE • -MUSSELS…. PlANNING STAGE

3. Theoretical & basic research • climate change: • cutting-edge tools and approaches: • eddy covariance, sapflow, modeling • warming impacts on cold-water fisheries • drought effects on low-flows & aquatic organisms • sea level rise & interaction

4. Disturbance EFFECTS on WATER • Hurricanes • land use/land cover change • WETLANDS / Mangroves • Urbanization IMPACTS ON water quality • INVASIVE species on hydrologic processes • -hemlock woolly adelgid

5. fire effects on water quality • low intensity, low severity fire • burns in mesicVS. ridge communities • FOREST Management • forest harvesting methods intensities • prescribed fire in the coastal plain • recreation and off-road vehicle • different species for silviculture • -eucalyptus vs. pine • -short rotation woody cropS

6. Synthesis and scaled integration research • FOR policy AND planning • sustainability of ecosystem services • drought • mountains to coast • southern forest futures project

7. Tools and Applications • Wassi - Water Supply Stress Index • Predicts land cover, climate, and population impacts on water and • C-sequestering • gistools for aquatic organism passage • HYDRSTA - real time monitoring of stream water quality

8. Estimated water supply originating on NFS and SPF lands serving drinking water intakes. F*******************************

9. SOME RESEARCH NEEDS NOT BEING ADDRESSED • groundwater hydrologY • urbanizATION IMPACTS • BASELINE data to inform development scenarios and stormwatermanagement • economicS of water as ecosystem service