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Member Since 2004
Adrian Adam Harpold
Associate Professor, University of Nevada, Reno
Professional Experience
University of Nevada, Reno
Associate Professor
2015 - Present
Education
Doctorate
2010
Current Roles
Member
Hydrology-Ecohydrology Technical Committee
Member
Hydrology Witherspoon Lecture Committee
Honors & Awards
Outstanding Reviewer Award
Received 2019
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Publications
Leveraging Groundwater Dynamics to Improve Predictions of Summer Low‐Flow Discharges

Summer streamflow predictions are critical for managing water resources; however, warming‐induced shifts from snow to rain regimes impact low...

August 02, 2023
AGU Abstracts
Tracking Vegetation Recovery Following Mixed Severity Wildfires in the Sierra Nevada
ADVANCES IN FOREST DYNAMICS POSTDISTURBANCE: OBSERVATIONS AND MODELS ACROSS SCALES AND TECHNOLOGIES II ORAL
biogeosciences | 15 december 2023
Gabrielle Boisrame, Adrian A. Harpold, Jens T. Ste...
Wildfires play a complex and important role in mountain forests of the Western United States. While these landscapes evolved with relatively frequent,...
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Predicting the Hydrological Benefits and Risks of Landscape-Scale Forest Thinning Across Watershed Scales
UNDERSTANDING AND SCALING CATCHMENT RESPONSE TO DISTURBANCES II POSTER
hydrology | 12 december 2023
Elijah Boardman, Adrian A. Harpold, Zhuoran Duan, ...
Thinning over-dense forests in the Sierra Nevada may provide numerous benefits including forest fire threat mitigation, ecosystem restoration, increas...
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Modeling the Co-Benefits of Mechanical Thinning on Forest Structure, Fire Effects, Biodiversity, and Hydrological Refugia
CATCHMENT AND CRITICAL ZONE SCIENCE: UNDERSTANDING ECOSYSTEMS THROUGH MONITORING, ANALYSIS, AND EXPERIMENTATION I POSTER
hydrology | 11 december 2023
Louis Graup, Christina (Naomi) Tague, Adrian A. Ha...
In the Sierra Nevada, CA, forest management is the primary tool to combat catastrophic wildfires. Thinning out overly-dense stands and removing unders...
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Volunteer Experience
2024 - 2027
Member
Hydrology Witherspoon Lecture Committee
2019 - 2025
Member
Hydrology-Ecohydrology Technical Committee
2017 - 2018
Member
Hydrology-Ecohydrology Technical Committee
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