Although formally trained as an applied mathematician, with particular emphasis in mathematical biology and population dynamics, I have always been interested in water and in critters that live in streams. As a kid, I maintained an amateur weather station in my back yard, and in high school my buddies and I spent much of our spare time studying meteorology, hydrology, and geology in the library and in the field. To this day, my dad still takes weather records in the back yard, meaning that we now have over 30 years of records from the same spot in my hometown! My initial attempt at graduate school was in atmospheric science, where I soon realized that understanding atmospheric science was dependent upon understanding partial differential equations, so I figured I may as well study the mathematics themselves. I then discovered that with a solid knowledge of ordinary and partial differential equations, functional analysis, linear algebra, and some stochastic processes and statistics, an applied mathematician could understand and pursue cutting edge research in biology, hydrology, geophysics, and any number of other disciplines.    Read More >>

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Completed upper Teton River study shows link between hydrologic regime and trout populations.

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