Rebecca Diehl's guest appearances

Rebecca Diehl

Gund Institute Podcasts

Al Gore

Mark Bradford

Jon Erickson

Gus Speth

Rory Waterman

Molly Brown

Andrew Hoffman

Andy Revkin

Joe Roman

Leif Richardson

Travis Reynolds

Yolanda Chen

Chuck Ross

Bryan Foster

Carolyn Finney

OwlTail

Floodplain inundation maps provide insight into ecosystem services and help communicate flood risk, yet existing maps are spatially limited and difficult to update. In this talk, recent Gund Postdoctoral Fellow Rebecca Diehl discusses how her team developed a probabilistic, low-complexity floodplain mapping tool capable of identifying flood inundation extents relatively rapidly and applied it to the Lake Champlain Basin in Vermont. The resulting maps help describe patterns of phosphorus retention on floodplains and are informing Vermont's Functioning Floodplain Initiative, a multi-disciplinary initiative to develop a mapping and tracking tool for protecting and restoring floodplains and wetlands.Rebecca Diehl is a Research Assistant Professor in the Geography Department at UVM. Her research is motivated by the need for science-based tools to assist in the management of rivers and watersheds. Currently, she is focused on building an understanding of the functioning of floodplains in Vermont using terrain-based models and a network of monitoring sites.

Floodplain inundation maps provide insight into ecosystem services and help communicate flood risk, yet existing maps are spatially limited and difficult to update. <br><br>In this talk, recent Gund Postdoctoral Fellow Rebecca Diehl discusses how her team developed a probabilistic, low-complexity floodplain mapping tool capable of identifying flood inundation extents relatively rapidly and applied it to the Lake Champlain Basin in Vermont. The resulting maps help describe patterns of phosphorus retention on floodplains and are informing Vermont's Functioning Floodplain Initiative, a multi-disciplinary initiative to develop a mapping and tracking tool for protecting and restoring floodplains and wetlands.<br><br>Rebecca Diehl is a Research Assistant Professor in the Geography Department at UVM. Her research is motivated by the need for science-based tools to assist in the management of rivers and watersheds. Currently, she is focused on building an understanding of the functioning of floodplains in Vermont using terrain-based models and a network of monitoring sites.

Rebecca Diehl: Flood Inundation Mapping and Nutrient Retention

Shifts to the climate and the way in which water resources are managed in the Southwestern US will alter flow and sediment regimes, influencing the character of riparian ecosystems in an unknown way. In this talk, I present findings from my research investigating interactions among riparian plants, hydrology, and sediment important for controlling the co-adjustment of plant communities and the geomorphic template on which these communities grow. Inclusion of this deeper understanding of ecogeomorphic processes to hydrologically-driven predictive models can provide insight into the trajectory of changes to ecosystem properties. I provide an example of likely changes to vegetation and geomorphic processes given anticipated flow regimes for the Yampa River in the Colorado River Basin.

Rebecca Diehl: Investigating Interactions in Plants, Water, & Sediment Models of Riparian Ecosystems