Dr. Ryan Webb from the University of Wyoming earns NSF CAREER award that supports work on Niwot Ridge
Ryan Webb prepares a snow pit for measurements in the Dry Lake catchment near Steamboat Springs, CO. Photo by Kori Mooney.
Ryan Webb, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Construction Management at the University of Wyoming, will be conducting work in the Saddle Catchment at Niwot as part of his recently announced NSF CAREER award.
Ryan’s project aims to identify when and where consideration of the snowpack an “extension of the vadose zone” is important for hydrologic modeling. Ryan will work in the Saddle Catchment as one of five experimental headwater catchments in northern Colorado and southeastern Wyoming, and his project use a combination of traditional winter hydrology field work, geophysical observations of a melting snowpack, and advanced modeling techniques.
To learn more about Ryan and his research, please visit his Mountain Hydrology website.
Congratulations, Ryan, from all of us at the Niwot Ridge LTER!
Former University of Wyoming MS student Kori Mooney tows a ground penetrating radar to collect snowpack information next to the Dry Lake SNOTEL site, near Steamboat Springs, CO. Photo by Ryan Webb.
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