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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
Honors & Awards
Hydrologic Sciences Early Career Award
Received December 2021
Outstanding Reviewer Award - Water Resources Research
Received December 2019
Current Roles
Member
Hydrology-Ecohydrology Technical Committee
Member
Hydrology Witherspoon Lecture Committee
Publications
The Essential Role of Local Context in Shaping Risk and Risk Reduction Strategies for Snowmelt‐Depen...

Climate change‐induced shifts in snow storage and snowmelt patterns pose risks for adverse impacts to people, the environment, and irrigated ...

June 11, 2024
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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