Basic and applied ecohydrology research for a changing world

 

About us

Our group engages in basic and applied ecohydrology research in agricultural, forested, wetland and urban systems, and is led by Dr. Mark Johnson, Canada Research Chair in Ecohydrology, at University of British Columbia (UBC).

UBCEcohydrology is home to the CFI-funded Integrated Watershed Analysis Laboratory (IWAL).

Research themes:

  • Watershed science

  • Sustainability

  • Ecosystems

  • Carbon and water cycles

  • Land use change

  • Resource management

  • People and resilience

Research

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forWater (Forested Drinking Water)

Our research in the forWater network aims to characterize water treatability of forested rivers and streams of varying forest management history in multiple regions of British Columbia.

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Agricultural Water Innovations in the

Tropics (AgWIT)

AgWIT tests strategies to lower agricultural impacts on water resources while improving the resiliency of tropical agricultural systems to climate change.

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Carbon drainage

“Carbon drainage fluxes in natural and human-impacted watersheds” was a 5-year research program investigating ecohydrological controls on carbon drainage fluxes in natural and human-impacted watersheds. April 2014 - March 2019.