Updated May 28, 2009.

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The goal of the Desktop Watersheds (DW) Integrated Program (IP) is to discover and advance the fundamental relations needed to predict landscape evolution and to model the coupling of ecosystem, landscape, and land-use dynamics. It is an approach that motivates fieldwork with hypotheses derived from topography, and it captures and integrates the findings for prediction.

Included here are the three grand challenges for DW:

1. Develop mechanistic understanding of the processes driving erosion and deposition that shape landscapes.

2. Discover the linkages between physical, chemical, and biological processes.

3. Apply understanding to the prediction of the linkages between land use and ecosystem response to guide management decisions.

We focus these questions on channels and the watersheds that feed them.

Contact Information:
Collin Bode
Desktop Watersheds Program Manager
Power Lab
Department of Integrative Biology
3060 Valley Life Sciences Building #3140
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-3140
(510) 643-7426