1. 2010 SNAMP Public Meeting
October

2. Today’s Agenda 10-10:15am Welcome and overview – John Battles
10:15-10:30am Implementation update – USFS District Rangers
10:30-12:00am UC Science Team updates
Project integration – John Battles
Fire and Forest Ecosystem Health – Scott Stephens
Water Team – Roger Bales or Martha Conklin
Public Participation Team – Kim Rodrigues
Spatial Team – Maggi Kelly or Qinghua Guo
Wildlife (Fisher and Owl Teams) – Reg Barrett and Rocky Gutiérrez
12-12:45pm Lunch (provided)
12:45-2:15pm Interactive sessions
Facilitated discussions with science teams
(Two 45 minute sessions)
2:15-2:30pm Report back and synthesis
Each science team reports back on major themes of public discussion at their table
2:30-3:00pm Next steps/Evaluation
Recommendations from participants for SNAMP next steps
Wrap up and evaluation

3. 8 minutes to cover the following
Quick overview of team questions and methods (2 slides);
Findings (any significant prelim findings / work accomplished);
Collaboration & integration with other teams & other research;
Any changes in study design;
Next steps (for upcoming treatment years).

4. SNAMP science team: Water
Principal investigators
Roger Bales
Martha Conklin
Graduate students
Sarah Martin
Philip Saksa
Research staff
Patrick Womble

5. Water questions ? Impacts on water quantity? Impacts on water quality?
↑Snow accumulation ↓Evapotranspiration
Impacts on water quality?
↑Streamflow ↑Sediment movement
Storm pulse before ?
Storm pulse after

6. Sediment concentration
METHODS
Observations
Meteorological
Snow depth
Soil moisture
Stream discharge
Sediment concentration
Bedload movement
Stream conductivity
Modeling
Parameterization
Calibration
STREAM SITES

7. Next derive water storage
Bear Trap & Fraser soil moisture for WY 2010, w/ Bear Trap met snow, rain & temperature
Next derive water storage 7

8. 8

9. Speckerman discharge, first week of each month
snowmelt
rain
high ET
mixed snowmelt & ET
low ET

10. Collaboration & integration
Spatial & FFEH teams
Provide the information to create modeling environment
Compare overlapping parts of hydrology & fire modeling
Kings River Experimental Watershed – Critical Zone Observatory
Sierra National Forest, High Sierra Ranger District
Use for model calibration
Better instrumented & characterized
Longer data record 10

11. Study Design 11

12. Automatic water samplers
Next steps
Final installations
Big Sandy wier
Culvert weirs
Scour pans
Automatic water samplers
Modeling
Results
Calibration 12