Laguna Watershed Knowledgebase

LORRAINE E. FLINT: U.S. Geological Survey, California Water Science Center, Sacramento, CA 95819-6129; Phone (916) 278-3223, email: lflint@usgs.gov

Lorrie has a PhD in Soil Physics from Oregon State University and has been with the USGS as a Research Hydrologist since 1986. Her current research involves downscaling future climate projections to ecologically relevant scales (1-km to 30-m) and using that as input to a regional scale hydrologic model with the same scale output. The research provides precipitation, min and max air temperature, soil moisture, potential and actual evapotranspiration, solar radiation, climatic water deficit, snow accumulation, snow melt, sublimation, recharge, and runoff. Projects are being conducted throughout the western US for analyses of water availability, flow and transport, snowmelt processes, and ecosystem change. In addition to climate change research, Lorrie has spent the last 3 years working on the Laguna floodplain developing a conceptual model of floodplain sedimentation, measuring sedimentation, and developing a 2-D hydrodynamic model of flow and sediment transport.