Steve Wondzell

Featured Publications

• Steven Wondzell, Justin LaNier, Roy Haggerty, Richard D. Woodsmith, Richard T. Edwards. 2009. Changes in hyporheic exhange flow following experimental wood removal in a small, low-gradient stream.
• Steven M. Wondzell, Michael N. Gooseff, Brian L. McGlynn. 2007. Flow velocity and the hydrologic behavior of streams during baseflow.
• Steven M. Wondzell, Michael N. Gooseff, Brian L. McGlynn. 2009. An analysis of alternative conceptual models relating hyporheic exchange flow to diel fluctuations in discharge during baseflow recession
• Kelsey G. Jencso, Brian L. McGlynn, Michael N. Gooseff, Steven M. Wondzell, Kenneth E. Bencala, Lucy A. Marshall. 2009. Hydrologic connectivity between landscapes and streams: transferring reach- and plot-scale understanding to the catchment scale
• Jay P. Zarnetske, Roy Haggerty, Steven M. Wondzell, Michelle A. Baker. 2011. Dynamics of nitrate production and removal as a function of residence time in the hyporheic zone

Other Publications

• Karla M. Jarecke, Kevin D. Bladon, Frederick C. Meinzer, Steven M. Wondzell. 2024. Impact of rainfall and vapor pressure deficit on latewood growth and water stress in Douglas-fir in a Mediterranean climate
• Andrea Watts, Steve Wondzell, Karla Jarecke, Kevin Bladon. 2024. Hot air or dry dirt: Investigating the greater drought risk to forests in the Pacific Northwest
• Luca A. Adelfio, Steven M. Wondzell, Nathan J. Mantua, Gordon H. Reeves. 2024. Expanded, compressed, or equal? Interactions between spawning window and stream thermal regime generate three responses in modeled juvenile emergence for Pacific salmon
• Satish P. Serchan, Steven M. Wondzell, Roy Haggerty, Robert Pennington, Kevin Feris, Angelo Sanfilippo, Daniele Tonina, W. Jeffery. Reeder. 2024. Buried particulate organic C fuels heterotrophic metabolism in the hyporheic zone of a montane headwater stream
• Karla M. Jarecke, Linnia R. Hawkins, Kevin D. Bladon, Steven M. Wondzell. 2023. Carbon uptake by Douglas-fir is more sensitive to increased temperature and vapor pressure deficit than reduced rainfall in the western Cascade Mountains, Oregon, USA
• Paige S. Becker, Adam S. Ward, Skuyler P. Herzog, Steven M. Wondzell. 2023. Testing hidden assumptions of representativeness in reach‐scale studies of hyporheic exchange
• Adam S. Ward, Steven M. Wondzell, Michael N. Gooseff, Tim Covino, Skuyler Herzog, Brian McGlynn, Robert A. Payn. 2023. Breaking the window of detection: Using multi‐scale solute tracer studies to assess mass recovery at the detection limit
• Steven M. Wondzell, Adam S. Ward. 2022. The channel‐source hypothesis: Empirical evidence for in‐channel sourcing of dissolved organic carbon to explain hysteresis in a headwater mountain stream
• Rebecca L. Flitcroft, William R. Brignon, Brian Staab, J. Ryan Bellmore, Jonathan Burnett, Paul Burns, Brian Cluer, Guillermo Giannico, Joseph M. Helstab, Jeremy Jennings, Christopher Mayes, Celeste Mazzacano, Lauren Mork, Kate Meyer, Jay Munyon, Brooke E. Penaluna, Paul Powers, Daniel N. Scott, Steven M. Wondzell. 2022. Rehabilitating valley floors to a Stage 0 condition: A synthesis of opening outcomes.
• John Kirkland, Steve Wondzell, Gordon Reeves, Luca Adelfio. 2022. A glimpse of the future: Coho salmon response to Alaska’s recent snow-free winters
• Sarah Hinshaw, Ellen Wohl, Jonathan D. Burnett, Steve Wondzell. 2022. Development of a geomorphic monitoring strategy for stage 0 restoration in the South Fork McKenzie River, Oregon, USA
• John R. Stevenson, Jason B. Dunham, Steven M. Wondzell, Jimmy Taylor. 2022. Dammed water quality—Longitudinal stream responses below beaver ponds in the Umpqua River Basin, Oregon
• Matthew I Barker, Jonathan D. Burnett, Francisco Mauro Gutiérrez, Steven M. Wondzell, Michael G. Wing. 2022. Sampling-based approaches to estimating two-dimensional large wood area from UAS imagery
• Karla M. Jarecke, Kevin D. Bladon, Steven M. Wondzell. 2021. The influence of local and nonlocal factors on soil water content in a steep forested catchment
• Sherri L. Johnson, Don Henshaw, Greg Downing, Steve Wondzell, Mark Schulze, Adam Kennedy, Greg Cohn, Stephanie A. Schmidt, Julia A. Jones. 2021. Long‐term hydrology and aquatic biogeochemistry data from H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Cascade Mountains, Oregon
• John Kirkland, Steve Wondzell. 2020. Shading out climate change: Planting streamside forests to keep salmon cool
• Emily Y. Campbell, Jason B. Dunham, Gordon H. Reeves, Steve M. Wondzell. 2019. Phenology of hatching, emergence, and end-of-season body size in young-of-year coho salmon in thermally contrasting streams draining the Copper River Delta, Alaska
• Skuyler P. Herzog, Adam S. Ward, Steven M. Wondzell. 2019. Multiscale feature‐feature interactions control patterns of hyporheic exchange in a simulated headwater mountain stream
• Adam S. Ward, Steven M. Wondzell, Noah M. Schmadel, Skuyler Herzog, Jay P. Zarnetske, Viktor Baranov, Phillip J. Blaen, Nicolai Brekenfeld, Rosalie Chu, Romain Derelle, Jennifer Drummond, Jan H. Fleckenstein, Vanessa Garayburu-Caruso, Emily Graham, David Hannah, Ciaran J. Harman, Jase Hixson, Julia L. A. Knapp, Stefan Krause, Marie J. Kurz, Jörg Lewandowski, Angang Li, Eugènia Martí, Melinda Miller, Alexander M. Milner, Kerry Neil, Luisa Orsini, Aaron I Packman, Stephen Plont, Lupita Renteria, Kevin Roche, Todd Royer, Catalina Segura, James Stegen, Jason Toyoda, Jacqueline Wells, Nathan I Wisnoski. 2019. Spatial and temporal variation in river corridor exchange across a 5th-order mountain stream network
• Adam S. Ward, Jay P. Zarnetske, Viktor Baranov, Phillip J. Blaen, Nicolai Brekenfeld, Rosalie Chu, Romain Derelle, Jennifer Drummond, Jan H. Fleckenstein, Vanessa Garayburu-Caruso, Emily Graham, David Hannah, Ciaran J. Harman, Skuyler Herzog, Jase Hixson, Julia L. A. Knapp, Stefan Krause, Marie J. Kurz, Jörg Lewandowski, Angang Li, Eugènia Martí, Melinda Miller, Alexander M. Milner, Kerry Neil, Luisa Orsini, Aaron I Packman, Stephen Plont, Lupita Renteria, Kevin Roche, Todd Royer, Noah M. Schmadel, Catalina Segura, James Stegen, Jason Toyoda, Jacqueline Wells, Nathan I Wisnoski, Steven M. Wondzell. 2019. Co-located contemporaneous mapping of morphological, hydrological, chemical, and biological conditions in a 5th-order mountain stream network, Oregon, USA
• Luca A. Adelfio, Steven M. Wondzell, Nathan J. Mantua, Gordon H. Reeves. 2019. Warm winters reduce landscape-scale variability in the duration of egg incubation for coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) on the Copper River Delta, Alaska
• Gordon H. Reeves, Deanna H. Olson, Steven M. Wondzell, Peter A. Bisson, Sean Gordon, Stephanie A. Miller, Jonathan W. Long, Michael J. Furniss. 2018. Chapter 7: The aquatic conservation strategy of the northwest forest plan—A review of the relevant science after 23 years
• Andrea Watts, Steve Wondzell, Sherri Johnson, Alba Argerich. 2018. Counting carbon: Calculating how headwater streams contribute to the carbon cycle
• Steven M. Wondzell, Mousa Diabat, Roy Haggerty. 2018. What matters most: Are future stream temperatures more sensitive to changing air temperatures, discharge, or riparian vegetation?
• Brooke E. Penaluna, Deanna H. Olson, Rebecca L. Flitcroft, Matthew A. Weber, J. Ryan Bellmore, Steven M. Wondzell, Jason B. Dunham, Sherri L. Johnson, Gordon H. Reeves. 2017. Aquatic biodiversity in forests: a weak link in ecosystem services resilience
• John A. Ludwig, Steven M. Wondzell, Esteban H. Muldavin, K. Rosalind Blanche, Yvonne Chauvin. 2017. Native desert grassland plant species declines and accelerated erosion in the Paint Gap Hills of southwest Texas
• Hayley A. Corson-Rikert, Steven M. Wondzell, Roy Haggerty, Mary V Santelmann. 2016. Carbon dynamics in the hyporheic zone of a headwater mountain stream in the Cascade Mountains, Oregon
• Rhonda Mazza, Steve Wondzell, Jay Zarnetske. 2014. The stream subsurface: nitrogen cycling and the cleansing function of hyporheic zones
• Peter A. Bisson, Shannon M. Claeson, Steven M. Wondzell, Alex D. Foster, Ashley Steel. 2013. Evaluating headwater stream buffers: lessons learned from watershed scale experiments in southwest Washington
• Adam S. Ward, Robert A. Payn, Michael N. Gooseff, Brian L. McGlynn, Kenneth E. Bencala, Christa A. Kellecher, Steven M. Wondzell, Thorsten Wagener. 2013. Variations in surface water-ground water interactions along a headwater mountain stream: comparisons between transient storage and water balance analyses
• Jack E. Janisch, Steven M. Wondzell, William J. Ehinger. 2012. Headwater stream temperature: interpreting response after logging, with and without riparian buffers, Washington, USA
• Jay P. Zarnetske, Roy Haggerty, Steven M. Wondzell, Michelle A. Baker. 2012. Labile dissolved organic carbon supply limits hyporheic denitrification
• Steven M. Wondzell, Agnieszka Przeszlowska, Dirk Pflugmacher, Miles A. Hemstrom, Peter A. Bisson. 2012. Modeling the dynamic responses of riparian vegetation and salmon habitat in the Oregon Coast Range with state-and-transition models
• J.E. Houlahan, K. Cottenie, G.S. Cumming, D.J. Currie, C.S. Findlay, U. Gaedke, P. Legendre, J.J. Magnuson, B.H. McArdle, R.D. Stevens, I.P. Woiwod, S.M. Wondzell. 2008. The utility of covariances: a response to Ranta et al

Citations of Non-Forest Service Publications

• Wondzell, S. M. 1984. Recovery of Desert Grasslands in Big Bend National Park Following 36 Years of Protection from Grazing of Domestic Livestock. MS Thesis, New Mexico State University.

• Ludwig, J.A.; Wondzell, S.M. 1986. Vegetation Dynamics Following Establishment of Big Bend National Park U.S.A. In: P.J. Joss, P.W. Lynch, and O.B. Williams, eds. Rangelands: A Resource Under Siege. Proceedings of the Second International Rangeland Congress, Canberra, Australia: 13–15.

• Wondzell, S.M.; Cunningham, G.L.; Bachelet, D. 1987. A Hierarchical Classification of Landforms: Some Implications for Understanding Local and Regional Vegetation Dynamics. Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-150. United States Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station: 15–23.

• Bachelet, D.; Wondzell, S.M.; Reynolds, J. F. 1988. A Simulation Model Using Environmental Cues to Predict Phenologies of Winter and Summer Annuals in the Northern Chihuahuan Desert. In: Marani, A., ed. Advances in Environmental Modelling. Elsevier: 235–260.

• Wondzell, S.M.; Cunningham, G.L.; Cornelius, J.M. 1990. Vegetation patterns, microtopography, and soils on a Chihuahuan desert playa. Journal of Vegetation Science. 1:403–410.

• Swanson, F.J.; Wondzell, S.M.; Grant, G.E. 1992. Landforms, Disturbance, and Ecotones. In: F. diCastri and A.J. Hansen, eds. Landscape boundaries: Consequences for biotic diversity and ecological flows. Springer-Verlag. 92:304–323.

• Wondzell, S. 1994. Flux of ground water and nitrogen through the floodplain of a fourth-order stream. Ph.D. Thesis. Oregon State University, Corvallis OR.

• Wondzell, S.; Ludwig, J.A. 1995. Community Dynamics of Desert Grasslands: Influences of Climate, Landforms, and Soils. Journal of Vegetation Science. 6:377–390.

• Wondzell, S. M.; Cunningham, G.L.; Bachelet, D. 1996. Relationships between Landforms, Geomorphic Processes, and Vegetative Communities on a Watershed in the Northern Chihuahuan Desert. Landscape Ecology. 11:351–362.

• Wondzell, S.M.; Swanson, F.J. 1996. Seasonal and storm dynamics of the hyporheic zone of a 4th-order mountain stream. I: Hydrologic processes. The Journal of the North American Benthological Society. 15:3–19.

• Wondzell, S.; Swanson, F.J. 1996. Seasonal and storm dynamics of the hyporheic zone of a 4th-order mountain stream. II: Nitrogen cycling. The Journal of the North American Benthological Society. 15:20–34.

• Pinay, G.; Ruffinoni, C.; Wondzell, S.M.; Gazelle, F. 1998. Change in groundwater nitrate concentration in a large river floodplain: Denitrification, uptake, or mixing? The Journal of the North American Benthological Society. 17:179–189.

• Wondzell, S. M.; Swanson, F.J. 1999. Floods, Channel Change and the Hyporheic Zone. Water Resources Research. 35:355–368.

• Johnson, S. L.; Swanson, F.J.; Grant, G.E.; Wondzell, S.M. 2000. Riparian forest disturbances by a mountain flood – the influence of floated wood. Hydrological Processes. 14:3031–3050.

• Nakamura, F.; Swanson, F. J.; and Wondzell, S.M. 2000. Disturbance regimes of stream and riparian systems – a disturbance-cascade perspective. Hydrological Processes. 14:2849–2860.

• Wondzell, S. M. 2001. The Influence of Forest Health and Protection Treatments on Erosion and Stream Sedimentation in Forested Watersheds of Eastern Oregon and Washington. Northwest Science. 75:128–140.

• Haggerty, R.; Wondzell, S.M.; Johnson, M.A. 2002. Power-Law Residence Time Distribution in the Hyporheic Zone of a 2^nd-Order Mountain Stream. Geophysical Research Letters. 29(13):18-1–18-4. doi:10.1029/2002GL014743

Data and Tools

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  Riparian and Aquatic Ecosystem Vulnerability Evaluation (RAEVEN) Data Library

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  FLOwPER Field App

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  Western Oregon WeT DRy model (WOWTDR)

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  Northwest Water Research Initiative

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  Pacific Northwest Research Station
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  Connectivity of Aquatic Habitats in Space and Time

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  Pacific Northwest Research Station
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  Watershed and Aquatic Sciences

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  Pacific Northwest Research Station
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  Western Oregon Streamflow Permanence

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  Pacific Northwest Research Station

Science Delivery

• Science Findings
  

  Hot air or dry dirt: Investigating the greater drought risk to forests in the Pacific Northwest

• Science Findings
  

  A glimpse of the future: Coho salmon response to Alaska's recent snow-free winters

• Science Findings
  

  Shading out climate change: Planting streamside forests to keep salmon cool

• Science Findings
  

  Counting carbon: Calculating how headwater streams contribute to the carbon cycle

• Science Findings
  

  The stream subsurface: nitrogen cycling and the cleansing function of hyporheic zones

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  Exploring connections between landscapes and streams.

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  Simulating the consequences of land management.

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  Keeping it cool: unraveling the influences on stream temperature.

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  Following a river wherever it goes: beneath the surface of mountain streams.

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