Ecosystem Science and Management

College of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Fabian Nippgen

My research is broadly centered on exploring how water moves through landscapes and how this movement is affected by different landscape characteristics (such as topography, soils, geology, and vegetation) and climatic variability. I use field-based and modeling approaches to disentangle these relationships in both natural and disturbed environments.

Education

Ph.D. Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, 2014
M.S. Hydrology, University of Freiburg, 2007

Research Interests

• Watershed hydrology
• Storage and memory (i.e. carry-over) effects
• Evapotranspiration
• Snow hydrology
• Disturbed/designed systems
• Contributing areas
• (Shallow) groundwater dynamics

Teaching

Watershed Management (REWM 4700)
Wildland Hydrology (REWM 4285/5285)