Hydrological Sciences

Robert Stallard

Research hydrologist and biogeochemist working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama (since 1984), at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and as a Scientist Emeritus at the US Geological Survey, Boulder. He studies the earth-surface environment and how it changes on human and geologic time scales, focusing on climate and land-use changes and how these affect processes that control the composition and dispersal of dissolved and solid phases in rivers and trace gases in the atmosphere. He has worked in natural and human-altered landscapes, in the Americas, Southeast Asia, and Africa, including most of the Amazon, Orinoco, Mississippi and Panama Canal Basins and eastern Puerto Rico. Other interests include designing techniques to rapidly assess remote tropical landscapes for research and conservation. He has more than 130 publications related to this and other work.

The Lutz Creek watershed of Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Steven Paton, Matthew C. Larsen and Robert Stallard June 16, 2021

The Lutz Creek watershed, administered by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) on Barro Colorado Island (BCI), is one of the longest continually monitored, micro-catchments in the neotropics. This catchment is central to the long-term climate and hydrological monitoring program that STRI has operated on BCI since 1972. The information derived from this program plays an essential role ...[Read More]