
Karen L. Prestegaard
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1982
Contact
GEO 3117
Geology Building
8000 Regents Drive
College Park, MD 20742
Phone: (301) 405-6982
Fax: (301) 314-9661
kpresto [at] umd [dot] edu
Research Interests
Sediment transport and depositional processes in mountain gravel-bed streams; mechanisms of streamflow generation and their variations with watershed scale, geology, and land use; hydrologic behavior of frozen ground; hydrologic consequences of climate change; hydrology of coastal and riparian wetlands.