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Karen L. Prestegaard

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.