Diana Karwan

Diana Karwan
Adjunct Assistant Professor
[email protected]
612-624-2774
301G Green Hall
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Education
  • PhD, Yale University - 2010
External Affiliations
  • Associate Professor, Department of Forest Resources
  • Associate, Institute of the Environment

Areas of Interest

Forest Hydrology, Catchment Science, Critical Zone Science, Watershed Management

Teaching

Through teaching, I provide fundamental water science knowledge that allows students to grow their understanding in several aspects of basic and applied sciences. The foundation of my teaching is designed to achieve three goals: (1) foster students’ critical thinking skills, (2) encourage increased fundamental knowledge for each student regardless of their starting point, and (3) increase proficiency in scientific writing.

Research

My research focuses on watershed hydrology and critical zone processes. More specifically, I seek to understand how variations in climate and land use drive physical, chemical, and ecological transport processes in watersheds, with emphasis on the movement of fine suspended sediments and particulate organic material. My approach strongly relies on field sampling and field-scale experiments, laboratory analyses, and numerical and statistical models to describe transport processes. To this end, I employ a series of hydrologic, geochemical, and statistical tools to describe surface and subsurface water flow as well as variations in the character, in-stream movement, and watershed export of suspended sediment.