Merging Disciplines and Methods

Complex environmental problems require interdisciplinary collaborations as well as a range of analysis tools, including field work, remote sensing, GIS, and numerical modeling. ESI has been a leader in the merger of such tools for investigating the naturally dynamic behavior of watersheds and human's interaction within it. In addition to analyzing effects of human land uses on environments, ESI also endeavors to place human disturbance within the context of natural disturbance, including storms, fires, and floods. This approach has led to a series of contributions in the watershed sciences with implications for resource management, conservation, regulation, and restoration.