Timothy E. Link Assistant Professor of Forest Hydrology E-mail: tlink@uidaho.edu Web: www.cnr.uidaho.edu/watershed  Office: Room 203E, CNR Phone: (208) 885-9465 UI Water Resources

Education & Experience:

• BA, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA. Geology, emphasis in Environmental Geochemistry, 1991
• MS, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR. Geosciences, emphasis in Snow Hydrology
• PhD, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR. Environmental Sciences, emphasis in Forest Hydrology and Water Resources
• Geochemist, Exponent, Inc. (formerly PTI Environmental Services), Boulder, CO. 1991-1995
• Graduate Research Assistant, Geosciences, Bioengineering, and Atmospheric Sciences Departments, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR. 1995-2001
• Assistant Professor, Department of Forest Resources, University of Idaho, 2001-present

Specialty Areas of Interest:

• Forest Hydrology
• Snow Hydrology
• Vegetation Atmosphere Interactions
• Hydrologic Modeling

Current University of Idaho Courses:

• Watershed Science and Management - UGrad
• Watershed Science and Management (Online version) - UGrad
• Hydrologic Measurement Techniques - UGrad/Grad
• Physical Hydrology - Grad
• Hydrologic Effects of Forest Management - Grad 

Selected Publications:

• Link, T. E., D. Marks, and J. P. Hardy.  (2005).  A Deterministic method to characterize canopy radiative transfer properties.  Hydrological Processes, in press.
• Link, T. E., G. N. Flerchinger, M. H. Unsworth, and D. Marks. (2004). Water balance dynamics of a seasonal temperate rainforest. in:  Climatology and Hydrology of Mountain Areas, Carmen DeJong, Dave Collins and Roberto Ranzi (eds.), J. Wiley & Sons, in press.
• Hardy, J.P., R. Melloh, D. Marks, G. Koenig, A. Winstral, J. Pomeroy, and T.E. Link. (2004). Solar radiation transmission through conifer canopies. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, in press
• Sicart, J. E., J. W. Pomeroy, R. L. H. Essery, J. P. Hardy, T. E. Link, D. Marks. (2004).  A sensitivity study of daytime net radiation during snowmelt to forest canopy and atmospheric conditions.  Journal of Hydrometeorology, in press.
• Keim, R. F., A. Skaugset, T. E. Link, and A Iroumé.  2004.  A stochastic model of temporal throughfall.  Hydrology and Earth Systems Science, v. 8, n. 1, pp. 23-34.
• Link, T. E., M. H. Unsworth and D. Marks. 2004.  The dynamics of rainfall interception by a seasonal temperate rainforest.  Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, v. 124, pp. 171-191.
• Link, T. E., G. N. Flerchinger, M. H. Unsworth, and D. Marks.  2004.  Simulation of water and energy fluxes in an old-growth seasonal temperate rainforest using the Simultaneous Heat and Water (SHAW) model.  Journal of Hydrometeorology, v. 5, n. 3, pp. 443-457.
• Unsworth, M. H., N. Phillips, T. E. Link, B. Bond, M. Falk, M. Harmon, T. Hinckley, D. Marks, and K-T. Paw U. 2004. Components and controls of water flux in an old growth Douglas fir/western hemlock ecosystem. Ecosystems, v. 7, pp. 468-481.
• Link, T. E., C. Pearson, C. Jones, B. Fitt, C. Davis and A. Wolf. 2003. Status of water resources in the United States of America, 2000. in:  Water Resources of North America, Asit K. Biswas (ed.), Springer-Verlag, New York, 380 pp.  ISBN: 3-540-00284-7.
• Marks, D., T. E. Link, A. Winstral, and D. Garen.  2001.  Simulating snowmelt processes during rain-on-snow over a semi-arid mountain basin.  Annals of Glaciology, v. 32, 195-202.
• Link, T. E. and D. Marks.  1999.  Point simulation of seasonal snowcover dynamics beneath boreal forest canopies.  Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 104, n. D22, pp. 27,841-27,857.
• Link, T. E. and D. Marks.  1999.  Distributed simulation of snowcover mass- and energy-balance in the boreal forest.  Hydrological Processes, v. 13, n. 14/15, pp. 2439-2452.
• Marks, D., J. Domingo, D. Susong, T. E. Link, and D. Garen.  1999.  A spatially distributed energy balance snowmelt model for application in mountain basins.  Hydrological Processes, v. 13, n. 12/13, pp. 1935-1959.
• Marks, D., J. Kimball, D. Tingey, and T. E. Link.  1998.  The sensitivity of snowmelt processes to climate conditions and forest cover during rain-on-snow:  A case study of the 1996 Pacific Northwest flood.  Hydrological Processes, v. 12, n. 10/11, pp. 1569-1588.

Recent and Current Research:

• Investigations of the components and controls of intercepted water in old-growth coniferous forests
• Measurements and modeling of water dynamics in forested systems
• Spatially distributed modeling of snowcover processes beneath boreal forest canopies
• Investigations of snowcover energy balance dynamics during extreme flood events in forested environments and semi-arid rangelands
• Sensitivity of forest water and energy dynamics to climate change and altered canopy conditions