Research Interests

• Identification and classification of subsurface flow paths
• Hillslope and catchment scale hydrologic modeling
• Hydrometric vs. tracer response to hydrologic stimulus
• Hydropedology
• Echohydrology

Current Projects

• Identification of subsurface flowpaths at the Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory
• Modeling catchment scale hydrological processes using simple, reservoir based strategies
• Quantification and analysis of hydropedological processes at the Penn State Living Filter

Education

• Ph. D., 2008 Water Resources Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon — Major Professor: Jeffrey J. McDonnell — Dissertation
• M.S., 2004 Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon — Major Professor: Maria Dragila
• B.A., 1999 Mathematics, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana

Professional Experience

• Post-doctoral Research Associate, The Pennsylvania State University, 2009-present

Memberships

• American Geophysical Union
• Soil Science Society of America

Publications

1. Graham, C. B., McDonnell, J. J. and Woods, R., 2009. Hillslope threshold response to storm rainfall: (1) A field based forensic approach. Submitted, Journal of Hydrology.
2. Graham, C. B. and J. J. McDonnell, 2009 Hillslope threshold response to rainfall: (2) Development and use of a macroscale behavioral model, submitted, Journal of Hydrology.
3. Graham, C. B., H. R. Barnard, W. J. Van Verseveld, and J. J. McDonnell. 2009. Closure of the hillslope water balance within a measurement uncertainty framework. Submitted, Hydrological Processes.
4. Barnard, H. R., W. J. Van Verseveld, C. B. Graham, B. J. Bond, J. R. Brooks, and J. J. McDonnell. 2009. Opening the black box: Hillslope ecohydrological responses to simulated summer rainfall in Western Oregon. Ecohydrology In Revisions.
5. Van Verseveld, W.J., H.R. Barnard, C.B. Graham, J.J. McDonnell, K.Lajtha, and J.R. Brooks. 2009. Mechanistic assessment of the double paradox in hydrology and biogeochemistry: A hillslope sprinkling experiment. Water Resources Research In Review.
6. L. Hopp, C. Harman, S. Desilets, C. B. Graham, J. McDonnell, and P. Troch, 2009. Hillslope hydrology under glass: confronting fundamental questions of soil-water-biota co-evolution at Biosphere 2. Hydrology and Earth Systems Science Discussions, 6, 4411-4448
7. Weisbrod N., M. I. Dragila, C. Cooper, M. Pildersorf, and C. B. Graham 2005. Evaporation from fractures exposed at the land surface: Impact of gas-phase convection on salt accumulation, in AGU Monograph Dynamics of Fluids and Transport in Fractured Rock.