Adam S. Ward
Associate Professor
O'Neill School of Public and
Environmental Affairs
Indiana University

418 MSB-II
702 N. Walnut Grove
Bloomington, IN 47405

email: adamward@indiana.edu 
twitter: @WardHydro
phone: 812-856-4820


Learn more about water science at Indiana University: https://water.indiana.edu/

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Openings in our research group:
1 PhD Student on mercury Transport & Fate

Research Group Foci

We study how water, energy, nutrients, and pollutants move through landscapes, and the human and ecological consequences of these fluxes. Connections between streams, their landscapes, and their aquifers, and humans ultimately interact across space and time to control resultant biogeochemical processes and ecosystem functions, particularly environmental transport and fate.  We use a combination of field-based experiments, environmental observation, and numerical modeling to quantify couplings between physical, biological, and chemical systems, and apply this knowledge to predict water quantity, water quality, and ecosystem responses to changes in key drivers including land use change, land management activities, and climate change. (read more about our research here)

Research Group News

< keeping this up to date has fallen on the priority list during the pandemic - at some point I will reconstruct the period from May 2020 to present and remove this note - Adam >

April 2020

• Congratulations to Molly Cain. Her recently published Ecohydrologic separation alters interpreted hydrologic stores and fluxes in a headwater mountain catchment was recognized for its impact. It was among the 10% most downloaded papers within 12 months of publication.
• New Publication: Adam Ward, Skuyler Herzog, Noah Schmadel, & Steve Wondzell. Climate Change Causes River Network Contraction and Disconnection in the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Oregon, USA.
• Congratulations to Veda Koraganji and Vakar Ahmed, co-founders of Modular 3D-Printed Elastomeric Prosthetics, for winning the Cheng Wu innovation Challenge. Their effort is featured in this article.
• New Publication: Margaret Zimmer led a massive group of co-authors from the Dry Rivers RCN to publish Zero or not? Causes and consequences of zero‐flow stream gage readings in WIREs-Water.
  • This study was featured in Advanced Science News in the article Is the river really dry? Scientific interpretations of zero flow readings
• Shout-out to Ward in the Provost's 2020 State of the Campus address!
• COVID-19 Response: We are using the Environmental Sensing and Sampling Lab equipment to help produce PPE for medical workers. Efforts include 3-D printing mask holders and laser cutting of flat-pack face shields, in collaboration with several on-campus Maker Spaces
  • See a short write-up in IU colleagues create face shields for those in need plus photos below
  • Also featured in IU using 3D printers to make face shields and other medical equipment

• New Publication: Landon Yoder, Adam Ward, Scott Spak, & Kajsa Dalrymple. Local Government Perspectives on Collaborative Governance: A Comparative Analysis of Iowa's Watershed Management Authorities in the Policy Studies Journal.
  • Don't miss the fact sheet that we produced to accompany this study in partnership with IU's Public Policy Institute: Watershed governance to protect communities from flood risks and water quality degradation

March 2020

• Check out the newly added Teaching Resources page, where you can find materials for online instruction of courses including Water Quality Modeling, Fluid Mechanics, and a short course on stream solute tracers. These resources are intended to support the community as instructions transitions online in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

February 2020

• New publication: Adam Ward & Riley Walsh: New Clean Water Act Rule Leaves U.S. Waters Vulnerable in AGU's Eos.
  
• Ward travels to the Univ. of Birmingham to present outcomes from an IAS Vanguard Fellowship awarded in 2018.

January 2020

• In the news: Check out the Eos article Clean Water Act in the Balance featuring an interview with Adam Ward.
  
• Recognition. The paper Woody debris is related to reach‐scale hotspots of lowland stream ecosystem respiration under baseflow conditions won a "most cited" award from Ecohydrology in 2019.
• New Publication: Skiuyler Herzog et al. Multiscale Feature‐feature Interactions Control Patterns of Hyporheic Exchange in a Simulated Headwater Mountain Stream in Water Resources Research.
  
• New Funding! Mapping the Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Cover Crops to Model Water Quality Outcomes supported by the Indiana Water Resources Research Center. Led by group alumus Landon Yoder, in collaboration with Ward and O'Neill School colleague Mallory Barnes, the project combines remote sensing, hydrological modeling, and spatial and temporal statistical analysis to examine statewide trends on the extent and location of cover crops and their effect on water quality outcomes from 2000-2019
  
• New Publication: Jennifer Drummond et al. Improving Predictions of Fine Particle Immobilization in Streams in Geophysical Research Letters.

December 2019

• Adam Ward, Paige Becker, and Molly Cain represent our group at the 2019 AGU meeting. Abstracts for our group can be found here.
• New Publication: Adam Ward et al. Spatial and temporal variation in river corridor exchange across a 5th-order mountain stream network in HESS
  

November 2019

• New Publication: Skuyler Herzog et al. Co-Design of Engineered Hyporheic Zones to Improve In-Stream Stormwater Treatment and Facilitate Regulatory Approval in Water
  

October 2019

• New faces! Welcome Ashley Stout, joining our group through the Center of Excellence for Women and Technology's REU program.
  

August 2019

• Welcome two new faces in the group, both jolining to work on M.S. degrees. Peter joins to study lampricide transport and fate, and Danila to work in our Environmental Sensing and Sampling Lab to design low-cost environmental sensors to deply in intermittent streams.

June 2019

• New Publication: Molly Cain et al. Ecohydrologic separation alters interpreted hydrologic stores and fluxes in a headwater mountain catchment in Hydrological Processes

May 2019

• Molly Cain travels to Madagascar to study rice paddies and irrigation as a parallel to the intensively managed landscapes of the agricultural Midwestern U.S.  Thanks to IU Global for supporting this with a Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant.
• Adam Ward received the first Burney & Barbara Fischer Fellowship, which supports an early-career tenure-track faculty member at the O'Neill School for a 3-yr period. The fellowship provides the time and resources to expand into a new area of research - in this case the intersection of water resources science and governance of common pool resources.

April 2019

• Adam Ward is promoted to Associate Professor and tenured at Indiana University!
• New Publication: Riley Walsh & Adam Ward. Redefining Clean Water Regulations Reduces Protections for Wetlands and Jurisdictional Uncertainty. Frontiers in Water.
  • Featured in E&E News: WOTUS Comments Pile on the Data.

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