Forest Hydrology : Processes, Management and Assessment

Dr Bren is an Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. His basic training was in forestry and forestry science. He earned a PhD in the hydrology of a small mountain stream from the University of Melbourne and then taught and researched at this institution for some decades. Work included paired watershed studies, geometry of stream buffer strips and the hydrology of river red gum forests along Australia's River Murray. He lives in the Victorian provincial city of Ballarat.

Dr. Devendra M Amatya has been working as a Research Hydrologist at the USDA Forest Service since 2002 after moving from North Carolina State University as a faculty member. He has nearly 30 years of experience in forest hydrology and water management research. His primary research interests are in ecohydrologic and water quality studies on low-gradient landscapes including forested wetlands and impacts on them due to increasing threats of land use change and climate variability and change including extreme events using monitoring and modeling approaches. He has made numerous invited/volunteered presentations at both professional society and scientific conferences, meetings, and symposia, nationally and internationally, and also authored/coauthored more than 250 publications in refereed journals, proceedings, book chapters, and technical bulletins/reports. He is serving on editorial boards of Journal of American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, Journal of American Water Resources Association, and Journal of South Carolina Water Resources (fomer editor).

Dr. Thomas Williams is an Emeritus Professor of Forest Hydrology at the Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science of Clemson University. He retired in 2008 after thirty-three years doing research on aspects of coastal forest hydrology. Hydrology of high-water-table soils and tidal forested wetlands has been his focus. Since retirement he has served on the Editorial board of the South Carolina Water Resources Journal

Dr. Carmen de Jong is Full Professor at the University of Strasbourg in Strasbourg, France. Her basic training is in Hydrology and Geomorphology. She earned a PhD in fluvial geomorphology of mountain streams in the USA and Germany from the Free University of Berlin and a habilitation in floods and droughts in the High Atlas and Alps from the University of Bonn, Germany. She works on climate change and anthropogenic impacts on hydrology of forested catchments in the Black Forest and Palatinate Forest in Germany and Vosges in France.

Dr. Ge Sun is Research Hydrologist with the Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, and Adjunct Professor at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. Dr. Sun served as associate editors and edited ten special issues for several hydrology and ecology journals including Journal of American Water Resources Association, Forests, and Ecological Processes. He received several distinguished awards from various agencies, including Fellow of the American Water Resources Association and the US Forest Service Chief's Distinguished Science Awards. He received a Ph.D. in Forest Hydrology and Watershed Management from the University of Florida (1995).