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Julia Allen Jones
Julia Allen Jones

Associate Professor (adjunct; Geosciences)
Spatial Variability in Ecology, Soils, Hydrologic Responses to Disturbance

301K Richardson Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331
  • Office: 301K Richardson Hall
  • Phone: 541-737-1224, 750-7332
  • Fax: 541-737-1393
  • GEO 541, Spatial Analysis in Ecological Earth Science;
  • GEO 548, Advanced Field Methods in Geomorphology and Landscape Ecology
  • GEO 546, Advanced Landscape Ecology;
  • GEO 582, Forest and Stream Geomorphology
  • B.A., 1977, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
  • M.A., 1980, John Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, Washington, DC and Bologna, Italy
  • Ph.D., 1983, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Landscape studies; spatial statistics; disturbance ecology; long-term streamflow records; Geographic Information System (GIS).
Analysis of long-term streamflow records; text on spatial statistics; reconstructing fire and wind disturbance in Oregon; pattern process in stream networks.
  1. NSF Geography and Regional Sciences, "A spatially-distributed GIS-based model of temperatures in a stream network," 9/99-8/02, $130,000.
  2. NSF Division of Environmental Biology, "Long-term ecological research at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest," 10/96-9/02, $180,000.
  3. NSF Division of Environmental Biology, “Streamflow hydrology comparisons and synthesis at Long-term ecological research sites: Links with climate, terrestrial ecosystems, and stream ecology,” 1/1/96-12/30/97, $171,634.
  1. Jones, J.A. and F.J. Swanson. 2001. Hydrologic inferences from comparisons among small basin experiments. Invited commentary. Hydrological Processes 15:2363-2366.
  2. Post, D.A. and J.A. Jones. 2001. Hydrologic regimes at four long-term ecological research sites in New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oregon, and Puerto Rico. (In press).
  3. Wemple, B.C., F.J. Swanson, and J.A. Jones. 2001. Forest roads and geomorphic process interactions, Cascade Range, Oregon. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 26: 191-204.
  4. Johnson, S. and J.A. Jones. 2000. Stream temperature responses to forest harvest and debris flows in western Cascades, Oregon. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Suppl. 57: 1-10.
  5. Jones, J.A. 2000. Hydrologic processes and peak discharge response to forest removal, regrowth, and roads in ten small experimental basins, western Cascades, Oregon. Water Resources Research 36(9): 2621-2642.
  6. Roberts, C. and J.A. Jones. 2000. Soil patchiness in juniper-sagebrush-grass communities of central Oregon. Plant and Soil 223:45-61.
  7. Jones, J.A., F.J. Swanson, B.C. Wemple, K. Snyder. 2000. Effects of roads on hydrology, geomorphology, and disturbance patches in stream networks. Conservation Biology 14(1): 76-85.
  8. Sinton, D.S., J.A. Jones, F.J. Swanson, and J. Ohmann. 2000. Windthrow disturbance, forest composition and structure in the Bull Run basin, Oregon. Ecology 81: 2539-2556.
  9. Parendes, L.A. and J.A. Jones. 2000. Role of light availability and dispersal in exotic plant invasion along roads and streams in the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Oregon. Conservation Biology 14(1): 64-75.