Department of Geology
KAREN L. PRESTEGAARD
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1982

Associate Professor
Department of Geology
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
Tel: (301) 405-6982
Fax: (301) 405-3597
kpresto AT umd.edu

Research Interests
Sediment transport and depositional processes in mountain gravel-bed streams; mechanisms of streamflow generation and their variations with watershed scale, geology, and land use; hydrologic behavior of frozen ground; hydrologic consequences of climate change; hydrology of coastal and riparian wetlands.