Mark Cable Rains

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Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 2002

Assistant Professor
Ecohydrology; Hydrogeology; Wetland, river, and coastal ecosystem structure and function

mrains@cas.usf.edu

Office: SCA 531 (813-974-3310)
Lab: SCA 501 (813-974-7534)

Fax: 813-974-2654

Ecohydrology Research Group

I am an ecohydrologist with a B.A. and an M.S. in ecology and a Ph.D. in hydrogeology.  My research is focused on the nexus of three concepts: hydrological connectivity, geological controls on physical and chemical hydrology, and hydrological controls on ecosystem structure and function.  Specifically, my research is focused on:

• delineating flowpaths and quantifying fluxes along flowpaths within hydrological landscapes,
• quantifying how these fluxes control the physical and chemical characteristics of surface water and shallow groundwater in ecosystems embedded within these hydrological landscapes, and
• quantifying how the physical and chemical characteristics of the surface water and shallow groundwater control the structure and function of ecosystems embedded within these hydrological landscapes.

I pursue these efforts in a variety of surface-water and shallow-groundwater environments, including depressional wetlands, headwater streams and mainstem rivers, and mangroves and lagoons.