Interim Dean of Academic Affairs John Porter Stevens Distinguished Professor of Water Resources IRIS faculty, River Basin Center Faculty I conduct trans-disciplinary investigations of water quality issues in collaboration with faculty from Crop and Soil Sciences, Ecology, Engineering, Entomology, Geography, Geology, Marine Sciences, and other programs. Investigators of water resource issues at the University of Georgia are broadly distributed across schools and disciplines. I am a member of IRIS - Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Studies and the RBC - Riber Basin Center. For more information on water programs at UGA, see the link below. Education Education: PhD - Hydrology, University of Washington MSE - Environmental Engineering, Duke University BSE - Civil & Environmental Engineering, Duke University Research Selected Publications: Webster J.R., R.M. Stewart, J.D. Knoepp, and C.R. Jackson. 2019. Effects of instream processes, discharge, and land cover on nitrogen export from southern Appalachian Mountain catchments. Hydrological Processes 33:283-304. Griffiths, N.A., B.M. Rau, K.B. Vache, G. Starr, M.M. Bitew, D.P. Aubrey, J.A. Martin, E. Benton, C. Rhett Jackson. 2018. Environmental effects of short rotation woody crops for bioenergy: What is and isn’t known. Global Change Biology Bioenergy 11:554-572. doi.10.1111/gcbb.12536 Klaus, J. and C.R. Jackson. 2018. Interflow Is Not Binary: a Continuous Shallow Perched Layer Does Not Imply Continuous Connectivity. Water Resources Research 54, 5921–5932. Jackson, C.R., J.R. Webster, J.D. Knoepp, K.J. Elliott, R.E. Emanuel, P.V. Caldwell, and C.F. Miniat. 2018. Unexpected ecological advances made possible by long-term data: A Coweeta example. WIREs Water DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1273 Jackson, C.R., R.A. Bahn, and J.R. Webster. 2017. Water quality signals from rural land use and exurbanization in a mountain landscape: What’s clear and what’s confounded? Journal of the American Water Resources Association 53(5):1212-1228. Griffiths, N.A., C.R. Jackson, M.M. Bitew, A.M. Fortner, K.L. Fouts, K. McCracken, J.R. Phillips. 2017. Water quality effects of short-rotation pine management for bioenergy feedstocks in the southeastern United States. Journal of Forest Ecology and Management 400:181-198. Jackson, C.R., E. Du, J. Klaus, N.A. Griffiths, M. Bitew and J.J. McDonnell. 2016. Interactions among hydraulic conductivity distributions, subsurface topography, and transport thresholds revealed by a multi-tracer hillslope irrigation experiment. Water Resources Research 52(8):6186-6206. Du, E., C.R. Jackson, J. Klaus, J.J. McDonnell, N.A. Griffiths, M.F. Williamson, J.L. Greco, and M. Bitew. 2016. Interflow dynamics on a low relief hillslope: Lots of fill, little spill. Journal of Hydrology 534:645-658. Rugel, K., S.W. Golladay, C.R. Jackson, T.C. Rasmussen. 2016. Delineating groundwater/surface water interaction in a karst watershed: Lower Flint River Basin, southwestern Georgia, USA. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies 5:1-19. Jackson, C.R., D.S. Leigh, S. Lynsey Scarbrough, John F. Chamblee. 2015. Herbaceous versus forested riparian vegetation: Narrow and simple versus wide, woody, and diverse stream habitat. River Research and Applications 31(7):847-857. Klaus, J, J.J. McDonnell, C.R. Jackson, E. Du, and N.A. Griffiths. 2015. Where does streamwater come from in low relief forested watersheds? A dual isotope approach. Hydrology and Earth Systems Science 19:125-135. Jackson, C.R., M. Bitew, and E. Du. 2014. When interflow also percolates: Downslope travel distances and hillslope process zones. Invited Commentary. Hydrological Processes 28:3195-3200. Booth, D.B., K.A. Kraseski, and C.R. Jackson. 2014. Local and watershed-scale determinants of summertime urban stream temperatures. Hydrological Processes 28:2427-2438. Li G., C.R. Jackson, and K.A. Kraseski. 2012. Modeled riparian stream shading: Agreement with field measurements and sensitivity to riparian conditions. Journal of Hydrology 428:142-151. Labs/Centers/Committee: Water Resources Area of Specialty: Water, Soils and Environmental Systems Hydrology and Environmental Systems Waste Recycling and Treatment Research Areas: Water and Soil Sciences Research Interests: My research interests include the effects of human land use activities, specifically forestry, agriculture, and urbanization, on water quality and aquatic habitat and the effectiveness of best management practices (BMPs) in reducing such nonpoint source pollution. A particular current interest of mine is the relationship between riparian vegetation and channel structure and stream temperature. My work is trans-disciplinary, and I frequently collaborate with ecologists, animal biologists, and biogeochemists. Most of my applied research is viewed through the lens of hillslope hydrologic processes, my basic research interest.
