Stephen Good

Assistant Professor
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124 SW 26th Street
Corvallis, OR 97331
  • Ecohydrology
  • Modeling ecosystems structure & function
  • Isotope biogeochemistry
  • Water resource (re)distribution
  • Biogeography and biodiversity

Current Research: 

  • Global evapotranspiration partitioning:  Understanding the influence of terrestrial ecosystems on the hydrologic cycle is critical for predicting droughts, floods, and water resource availability.  Our group uses stable isotopes as naturally abundant tracers of the water cycle to determine the processes and pathways of water as it moves through catchments.
  • Assessing the impacts of climate variability on ecosystems and water resources:  Global climate patterns are shifting in multiple, inter-related ways.  Besides changes in rainfall totals, shifts in the seasonality, frequency, and intensity of rainfall are altering the hydrologic cycle and those ecosystems dependent on water availability.  We use a variety of remote sensing products and models to predict and improve understudying of the  ecohydrologic response of the terrestrial biosphere to climate variability.
  • 3D Vegetation modeling: Many processes in environmental biophysics are non-linear in nature, and thus require simulation of a distribution of forcing conditions to accurately predict ecosystem responses.  We are working on developing new models of ecosystem form and function that overcome the computational difficulties of many current 3D vegetating modeling schemes.
Curriculum Vitae: 
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At OSU
Affiliated with: 
Biological and Ecological Engineering
Courses Taught: 
  • BEE 313 – Ecohydrology
My Publications

2016

Conference Paper

S. P. Good, “A Mesic Maximum for Vegetation Water Use Across Biomes”, in Emerging Issues in Tropical Ecohydrology, 2016.

Journal Article

D. G. Miralles, Nieto, R., McDowell, N. G., Dorigo, W. A., Verhoest, N. E. C., Liu, Y. Y., Teuling, A. J., A Dolman, J., Good, S. P., and Gimeno, L., “Contribution of water-limited ecoregions to their own supply of rainfall”, Environmental Research Letters, vol. 11, no. 12, 2016.
S. Manfreda, Caylor, K. K., and Good, S. P., “An Ecohydrological Framework to Explain Shifts in Vegetation Organization Across Climatological Gradients”, Ecohydrology, p. n/a–n/a, 2016.
Y. Jameel, Brewer, S., Good, S. P., Tipple, B. J., Ehleringer, J. R., and Bowen, G. J., “Tap water isotope ratios reflect urban water system structure and dynamics across a semiarid metropolitan area”, Water Resources Research, vol. 52, no. 8, pp. 5891 - 5910, 2016.
S. P. Good, Guan, K., and Caylor, K. K., “Global Patterns of the Contributions of Storm Frequency, Intensity, and Seasonality to Interannual Variability of Precipitation”, Journal of Climate, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 3 - 15, 2016.

2015

Book

S. P. Good, Mallia, D. V., Denis, E. H., Freeman, K. H., Feng, X., Li, S., Zegre, N., Lin, J. C., and Bowen, G. J., Learning from the Impacts of Superstorm SandyHigh Frequency Trends in the Isotopic Composition of Superstorm Sandy. Elsevier, 2015, pp. 41 - 55.

Conference Paper

S. P. Good, “Global optimum vegetation rain water use is determined by aridity”, in 2015 AGU Fall Meeting, 2015.
S. P. Good, “D/H isotope ratios in the global hydrologic cycle constrain the partitioning of global terrestrial water fluxes.”, in 2015 AGU Fall Meeting, 2015.
S. P. Good, “Water Isotope Systematics: Improving Modern and Paleoclimate Interpretations I Posters”, in 2015 AGU Fall Meeting, 2015.

Journal Article

G. Gorski, Strong, C., Good, S. P., Bares, R., Ehleringer, J. R., and Bowen, G. J., “Vapor hydrogen and oxygen isotopes reflect water of combustion in the urban atmosphere”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 112, no. 11, pp. 3247 - 3252, 2015.

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