The primary project this summer examines out-of-bank river flows needed to sustain riparian forests and other floodplain habitats. Starting in 2009, ECA has developed tools to quantify environmental-flow requirements to sustain floodplain habitats and ecosystem processes. The empirical methods involve wetted-surface classification of Landsat imagery during multiple flow events, habitat mapping, and both hydrological and regression analyses. As part of this overall project, the selected applicant is primarily responsible for plant identification, quantitative vegetation sampling, related data analysis, and other field and administrative tasks.