Soils
Transpiration coefficients for three Great Basin shrubs. Aaron Steinwand. May 1999.

Vegetation Results of 1997 vegetation re-inventory. Sally Manning. May 1998. Amended May 28, 1998.

The effects of water table decline on groundwater-dependent Great Basin plant communities in the Owens Valley, California. (in press) In: McArthur, E. Durant; Ostler, W. Kent; Wambolt, Carl L. comps. 1999. Proceedings: Shrubland Ecotones. 1998 August 12-14, Ephraim, UT. Proceedings RMRS-P-000. Ogden, UT: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. Dec. 1998.

Condition of selected vegetation parcels and assessment according to the drought recovery policy. (Draft) Inyo County Water Dept. staff. March 1999.

Quantifying vegetation change in Owens Valley, CA using Spectral Mixture Analysis and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index. (ms in review) Submitted to: Remote Sensing of Environment. Andrew J. Elmore, John F. Mustard, Sara J. Manning and David B. Lobell. March 1999

Summary of 1998 perennial cover and life form changes in parcels inventoried with line-point transects. Sally Manning. April 14, 1999.

Patterns of vegetation response to groundwater pumping detected with field monitoring and Landsat TM data. Ecological Society of America. Spokane, WA. (abstract submitted and accepted for August 1999 meeting) Sara J. Manning, John F. Mustard and Andrew J. Elmore. January 1999

Precision and accuracy of remotely sensed data for quantitative analysis of vegetation change in a semi-arid region. Ecological Society of America. Spokane, WA. (abstract submitted and accepted for August 1999 meeting) Andrew J. Elmore, John F. Mustard, Sara J. Manning, and David B. Lobell. January 1999

Revegetation plan for impacts identified in the LADWP, Inyo County EIR for groundwater management. Irene Yamashita. May 1998.

Hydrology
Multiple regression modeling of water table response to pumping and runoff. Robert Harrington. November 1998.

Bishop Cone audit for the 1997-1998 runoff year. (Report 98-2) Randy Jackson. September 1999.

Annual pumping plan memorandum report. Randy Jackson. April 1998.

Drought effects to the Thibaut Creek Area: declines in shallow groundwater levels and Thibaut Creek flows to the intake due to drought memorandum report. Randy Jackson. March 1999.

Owens Valley depth to groundwater grid development and integration with Geographic Information Systems: 1985-1997. Chris Howard. October 1998.

Modeling ionic solute transport in melting snow. Water Resources Research, 34, 1727-1736. Robert Harrington and R.C. Bales.

Conferences
Nevada Water Resources Association Meeting, Fall 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, Randy Jackson.

Nevada State GIS Conference, January 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, Chris Howard.

Wildland Shrub Symposium: Shrubland Ecotones, Aug. 12-14, 1998, Ephraim, UT, poster presented by Sara J. Manning: The effects of water table decline on groundwater-dependent Great Basin plant communities in the Owens Valley, California.

Professional Soil Scientists Association of California workshop on the preparation of soil monoliths, Aaron Steinwand.

Professional Soil Scientists Association of California Annual Meeting, March 1998, Death Valley, California, Aaron Steinwand.

California Exotic Pest Plant Council (CalEPPC), October 2-3 1998, Ontario, California, Brian Cashore.

Tamarisk Workshop, June 17, Ontario, California, Brian Cashore.

Weed Management Workshop, March 25, 1998, Reno, Nevada, Brian Cashore.

Education
University of California Environmental Biology "Supercourse." Invited instructor and poster judge. Supervised student research projects. Sally Manning.

Home Street School Inventors Fair. Judge. Sally Manning.

Eastern Sierra Institute Teacher Training Workshop. Lecture, field training and GIS demonstration of ICWD monitoring techniques and results and lead discussion on water resource management. Sally Manning, Denise Waterbury, Derik Olson, and Irene Yamashita.

Tahoe-Baikal Institute. Gave presentation on ICWD history and monitoring (which was simultaneously translated into Russian) and led group in hands-on activities. Sally Manning and Brian Cashore.

Inyo County schools science fair judges: Aaron Steinwand, Chris Howard, Robert Harrington, Brian Cashore.

Edited "Study Guide for the Soil Science Fundamentals Exam," the national exam for certification of professional soil scientists. Aaron Steinwand

Co-leader of Brigham Young University saline and sodic soils fieldrip to Owens Lake, Aaron Steinwand.

Accomplishments
Aaron Steinwand was successfully recertified as a professional soil scientist by the ARCPACS, a national federation of certifying boards for professionals in agriculture, biology, earth, and environmental sciences.