The STREAM TEAM is a national technical center which aims to serve as a catalyst to stimulate research, a conduit for efficient technology transfer, and a source of scientific solutions for water allocation issues. The stream team links field specialists and management with current research.

Priority STREAM Program Elements:

• Improving knowledge of stream systems and hydrologic processes
  
• Improving understanding of streamside vegetation influences
  
• Developing operational tools and technology
  
• Providing training and technical support
  
• Identifying research needs

Major STREAM Accomplishments

• Assembled the science to describe minimum instream flows to maintain gravel-bed river channels
  
• Influenced the direction of research into gravel-bed river channel maintenance processes
  
• Provided training to technical teams, attorneys, and Forest Service line officers
  
• Supported data acquisition to more clearly understand gravel-bed sediment transport processes typical of National Forest streams
  
• Participated with Forest Service units in adjudications, negotiations, and other meetings
  
• Provided advice and support to instream flow quantifications for adjudications and negotiations, hydropower relicensing, and Forest Plan revisions
  
• Provided standardized approaches to improve the quality and reliability of field surveys and data
  
• Stream Channel Reference Sites Field Guide
  
• Videos on Identifying Bankfull Stage in Eastern & Western United States
  
• WinXSPRO, Channel Cross-Section Analyzer software
  
• Gravel-O-Meters for measuring bed material
  
• Surface and subsurface bed material sampling guidelines
  
• Encouraged the development of new technology for measuring flows and acquiring data safely
  
• Low-cost water-level recorder (AquaRod)
  
• Cableways & bridges for bedload measurement
  
• Bedload trap technology
  
• Developed effective communication with customers (Stream Notes newsletter and STREAM Web page)
  
• Identified research needs and priorities
  
• What type of streamflow regime is needed to maintain instream and riparian values?
  
• What are the consequences of changed flow regimes to on-site and downstream channel functions and values?
  
• How are instream flow needs affected by water diversions and land-use activities?"

Stream Systems Technology Center
USDA, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 2150 Centre Ave, Bldg. A, Suite 368, Fort Collins, CO 80526.
Email us at rmrs_stream@fs.fed.us