Leach Canyon (PS01): U-075 - Holy Fire Headwater Sediment Dynamics, Santa Ana Mts, CA

• PI: Dr. Andrew Gray, Dr. Nicolas Barth
• Project Lead: James Guilinger
• Funding Source: None

Description

Steep, headwater catchment of Leach Canyon (4 km west of Lake Elsinore, CA) burned in August 2018 by the Holy Fire (~94 km2 burn scar)

Objective

Obtain repeat laser scans over a series of storm cycles beginning with unburned baseline topography win order to assess how sediment sources progressively evolved over multiple storm cycles during El Niño winter of 2018-2019.

Site Visits

1. SV01: Oct. 25, 2018 to Oct. 30, 2018
2. SV02: Oct. 25, 2018 to Oct. 30, 2018
3. SV03: Dec. 18, 2018 to Dec. 19, 2018
4. SV04: Dec. 19, 2018 to Dec. 20, 2018
5. SV05: Jan. 19, 2019 to Jan. 20, 2019
6. SV06: Jan. 30, 2019 to Jan. 31, 2019
7. SV07: April 20, 2019 to April 27, 2019
8. SV08: March 4, 2019 to March 5, 2019