RESEARCH ISSUES IN FOREST HYDROLOGY

This paper explores a range of forest hydrology issues and identifies my concepts of the field's most pressing research needs. I extend the topic to include teaching and education in the broader sense because c urrent teaching is usually part of the researcher's portfolio and beca use education involves that of both the research scientist and a broad er audience. I consider the primary research, education, and service r oles of the forest hydrologist also within a range of domains or, as I prefer to identify them, scales: (1) the molecular or pore level; (2) hydrological process; (3) watershed function; (4) global consideratio ns, and (5) the human dimension which, while not actually a scale itse lf, embraces, is important to, and is affected by the first four. All are topics screaming for attention by researchers, educators, and prac titioners. I shall here focus on the middle three.