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Education and/or Training

		University of Alaska	Taken graduate courses through the years
	1970	University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)	Civil Engineering (Water Resources)

Areas of Specialization and/or Research Interests

Throughout my career I have spent most of my time working is surface water quantity, surface water quality, and geomorphology. My main interests are surface water and water quality statistics, geomorphology, and flow/sediment transport modeling. Currently, I’m working on the Yukon River water quality study and a river dynamics/geomorphology study of the lower Copper River.

Professional Experience

1981 - Present	U.S. Geological Survey in Anchorage, Alaska
1970 - 1981	U.S. Geological Survey in Urbana, Illinois

Significant Recent Publications

Brabets, T. P. 2012. Hydrology and modeling of flow conditions at bridge 339 and Mile 38-43, Copper River Highway, Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2012-5153.

Brabets, T. P., R. T. Ourso, M. P. Miller, and A. M. Brasher. 2011. Water quality of the Chokosna, Gilahina, Lakina Rivers, and Long Lake watershed along McCarthy Road, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska, 2007–08. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2011-5185, 56 p.

Conaway, J. S. and T. P. Brabets. 2011. Streamflow and streambed scour in 2010 at bridge 330, Copper River, Alaska. USGS Professional Paper: 1784-C.

Brabets, T. P. and J. S. Conaway. 2009. Geomorphology and river dynamics of the lower Copper River, Alaska. USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5257.

Brabets, T. P. and J. S. Conaway. 2009. Application of the multi-dimensional surface water modeling system at bridge 339, Copper River Highway, Alaska. USGS Open-File Report 2009-1237.

Brabets, T. P. and M. A. Walvoord. 2009. Trends in streamflow in the Yukon River Basin from 1944 to 2005 and the influence of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. Journal Hydrology 371:108-119. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.03.018

Brabets, T. P., Wang, B., and Meade, R.H., 2000, Environmental and hydrologic overview of the Yukon River Basin, Alaska and Canada: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4204

Kyle, R.E., and Brabets, T.P., 2001, Water temperature of streams in the Cook Inlet Basin, Alaska, and implications of climate change: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4109

Brabets, T.P., 2001, Hydrologic data and a proposed water-quality monitoring network for Kobuk River Basin, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, and Kobuk Valley National Park, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4141

Brabets, T.P., 2001, Hydrologic data from Nation, Kandik, and Yukon Rivers, Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2001-295

Brabets, T.P., 2001, Water Quality in the Yukon River Basin: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 050-01

Brabets, T.P., 2002, Water quality of the Tlikakila River and five major tributaries to Lake Clark, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska, 1999-2001: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 2002-4127

Brabets, T.P., and Whitman, M.S., 2002, Water quality of Camp Creek, Costello Creek, and other selected streams on the south side of Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 2002-4260

Brabets, T.P., and Riehle, J.R., 2004, Geochemistry of the Johnson River, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2003-4252

Brabets, T.P., and Whitman, M.S., 2004, Water-quality, biological, and physical-habitat conditions at fixed sites in the Cook Inlet Basin, Alaska, National Water-Quality Assessment Study Unit, October 1998-September 2001: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5021

Neal, E.J., Brabets, T.P., and Frenzel, S.A, 2004, Water quality and streamflow of the Indian River, Sitka, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5023

Brabets, T.P., March, R.S., and Trabant, D. C., 2004, Glacial history and runogg components of the Tlikakila River Basin, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska: U. S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5057

Brabets, T.P. 2004, Occurrence and distribution of trace elements insnow, streams, and streambed sediments, Cape Krusenstern National Monument, Alaska, 2002-2003: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5229

Glass, R.L., Brabets, T.P., Frenzel, S.A, Whitman, M.S., and Ourso, R.T., 2004: Water quality in the Cook Inlet Basin Alaska, 1998-2001: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1240.