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Water quality • Disturbance • Wildfires • Runoff • Surface water

Sheila Murphy is a research hydrologist for the USGS Water Resources Mission Area. She focuses on how disturbances (such as wildfire, floods, hurricanes, land use change) alter watershed response, water quality, and water quantity. Her recent research has evaluated the effects of wildfire on water quality in the western U.S., and the hydrologic and geochemical responses to land cover change and hurricanes in a tropical forest in Puerto Rico.