Mark Hausner is an Associate Research Professor of Hydrology at the Desert Research Institute. He has a BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University, an MS in Hydrologic Science from the University of Nevada Reno, and a PhD in Hydrogeology from UNR. Mark began his career in stormwater engineering on the east coast, and came to the Great Basin in 2002. His research focuses on fluxes of heat and water in the environment, with a particular emphasis on interfaces between physical hydrology and ecology. With a wide ranging group of collaborators, he often works across traditional disciplines and has published peer-reviewed papers on topics as diverse as fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing, heat as a tracer for groundwater flow, effects of climate change on desert fish populations, and the use of beavers for stream restoration.