The project will investigate how water moves through steep forested hillslopes, from rain to hillslope soils to streams and rivers. This is important because watershed-scale processes, like susceptibility to landslides and water supply, are controlled by landscape characteristics like slope angle, soil depth, and elevation. To better understand these controls, this proposal would support one or two students to help install two monitoring stations in the MacDonald Dunn Forest that measure rainfall, soil water content, and soil water pressure. One station will be placed at higher elevation below a ridgeline, the other will be placed at a lower elevation near the bottom of a gully. Over the course of the project, the student (or students) will assist in the installation of monitoring equipment, station maintenance, and preliminary analysis to compare the two sites. The field installation includes assisting the faculty mentor in digging a soil pit and characterizing soils; station assembly; and site characterization and documentation. Maintenance includes approximately monthly visits to clean rain gauges and check instruments. Preliminary data analysis will include data organization and basic comparison of time-series data at each station. Potential questions for analysis include: how well do the two sites correlate? Which site is wetter overall? Which site responds more quickly to rainfall? In addition to improving understanding of hillslope hydrology in our local watersheds, this project will also support ongoing and anticipated Extension activities, such as site tours to land and watershed managers in the region. The long-term goal of the project is to serve data to the public for awareness of real-time conditions in their local watershed, and to use hydrologic data in trainings and OSU Extension publications for land managers.