I’ve got a light teaching schedule this semester, in compensation for a killer load last spring. I’m planning to do a fair amount of field and lab work on Thursdays and Fridays. Here’s where to find me the rest of the time…but you might want to click to embiggen to …
At the 2010 Geological Society of America meeting, MS student Ralph McGee will be presenting preliminary results of his thesis work in a session on Hydrogeomorphic Processes in Hillslopes, Rivers, and Landscapes which I will be convening along with Ben Crosby and Christopher Tennant of Idaho State University. Here’s Ralph’s …
Cross-posted at Highly Allochthonous Being a giant geo-nerd, I tend to pepper my travels with a lot of geologically or hydrologically interesting places. A recent trip brought me to the UK and included a meetup with my Highly Allochthonous coblogger in Edinburgh. Being an American tourist, I also felt compelled …
For the past two weeks, unusually heavy monsoon rains have deluged Pakistan, resulting in flooding and landslides. Pakistan is heavily populated all along the Indus River valley, so this is a slow-moving disaster of epic proportions. The latest news reports estimate that flooding has displaced 14 million people – more …
Here’s an opportunity to get some research experience working on urban streams for UNC Charlotte undergraduate students: We are seeking an undergraduate to assist ongoing research projects in the Ecology and Biogeochemistry of Watersheds (EBOW) Laboratory of Dr. Sara McMillan and Dr. Sandra Clinton at the University of North Carolina …
These four papers all attempt to understand what controls the sediments that make up the streambed and floodplain and that get preserved in the geologic record. White et al. look at how riffle positions are governed by valley width variations, while Jerolmack and Brzinski find striking similarities in grain size transitions observed in rivers and dune fields. Hart et al. examine the relationship between glacial advances and downstream sediment deposition, while Sambrook Smith et al. investigate the sedimentological record of floods.
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It’s been kind of quiet around here lately. Maybe because it is mid-summer in the Northern Hemisphere and all of my fellow geopathologists are at the beach? Speaking of beaches, I was scoping out the Dorset coast of England looking for a famous fossil forest locality when I spotted this …
How do rivers erode bedrock streams, during big floods, and in the presence of groundwater? Laboratory and accidental experiments are providing some cool new insights.
How long does it *really* take water to move through a watershed?