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Amy E. East

Associate Editor, JGR: Earth Surface (to 2018)
Editor-in-Chief, JGR: Earth Surface (from 2019)

Images showing sediment remobilized after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, China.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Moving Earthquake-Generated Sediment Through a Landscape

by Amy E. East 30 March 202229 June 2022

Ten years after the Wenchuan earthquake, most of the new sediment it produced remained on the landscape, indicating a long recovery time.

Photograph of a river in the Wind River Range, Wyoming
Posted inEditors' Vox

How is Modern Climate Change Affecting Landscape Processes?

by Amy E. East and J. B. Sankey 16 December 202011 February 2022

Landscapes will respond to hydroclimatic changes associated with modern global warming, such as increasing extreme storms and wildfire, but to what extent is physical landscape change already evident?

Photograph of bulk deposition collectors capturing atmospheric dust at Four Pines, Colorado
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Dust in the Wind: Human Impacts to the Colorado Front Range

by Amy E. East 1 July 202010 March 2023

A recent increase in airborne dust has been attributed to both climate and land use, with human activity playing a substantial role, especially in summertime at low elevations.

Experimental crown fire in the boreal forest, Northwest Territories, Canada
Posted inEditors' Vox

New Special Collection: Fire in the Earth System

by Amy E. East and C. Santin 27 April 202012 December 2022

Papers are invited for a new cross-journal special collection presenting advances in understanding the physical and biogeochemical processes associated with landscape fires and their impacts.

Map of Kuparuk river floodplain showing elevation
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Permafrost Thaws Rapidly as Arctic River Flooding Increases

by Amy E. East 21 October 201920 October 2021

As climate warms, Arctic rivers carry higher flows and flood earlier in the spring, causing underlying permafrost to thaw rapidly.

Map of landslide activity in California between April 2016 and February 2018
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Landslide Activity Ramps Up With Extreme Rainfall

by Amy E. East 29 July 201923 January 2023

An increase in activity of hundreds of slow-moving landslides during extreme wet conditions in California provides insights into the landscape response to ongoing climate change.

Holocene sediments in Syhlet Basin
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Formation of Sedimentary Deposits: Bypass Versus Mass Extraction

by Amy E. East 4 March 201919 September 2023

Grain size and sediment delivery pathways from the Ganges delta have been used to model downstream facies changes.

Amy East (left) and a cover of JGR: Earth Surface
Posted inEditors' Vox

Introducing the New Editor-in-Chief of JGR: Earth Surface

by Amy E. East 6 December 2018

Find out who is taking over the helm of JGR: Earth Surface and her plans for taking the journal forward in the coming years.

Southern Alaska’s Lisianski Inlet, near the site of a systematic survey of the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Fault.
Posted inScience Updates

A Closer Look at an Undersea Source of Alaskan Earthquakes

by D. S. Brothers, P. Haeussler, Amy E. East, U. ten Brink, B. Andrews, P. Dartnell, N. Miller and J. Kluesner 15 August 20178 November 2021

A systematic survey offers a striking portrait of movement along a 500-kilometer-long undersea section of the Queen Charlotte–Fairweather fault off the coast of southeastern Alaska.

Posted inScience Updates

Synthesizing Studies of Dam Removal

by J. O’Connor and Amy E. East 7 October 201427 April 2022

Dam Removal: Synthesis of Ecological and Physical Responses;
Fort Collins, Colorado, 16–20 June 2014

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