Accurately assessing flood hazards requires a better understanding of the feedbacks between natural and human influences on the characteristics of rivers.Read More »Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
The human eye is quite good at identifying channel networks among the rich patterns exhibited by estuaries and braided rivers, but computers have a harder time doing so. Could they do better?Read More »Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
Alpine hydropower plants commonly flush sediment that accumulates at intakes, but the associated rapid rise in discharge, turbidity, and streambed instability put aquatic insects at risk.Read More »Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
The daily activities of mammals, reptiles, crustaceans, and fish influence the physical environment, with invasive burrowing species causing particular disruption in aquatic environments.Read More »Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
Logging, urbanization, and dam building are a few ways people have significantly altered natural river ecosystems. Understanding that influence is a grand challenge of our time. Read More »Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
He conducted river morphology research based on systematic and reproducible measurements, pushing fluvial hydrology to become a more quantitative science.Read More »
A new algorithm incorporates randomness into stream channel formation and suggests the approach represents regions with variable flood magnitudes better than standard models.Read More »Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
In the company of other explorers as passionate as he was about geomorphology, Gilbert derived one fundamental geological insight after another from the landscapes of the American West.Read More »
