- Physical-ecological interactions in river ecosystems
- Implications of physical riverine complexity for organic carbon storage
- Large wood in river floodplains
- Effects of beaver activities on downstream fluxes of material in river corridors
Logjam on North St. Vrain Creek, Colorado
Current graduate student projects
- Morphological influences on sediment storage and floodplain function in southwesterern ephemeral streams (Juli Scamardo, PhD student)
- Evaluating the carbon sequestration potential of stage 0 restoration projects in Oregon (Sarah Hinshaw, PhD student)
- The geography of artificial levees in the United States (Richard Knox, PhD student)
- Characteristic levels of floodplain spatial heterogeneity in rivers (Emily Iskin, PhD student)
- Geomorphic effects of large wood accumulations (Anna Marshall, PhD student)
- Geomorphic influences on salmonid recolonization in a post-fire environment (Mickey Means-Brous, MS student)