- 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
Beaver on Dall River, Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska
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)