{"id":8,"date":"2013-12-16T15:40:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T15:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/ellenwohl\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-07-25T14:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:01:41","slug":"current-research-interests","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/ellenwohl\/current-research-interests\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Research Interests"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Physical-ecological interactions in river ecosystems<\/li>\n<li>Implications of physical riverine complexity for organic carbon storage<\/li>\n<li>Large wood in river floodplains<\/li>\n<li>Effects of beaver activities on downstream fluxes of material in river corridors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/ellenwohl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/12\/downstream-under-jam-2.jpg\">Logjam on North St. Vrain Creek, Colorado<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-107\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/ellenwohl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/12\/downstream-under-jam-2.jpg\" alt=\"downstream under jam 2\" width=\"2272\" height=\"1704\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_249\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/ellenwohl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/12\/Y-158-e1503070231126.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-249\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-249\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/ellenwohl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/12\/Y-158-e1503070231126-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/ellenwohl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/12\/Y-158-e1503070231126-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/ellenwohl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/12\/Y-158-e1503070231126-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/ellenwohl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/12\/Y-158-e1503070231126-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beaver on Dall River, Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>Current graduate student projects<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Effectiveness of restoration measures in Great Plains streams (Owen Richardson, MS student)<\/li>\n<li>Floodplain logjam effects on soil &amp; plant characteristics (Lindsey Blehm, MS student)<\/li>\n<li>Channel dynamics in a coupled fluvial-eolian system (Dylan Davis, MS student)<\/li>\n<li>Regional patterns of river beads &amp; their effects on hydrology (Katie Larkin, PhD student)<\/li>\n<li>Quantifying impacts of large wood on channel process and form in mountain streams (Shayla Triantafillou, PhD student)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>Recent graduate student projects<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Assessing fine sediment in relation to fish habitat along the Poudre River after wildfire (Aaron Katz, MS student)<\/li>\n<li>Evaluating watershed- to reach-scale sources of geomorphic resilience after wildfire (Shayla Triantafillou, MS student)<\/li>\n<li>Controls on river bead functionality (Katie Larkin, MS student)<\/li>\n<li>Geomorphic effects of large wood accumulations (Anna Marshall, PhD student)<\/li>\n<li>Characterizing floodplain spatial heterogeneity with patch metrics (Emily Iskin, PhD student)<\/li>\n<li>Quantifying floodplain spatial heterogeneity &amp; geomorphic drivers in dryland river floodplains (Juli Scamardo, PhD student)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/ellenwohl\/current-research-interests\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/ellenwohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/ellenwohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/ellenwohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/ellenwohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/ellenwohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/ellenwohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/ellenwohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/ellenwohl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}