Monthly Archives: November 2025

Itai spent most of this summer conducting geomorphologic and hydrologic monitoring on a stream restoration site in the Kawuneeche Valley, on the west side of Rocky Mountain National Park. He also attempted to quantify the residence time and permeability of a beaver pond at the CSU Mountain Campus and a couple of restoration structures in the Kawuneeche Valley to test some methods for his master’s thesis. 

Katie “Leadfoot” Larkin spent the summer field-mapping networks of first- and second-order tributaries of Neota Creek, Jacks Gulch, and Little Beaver Creek. Make no mistake about it, this is a task that requires sharp eyes and STRONG legs! This fall, she’ll be comparing my field mappings to several remote-mapped channel network estimations in order to evaluate the accuracy of the channel initiation proxies embedded into these remote methods. 

Shayla spent time traveling to various side quests and fieldwork. After learning about landscape evolution modeling, international freshwater ecosystem management, she finally made it back to Montana and Colorado for data collection. Her local fieldwork aimed to understand the relationships between bed configuration and wood in high- versus low-gradient environments. Because this work is closely related to aquatic habitat quality, Shayla spent some moments in-between measurements trying to spot bull trout hanging out beneath logjams.

Lindsey got up close and personal with some floodplain logjams. She collected plant surveys and over 100 lbs of soil for nutrient testing.