Some recent and notable publications from the lab:
Estimating catchment-scale sediment storage in a large river basin, Colorado River, USA (Kemper et al., in press, River Research and Applications)
Distribution of logjams in relation to lateral connectivity in the river corridor (Wohl et al., 2024 Geomorphology)
Geomorphic context in process-based river restoration (Wohl et al., 2024, River Research & Applications)
Why wood should move in rivers (Wohl et al., in press, River Research & Applications)
Handheld lidar as a tool for characterizing wood-rich river corridors (Marshall et al., 2024, River Research & Applications)
Recognizing the ephemeral stream floodplain: Identification and importance of flood zones in drylands (Scamardo & Wohl, 2024, Earth Surface Processes & Landforms)
Interpreting floodplain heterogeneity: Using field data to understand unsupervised floodplain classifications (Iskin & Wohl, 2024, Journal of Hydrology)
Beyond the case study: Characterizing natural floodplain heterogeneity in the United States (Iskin & Wohl, 2023, Water Resources Research)
Drivers of geomorphic heterogeneity in unconfined non-perennial river corridors (Scamardo et al., 2023, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface)
Geomorphic response of low-gradient, meandering and braided alluvial river channels to increased sediment supply (Kemper et al., 2023, Earth-Science Reviews)
Quantifying floodplain heterogeneity with field observation, remote sensing, and landscape ecology: Methods and metrics (Iskin & Wohl, 2023, River Research & Applications)
The continuum of wood-induced channel bifurcations (Marshall & Wohl, 2023, Frontiers in Water)
Logjam characteristics as drivers of transient storage in headwater streams (Marshall et al., 2023, Water Resources Research)
Carbon sequestration potential of process-based river restoration (Hinshaw & Wohl, 2023, River Research & Applications)
A first-order approximation of floodplain soil organic carbon stocks in a river network: the South Platte River, Colorado, USA as a case study (Wohl & Knox, 2022, Science of the Total Environment)
Aufeis as a major forcing mechanism for channel avulsion and implications of warming climate (Wohl & Scamardo, 2022, Geophysical Research Letters)
The transience of channel-spanning logjams in mountain streams (Wohl & Iskin, 2022, Water Resources Research)
Modeling the relative morphodynamic influence of vegetation and large wood in a dryland ephemeral stream, Arizona, USA (Scamardo et al., 2022, Geomorphology)
A river ran through it: floodplains as America’s newest relict landform (Knox et al, 2022, Science Advances)
Identification of artificial levees in the contiguous United States (Knox et al, 2022, Water Resources Research)
Levees don’t protect, they disconnect: a critical review of how artificial levees impact floodplain functions (Knox et al, 2022, Science of the Total Environment)
Estimating widespread beaver dam loss: habitat decline and surface storage loss at a regional scale (Scamardo et al, 2021, Ecosphere)
Development of a geomorphic monitoring strategy for stage 0 restoration in the South Fork McKenzie River, Oregon, USA (Hinshaw, et al, 2022, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms)
Quantitatively estimating carbon sequestration potential in soil and large wood in the context of river restoration (Hinshaw & Wohl, 2021, Frontiers in Earth Science)
Biogeomorphic influences on river corridor resilience to wildfire disturbances in a mountain stream of the Southern Rockies, USA (Wohl et al, 2022, Science of the Total Environment)
Wildfire and the patterns of floodplain large wood on the Merced River, Yosemite National Park, California, USA (Iskin & Wohl, 2021, Geomorphology)
Seasonal and diurnal fluctuations of coarse particulate organic matter transport in a snowmelt-dominated stream (Marshall et al., 2021, River Research and Applications)
Logjams as a driver of transient storage in a mountain stream (Ader et al., 2020, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms)
The resilience of logjams to floods (Wohl & Scamardo, 2020, Hydrological Processes)
Assessing restoration potential for beaver (Castor canadensis) in the semiarid foothills of the Southern Rockies, USA (Kornse & Wohl, 2020, River Research and Applications)
The effects of longitudinal variations in valley geometry and wood load on flood response (Hinshaw, Wohl, Davis, 2020, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms)
Sediment storage and shallow groundwater response to beaver dam analogues in the Colorado Front Range, USA (Scamardo & Wohl, 2020, River Research and Applications)
The natural wood regime in rivers (Wohl, Kramer, Scott, Comiti, Gurnell, Piegay, Lininger, Jaeger, Walters, Fausch, 2019, BioScience)
Connectivity as an emergent property of geomorphic systems (Wohl, Rathburn et al., 2019, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms)
Transient organic jams in Puerto Rican mountain streams after hurricanes (Wohl, Hinshaw, Scamardo & Gutierrez-Fonseca, 2019, River Research and Applications)
Patterns of floodplain spatial heterogeneity in the Southern Rockies, USA (Wohl & Iskin, 2019, Geophysical Research Letters)
Forgotten legacies: understanding and mitigating historical human alterations of river corridors (Wohl, 2019, Water Resources Research)
Distribution of large wood within river corridors in relation to flow regime in the semiarid western US (Wohl et al., 2018, Water Resources Research)
Geomorphic controls on floodplain soil organic carbon in the Yukon Flats, interior Alaska, from reach to river basin scales (Lininger et al., 2018, Water Resources Research)
River beads as a conceptual framework for building carbon storage and resilience to extreme climate events into river management (Wohl, Lininger, Scott, 2018, Biogeochemistry)
Where does wood most effectively enhance storage? (Pfeiffer and Wohl, 2018, Geophysical Research Letters)
Post-disturbance sediment recovery (Rathburn, Shahverdian and Ryan, 2017, Geomorphology)
Instream large wood loads across bioclimatic regions (Wohl, Lininger, et al., 2017, Forest Ecology and Management)
Climate-invariant area-slope relations in channel heads initiated by surface runoff (Garrett and Wohl, 2017, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms)
Evaluating carbon storage on subalpine lake deltas (Scott and Wohl, 2017, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms)
Floodplain downed wood volumes: a comparison across three biomes (Lininger et al., 2017, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms)
Examining the effects of geomorphic characteristics on pool temperatures for native fish habitat management in mountainous stream networks (Laurel and Wohl, 2017, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
The fate of sediment, wood, and organic carbon eroded during an extreme flood, Colorado Front Range, USA (Rathburn et al., 2017, Geology)
Carbon dynamics of river corridors and the effects of human alterations (Wohl et al., 2017, Ecological Monographs)
Some recent and notable publications from our alums:
All logjams are not created equal (Livers & Wohl, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface)
Logjams and channel morphology influence sediment storage, transformation of organic matter, and carbon storage within mountain stream corridors (Sutfin et al., 2021, Water Resources Research)
Elevational differences in hydrogeomorphic disturbance regime influence sediment residence times within mountain river corridors (Sutfin & Wohl, 2019, Nature Communications)
Bedrock fracture influences on geomorphic process and form across process domains and scales (Scott & Wohl, 2019, Earth Surface Processes & Landforms)
Floodplain dynamics in North American permafrost regions under a warming climate and implications for organic carbon stocks: a review and synthesis (Lininger & Wohl, 2019, Earth-Science Reviews)
The persistence of beaver-induced geomorphic heterogeneity and organic carbon stock in river corridors (Laurel & Wohl, 2019, Earth Surface Processes & Landforms)
Significant floodplain soil organic carbon storage along a large high-latitude river and its tributaries (Lininger et al., 2019, Geophysical Research Letters)
Geomorphic controls on floodplain soil organic carbon in the Yukon Flats, Interior Alaska, from reach to river basin scales (Lininger et al., 2018, Water Resources Research)
Historical land use as a driver of alternative states for stream form and function in forested mountain watersheds of the Southern Rocky Mountains (Livers and Wohl, 2018, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms)
The pulse of driftwood export from a very large forested river basin over multiple time scales, Slave River, Canada (Kramer et al., 2017, Water Resources Research)
Rules of the road: a qualitative and quantitative synthesis of large wood transport through drainage networks (Kramer and Wohl, 2017, Geomorphology)
A 184-year record of river meander migration from tree rings, aerial imagery, and cross sections (Schook et al., 2017, Geomorphology)
Substantial soil organic carbon retention along floodplains of mountain streams (Sutfin and Wohl, 2017, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface)
A subset of Stanley Schumm’s publications:
Arroyos and the semiarid cycle of erosion (Schumm & Hadley, 1957, American Journal of Science)
Yield of sediment in relation to mean annual precipitation (Langbein & Schumm, 1958, EOS, AGU Transactions)
The shape of alluvial channels in relation to sediment type (Schumm, 1960, US Geological Survey Professional Paper)
River adjustment to altered hydrologic regime (Schumm, 1968, US Geological Survey Professional Paper)
Speculations concerning paleohydrologic controls of terrestrial sedimentation (Schumm, 1968, Geological Society of America Bulletin)
River metamorphosis (Schumm, 1969, ASCE, Journal of Hydraulics Division)
Experimental study of channel patterns (Schumm & Khan, 1972, Geological Society of America Bulletin)
Implications of complex response of drainage systems for Quaternary alluvial stratigraphy (Schumm & Parker, 1973, Nature)
Terraces of Douglas Creek, northwestern Colorado: An example of episodic erosion (Womack & Schumm, 1977, Geology)
The Fluvial System (Schumm, 1977, Wiley)
Ephemeral-stream processes: Implications for studies of Quaternary valley fills (Patton & Schumm, 1981, Quaternary Research)
Incised Channels: Morphology, Dynamics, and Control (Schumm et al., 1984, Water Resources Publications)
Patterns of alluvial rivers (Schumm, 1985, Annual Review Earth & Planetary Sciences)
Experimental Fluvial Geomorphology (Schumm et al., 1987, Wiley)
The Variability of Large Alluvial Rivers (Schumm & Winkley, eds, 1994, ASCE Press)
To Interpret the Earth: Ten Ways to be Wrong (Schumm, 1998, Cambridge University Press)
Active Tectonics and Alluvial Rivers (Schumm et al., 2000, Cambridge University Press)
River Variability and Complexity (Schumm, 2005, Cambridge University Press)