{"id":45,"date":"2016-05-24T02:23:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T02:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/fluvial-geomorphology\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2023-11-17T18:40:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T18:40:16","slug":"dr-sara-rathburn","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/fluvial-geomorphology\/people\/dr-sara-rathburn\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Sara Rathburn"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Email<\/strong>: sara.rathburn@colostate.edu<\/p>\r\n

Previous Education<\/strong>: Colorado State University (B.S. Earth Resources, 1985), University of Arizona (MS Geosciences, 1989), Colorado State University (PhD Earth Resources, 2001)<\/p>\r\n

About Sara<\/strong>: Originally from Boulder, I found Fort Collins as an undergraduate geology student and am fortunate to be back working at CSU.\u00a0 I thoroughly enjoy backcountry skiing, hiking into various water bodies with my family, gardening, cooking, and eating!<\/p>\r\n

Research<\/strong>: My research emphasis is on watershed response to sediment disturbances. Working in a bedrock river in the Front Range of CO, I used various flow and sediment transport models to predict recovery from a reservoir sediment release that filled pools that are important habitat for fish. From there, I moved to the Upper Colorado River where I have had four students work on various aspects of a sediment release from a breach in an irrigation ditch that triggered a debris flow, including monitoring the effectiveness of a channel restoration implemented by park staff. In response to the High Park Fire in 2012, another student assessed controls on channel morphology and sediment delivery from one mulched and one control basin. I worked with colleagues on Italian Alps rivers to investigate channel response to an increasing sediment supply under a changing climate. I expanded my spatial focus to work on big rivers (lower Yellowstone, Powder River) with a PhD student using cottonwood tree rings to reconstruct discharge, floodplain dynamics, and climate history, and with another PhD student to research the geologic and climate controls (permafrost degradation) on mass movements in Denali. Another MS student addressed the ongoing impacts of the September 2013 flood sedimentation and channel development along North St. Vrain Creek. With a former PhD student, we worked with colleagues from the USGS to understand the timing of arroyo incision and cottonwood floodplain forest establishment. Currently, with a PhD student we are investigating the effects of invasive vegetation removal on channel morphologic change across the SW U.S. and incorporating plant traits into hydraulic models to understand the effects on hydraulics and sediment transport. In addition, my former MS student (co-advised with Dan McGrath) investigated valley floor alluvial dynamics at CSU’s Mountain Campus, and a current MS student is evaluating the geomorphic potential of channel restoration along tributaries of the Upper Colorado River. All interesting stuff!<\/p>\r\n

Publications:<\/strong>\u00a0See my vitae<\/b><\/p>\r\n

Rathburn CV<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n

Recently Funded Proposals<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

1) 1) 2021-2023 Assessing Drainage Basin History Using Delta Stratigraphy at Halligan Reservoir, North Fork Cache la Poudre River, City of Fort Collins.
2) 2020-2021 Putting Down Roots: Afforestation and Channel Stability of Icelandic Rivers, US Department of State, Fulbright-NSF Arctic Research Grant, 4-month stipend and travel.
3) 2020-2024 Collect Baseline Geomorphology Data to Aid in Deadman Wash Site Preservation, US Department of Interior, National Park Service.<\/p>\r\n

Links:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Department faculty website<\/a><\/p>\r\n

GetWET Observatory<\/a><\/p>\r\n

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