Anna and Matt Whalen sampling for macroinvertebrates in Little Laurel Run during the Cheat River Rendezvous in WV. Photo from James Vonesh
Members of the Geography & Sustainability Dept. with Great Smoky Mountains National Park staff celebrating a successful LiDAR flight
Master's student Hope surveying pre-dam removal along Citico Creek, TN
Paddling the Blackwater River during the Cheat River Rendezvous in WV. Photo from Justin Harris
Nico testing the waters for kayak bathymetry as a method of pre-dam removal data
Hope, Tim, and Dryver preparing for post-Hurricane Helene LiDAR flight in GSMNP with some very curious elk visitors close by
Anna questionably using a gravelometer. We're not sure which phi size her head fits through! Photo from James Vonesh
Undergraduate student Ella during flood reconnaissance post- Hurricane Helene in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
2025 river scholars debriefing the day during the Cheat River Rendezvous in WV. Photo from Justin Harris.
Students from the Wilson Creek Geomorphology research group at Davidson College surveying post-Hurricane Helene logjams in NC
Beaver at work (and some admirers) in WV
Some curious field assistants in the Cataloochee Valley of Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Hope surveying wood augmentation river restoration reaches in the Cherokee National Forest
Collecting field measurements of channel bifurcation formation by boat along the Swan River in Montana
Anna accessing cienagas and the Magdalena River by boat in Colombia during the NSF funded River of the Andes Field Training
Anna surveying engineered logjam installed at a river restoration site in Colorado as post-project monitoring
Geomorphology undergraduate students surveying slope morphologies in Greyrock Canyon, CO
Undergraduate student McKenna conducting field research on the Swan River, Montana
Undergraduate student Keito staying afloat while surveying post-flood changes on the Butokama River in Japan
Ellen Wohl during post-fire field reconnaissance of Little Beaver Creek, CO immediately following the 2020 Cameron Peak Fire
3-D scanning logjams and mid-channel bars using iPad LiDAR scanners
Admiring the mighty Colorado River flowing through the Grand Canyon
Luke mixing salt as a tracer for looking at hyporheic flow paths in Colorado. Photo from Emily Iskin
Practicing avalanche safety before going into snowy field environments
Dam removal construction underway in Connecticut
Anna, Jackie, Stefan, and Ian mixing salt as a tracer to look at hyporheic flow paths in Colorado. Photo from Kamini Singha
Scouting out the North Fork Flathead River in Montana
Flume experiments looking at how logjam characteristics drive hyporheic exchange using a salt tracer and electrical resistivity