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Anna and Matt Whalen sampling for macroinvertebrates in Little Laurel Run during the Cheat River Rendezvous in WV. Photo from James Vonesh
Hope and Mairin are studying geomorphic responses to dam removal in collaboration with the UTK FACE Lab’s fish monitoring efforts.
Rae, Hope, and Nico were all award recipients at the Geography & Sustainability end-of-year awards ceremony!
Research by day, campfire chefs by night.
Members of the Geography & Sustainability Dept. with Great Smoky Mountains National Park staff celebrating a successful LiDAR flight
Another day, another giant logjam!
Hope stays cool while collecting the data that reveal how rivers change after restoration.
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
Students in Anna's GEOG 436 water resources learning how to measure stream velocity.
Rae is uncovering how rivers store flood-derived fluxes by quantifying sediment storage patterns across streams in western North Carolina.
Master's student Hope surveying pre-dam removal along Citico Creek, TN
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.
Mairin and Grace ready for a summer of fieldwork!
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
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
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
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