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Post-Wildfire Geomorphology

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Post-fire Sediment Dynamics &
​WaTer Supply Vulnerability

Funder: NSF-GLD
Collaborators: Patrick Belmont, Jon Czuba
Objective(s):

​Geographic Scope: Utah, USA

Topics include:
  • GIS tool development
  • Network sediment routing
  • Post-fire debris flow characterization
  • In-stream wood-sediment dynamics

Fire Severity &
​Fuel Treatment efficacy

Funder: JFSP
Collaborators: Larissa Yocom, Patrick Belmont
Objective(s):

​Geographic Scope: Utah, USA

Project includes studies on:
  • Fire severity prediction

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Post-fire Streamflow Response

Funder: NSF-Hydrology
Collaborators: Belize Lane
Objective(s):

​Geographic Scope: Colorado & western US

Project includes studies on:
  • Fire severity prediction


Transportation Infrastructure (Ut)

Funders: UDOT & USFS
Collaborators: Scott David, Patrick Belmont
Objective(s):

​Geographic Scope: Colorado & western US

Project includes studies on:
  • Fire severity prediction


Controls on Post-Fire Debris Flows
(Southern British Columbia)

Funders: NSERC

GIS Assessment Tools

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Our ability to analyze, predict, and interpret landscape response to large-scale disturbances, such as wildfire, requires the development of automated, easy-to-use geospatial tools for both delineation and hydrogeomorphic modeling across the various process domains within watersheds.

As part of our broader projects modeling erosion dynamics and sediment transport through large watersheds, our group is developing new, open source and open access Python-based tools with easy-to-use ArcGIS toolboxes.

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River Erosion

Weathering & erosional processes driving the evolution of bedrock rivers.

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EcoGeomorphology

Physical habitat disturbance, population dynamics, and ecological resilience.

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