Researcher Jonathan Winter says spring and fall downpours have seen about an 84 percent increase, while winter and summer have seen more moderate increases of 45 and 27 percent, respectively. The study was published in the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Hydrometeorology last month.
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Congratulations to Frank Magilligan, Buraas, E.M., and Renshsaw, C.E., 2015. The efficacy of stream power and flow duration on geomorphic responses to catastrophic flooding, Geomorphology, 228: 175-188) was selected for the 2017 G.K. Gilbert Award for "Excellence in Geomorphological Research” awarded by the Geomorphology Specialty Group of the AAG.
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Stephanie Spera joined the Geography Department as a Neukom Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in 2016. After spending four years counting craters on Mars as an Earth and Planetary Science major at Washington University in St. Louis, Stephanie decided to give up on that planet and focus on her own. Broadly, her research asks, ‘How do we ensure that we manage our landscapes sustainably?’
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Society of Fellows Garrett Nelson writes "If we think carefully about the flaws in measuring how dense a place is, we can better articulate what we actually value about urbanism." https://www.citylab.com/tech/2016/10/the-deception-of-density/502646/
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Julie’s research focuses on disentangling the drivers of ecosystem change in North America throughout the last 10,000 years.
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