Biographical Sketches
Binghamton 2006 Symposium
Andrew Brooks Griffith Univ., Australia
Fluvial geomorphologist and Senior Research Fellow (Qld Smart State Fellow), Centre for Riverine Landscapes who has published broadly on the relative extent of natural and human-induced geomorphic changes in rivers and the development of ecologically appropriate river rehabilitation techniques. Initiated the largest collaborative experimental river rehabilitation project in Australia (Upper Hunter River Rehabilitation Initiative). Currently leading a project to develop a geomorphic classification for Australian Tropical Rivers, and a development team in a research initiative on Tropical Rivers across the Carpentaria and Timor Sea drainage divisions.
David R. Butler Texas State Univ.-San Marcos, USA
Professor of Geography and Graduate Program Coordinator. Chair of the Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium series Steering Committee since 2003. He received the Assn. American Geographers (AAG) Geomorphology Specialty Group's G.K. Gilbert Award for Excellence in Geomorphological Research in 1998 for his book Zoogeomorphology - Animals as Geomorphic Agents. He also received the AAG Mountain Geography Specialty Group's Distinguished Career Award in 2006. Interests include zoogeomorphology, mountain geomorphology, geomorphic hazards, dendrogeomorphology, and geomorphological responses to climatic change. Butler is the Book Review Editor for Geomorphology.
Anne Chin Texas A&M Univ and National Science Foundation., USA
Associate Professor of Geography; Anne Chin has interests in examining the nature, causes, and consequences of human activities on river systems, especially urbanization in dryland environments, as well as in developing sustainable strategies for river channel management. She also specializes in the energetics of step-pool mountain streams, receiving the 2004 G.K. Gilbert Award for Excellence in Geomorphological Research from the Geomorphology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers for such work. She serves on the editorial boards of Geography Compass and The Southwestern Geographer and is currently Chair of the Geomorphology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers and Program Director of Geography and Regional Science at the National Science Foundation.
Andrew Goudie Oxford Univ., UK
Currently Master of St Cross College, Oxford; has served as Honorary Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society (1980-1988), Vice President of the RGS, Executive Secretary and Chairman of the British Geomorphological Research Group, and is the current President of the International Association of Geomorphologists. He is a founder and former Deputy Editor of the Journal of Arid Environments and is on the editorial board of Progress in Physical Geography. He has received medals from the RGS, Royal Scottish Geographical Society, and Royal Academy of Belgium. Professor Goudie's primary research interests include the geomorphology of deserts, climatic change, environmental archaeology, and the impact of humans on the environment. He has worked extensively in southern Africa and the Middle East. In addition to authoring nearly 200 scientific papers, he has authored, co-authored, or edited numerous books including (to name a few): The Human Impact, The Nature of the Environment, Environmental Change, The Encyclopedia of Global Change, Geomorphology of Deserts, Geomorphological Techniques, Desert Geomorphology, The Earth Transformed, and the Encyclopedia of Geomorphology.
William L. Graf Univ. South Carolina, USA
Foundation University Professor and former president of the Association of American Geographers. His research focuses on the geomorphology and hydrology of large rivers, particularly in response to human activities (especially dams) and with an emphasis on the resulting ecological changes. He has coupled his river-related research with extensive participation with decision-makers on issues related to environmental management and restoration related to the protection of endangered species. He has authored or co-authored numerous papers and reports, and several books including: The Colorado River: Instability and Basin Management, Geomorphic Systems of North America (Ed.), Fluvial Processes in Dryland Rivers, Wilderness Preservation and the Sagebrush Rebellions, Plutonium and the Rio Grande, and Dam Removal Research: Status and Prospects (Ed.). He was committee chair and lead author for New Strategies for America's Watersheds, Dam Removal: Science and Decision Making, and Threatened and Endangered Species of the Platte River.
Kenneth J. Gregory Retired, UK
Ken Gregory has research interests in river channel change, river channel management, palaeohydrology and the nature of physical geography. Since he retired from the post as Vice Chancellor of Goldsmiths University of London he has held a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship, has been President of the GLOCOPH Commission of INQUA and was Chair of the Organising Committee for the 30th International Geographical Congress. He has received medals from the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and the British Geomorphological Research Group and has Honorary Degrees from the Universities of Southampton and Greenwich. In addition to 150 papers and chapters his books have included Drainage Basin Form and Process (1973, with D.E. Walling); River Channel Changes (1977, Ed.); The Nature of Physical Geography (1985); Temperate Palaeohydrology of the Last 15,000 Years (1991 Ed. with L. Starkel and J.B. Thornes); Global Continental Palaeohydrology (1995, Ed. with L. Starkel and V.R. Baker); Global Continental Changes: the Context of Palaeohydrology (1996, Ed. with J. Branson and A.G. Brown); Palaeohydrology and Environmental Change (1998, Ed. with G. Benito and V.R. Baker); Fluvial Geomorphology of Great Britain (1997, Ed.); The Changing Nature of Physical Geography, (2000); Palaeohydrology: Understanding Global Change (2003, Ed. with G.Benito); River Channel Management (2004, with P.W.Downs); Physical Geography (2005, 4 volumes. Ed.).
Carol Harden Univ. Tennessee, USA
Professor of Geography; member of editorial board of Physical Geography; national councilor and chair
of the Publications Committee of the Association of American Geographers. Her research interests are
in watershed dynamics, particularly in the connections between water and sediment on land and in
headwater stream channels. She has conducted research linking rainfall runoff, soil erosion, and human
activities in the Ecuadorian Andes since 1984.
Janet Hooke Univ. Portsmouth, UK
Professor of Physical Geography. She is a fluvial geomorphologist of international repute, with long-standing research interests in river channel changes, river meandering and fluvial processes. More recently, her work has been concentrated in Mediterranean environments, through the EU funded projects MEDALUS and RECONDES, focusing on impacts of hydrological and land use changes and the interaction of vegetation with fluvial processes. She is a past Chair of the British Geomorphological Research Group.
L. Allan James Univ. South Carolina, USA
Associate Professor of Geography; on the Editorial Board of Geomorphology. He has served as chair of the Geomorphology and the Water Resources specialty groups of the Association of American Geographers. He is author of a textbook: Watersheds and Water Resources (in review).
Ranbir Kang Oklahoma State Univ., USA
Doctoral candidate in Geography who earned his B.A. degree from Doaba College and his M.A. degree from Panjab University in India. His principle research interests are in fluvial geomorphology, watershed modeling, water resources conservation, and GIScience applications to understanding water resources.
James C. Knox Univ. Wisconsin, USA
Evjue-Bascom Professor of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison and Research Associate of the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey. His teaching and research interests emphasize fluvial geomorphology and Quaternary geomorphology, especially in the context of how natural and human-related environmental changes impact floods, erosion, sedimentation, river morphology, and landscape evolution. His current research is focused on the Upper Mississippi River. Knox received the Mel Marcus Distinguished Career Award from the Geomorphology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers in 2001, and the Easterbrook Distinguished Scientist Award of the Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division of the Geological Society of America in 2006.
Patricia F. McDowell Univ. Oregon, USA
Professor in the Department of Geography and the Environmental Studies Program, and head of the Department of Geography at University of Oregon. Her research and teaching interests focus on fluvial geomorphology, human impacts on river systems, and river and watershed management and policy. She has conducted research on Quaternary stratigraphy, recovery of stream channels in grazing exclosures, and effects of floods on channel morphology, with field research in Oregon, Alaska, and Wisconsin.
Mark Macklin Univ. Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
Holds the established Chair of Physical Geography at the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Wales Aberystwyth; and is Head of the River Basin Dynamics and Hydrology Research Group. He was recently awarded a Research Chair as part of UWA's new Centre for Catchment and Coastal Research and will be its first Director. His research focuses on fluvial systems and environmental change (including society-nature interactions) in the UK, Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean region and South America. Macklin has co-edited six books related to rivers and sediment: Alluvial Archaeology in Britain, Mediterranean Quaternary River Environments, River Basin Sediment Systems: Archives of Environmental Change, Alluvial Archaeology in Europe, The Environmental and Socio-economic Impact of Industrial Tailings Ponds, and Past Hydrological Events Related to Understanding Global Change.
W. Andrew Marcus Univ. Oregon, USA
Andrew Marcus is a Professor of Geography. His research examines river responses to disturbance (especially human caused disturbance), variations in responses at different geographic locales and scales, and remote sensing of rivers. He has coupled his river-related research with environmental education initiatives, participating with non-profit organizations to develop field-based science and geographic education programs for grades K-12. He has served as Chair of the Geomorphology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers, Chair of the Central Asia Institute, Vice Chair of the Yosemite National Institutes, and President of the University of Oregon Senate. He is on the editorial boards of Geomorphology and the Annals of the Association of American Geographers. He publications include his role as co-editor of the 2006 Binghamton Symposium on The Human Role in Changing Fluvial Systems.
Richard Marston Kansas State Univ., USA
University Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Geography. Since 1999, he has served as Co-Editor-in-Chief for the international Elsevier journal, Geomorphology. He served as President of the Association of American Geographers for 2005-06. Fellow in the Geological Society of America. His principle research interests are in environmental geomorphology, mountain geography, and water resource geography.
N. LeRoy Poff Colorado State Univ., USA
Associate Professor of Biology with primary research interests in understanding multi-scaled relationships between environmental variation and community composition in riverine ecosystems. He is particularly interested in understanding how hydrologic regime mediates habitat dynamics, species interactions and community structure and function, and in predicting the consequences of flow alteration and climate change for riverine biodiversity and ecological sustainability.
Andrew Simon USGS, Oxford MS, USA
Research Geologist at the ARS-National Sedimentation Laboratory in Oxford Mississippi. He has 26 years of research experience (16 with the U.S. Geological Survey) in sediment transport and unstable landscapes, particularly incised channels and streambank processes. He is the author of more than 100 technical publi cations and has edited several books and journals. Dr. Simon is an adjunct Professor at the University of Mississippi, Special Professor in the School of Geography, University of Nottingham, UK, and is on the Editorial Board of the journal Geomorphology.
Des Walling Exeter Univ., UK
Des Walling is a hydrologist/fluvial geomorphologist with a long-term interest and erosion and sediment delivery and catchment sediment budgets. His work has ranged from detailed investigations in small catchments to global syntheses and he has worked extensively on the application of environmental
radionuclides as sediment tracers. He is currently President of the World Association for Sedimentation and Erosion Research. (WASER), Honorary President of the International Commission on Continental Erosion (ICCE) and a former President of the International Association for Sediment and Water Science (IASWS). Amongst others, Walling has edited and co-edited 14 International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) Publications 'Red Books', dealing with the field of erosion and sedimentation.
Ellen E. Wohl Colorado State Univ., USA
Professor Wohl’s research focuses on form and process in mountain streams and bedrock canyons, and includes physical-biological interactions and human effects on these rivers. She has served as Chair of the Quaternary Geology & Geomorphology Division of the Geological Society of America and is on the editorial boards of Geomorphology, the Geological Society of America Bulletin, and Water Resources Research. She has written numerous papers and has authored or edited several books on rivers including Rivers Over Rock: Fluvial Processes in Bedrock Channels (Ed. with Tinkler), Inland Flood Hazards (Ed.), Mountain Rivers, Virtual Rivers, Disconnected Rivers, and A World of Rivers (currently in review).
M. Gordon (Reds) Wolman Johns Hopkins Univ., USA
M. Gordon Wolman is the B. Howard Griswold Professor of Geography and International Affairs at The Johns Hopkins University. His research has examined earth surface processes with an emphasis on erosion, sedimentation and landform evolution, the interaction of human activities and natural processes in altering the environment, and environmental policy. He has wide-ranging administrative experience, including work as Interim Provost for The Johns Hopkins University and service as Chairman of the Board for Resources for the Future. His extensive publications and commitment to public service have earned him appointment to the National Academy of Engineering and wide professional renown. His awards reflect the many disciplines he has contributed to, including: the Lifetime Achievement Award, National Council for Science and the Environment; the Horton Medal, American Geophysical Union; the Penrose Medal, Geological Society of America; the D.L. Linton Award, British Geomorphological Research Group; the Distinguished Career Award, Association of American Geographers Geomorphology Specialty Group; and the John Wesley Powell Award, U.S. Geological Survey.
Tim B. Abbe Herrera Env. Consultants, Seattle, WA, USA
Angela H. Arthington Griffith Univ, Australia
G. Bird Univ. Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
Brian P. Bledsoe Colorado State Univ., CO, USA
P.A. Brewer Univ. Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
T.J. Coulthard Univ. Hull, UK
Christopher O. Cuhaciyan Colorado State Univ., CO, USA
I.A. Dennis Univ. Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
Timothy Howell Griffith Univ., Australia
K.A. Hudson-Edwards Univ. London, UK
P.J. Lechler Univ. Nevada, Reno, USA
J.R. Miller Western Carolina Univ., USA
Massimo Rinaldi Univ. di Firenze, Italia
J.N. Turner Univ. College Dublin, Eire
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