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• Geomorphic Processes and the Differences of Scale

• Lidar Data Use: Examples from the Upper Neuse River

• Simulated Water Erosion Model (SIMWE)

• Land Use History of Piedmont North Carolina

• NCSU Aquatic Animal Species Epidemiology and Conservation Genomics Laboratory Population and Pathobiology

• Freshwater Mussels

Research Interest: Multiscale processes in fluvial systems, accuracy and applications in spatial modeling, evolution and dynamics of piedmont streams in response to land use change, and fluvial processes and characteristics that affect benthic organisms

Freshwater benthic organisms, by definition, either live or spend a portion of their life history in the substrate of streams, and hence, are subject to geomorphic processes that affect the substrate. Streams in the Piedmont regions of the Eastern US have experienced decades of disturbance from anthropogenic sources that have contributed to changing stream processes and substrate quantity and quality. Changes in landuse, hillslope erosion rates and sediment input to streams has forced a general channel response of adjusting to those changes that can be described as channel evolution. The distribution of freshwater mussel habitat in two Upper Neuse River Basin streams can be modeled by the use of Simulated Water and Erosion (SIMWE),principles of channel evolution, substrate processes, and past and present land use. Completion of this research involves 3 project phases that are listed below.






Upper Neuse River Study Area

Current Projects:

The Use Lidar Data in GIS Application

Modeling Channel Disturbance and Response in Piedmont Streams

Geomorphic Controls on Freshwater Mussel Habitat in the North Carolina Piedmont

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Teaching

MEA 481 Principles of Geomorphology

MEA 101 Physical Geology

MEA 110 Physical Geology Lab