My research integrates surface process modeling with quantitative geomorphology to build our understanding of landscape change.

I focus on deltaic environments, which possess an abundance of natural resources that are critical for societal wellbeing. Delta sustainability is uncertain though, due to a multitude of natural and anthropogenic factors including sea-level rise, sediment supply reduction, land subsidence, and river avulsion. These challenges to delta sustainability are surmountable, but understanding deltaic system complexity is prerequisite to sustainable management.

Specifically, I partition my research into three key themes

  1. Sustainable landscape management: what is the process of natural river, delta, and coastal evolution and how is human activity affecting this?
  2. Water and ground-fluid resources: what processes lead to emergent organization of the stratigraphic record and how can we leverage this to constrain subsurface fluid pathways?
  3. People and landscapes under changing climate: how will changing climate affect connections between landscape processes, and in turn modulate human activity?

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