River
System Science at
(2007 River Retreat at Coweeta: Left to right: Ensign, Patterson, Julian, Hester, Jochem, John, Smith, Doyle, Small)
Links
Annual River Retreat
(readings for upcoming 2008 retreat) Prospective Students
Recent News for 2007-2008
Lauren
Patterson receives 2007 Kasperson Award (AAG-Hazards Group) and UNC’s IMPACT
Award for Grad Research in
Scott
Ensign receives EPA-STAR grant, and 2007 Best Paper Award from Ecological
Society of America (Biogeosci section) for Ensign and Doyle, 2006
Ben
Bogardus receives 2008 research apprenticeship at
Erich
Hester paper published in Water Resources
Research (see publications page)
Jason
and Victoria Julian have first baby, and Jason defends dissertation and Jason
moves to Appalachian Research Lab for post-doc
Aging
infrastructure paper published in Science
by Doyle et al.
Doyle
named 2008 Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow by Stanford Univ
Horace
Bixby is still dead
River System Science Research Group
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Martin
Doyle PhD,
Earth Science, Purdue MS,
Environ Engineering, Ole Miss BS,
Physics, Math, Harding Interests:
Rivers Doyle’s web page |
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Daisy Small MA, UNC, 2006 (Geography) BS, Botany, Env Studies, Interests:
Hydraulics, stream ecology, restoration, botany; unstable channels |
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Scott Ensign MS, Ecology, UNC BS, Biology, UNC-Wilmington Interests:
Stream and estuary biogeochemistry and ecology |
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Erich Hester MS, Environmental Engineering, Stanford BS, Ecology, Interests: Stream ecology, hyporheic processes, river restoration,
hydraulic modeling super-stud |
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Lauren Patterson BS, Geology, Purdue Interests: Spatial analysis, hazards |
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Jeff Muehlbauer BS, Biology and Chemistry, Northern Arizona Interests:
Stream ecology, headwater streams |
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Joel Sholtes BS, Environ Science, Duke
Interests:
Stream hydraulics, restoration, mitigation banking |
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Horace
Bixby Interests: Riverboat pilot; cub trainer "When I say
I'll learn a man the river I mean it. And you can depend on it I'll learn him
or kill him." |
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Ben Bogardus Interests:
Rivers, dam removal, running a really long way really really fast |
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Sally Whisler Interests:
Riparian vegetation and regulated rivers |
UNC/Duke River Research
Larry Band, UNC Geography – watershed hydrology and biogeochemistry,
spatial modeling, remote sensing and GISc
Emily Bernhardt, Duke Biology – stream biogeochemistry,
stream restoration, all things ecological
Phil Berke – UNC City and Regional Planning - landuse and
watershed environmental planning, hazards and floodplains
Todd BenDor, UNC City and Regional Planning – wetland
mitigation banking, spatial analysis and economics
Greg Characklis, UNC Environmental Science and Engineering –
water economics, microbial partitioning
Mike Piehler, UNC Marine Science – coastal and estuarine
biogeochemistry, microbial ecology
Research Group Alums
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TC Hales (Now
Assistant Prof, Cardiff Univ, Wales) PhD 2006, Geology, Univ of BS, 2000, Univ of Geomorphology,
weathering, debris slides |
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Jason Julian (Now post doc at Appalachian Lab, Univ of
Maryland) MS, Geology, Univ of BA, Geography, Univ of
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Adam Riggsbee BS, Biology, Now at Restoration Systems, LLC Limnology,
biogeochemistry, dams and dam removal |
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Cailin Orr PhD, Limnology, Univ of MS, Limnology, Univ of BS, Biology, Carleton Now at National Center for Earth Surface Dynamics Stream
ecology and biogeochemistry |
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Frank Matt “Outer Banks” Smith Now
MS student at Virginia Tech Now
MS student in Biosystems Engineering at Virginia Tech |
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Rebecca Manners BA, Geography, Dartmouth Geomorphology,
large woody debris, hydraulics, river restoration |
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Jordan Kern BS 2006 (Environmental Science) Now at Department of Energy |
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Chris Jochem BS 2006 (Geography) Now at Oak Ridge National Lab |
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Sarah Carter BA 2005
(Geography) (Now at AmeriCorps) |
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Josh Brown Lost…
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Brad Bennett Now at Univ of NC, Charlotte |
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Arjun Dongre Currently
at: Bio-habitats, Inc. |
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