River System Science at Chapel Hill

(2009-2010 River Group: front: Jordan Kern, Stephen Teet, Lauren Patterson, Jeff Muehlbauer, Brad Bennett; back: Mark Green (guest from Plymouth State), Jon Duncan, Autumn Thoyre, JR Rigby, Daisy Small, Martin Doyle, Philip Womble, Dan Band, Scott Ensign; not in picture, Tim Baird and Patrick Clay)

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Recent News

JR Rigby joins group as post-doc to work on water quality, climate, and market interactions

Doyle will be on leave for 2009-2010 as the Frederick Clarke Visiting Fellow at the US Army Corps of Engineers’ Institute for Water Resources

Lauren Patterson receives 2007 Kasperson Award (AAG-Hazards Group) and UNC’s IMPACT Award for Grad Research in North Carolina

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 headed to Seattle for NOAA research internship (as part of Hollings Scholarship from NOAA)

Erich Hester heads to Virginia Tech Univ as Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Jason Julian heads to Univ of Oklahoma as assistant professor of Geography

Jeff Muehlbauer receives president’s award from NABS

Doyle named Guggenheim Fellow

Tim Baird receives Fulbright and NSF-DDIG for work in Tanzania

Horace Bixby is still dead

100^th anniversary of death of Mark Twain less than 6 months away

River System Science Research Group

	Martin Doyle Associate Professor and fearless leader [on leave 2009-2010] PhD, Earth Science, Purdue MS, Environ Engineering, Ole Miss BS, Physics, Math, Harding Interests: Rivers Doyle’s web page		Daisy Small PhD student (Geography) MA, UNC, 2006 (Geography) BS, Botany, Env Studies, Connecticut College Interests: Hydraulics, stream ecology, restoration, botany; unstable channels Daisy's web page
	Scott Ensign PhD Student (Ecology) MS, Ecology, UNC BS, Biology, UNC-Wilmington Interests: Stream and estuary biogeochemistry and ecology Scott's web page		Lauren Patterson MS Student (Geography) BS, Geology, Purdue Interests: Spatial analysis, hazards Lauren’s web page
	Autumn Thoyre PhD Student (Geography) MS, Sustainability, Lund Univ (Sweden) BS, Environ Sci, UNC Interests: Sustainability, theory Autumn’s web page		Jeff Muehlbauer PhD Student (Ecology) BS, Biology and Chemistry, Northern Arizona Interests: Stream ecology, headwater streams Jeff’s web page
	Brad Bennett MSE Environmental Engineering student (starting 2009) with Characklis and Doyle BS 2006 (Environmental Science and Math!) BS Engin, 2009 UNC-Charlotte		JR Rigby Post-doc PhD Civil Engineering Duke 2009 BS Physics, Ole Miss
	Tim Baird PhD Geography student Interests: human-environment; Tanzania BA Bowdoin, MA UNC Tim’s web page		Horace Bixby (1826-1912) 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." Bixby’s obit

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

	Joel Sholtes MS Student (Geography) BS, Environ Science, Duke Interests: Stream hydraulics, restoration, mitigation banking Joel’s web page
	Erich Hester PhD 2008 (Ecology) (Now Assist Prof in Civil/Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech) MS, Environmental Engineering, Stanford BS, Ecology, Dartmouth Interests: Stream ecology, hyporheic processes, river restoration, hydraulic modeling super-stud Erich's web page	Sally Whisler BS Student (Biology and Env Stu)) Now environmental scientist at Research Triangle Institute Interests: Riparian vegetation and regulated rivers
	TC Hales Post-doc 2007 (Now Assistant Prof, Cardiff Univ, Wales) PhD 2006, Geology, Univ of Oregon) BS, 2000, Univ of Canterbury Geomorphology, weathering, debris slides TC’s web page	Jason Julian PhD 2007 (Geography) (Now Assistant Prof, Dept of Geography, University of Oklahoma) MS, Geology, Univ of South Carolina BA, Geography, Univ of South Carolina Geomorphology, bank erosion, dam removal, river restoration Jason's web page
	Adam Riggsbee PhD 2006 (Environmental Science and Engineering) BS, Biology, Western Carolina Now at Restoration Systems, LLC Limnology, biogeochemistry, dams and dam removal Current web page	Cailin Orr Post-doc 2005 PhD, Limnology, Univ of Wisconsin MS, Limnology, Univ of Wisconsin BS, Biology, Carleton Now Assistant Prof in School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Washington State University Stream ecology and biogeochemistry Cailin’s web page
	Frank Matt “Outer Banks” Smith BS 2006 (Geography and Geology) Geomorphology, landslides, geo-archaeology Now MS student at Virginia Tech Now MS student in Biosystems Engineering at Virginia Tech	Rebecca Manners MS 2006 (Geography) BA, Geography, Dartmouth Now PhD student at Utah State Univ Geomorphology, large woody debris, hydraulics, river restoration Rebecca's web page
	Jordan Kern BS 2006 (Environmental Science) Now MS student in UNC Environmental Engineering	Chris Jochem BS 2006 (Geography) Now at Oak Ridge National Lab
	Sarah Carter BA 2005 (Geography) (Now at AmeriCorps)	Josh Brown Undergrad (Geography, BA 2005) Biogeography, geo-archaeology Lost…
		Arjun Dongre Undergrad (Environmental Science, BS, 2005) Wetland and river restoration Currently at: Bio-habitats, Inc.
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