Research

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Rivers and their riparian corridors are the landscape’s integrators and exert a powerful influence on the ecosystems and communities through which they flow. To understand that influence under ongoing global change, river science must take a broad, integrative approach that draws on multiple disciplines while remaining observation driven.

In that spirit, I develop and integrate AI/ML predictive modeling, satellite remote sensing, and in situ sensing, all while using data fusion methods to integrate information across sensors, sources, and disciplinary perspectives. I have specific interests in river corridor transport processes, hydrologic connectivity, hydraulic geometry, headwater systems, and global monitoring.