2018 – Dendrochronology Research Lab

AAG New Orleans

April 5, 2018

My colleagues and I will be giving talks and hosting sessions on Paleofloods at next weeks AAG meeting. Come hear all about it! Past Perspectives on River Environments 1: Flood Reconstructions in Locations Outside the U.S. Napoleon B2, Sheraton 3rd Floor 08:00 am Past Perspectives on River Environments 2: Flood Reconstructions in the Mississippi River Basin and the Western U.S. Napoleon B2, Sheraton 3rd Floor 10:00 am Past Perspectives on River Environments 3: Flood Reconstructions in the Southeastern U.S. Napoleon […]

Nature paper in UA news

April 4, 2018

A UA News feature covers our recent Nature paper on Mississippi River flooding “More than Climate, Engineering Worsening Flooding Along Mississippi” “TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Through discovering ancient floods along the Mississippi River, a group of scientists, including a University of Alabama professor, found human-led engineering, not climate, is the largest influence on worsening floods.”

Increasing community resilience in coastal watersheds of Alabama…

April 3, 2018

Super excited that US EPA will be funding our project on streamflow reconstruction in Alabama watersheds (Increasing community resilience in coastal watersheds of Alabama by risk assessment of past, present and future trends in hydrologic and hydroclimatic extremes). It is imperative that Alabama develop a comprehensive state water policy and understanding the long-term variability of the resource is a great first step.

Cool Mississippi River flooding story

March 30, 2018

Interesting story in the Washington Post about infrastructure and flooding on the Mississippi River.

St Marks, FL

March 14, 2018

Saw a beautiful old Lighthouse in the Big Bend country of FL the other day. The St. Marks lighthouse is apparently the 2nd oldest in FL having been at this location since 1842.

Moss Rock Preserve

February 17, 2018

Took my physical geography class up to Moss Rock Preserve to check out the Fort Payne sandstone glades. There are some really nice old growth longleaf pine up there as well as very old looking virginia pines and some blackjack oak. There are some great waterfalls in the park as well.

Temporal and spatial patterns of sedimentation within the batture lands of the middle Mississippi River, USA

February 2, 2018

Another cool article led by our collaborator Jon Remo at SIU as part of our Mississippi River flood ring project. It explores the spatiotemporal patterns, rates, and volume of sedimentation within the batture lands along the middle Mississippi River (MMR; between the confluence of the Missouri and Ohio rivers) using several approaches including dendrogeomorphological methods. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2018.02.010

Assessing the impacts of dams and levees on the hydrologic record of the Middle and Lower Mississippi River, USA

January 5, 2018

A really important paper that looks at the impact of infrastructure on streamflow on the Mississippi. This work is part of our larger Mississippi River flood ring project. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2018.01.004

Dendrochronology Research Lab

Department of Geography and the Environment

Year: 2018