INTRODUCTION
Prof. research focuses on changes in river systems, in particular human and natural alterations that make flooding more severe than it would otherwise be. Looking at the Mississippi, Missouri, Rhine, Danube, and other rivers in the U.S. and worldwide, this work involves quantifying the impacts of levee expansion, navigational engineering, changes in basin land use, and other factors.
Prof. research involves statistical flood hydrology, remote sensing, GIS analysis, hydraulic modeling, and field work.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Flooding
Floodplain management
Flood magnification
Risk assessment
Disaster mitigation
Flood damages
River dynamics
River system change
Fluvial geomorphology
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
1996 - Full Professor, Southern Illinois University
Author: Prentice Hall and John Wiley & Sons
1995 -1996 Postdoctoral Researcher, Yale University
EDUCATION
1988 - 1993 PhD., University of California, Santa Barbara
1986 - 1988 M.S., Penn State University, Univ. Park, PA
1982 - 1986 B.A., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
RECENT HONORS/AWARDS
nominee, 2003 St. Louis Area Scientist of the Year; St. Louis Academy of Science
2003 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Prize; Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2002 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Research and Writing Award
2000 Fulbright Foundation Fellowship
1999 Charles A. Lindbergh Foundation Prize
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Convener, American Association for the Advancement of Science Workshop: Managing rivers and floodplains for the new millennium. AAAS national meeting, 2006.
External Reviewer, National Research Council, The National Academies: Review of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Restructured Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway Navigation Study.
Member, Advisory Board: The Nature Conservancy Great Rivers Center (Upper Mississippi, Parana-Paraguay, and Upper Yangtze River systems).
Instructor, European Union Advanced School on Tectonics: 3D Monitoring of Active Tectonic Structures, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, April 18-22, 2005.
Convener, NATO Advanced Research Workshop: The Adria microplate: GPS geodesy, tectonics, and hazards. Veszprm, Hungary; April, 2004.
Consultant: Great Rivers Habitat Alliance & Missouri Coalition for the Environment: Technical analysis for legal challenges to St. Peters Levee project & Upper Mississippi Flow Frequency Study
Expert Witness: Henderson County Drainage District No. 2 et al. v. United States of America, U.S. Federal Court, Kansas City, Missouri.
Member, Editorial Board: Geomorphology, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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