Interests
I am interested in various surface processes in rivers, deltas, estuaries, and marshes. Recent efforts have focused on fluvio-deltaic and coastal plain systems, focusing on the hydrodynamic and geomorphic response of these systems to internal and external forcings at various time scales, frequently spanning from inter-annual to century. We do so by studying regional-to-local processes driving geomorphic change using observations in the field, numerical process-based models, and often reduced complexity models. Much of our research takes place in the Mississippi River Delta Plain, where the ongoing transgression provides unique conditions to study the effects of sea level rise, storms, and processes on wetlands and barrier islands, with transferable knowledge to systems worldwide. Recent research efforts include paleo reconstructions of waves and tides to better understand regressive systems, basin infilling, hydrodynamic and geomorphic controls on tidal point bars, morphodynamics of the fluvial-to-marine transition and barrier islands, controls on delta distributary channel kinematics, and exchange processes between estuaries and the coastal ocean.
I am interested in various surface processes in rivers, deltas, estuaries, and marshes. Recent efforts have focused on fluvio-deltaic and coastal plain systems, focusing on the hydrodynamic and geomorphic response of these systems to internal and external forcings at various time scales, frequently spanning from inter-annual to century. We do so by studying regional-to-local processes driving geomorphic change using observations in the field, numerical process-based models, and often reduced complexity models. Much of our research takes place in the Mississippi River Delta Plain, where the ongoing transgression provides unique conditions to study the effects of sea level rise, storms, and processes on wetlands and barrier islands, with transferable knowledge to systems worldwide. Recent research efforts include paleo reconstructions of waves and tides to better understand regressive systems, basin infilling, hydrodynamic and geomorphic controls on tidal point bars, morphodynamics of the fluvial-to-marine transition and barrier islands, controls on delta distributary channel kinematics, and exchange processes between estuaries and the coastal ocean.
