Geomorphic and sedimentary effects of modern climate change: current and anticipated future conditions in the western United States

AE East, JB Sankey - Reviews of Geophysics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Hydroclimatic changes associated with global warming over the past 50 years have been
documented widely, but physical landscape responses are poorly understood thus far …

Buffered, incomplete, and shredded: The challenges of reading an imperfect stratigraphic record

KM Straub, RA Duller, BZ Foreman… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Climate, tectonics, and life influence the flux and caliber of sediment transported across
Earth's surface. These environmental conditions can leave behind imprints in the Earth's …

The degradation and detection of environmental signals in sediment transport systems

C Griffin, RA Duller, KM Straub - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Autogenic processes contribute noise to sediment transport systems that can degrade or
mask externally derived environmental signals and hinder our ability to reconstruct past …

Channel conveyance variability can influence flood risk as much as streamflow variability in western Washington state

S Ahrendt, AR Horner‐Devine… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Changes in the severity and likelihood of flooding events are typically associated
with changes in the intensity and frequency of streamflows, but temporal adjustments in a …

Multi-decadal erosion rates from glacierized watersheds on Mount Baker, Washington, USA, reveal topographic, climatic, and lithologic controls on sediment yields

E Schwat, E Istanbulluoglu, A Horner-Devine… - Geomorphology, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding land surface change in and sediment export out of proglacial landscapes is
critical for understanding geohazard and flood risks over engineering timescales and …

River bed elevation variability reflects sediment supply, rather than peak flows, in the uplands of Washington State

AM Pfeiffer, BD Collins, SW Anderson… - Water Resources …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
River channel beds aggrade and incise through time in response to temporal variation in the
upstream supply of water and sediment. However, we lack a thorough understanding of …

Spatial Patterns of Disconnectivity Explain Catchment‐Scale Sediment Dynamics and Transfer Efficiencies

M Turley, MA Hassan - Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
While connectivity studies are becoming common in the Earth sciences, disconnectivity has
received much less attention. Sediment storage is the direct result of sediment …

Forest management history influences eight decades of shallow landsliding in the northwest Cascade Mountains, USA

GB Seixas, CN Veldhuisen - Earth Surface Processes and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Forest management‐driven increases in landsliding may impact aquatic habitat and water
quality, yet it is difficult to disentangle the effects of hydroclimate from evolving land‐use …

Frequent mass movements from glacial and lahar terraces, controlled by both hillslope characteristics and fluvial erosion, are an important sediment source to Puget …

DN Scott, BD Collins - Water Resources Research, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Mass movements from glacial and lahar terraces in the middle and lower reaches of rivers
draining the Washington Cascade Range to Puget Sound may represent a substantial but …

Shifting food web structure during dam removal—Disturbance and recovery during a major restoration action

SA Morley, MM Foley, JJ Duda, MM Beirne… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
We measured food availability and diet composition of juvenile salmonids over multiple
years and seasons before and during the world's largest dam removal on the Elwha River …