Geomorphology Brown Bag Seminar
FALL 2009 -
FRIDAYS 12-1pm in ALS 3006

Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
October 18-21, 2009 Portland, Oregon

In the News
Geology Key to Oregon's Water:
Grants Pass Daily Courier 7/27/09

Feeding the Rogue River:
Grants Pass Daily Courier 7/25/09

Notes from the (water) underground:
High Country News 1/19/09

 

New Publications
Tague, C. and Grant, G. 2009. Groundwater dynamics mediate low flow response to global warming in snow-dominated alpine regions. Water Resources Research, vol.45, W07421, doi:10/1029/2008WR007179. 12p.

A ravenous river reclaims its true course: the tale of Marmot Dam's demise. Science Findings. March 2009 (Issue 111). Portland, OR. U.S.D.A.Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 6p.

Major et al., 2008. Initial Fluvial Response to the Removal of Oregon's Marmot Dam, EOS 89(27): 241-252.

Jefferson, A., Nolin, A., Lewis, S., and Tague, C., 2008. Hydrogeologic controls on streamflow sensitivity to climatic variability, Hydrological Processes, 22: 4371–4385. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7041.

Grant, G.E., Lewis, S.L., Swanson, F., Cissel, J. & McDonnell, J., 2008. Effects of forest practices on peakflows and consequent channel response: a state-of-science report for western Oregon and Washington. General Technical Report PNW-GTR-760. Portland, Oregon: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 76 p.

O'Connor, J., Major, J., Grant G. Down with Dams: Unchaining US Rivers. Geotimes March 2008

Burkholder BK, Grant GE, Haggerty R, Wamper PJ, Khangaonkar T. 2008. Influence of Hyporheic Flow and Geomorphology on Temperature of a Large, Gravel-bed River, Clackamas River, Oregon, USA. Hydrological Processes DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6984.

 


Marmot Dam (Sandy River, Oregon)
prior to removal in summer 2007

additional information

after removal and cofferdam breach
October 20, 2007

Feeding a Hungry River:
InternationalRivers.org, 12/15/08

For more information and video coverage, visit the
Marmot Dam website (PGE)

and
National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics
Marmot Dam Removal Webpage

Watch Oregon Field Guide's: Marmot Dam Removed

Video Presentations
Hydrology and Geomorphic Evolution of Basaltic Landscapes, High Cascades, Oregon
Anne Jefferson (2006)

The Geomorphic Response of Rivers to Dam Removal
Gordon Grant (2003)

 
Oregon Field Guide

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