“Can Rivers Cause Earthquakes?” just came out on the Scientific American Observations blog. It talks about how rivers might trigger earthquakes by removing trillions of tons of rock from Earth’s crust. The piece was inspired by a recent paper on the subject by Sean Gallen and Ryan Thigpen (GRL 2018).
Dates and times for my AGU presentations
I’m excited to head to the AGU annual meeting in Washington, D.C. next week. I’ll be giving an invited talk on Tuesday morning as well as a poster, which is unfortunately also on Tuesday morning. Times, locations, and sessions are below:
Talk:
Title: Variable Thresholds in Rivers: Causes and Effects
Paper Number: EP22A-04
Tuesday, 11 December 2018; 11:05 – 11:20
Session EP22A: The Role and Relevance of Thresholds, Event Variability, and Disturbances Across Landscapes II
Location: Convention Ctr; 147A
Poster:
Title: Chaotic Chasms: Canyon Evolution Governed by Autogenic Channel-Hillslope Feedbacks
Paper Number: EP21D-0564
Tuesday, 11 December 2018; 08:00 – 12:20
Session EP21D: Sediment Dynamics Across Landscapes Posters
Location: Poster Hall
New modeling toolkit up for public discussion
Katy Barnhart’s terrainbento model intercomparison toolkit is now up for public peer review in Geoscientific Model Development, a very cool EGU journal that’s starting to publish a lot of geomorphology-related modeling papers. If you do a lot of landscape evolution modeling terrainbento will almost certainly make your life easier.
EPSP young researcher spotlight
I was lucky enough to be interviewed for the October 2018 young researcher spotlight put together by the great folks at the AGU EPSP student committee. Check it out here.
Don’t forget to nominate your early career labmate/coauthor/friend/stranger for a spotlight!
JGR: ES cover features the Middle Fork Popo Agie River
New paper on how erosion thresholds vary in bedrock rivers
Greg Tucker, Matt Rossi and I have been trying to understand how hillslope-derived blocks of rock alter erosion thresholds and landscape change; here’s our best guess so far in JGR: Earth Surface.