Charlie shobe

If you like DEMs, you won’t want to miss this thorough yet accessible review led by my WVU colleague and GIS wizard Aaron Maxwell. We discuss best practices for selection and use of terrain metrics in mapping and predictive modelling tasks, with a focus on gaining insight into geomorphic processes.

Take a look at our new invited review on how boulders influence landscape evolution, out now in Earth-Science Reviews. We try to synthesize recent progress on this problem and point out directions for fruitful future research. Thanks to coauthors Jens Turowski, Ron Nativ, Rachel Glade, Georgie Bennett, and Bene Dini!

If you’ve got buried hazardous waste, you want to be able to predict how quickly the land surface will lower. We’re now one step closer thanks to Katy Barnhart; check out the latest in JGR: Earth Surface!

Find it here! If some rock units deliver large boulders to rivers through landsliding, but other rock units don’t, does this leave a meaningful imprint on the shape of the landscape? We mapped 1,833 boulders, analyzed topography and landslide inventories, and applied a simple numerical model to understand how lithologically controlled boulder delivery influences landscape response to tectonics. This data-intensive undertaking was only possible thanks to fantastic collaborators Georgie Bennett, Greg Tucker, Kevin Roback, Scott Miller, and Josh Roering!

I am thrilled to report that in January 2021 I’ll be joining the Department of Geology and Geography at West Virginia University as an assistant professor.

I’m looking for graduate students to apply this coming fall/winter and start at WVU in Fall 2021. WVU offers MS and PhD Geology degrees in a large, research-intensive department. There’s a great group of faculty with research interests that touch on surface processes, and a great group of friendly and motivated grad students.

Please see this page and/or email me directly for more information!