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Thanks to Carver intern James Pinkney, Jr. for a great summer!

Congratulations and thanks to James Pinkney, Jr., for successfully completing his summer George Washington Carver research internship with the Applied Geomorphology Lab and the Geospatial Lab for Soil Informatics! James joined us during his summer break from the University of Maryland - Eastern Shore, where he is a rising sophomore majoring in Environmental Chemistry.

Large wood fieldwork completed for summer 2018!

The field season of 2018 has come to an end sadly! The Large Wood Ladies visited 10 different stream reaches across the state of Iowa. Stream reaches ranged from 200m-370m and took an average of three days to complete.

Another student poster win for the Applied Geomorphology Lab

Congrats to Forrest Williams for another student poster contest win, this time at the 2018 Iowa Water Conference, held 3/21-22 in Ames! The top three slots were all ISU grad students -- congrats to all of them!

Applied Geomorph grad students win PRRSUM student poster awards

Congratulations to Forrest Williams and Sally Carullo for winning the top two student poster awards at the 2018 Upper Midwest Stream Restoration Symposium, the annual meeting of the Partnership for River Restoration and Science in the Upper Midwest (PRRSUM). Forrest's poster outlined streambank erosion measurements made over the past 6 years in the Onion Creek watershed of central Iowa, while Sally presented preliminary results from her analysis of relationships between riparian vegetation, large wood, and channel width across Iowa.

Billy Beck's first Walnut Creek paper now online

PhD student Billy Beck's first paper from his dissertation is now out in the Open Access journal Water, as part of a special issue on Streambank Erosion: Monitoring, Modeling and Management. The paper summarizes recent years' observations of bank erosion in Walnut Creek, IA, as measured with erosion pins. Congrats to Billy!

Paper on the stability of supraglacial debris in print

A paper outlining theoretical constraints on the stability of supraglacial debris (rock debris on top of glaciers) was recently published by Pete in Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. The stability of debris cover on glacier surfaces has a significant impact on both the short-term ablation of debris-covered glaciers and the longer-term landform genesis in these systems.

North-Central GSA is in Ames, April 16-17, 2018!

The North-central section of the Geological Society of America will be holding its annual meeting in Ames next spring, and the Applied Geomorphology lab will be there. Join us for a session we're co-convening on fluvial geomorphology in formerly-glaciated settings:

T39. Fluvial Adjustments in the Highly-Altered Agricultural Landscape of the Postglacial Upper Midwest 
John Thomas, Hungry Canyons Alliance, johngoldenhillsrcd.org; Peter Moore, Iowa State University, pmooreiastate.edu.

Seattle GSA 2017 highlights

Pete attended the 2017 GSA annual meeting in Seattle in late October and had a busy week. These were a few of the highlights:

On Sunday 10/22, Pete delivered a talk on debris-covered glaciers of Mount Rainier in a session that was all about scientific advances at Rainier. Park geologist Scott Beason, one of the session conveners, maintains a website about the geology of Mount Rainier National Park, and has posted a pdf of Pete's slides here. This talk summarized Pete's work in 2014 with former ISU grad student Theresa (Dits) Groth and Carleton College Geology grad Leah Nelson, among others.

Applied Geomorphology Lab to contribute to ISWEP training course

Pete will be contributing to this year's Urban Streambank Restoration and Bioengineering Methods training hosted by the Iowa Storm Water Education Partnership, Oct. 30-Nov. 3, in Des Moines, IA. For more information or to sign up, go to http://www.iowastormwater.org/index.cfm/74331/89523/urban_streambank_restoration___bioengineering_methods_training