April 10, 2019
Congratulations to M.S. student Forrest Williams for a successful defense on Tuesday 4/9! Forrest worked with Pete and Tom Isenhart to develop a tool for estimating the extent and magnitude of streambank erosion for large watersheds. The automated method Forrest developed uses a band index (NDWI) from aerial photos to classify water in successive images, identify pixels that changed between years, and extract elevation differences from a LiDAR-derived DEM to compute net inputs of sediment (and by extension, Phosphorus -- which we have measured in soil cores) to the river from channel migration. Forrest will be sticking around for a few months before moving this summer to New Zealand to pursue a PhD. Best of luck, Forrest!