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  • Overcoming Barriers to Quantifying Human Alterations to Floodplains

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  • A pile of dead tree trunks and branches lies in a jumbled pile across a stream. Shrubs and pine trees are in the background under a blue sky.

    Predicting head loss and hydraulic roughness of channel-spanning large wood jams

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  • A beaver stands on a beaver dam with mud in its paws with a river in the background

    Forensic hydraulic analysis of floodplain connectivity driven by historical beaver dams in Colorado headwater streams

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  • A River Ran Through It: Floodplains as America's Newest Relict Landform

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Trajectories of river-floodplain morphology and hydraulics following compounding wildfire flood disturbances
Hahn, A., Christensen, N., White, D.C., Wohl, E., & Morrison, R.R. 2025. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 50(5), e70057. https://doi.org/10.1002/ESP.70057

River corridor beads are important areas of floodplain-groundwater exchange within the Colorado River headwaters watershed
Schulz, E.Y., Morrison, R.R., Bailey, R.T., Raffae, M., Arnold, J.G., & White, M.J. 2024. Hydrological Processes, 38(9), e15282. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.15282

River-floodplain (dis)connectivity

R2 Cross: A web-based decision support tool for instream flows
Oikonomou, P.D., Sidhu, R., Wible, T., & Morrison, R.R. 2021. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 57(4), 652-660. https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12939

Instream flow decision-making

Large wood & carbon in river corridors

Floodplain vegetation density effects on meandering channel flow patterns and channel-floodplain hydraulic exchange
White, D.C., Morrison, R.R., & Nelson, P.A. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 130, e2024JF008038. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JF008038

Working with wood in rivers in the western United States
Ockelford, A., et al. 2024. River Research and Applications, 40(8), 1626-1641. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.4331