Paul F. Hudson

Interests

Biography

Hudson's main scholarly interests are within fluvial geomorphology and environmental change, particularly along large coastal plain rivers. His work addresses pure and applied problems related to channel adjustment, hydrology, sediment transport, floodplain sedimentology, and human impacts on watershed processes from late-Quaternary to modern time-scales. He primarily utilizes an empirical field based approach, frequently augmented with GIS and remote sensing technologies. Field sites are located along large coastal plain rivers within Mexico, Texas, the Lower Mississippi, and the lower Rhine (The Netherlands). Several recent and ongoing projects include flooding and sedimentation processes and connectivity of floodplain lakes along the lower Guadalupe River (Texas), environmental implications of geomorphic adjustment of the San Marcos River (Texas) to human disturbances, late Quaternary floodplain development of the Rio Panuco (eastern Mexico), response of the Lower Mississippi to flood management, anthropogenic floodplain sedimentation along the lower Rhine River in response to river management (The Netherlands), and anthropogenic driven valley sedimentation in Belgium. Funding has come from a variety of sources, including National Science Foundation, Texas Water Development Board, Texas Parks and Wildlife, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and a Fulbright Fellowship.

I teach a variety of courses at the graduate and undergraduate level, including The Natural Environment (introductory physical geography), Fluvial Geomorphology, Process Geomorphology, Environmental GIS, Issues in Geography, and Watershed Systems and Environmental Management.

Hudson received his BS in Geography (with honors) from Jacksonville University in 1991, an MS in Geography from the University of Florida in 1993, and in 1998 he received his PhD in Geography from Louisiana State University.

Selected Publications

Hudson, P.F., Butzer, K.W., and Beach, T.P. 2008. Fluvial Deposits and Environmental History: Geoarchaeology, Paleohydrology, Adjustment to Environmental Change. 39th Annual Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium. Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (also published by Geomorphology 101, 1-2), 412 pp. Find it on ScienceDirect

Hudson, P.F., Middelkoop, H., Stouthamer, E. 2008. Flood Management Along the Lower Mississippi and Rhine Rivers (The Netherlands) and the Continuum of Geomorphic Adjustment. Geomorphology 101 (1-2), 209-236. Find it on ScienceDirect

Hudson, P.F. and Alcantara-Ayala, I. 2006. Geomorphology and Land Degradation, Catena 65 (2).

Hudson, P.F., and Kesel, R.H. 2006. Spatial and temporal adjustment of the lower Mississippi River to major human impacts, Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, Supplementband 143, 17-33.

Hudson P.F., Colditz, R., Aguilar-Robledo, M. 2006. Spatial relations between floodplain environments and land use / land cover in a large lowland tropical river valley, Panuco basin, Mexico. Environmental Management 38, 487-503.

Hudson, P.F. 2004. The geomorphic context of prehistoric Huastec floodplain environments: Panuco basin, Mexico. Journal of Archaeological Science 31, 653-668.

Hudson, P.F. 2003 (Guest editor). Floodplains: Environment and Process. Geomorphology 56 (3/4).

Hudson, P.F. and Colditz, R. 2003. Flood delineation in a large and complex alluvial valley: The lower Pánuco basin, Mexico. Journal of Hydrology 280, 229-245.

Hudson, P.F. and Heitmuller, F.T. 2003. Local and watershed-scale controls on the spatial variability of natural levee deposits in a large fine-grained floodplain: Lower Panuco basin, Mexico. Geomorphology 56, 255-269.

Hudson, P.F. 2003. Event sequence and sediment exhaustion in the Lower Panuco basin, eastern Mexico, Catena, 52, 57-76.