PAUL F. HUDSON, Ph.D.
Department
of Geography and the Environment
University
of Texas at Austin
Austin,
TX 78712
Tel. (512) 232-1554
E-mail:
HTUpfhudson@mail.utexas.eduUTH
Updated
November 16, 2005
·
2004 present:
Associate Professor: Department
of Geography and the Environment, University
of Texas at Austin
·
Graduate Adviser
·
August 1998 T2004: Assistant
Professor: Department of Geography, University of Texas at
Austin
·
Research Faculty
o
Teresa Lozano Long
Institute of Latin American Studies, UT-Austin
o Environmental Science Institute, UT-Austin
EDUCATION
·
Ph.D., August 1998: Geography,
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
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Dissertation: Meandering
Processes and Channel Adjustments in the Lower Mississippi River, Prior to
Major Human Modifications
o Advisor:
Richard H. Kesel
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MS, August 1993: Geography, University of Florida,
Gainesville, FL
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Thesis: Trends in
Suspended Sediment Transport and Magnitude Frequency Analysis of Four Rivers
Flowing into the Northern Gulf of Mexico
o Advisor:
Joann Mossa
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BS (cum laude), May 1991: Geography, Jacksonville
University, Jacksonville, FL
RESEARCH AND
TEACHING INTERESTS
·
Physical
Geography: Fluvial geomorphology and watershed sciences: alluvial
rivers and floodplain processes, sedimentation, sediment transport, soil
erosion and land degradation, Quaternary geomorphology
·
GIS:
applications in watershed sciences and environmental
geography
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Regional:
Mexico, Texas, Lower Mississippi River, Brazilian Amazon
·
UT Courses:
o Fall
05: Rivers
and Landscapes Fluvial Geomorphology, Environmental
GIS
o Spring
05: The
Natural Environment (Intro Physical Geography), Watershed
Systems and Environmental Management
Synergistic Activities
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Secretary (elected; Nov. 2005 ): Commission on Land
Degradation (COMLAND), International Geographical Union
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Coordinator: Integrated Watershed Sciences; campus
working group to promote collaborative research, includes UT-Austin faculty in
earth sciences (geology, biology, geography), engineering, policy, and personnel
from federal, state, and local government agencies
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Founder and former director: Digital Landscape
Laboratory, UT Department of Geography
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Panel (elected; May 2001 Oct. 2005): Commission on Land
Degradation (COMLAND), International Geographical Union
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Editorial Board: Journal of Latin American Geography
Articles, Chapters, and other Reviewed Papers
Published Book Reviews
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Brown,
A.G. and Quine, T.A., 1999, Fluvial
Processes and Environmental Change, John Wiley & Sons, 413 p. River Research and Applications 19,
2003.
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Miller, A.J. and Gupta, A. 1999. Varieties of Fluvial Form, John Wiley & Sons, 521 p. Geomorphology, 35, 2000.
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Knighton, David 1998. Fluvial
Form and Process: A New Perspective, John Wiley & Sons, 383 p., Geomorphology, 28, 1999.
Miscellaneous Publications and Reports
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Texas Alcalde (UT alumni journal)
September October 2002, pp. 15-16, write up of research activities, including
new Guadalupe River flood project.
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Hudson,
P.F. 2001. Fluvial and Karst Processes and Landforms, In Encyclopedia of World Geography, Salem Press, Pasadena, CA.
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Nature
(405, 6/1/2000, p. 525). Comment and summary of, Hudson, P.F., and Kesel, R.H., 2000, Relationships between lateral
migration rates and channel geometry in the Lower Mississippi River, Geology, V. 28, No. 6, pp. 531-534.
·
Hudson,
P.F., 1993. Hydrogeology of Paynes Prairie, in; Mossa, J., Ed., Physical and Human Geography of the Paynes
Prairie Solution Basin, Alachua County, Florida; Field Trip Guide for the
Florida Society of Geographers Annual Meeting, pp. 11-20.
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Mossa, J., Hudson, P.F., Lower, J., Wilder, M. Rahn, J.
1993. Suspended Sediment Supply from Large Rivers Entering the Northern Gulf of
Mexico. Report submitted to the U.S. Army Waterways Experiment Station in
fulfillment of Contract no. DACA39-M-4918.
Reviews of Intro
Physical Geography Text
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John
Wiley & Sons
·
Prentice
Hall
Reviewer of Proposals
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National
Science Foundation
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NASA
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American
Association for the Advancement of Science Canon National Parks Science
Scholars Program for the Americas
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North
Carolina Sea Grant
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University
of Texas at Austin; Summer Research Assignments
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University
of Texas at Austin; Environmental Science Institute Graduate Fellowships
Funded proposals and
Contracts
(PI on all awards)
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$61,628.
Texas Parks and Wildlife and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Geomorphic
Monitoring of the San Marcos River for removal of Cryptocoryne Becketti. (11/2005 8/2008)
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National Science
Foundation
(#0237050), $20,000. Spatial Variability in Flood Sedimentation of an Extreme
Event, Guadalupe River, TX (8/15/02 8/15/03).
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UT
Special Research Award, Office of Vice President for Research, $750. Floodplain
processes on the Lower Amazon Valley December 01 / January 02.
·
UT
Interdisciplinary Research Initiative: $98,775, Paleoflooding in the Pαnuco Watershed,
Mexico, with Karl Butzer (UT Department of Geography), Melba Crawford (UT
Center for Space Research), Miguel Aguilar (UNAM San Luis Potosi, Mexico),
Elisabeth Butzer (UT Institute of Latin American Studies), September 2000
August 2002.
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UT Center for
Instructional Technologies, Digital Watersheds:
Creating Continuity between Teaching and Research, Student and professional
staff support (100 hours, max award) for development of Internet based teaching
resources, spring/summer 2001.
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Mellon
Foundation (UT LLILAS): $5,000, Establishing the
Holocene Flood History of the Rio Pαnuco, Mexico, summer 2000.
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UT Faculty Research
Award:
$5,980, Morphologic Adjustment of the Rio
Pαnuco, Mexico to Holocene Climate Change, summer 2000.
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UT Center for
Instructional Technologies: Digital Watersheds,
Student and professional staff support (50 hours) for development of Internet
based teaching resources, summer 2000.
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UT Summer Research Grant: $590, Historic Channel
Processes of the Lower Mississippi River, travel funds for archival research at
the Mississippi River Commission,
Vicksburg, MS, June 1999.
·
R.J.
Russell and R.C. West Field
Research Grant 1996: $500, Louisiana State University Department of
Geography & Anthropology, Funding for dissertation research in Vicksburg,
MS.
Funding related
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UT Faculty Research
Internship,
~$17,500 for support of a new graduate student to work on the Rio Panuco,
Mexico project, fall 2000 spring 2001.
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Faculty
sponsor for recipient of Undergraduate
Research Internship $890, for hydrological research on the Rio Panuco,
Mexico (student declined award)
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University Faculty
Travel Grant,
spring 99, '00, 01, 02: $325, Association of American Geographers Annual
Meeting, Honolulu, HI; Pittsburgh, PA; New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA.
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Graduate Travel Grant Awards 1994, 95, 97: $150/award.
Graduate School, Louisiana State University, Travel funds to present papers at
the Association of American Geographers Annual Meetings.
PRESENTATIONS
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Organizer of Integrated Watershed Sciences Symposium.
UT-Austin - Nov. 12, 2003 (involves researchers and representatives from
federal, state, and local agencies).
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Geomorphic Features of Land Degradation, International
Association of Geomorphologists, International Geographical Union Commission on
Land Degradation and Desertification, Mexico City, November 2003
·
Floodplain Processes I (Floodplain adjustment to Holocene
Climate Change), Floodplain Processes II (Floodplain Variability from the
Arctic to the Amazon), Floodplain Processes III (Modeling and Anthropogenic
Influences on Floodplain Processes). Association of American Geographers Annual
Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, March 2002 (sponsored by the Geomorphology Specialty
Group).
·
Research Traditions in LSU Physical Geography: organized
for the 70PthP
anniversary of LSU Geography, Southwest Association of American Geographers
Annual Meeting, Baton Rouge, LA 1998.
Technical Seminars / Short Courses
·
January 1999: Introduction
to Geographic Information Systems, half-day short-course given to
conference participants of the Annual Texas GIS Symposium, University of Texas,
Austin, TX.
Invited: Organized lecture series, panels,
etc
(non job interview or conference related)
·
Flood Sediment Delivery to Floodplain Riparian
Environments in an Impounded System. The
Importance of Fluvial Geomorphology in Maintenance and Restoration of Stream
Systems, Texas
River and Reservoir Management Society (TRRMS) Annual Meeting, Waco, TX, May 16th-17th,
2005
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Floodplain
Landscapes of the Lower Pαnuco Basin, Mexico. Lozano Long Institute of Latin
American Studies (LLILAS), April, 2005.
·
April 2003, University of Texas, Lozano Long Institute of
Latin American Studies (LLILAS): panelist for Landscape Change in the Brazilian
Amazon (Brazil Week)
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November
2002, University of Texas, Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
(LLILAS): Panuco Basin Research, a
brief (~7.5 minute) overview of research activities in eastern Mexico to PEMEX
officials (panel of 5)
·
September
2002, University of Texas Geographical Society (UTGS), Department of Geography,
University of Texas, Muddy Boots and Muddy
Water: Geographical Field Research Activities of a UT Prof.
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October
2002, Department of Geography, Michigan State University, Adjustment of the Lower Mississippi River to human modifications.
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October
2002, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Michigan State
University: Floodplain landscapes in
eastern Mexico, the Lower Panuco
Basin
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April
2002, Center for Environmental Research in Latin America Brown Bag Series,
co-sponsored by the Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies and the Department
of Geography, University of Texas at Austin, The Amazon vs. the Mississippi:
Field Investigations of Continental-Scale Catchments.
·
February
2002, Baylor University Department of Geology Colloquium series, Floodplain Morphology of the Lower Panuco
Basin, Mexico.
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February
2002, University of Memphis, Department of Geography and Geology Colloquium
series, Response and Recovery of the
Lower Mississippi to Human Modification.
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February
2002, Texas A&M University Department of Geography Colloquium Series, Floodplain Morphology of the Lower Panuco
Basin, Mexico.
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February
2001: University of Texas Austin Geological Sciences Technical Talk series
(~250 in attendance), Channel adjustment
in response to engineering modifications in the Lower Mississippi River.
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January
2001, University of Texas Austin Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin
American Studies, Breakfast Series, Hurricanes,
hydrology, and riverine landscapes of the lower Pαnuco basin, east-central
Mexico.
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August
2000: University of Texas Austin Center for Teaching Effectiveness,
discussion with new faculty on experiences of being an assistant professor at
UT, luncheon.
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March 2000: Southwest Texas State University Colloquium
Series, Engineering modifications to the
Lower Mississippi River, San Marcos, TX.
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August
1999: University of Texas Austin Center for Teaching Effectiveness Workshop,
Presentation to New Faculty on 1PstP year experiences.
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April 1999: University of Texas at Austin Department of
Geological Sciences
Hydrogeology Brown Bag Series, Historic erosion rates in the Lower
Mississippi River.
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Spring
1999: Why I became a geographer (and why you
should consider geography as a career, and graduate study), UT Geographical
Society, Department of Geography, University of Texas Austin.
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November
2005. Recent flood sedimentation along the lower Guadalupe River, Texas. Annual
meeting of the Southwestern Association of American Geographers, Fayetteville,
AR.
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October
2005. Spatial relations between floodplain environments and land cover / land
use, lower Pαnuco basin, Mexico. Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers,
Morelia, MI, Mexico.
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April
2005. Local- and watershed-scale
controls on flood deposits, lower Guadalupe River, Texas. Annual Meeting
of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO.
·
April
2005. Spatial variability in recent flood deposits along the lower Guadalupe
River, Texas (poster presentation). Co-presenter with Jillian S. Aldrin.
·
March
2004. Patterns and processes of flood sedimentation along the lower Guadalupe
River, Texas., TX. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,
Philadelphia, PA. With Kimberly M. Blancas as co-presenter.
·
November 2003. Sediment transport in Texas rivers: Is
there a problem? Integrated Watershed Sciences Symposium. UT-Austin -
Nov. 12, 2003
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October 2003. Response and Recovery of the Lower
Mississippi River to Human Modifications, Geomorphic Features of Land
Degradation, International Association of Geomorphologists, International
Geographical Union Commission on Land Degradation and Desertification, Mexico
City, October -November 2003
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January
2003, Floodplain landscapes of the
lower Panuco basin, Mexico. Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers,
Tucson, AZ.
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March,
2003, Anthropogenic and geomorphic controls on soil variability in a humid
tropical mountainous environment: The upper Panuco basin, Sierra Madre
Oriental, eastern Mexico, with Avwunudiogba (presenter), Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, LA.
·
March
2003, Land use / land cover classification of a large and complex floodplain
environment, lower Panuco Basin, Mexico, with Colditz (presenter), Annual
Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, LA.
·
March
2002, Spatial variations of natural levee deposits in the Lower Panuco Basin,
Mexico. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles,
CA.
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November 2001, Event Sequence and Sediment Exhaustion in
the Lower Panuco Basin, eastern Mexico. Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Division of
the Association of American Geographers, Ft. Worth, TX
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August 2001, Decadal and Seasonal Trends in Suspended
Sediment Transport in the Lower Panuco Basin, Mexico, 7th International
Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.
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May 2001: The impact of the El Nińo Southern
Oscillation (ENSO) on the magnitude and frequency of sediment transport in the
Rio Panuco, Mexico; International Geographical Union (IGU), Commission on Land Degradation and Desertification
(COMLAND), Instituto de Geografνa - Instituto de Ecologνa, Universidad Nacional
Autσnoma de Mιxico (UNAM).
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April, 2001. Annual and Seasonal Discharge and Sediment
Transport Dynamics of the Lower Panuco Basin, Mexico (Poster presentation);
Environmental Science Institute and College of Natural Sciences Outreach
lecture series, University of Texas at Austin, with Franklin T. Heitmuller and
Rachel A. Rebecca.
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February
2001: Streamflow and suspended sediment transport characteristics of the Lower
Panuco Basin, eastern Mexico (Poster presentation), Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, NY
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April
2000: The Influence of channel revetments on thalweg morphology of the Lower
Mississippi River. Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, PA.
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January 2000: Channel and sediment characteristics of the Rio
Panuco, Mexico, Annual Meeting of the Conference of Latin Americanist
Geographers, Austin, TX
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October 1999: Relationships between channel migration and pool
- riffle morphology in the Lower Mississippi River, Annual Meeting of the
Southwestern Division of the Association of American Geographers, San Marcos,
TX
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March 1999: Lateral migration rates in the Lower Mississippi
River prior to channel modification, Annual Meeting of the Association of
American Geographers, Honolulu, HI
·
November
1998. Assessment of historic erosion rates in the Lower Mississippi River,
Published conference proceedings, GIS/LIS
'98, Ft. Worth, TX, pp. 17-24 (reviewed abstract).
·
October 1998. Channel adjustment in the Lower Mississippi
River prior to large scale human modification, Annual Meeting of the
Southwestern Association of American Geographers, Baton Rouge, LA
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April 1998: Relationships between lateral migration rates
and channel geometry in a large alluvial river, The Lower Mississippi River.
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA
·
January 1998: The Spatial Distribution of Channel
Migration Rates in the Lower Mississippi River Prior to Major Human
Modification, Annual Meeting of the Florida Society of Geographers,
Jacksonville, FL.
·
1997 Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting,
in Ft. Worth, TX. Title: Meandering Processes in the Lower Mississippi River.
·
1995 Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting,
in Chicago, IL. Title: The Effects of Changing Sediment Regime on Channel
Morphology in the Lower Mississippi River.
·
1994 Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting,
in San Francisco, CA. Title: Magnitude and Frequency Characteristics of
Discharge and Suspended Sediment Transport for Three Large Rivers Draining Into
the Northern Gulf of Mexico.
·
1993 Florida Society of Geographers Annual Meeting, in
Gainesville, FL. Field trip guide. Title: Hydrogeology of Paynes Prairie.
·
1992 West-Central Florida Physical Geography Symposium,
at the University of South Florida in Tampa, FL. Title: Trends in Discharge and Suspended
Sediment Transport for Four Rivers Flowing into the Northern Gulf of Mexico;
Rio Grande, Brazos, Colorado, and Pearl Rivers.
Invited class lectures, Miscellaneous
·
Flooding
in New Orleans in response to Hurricane Katrina: Causes, Consequences, and
Questions. Presented in Living with the Planet, UT Department of Geological Sciences
(J.Banner)
·
November
2003, Field work and Geomorphology: Traditions and Foundations in Geography,
guest seminar for Prof. W.E. Doolittles graduate seminar on Issues and
Research in Geography, Department of Geography, University of Texas at Austin
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October
2003, Guest lecture on Eastern Mexico Hydrology for Prof. W.E. Doolittles
course on Mexico and Caribbean, Department of Geography, University of Texas at
Austin
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September
2002, Guest seminar for Issues and Research in Geography (Prof. K.W. Butzer), Department
of Geography, University of Texas at Austin
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October
2002, Guest seminar for Wetlands and floodplains (Prof. K.R. Young)
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October
2001, Guest seminar for Issues and Research in Geography (Professor K.W.
Butzer), Department of Geography, University of Texas at Austin.
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May
2001, Introduction for Troy Kimmel, Natural Sciences Outreach Lecture Series
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November 2000: Personal research experiences in fluvial
geomorphology, talk to GRG 391-K Issues and Research in Geography (Professor
W.E. Doolittle), UT Department of Geography
·
October 2000: Fluvial geomorphological perspectives on
riparian landscapes, talk to GRG 356T Landscape Ecology (Prof. K.R. Young), UT
Department of Geography
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March 1999: Geomorphic perspectives on human-environment
interaction, GRG 374 Frontiers in Geography (Prof. P. K. English and P.
Wagoner)
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March 1998: Meandering Processes in the Lower Mississippi
River (colloquium series), Department of Geography, University of Missouri
Columbia (job interview).
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March 1998: Human impacts to alluvial river systems
(class lecture), Department of Geography, University of Missouri Columbia (job interview).
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February 1998: Meandering Processes in the Lower
Mississippi River (colloquium series), Department of Geography, University of
Alabama Tuscaloosa (job interview).
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February 1998: Meandering Processes in the Lower
Mississippi River (colloquium series), Department of Geography, University of
Texas Austin (job interview).
TEACHING ADVISING
UT Austin:
LSU:
UF
Advisees
1.
Franklin T. Heitmuller, masters (completed May 2002)
2.
Augustine Avwunudiogba, 4PthP
year doctoral student, ABD
3.
Rene Colditz, masters (May 2003, co-supervised, exchange
from Wόrzburg, Germany)
4.
Kimberly M. Blancas, undergraduate honors thesis
(completed December 2003)
5.
Jillian Aldrin, 2PndP
year masters student
6.
Franklin T. Heitmuller, 2PndP
year doctoral student
7. Jameson Courtney, undergraduate honors thesis
Department
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Fall 2004 Graduate Adviser and Chair of Graduate
Studies Committee
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Member of Graduate Admissions and Awards Committee
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Member of departmental technology committee
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Member of departmental curriculum committee
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Fall 2003/spring 2004 Chair of search committee on
Quaternary Environmental Science
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Spring 2004, member of search committee on Historical
Geography
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Member of committee on faculty merit pay raises,
advise to Chair
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September
2003 member Departmental Writing Committee (advisory to new College of
Liberal Arts Writing Steering Committee to enhance undergraduate writing)
·
Vaselka committee, reviewed proposals for graduate
student travel awards
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Spring 2003 chair, department undergraduate curriculum
committee, for report to CLA
·
Spring 2003 Faculty
Associate, UT Tracking Cultures Program (Mexico)
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Fall 2002 chair of search committee for Quaternary
environmental science (search canceled)
·
Fall 2002 spring 2003, sponsor of Turkish graduate
student in geomorphology and GIS
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Fall 1998 present, Member of Graduate Admissions
Committee
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Fall 2000 fall 2001, Faculty Liaison to the Library
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Fall 2000 August 2001, Graduate Admissions Advisor and
Chair of Graduate Studies Committee
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Fall 1998 fall 2002, Chair, Geographic Information
Sciences track
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Spring 1999 fall 2001, Director of Digital Landscape
Laboratory (founder of lab)
·
Fall 1999, Chair of Search Committee for remote sensing
position
·
Spring 1999, Elected faculty rep to the dean (1 of 3)
regarding nomination of chair
·
Fall 1999 August 2002, Department of Geography
Executive Committee
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Fall 1998 spring 1999, Department of Geography
Executive Committee
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Fall 2003 present: Coordinator of Watersheds Working
Group, Environmental Science Institute, University of Texas at Austin
·
Fall 2003 present: member of Tracking Cultures
Faculty Associates Mexico and Southwest
·
May 2004 present, member CONNEXUS Environmental
Bridging Disciplines Program
·
Fall 2003, moderator for UT Amazon Week panel:
Environmental and Social Change in the Amazon: Disturbing Thoughts from the
Tropics
·
Spring 2003, new director of Integrated Watershed
Sciences Working Group for Environmental Science Institute (includes UT
researchers and representatives from federal, state, and local agencies)
·
Spring 2003, attended University commencement
·
Fall 2002, Graduation College of Liberal Arts
·
Fall 2001, Graduation College of Liberal Arts
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Fall 2000, Graduation, College of Liberal Arts
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Spring 2000, Graduation College of Liberal Arts
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Spring 1999, Graduation College of Liberal Arts
·
Fall 2000 present, Fellow, Environmental Science
Institute (includes members of three working groups)
·
Fall 2000 spring 2001, Faculty Fellow, UT Division of
Housing, promotion of campus community
·
Spring 2000 present, Research Fellow, Teresa Lozano
Long Institute of Latin American Studies
·
Spring 1999 and spring 2000, Project 2000: clean-up poor
neighborhoods in east Austin
Editorial Board
·
Journal of Latin American Geography (2000-2003)
·
Revista Latinoamericana de Recursos Naturales (2004-)
FIELD EXPERIENCE
·
July
2005: Floodplain coring with a GeoProbe, soil description to investigate
anthropogenic surfaces in soils and floodplain analysis, Walhain-Saint-Paul,
Belgium.
·
Spring
2004 present: San Marcos River, Geomorphic assessment in consultation for
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Texas Parks and Wildlife: Geomorphic
Monitoring of the San Marcos River for removal of Cryptocoryne Becketti.
·
Urban
stream channel disturbance, Austin, TX spring 2005
·
October
2004 field research in eastern Mexico on soil erosion (Sierra Madre
Orientals) and floodplain deposits (Rio Pαnuco valley)
·
Summer
2004 reconnaissance work at geoarchaelogy at Castle Walhain, Belgium
·
Summer
2002 present, sampling and surveying flood deposits and floodplain, Guadalupe
River, TX
·
Summer
2002 - June, lower Panuco basin, eastern Mexico, total stations surveying, soil
descriptions, ground truthing satellite imagery with GPS, extraction of
organics for AMS dating, with Sean White, Rene Colditz, Augustine Avwunudiogba,
Humberto Reyes-Hernandez (UNAM San Luis Potosi)
·
August
2003 five day trip to eastern Mexico with Prof. W.E. Doolittle; field visit
with graduate student, examine lower Rio Pαnuco valley wetlands and Huastecan
geoarchaeology
·
January
2003 field trip organized by CLAG to Rio Sonora Valley, Mexico.
·
2002
January, Lower Amazon Valley, floodplain sampling and surveying, with
Antoinette WinklerPrins (Michigan State University).
·
2002 -
October, Honey Creek Watershed, class field trip to Honey Creek Watershed
·
2001 May
June, lower Panuco basin, eastern Mexico, bed material sampling, natural
levee sampling, total stations surveying, with F.T. Heitmuller, Amy
Neushanbauger (CSR), and Arturo Garrido Pιrez (Instituto de Geografνa UNAM)
·
2001 -
October, Honey Creek Watershed, class field trip to Honey Creek Watershed
·
2001 -
February, Honey Creek Watershed, Texas Hill Country (west of New Braunfels),
field reconnaissance for study of soil erosion in response to Juniper removal,
with Gregory Malstaff (Texas Water Development Board), William Asquith (US
Geological Survey), Kristin Miller (grad student, UT Geology)
·
2001 -
January, Bustamante, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, field reconnaissance
·
2000
December, field research in Lower Panuco basin, sampling of floodplain
sediments for P137-PCs analysis, suspended sediment sampling in
Rio Panuco
·
2000 -
fall, particle size analysis of floodplain sediments from the Rio Panuco and
Rio Moctezuma, east-central Mexico
·
2000
May and June, Field research, eastern Mexico, Panuco basin, investigating the
Holocene geomorphology of the Panuco basin, accompanied by UT graduate
students, Franklin T. Heitmuller and Rachel A. Rebecca, and UNAM San Luis
Potosi professor Miguel Augilar-Robledo and graduate student, Israel Razo
·
2000 -
January, CLAG field trip, Environmental History of northern Mexico, led by UT
Geographers K.W. Butzer and W.E. Doolittle
·
1999
December, field work, lower Panuco basin, east-central Mexico, with Franklin T.
Heitmuller (grad student, UT Geography)
·
1999
August, field reconnaissance of the Panuco watershed, and field sampling flood
sediments, in east-central Mexico
·
1999
spring, examination of river channels in the Texas Hill Country, with Gregory
Malstaff of the Texas Water Development Board
·
1997
summer, assisted with instruction of field mapping with LSU Geology Field Camp
in Colorado
·
1996
spring, assisted with surveying of coastal shoreline erosion on Ship Island, MS
·
1995
spring, investigation of knickpoint migration in tributaries of Homochitto
River Basin, MS
·
1994
spring, particle size analysis of clastic sediments from the Collville River,
Alaska (for H.J. Walker)
·
1994
spring, particle size analysis of clastic sediments from an abandoned
Mississippi River distributary. Jefferson Parish, LA
·
1994
January, soil coring, contract work with Prof. R.H. Kesel to investigate the
presence of airborne lead contamination
·
1992
fall, downstream changes in hydraulic geometry of Hogtown Creek, Gainesville,
FL
·
1989
August, Field Course in Karst Hydrogeology of the eastern Sierra Madre
Oriental, Mexico (Western Kentucky University)
SCHOLASTIC HONORS AND ACTIVITIES
Nominated and/or Elected Positions
·
May
2004 present, Editorial Board, "Revista
Latinoamericana de Recursos Naturales"
·
July 2002 present, Editorial Board, Journal of Latin American Geography
·
May 2001 present, Commission on Land Degradation and
Desertification (COMLAND) to International Geographical Union (IGU).
·
Fall 2001 spring 2004, CLAG Board of Directors (also
serve on Publications Committee).
Other
·
1998. William C. Haag Award, LSU, Department of Geography
& Anthropology ($100), Annual Award for the best paper presented by a
graduate student
·
1993-96 Assistantship, Department of Geography and
Anthropology, Louisiana State University
·
1993
Conference Co-Organizer for the 8th Annual Florida-Georgia Graduate Student
Geography Conference, University of Florida
·
1993
Field Trip Co-Leader for the Florida Society of Geographers Annual Meeting in
Gainesville, Florida, Hydrogeology of Paynes Prairie solution basin (polje)
·
1992
Co-President of Gamma Theta Upsilon (Geography Honors Society and graduate
student) University of Florida, Department of Geography
·
1991
Semester Internship, Jacksonville City Planning Department
·
1991
Geography Student of the Year Award, Jacksonville University
Professional Organizations,
Journal Subscriptions
·
Association
of American Geographers (AAG); Annals and Professional Geographer
·
Southwestern
Division of the Association of American Geographers (SWAAG), Southwestern
Geographer
·
Conference
of Latin Americanist Geographers (CLAG), Journal of Latin American Geography
·
Geomorphology
·
Sociedad
Mexicana de Geomorfologia
