About Sara
I am a fluvial geomorphologist studying drainage basin response and recovery following sediment disturbances, influence of climate change on discharge, sediment transport and mass movements, process-based channel restoration including environmental flows, restoration effectiveness monitoring, vegetation-channel feedbacks in various hydroclimatic regimes, glacial valley evolution, and geoscience education. My teaching includes undergraduate freshman and sophomore-level geology courses and a graduate course in field geomorphology.
Website Google Scholar Profile CVInterests
- Channel morphology-vegetation feedbacks
- Landscape response to disturbances
- Channel recovery and restoration following sedimentation events
- Flow variation and climate change using dendrochronology
- Debris flow chronologies and controls on occurrence
- Reservoir sediment management
- Drainage basin response to climate change
Education
PhD, Earth Resources - Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO, 2001
MS, Geosciences - University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ, 1989
BS, Earth Resources - Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO, 1985
Awards, Honors, Grants
- Geological Society of America Fellow, 2019
- Outstanding Publication Award, Warner College of Natural Resources, 2018
- Outstanding Mentorship Award, Warner College of Natural Resources, 2017
- Gladys W. Cole Research Award, Geological Society of America, 2016
- Distinguished Teacher/Advisor Award, Waner College of Natural Resources, 2008