Next Meeting March 18, 2009 IN BOULDER!

The next Colorado Geomorphology Organization (CoGO) meeting is on Wednesday, March 18, 2009. We will be meeting at 7:00 pm on the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Make special note not to go to the CU Denver Campus, this will be our first ever meeting in Boulder. We will be in room 380 in the Benson Earth Sciences Building. See the map link to the right for directions.

Dr. Greg Tucker will be giving the presentation. Greg Tucker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences and a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He earned his BA in Anthropology from Brown University and PhD in Geosciences from Penn State, where he studied with Prof. Rudy Slingerland. Greg’s research focuses on the physics and mathematics behind drainage basin evolution, on scales ranging from mountains forming over millions of years to gully networks growing over decades. He is one of the co-developers of the Channel-Hillslope Integrated Landscape Development (CHILD) model, a widely used computer model of landscape evolution (for more info on this and other models, see the Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System model repository: http://csdms.colorado.edu). Recently, he and his students and colleagues have focused on identifying and studying natural experiments in landscape evolution, which serve as tests of landscape evolution models. Quests for natural experiments have taken Greg and his team to places both near – including sites in the Colorado High Plains, the Front Range, and the Arkansas Valley – and far, including Taiwan and central Italy. He has also recently become interested in the dynamics of sediment dispersion in channels and hillslopes, which has important implications for contaminant transport and sediment weathering.