Donovan*, S., Ignatiadis*, M., Ouimet, W., Dethier, D. and Hren, M., Gradients of geochemical change in relic charcoal hearth soils, Northwestern Connecticut, USA. CATENA, 197, p.104991. LINK

*Sally and Mary (first two authors listed), were undergraduates in the 2015-2016 Keck Geology Consortium Project: HOLOCENE ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND HUMAN IMPACTS IN SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND.  For a summary of that project, click here and to check more student projects, click here.

Bonhage, A., Hirsch, F., Raab, T., Schneider, A., Raab, A. and Ouimet, W., 2020. Characteristics of small anthropogenic landforms resulting from historical charcoal production in western Connecticut, USA. CATENA, 195, p.104896. LINK

Dow, S., Snyder, N.P., Ouimet, W.B., Martini, A.M., Yellen, B., Woodruff, J.D., Newton, R.M., Merritts, D.J. and Walter, R.C., 2020. Estimating the timescale of fluvial response to anthropogenic disturbance using two generations of dams on the South River, Massachusetts, USA. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 45(10), pp.2380-2393.

Check it out: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/esp.4886

Another successful conference in the books – Geological Society of America’s Northeastern Section meeting in Albany, NY, March 21-23, 2016.

• Will Ouimet (with co-chair Noah Snyder, Boston College) organized and led the successful session: “T26. PLEISTOCENE TO ANTHROPOCENE LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION IN THE NORTHEASTERN U.S.”, which contained the following presentations by group members:
  • “CHARACTERIZING LATE PLEISTOCENE AND HOLOCENE FLOOD DEPOSITS IN EASTERN CONNECTICUT”, by Thomas Schenck (co-authors Will Ouimet and Anjali Fernandes)…see Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 48, No. 2; doi: 10.1130/abs/2016NE-272715
  • “CHARCOAL REMAINS IN LITCHFIELD COUNTY CONNECTICUT RECORD WIDESPREAD HILLSLOPE DISTURBANCE IN THE IRON CORRIDOR FROM MID-18TH TO EARLY 20TH CENTURIES AND PRESENT DAY CARBON STORAGE”, by 2015-2016 Keck Connecticut undergrad student Mary Ignatiadis of Williams College (co-authors Will Ouimet, Kate Johnson and David Dethier)…see Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 48, No. 2; doi: 10.1130/abs/2016NE-272818
  • “STUDYING ANTHROPOCENE SEDIMENTATION BEHIND A 19TH-20TH CENTURY DAM IN WESTERN CONNECTICUT”, by 2015-2016 Keck Connecticut undergrad student Jia Kelleher of Mount Holyoke (co-authors Will Ouimet and Al Werner)…see Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 48, No. 2; doi: 10.1130/abs/2016NE-272164
  • “THE AFFECT OF LAND USE CHANGE ON STABLE ISOTOPE (δ13C AND δ15N) VALUES IN CONNECTICUT WETLANDS DURING THE HOLOCENE”, by 2015-2016 Keck Connecticut undergrad student Caitlin McManimon of Union College (co-authors David Gillikan, Will Ouimet, Michael Hren and Don Rodbell)…see  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 48, No. 2; doi: 10.1130/abs/2016NE-272294

• 2015-2016 Keck Connecticut and UConn Geosciences undergrad thesis student Chad Fagan (with co-authors Michael Hren and Will Ouimet) presented “AN ORGANIC MOLECULAR RECORD OF POST-GLACIAL CLIMATE AND FIRE OCCURRENCE IN A SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND WETLAND CORE” in session ‘T28. Records of Environmental Change from Lacustrine Archives’…see Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 48, No. 2; doi: 10.1130/abs/2016NE-272539
• UConn Geosciences undergrad thesis student Nate Corcoran (with co-authors Will Ouimet and Matte Thomas) presented “ASSESSING COASTAL EROSION HAZARD VULNERABILITY IN CONNECTICUT” in session ‘T5. Marine and Terrestrial Coastal Mapping: Data, Discovery, and Science’…see Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 48, No. 2; doi: 10.1130/abs/2016NE-272078

 

Our group had a successful showing recently at the Geological Society of America (GSA) National Meeting in Baltimore, MD.

• Will Ouimet (with co-authors David Dethier, Kate Johnson, Maneh Kotikan and Will Wicherski) presented “QUANTIFYING 18TH TO EARLY 20TH CENTURY HUMAN IMPACTS ON HILLSLOPES AND SEDIMENT MOBILIZATION IN SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND AND COLORADO FRONT RANGE” in session ‘T9: Developing Proxies for Human Impact on Soil and Sediment Mass Transfer throughout the Holocene’
• UConn PhD student Kate Johnson (with co-author Will Ouimet) presented “IMPACTS OF TERRAIN ROUGHNESS ON 18TH-20TH CENTURY LAND USE DISTRIBUTION AND SEDIMENT MASS TRANSFER IN SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND” in session ‘T9: Developing Proxies for Human Impact on Soil and Sediment Mass Transfer throughout the Holocene’
• Williams College and Colorado Research colleague David Dethier (with co-authors Will Ouimet and Neil Shea) presented “FROM ROCK TO DUST: DENSITY CHANGES DURING THE TRANSFORMATION OF FRONT RANGE GRANITE TO SAPROLITE AND SOIL” in session ‘T57: Soil to Sediment—From Geologic to Modern Time Scales: A Session to Honor the Work of Milan Pavich’
• 2014-2015 Colorado Keck student Will Wicherksi (with co-authors Will Ouimet, David Dethier and James Kaste) presented “FIRE AND FLOOD IN FOURMILE CANYON, COLORADO —ANALYZING THE GEOMORPHIC EFFECTS OF CATASTROPHIC EVENTS USING LIDAR AND FIELD STUDIES” in session ‘T54: Geomorphology and Hydrology of Wildland Fires’
• 2014-2015 Colorado Keck student Greg Harris (with co-authors Mike Hren, Will Ouimet and David Dethier) presented “INVESTIGATING THE USE OF POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS (PAHS) AS A PROXY FOR HOLOCENE FOREST FIRES ON THE COLORADO FRONT RANGE” in session ‘T54: Geomorphology and Hydrology of Wildland Fires (posters)’
• Oberlin College and Eastern Tibet research colleague Amanda Schmidt (with co-authors Tom Neilson, Paul Bierman, Veronica Sosa-Gonzalez, Dylan Rood and Will Ouimet) presented “EFFECTS OF GRAIN SIZE AND MINERALOGY ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF FALLOUT RADIONUCLIDES 7BE, 10BE, 137CS, AND 210PB IN SEDIMENT” in session ‘T9: Developing Proxies for Human Impact on Soil and Sediment Mass Transfer throughout the Holocene’
• UConn Geosciences colleague Robert Thorson (with co-authors Lisa Park-Boush, Patrick Getty and Will Ouimet) presented “FIVE PATHWAYS TO INTRODUCTORY GEOSCIENCE AT UCONN: A NEW MODEL” in session ‘T84: Practical Faculty-Related Issues & Trans-Disciplinary Pedagogical Strategies Associated with Classroom Transformation’

 

Group member Megan McCusker Hill has received the AAG Geomorphology Specialty Group’s Doctoral Student Paper Award for her paper “Gullies as Markers of Holocene and Anthropocene Environmental Change in southern New England” at this years annual meeting in Chicago.  Congratulations Megan!

*graduate student author; ^undergraduate student author

Hellmer^, M.C., Rios^, B.A., Ouimet, W.B., and Sibley^, T.R. (2015). Ice storms, tree throw, and hillslope sediment transport in northern hardwood forests. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. DOI: 10.1002/esp.3690 LINK

Foster*, M.A., Anderson, R.S., Wyshnytzky^, C.E., Ouimet, W.B., and Dethier, D.P. (2015). Hillslope lowering rates and mobile-regolith residence times from in situ and meteoric 10Be analysis, Boulder Creek Critical Zone Observatory, Colorado. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 127; no. 5/6; p. 862–878; doi: 10.1130/B31115.1 LINK

Ouimet, W., Dethier, D., Bierman, P., Wyshnytzky^, C., Shea*, N., and Rood, D.H. (2015). Spatial and temporal variations in meteoric 10 Be inventories and long-term deposition rates, Colorado Front Range. Quaternary Science Reviews, 109, 1-12. LINK

Wyshnytzky^, C.E., Ouimet, W.B., McCarthy^, J., Dethier, D.P., Shroba, R.R., Bierman, P.R., and Rood, D.H. (2015). Meteoric 10 Be, clay, and extractable iron depth profiles in the Colorado Front Range: Implications for understanding soil mixing and erosion. CATENA, 127, 32-45. LINK

Rosenberg, R. ^, Kirby, E., Aslan, A., Karlstrom, K., Heizler, M. and Ouimet, W. (2015), Late Miocene erosion and evolution of topography along the western slope of the Colorado Rockies, GeoSphere Geosphere; August 2014; v. 10; no. 4, doi:10.1130/GES00989.1
 LINK

Enjoy!

Will Ouimet featured on Science for Average Joe Podcast.

Check it out here!

Congratulations to two group members who recently finished their theses and graduated from UConn!

Amberlee Nicoulin, who successfully finished and defended her Master Thesis, titled “Fluvial Terraces and Post-Glacial River Incision Along the Farmington and Housatonic Rivers in Southern New England“.  Amberlee now has a Masters of Science degree in Geological Sciences from UConn.

Sam Dow, who successfully completed and presented her B.A. Thesis: “Sedimentation Behind Conway Electric Dam, South River, Western Massachusetts“.  Sam now has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geological Sciences from UConn.

Nice job and thanks for all your hard work advancing the geomorphic study of southern New England.

The group recently welcomed Frank Magilligan (Dartmouth College) to campus for the William Morris Davis Lecture.

For more information about Frank, visit:

• http://www.dartmouth.edu/~fjmagill/index_html/Welcome.html
• http://www.dartmouth.edu/~geog/facstaff/magilligan.html

For more information about the William Morris Davis Lecture series, visit:

• http://people.bu.edu/sergio/WMD/WMD.htm

 

 

Check it out:

http://today.uconn.edu/blog/2014/02/hidden-new-england-landscape-comes-to-life/