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Grant A. Meyer

Associate Professor                           

Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 1993 (505) 277-5384  gmeyer@unm.edu          [ current semester schedule, with OFFICE HOURS ]

Research and Academic Interests:

GEOMORPHOLOGY: Hillslopes and fluvial systems; climatic, tectonic and environmental geomorphology; Quaternary geology; ecosystem processes

Courses:

*     E&PS 481/581 Geomorphology and Surficial Geology

*      Env Sc 101 The Blue Planet

*      E&PS 516, Fluvial Geomorphology

*  Env Sc 330 Environmental Systems

 

Research Projects:

*      Holocene geomorphic response to fires in central Idaho

*      Aspect and microclimatic controls on hillslope geomorphology, northeastern Arizona (Ben Burnett MS thesis)

*  Mine tailings dam failure and floodplain impacts, Yellowstone

*  Fire and alluvial chronology in Yellowstone

*      Deformation of Yellowstone Lake shoreline terraces

*      Last-glacial equilibrium line altitudes, interior NW U.S.

 

Graduate Students:

Current:

PhD:  Benjamin Swanson   swanson@unm.edu

Lyman Persico   lyman@unm.edu

Recently completed:

PhD:  Jennifer Pierce, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geosciences, Boise State University   jenpierce@boisestate.edu [2004]

MS:    Jennifer New   jnew@unm.edu [2007] 

[Thesis: Holocene charcoal-based alluvial fire chronology and geomorphic implications in Caballero Canyon, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico]

Jed Frechette   jdfrech@unm.edu [2007]

[Thesis: Millennial-scale changes in fan deposition and fire severity in ponderosa pine forests, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico]

Lyman Persico   lyman@unm.edu [2006]

Ben Burnett   burnettben@yahoo.com [2004]

[Thesis: Aspect and microclimatic influences on hillslope geomorphology, northeastern Arizona]

Rick Ortiz, William Lettis and Associates   ortiz@lettis.com [2004] 

[Thesis: A river in transition: geomorphic and bed sediment response to Cochiti dam on the Middle Rio Grande, Bernalillo to Albuquerque, New Mexico]

Recent Publications: [ request reprints/preprints/PDFs ]

·       Burnett, B.N., Meyer, G.A., and McFadden, L.D. (in press), Aspect controls on hillslope geomorphology and implications for slope evolution, northeastern Arizona: Journal of Geophysical Research ? Earth Surface. [ PDF ]

·       Pierce, J.L., and Meyer, G.A. (2008), Late Holocene records of fire in alluvial fan sediments:  fire-climate relationships and implications for management of Rocky Mountain forests: International Journal of Wildland Fire v. 17, p. 84-95.

·       Amerson, B.E., Montgomery, D.R. and Meyer, G.A. (2008), Relative size of fluvial and glaciated valleys in central Idaho: Geomorphology v. 93, p. 537?547. [ PDF ]

·       Pierce, J.L., Meyer, G.A., and Jull, A.J.T. (2004), Fire-induced erosion and millennial-scale climate change in northern ponderosa pine forests: Nature, v. 432, p. 87-90. [ PDF ]

·       Meyer, G.A., Fawcett, P.F., and Locke, W.W. (2004) Late-Pleistocene equilibrium-line altitudes, atmospheric circulation, and timing of mountain glacier advances in the interior northwestern United States, in Haller, K., and Wood, S.H., eds., Geological Field Trips in Southern Idaho, Eastern Oregon, and Northern Nevada: Geological Society of America Field Guide, p. 61-66. [ PDF ]

·       Meyer, G.A. (2004), Yellowstone fires and the physical landscape, Ch. 3 in Wallace, L.L., ed., After The Fires: The Ecology of Change in Yellowstone National Park: New Haven, Yale University Press, p. 29-51.

·       Pierce, K.L., Despain, D., Whitlock, C., Cannon, K.P., Meyer, G., Morgan, L., and Licciardi, J., (2003) Quaternary geology and ecology of the greater Yellowstone area: in Easterbrook, D.J., ed., Quaternary Geology of the United States, INQUA 2003 Field Guide Volume, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV p. 313?344. [ PDF ]

·       Meyer, G.A., and Pierce, J.L., 2003, Climatic controls on fire-induced sediment pulses in Yellowstone National Park and Central Idaho: a long-term perspective: Forest Ecology and Management, v. 178, p. 89-104.

·       Pierce, K.L., Cannon, K.P., Meyer, G.A., Trebesch, M.J., and Watts, R. (2002) Post-glacial inflation-deflation cycles, tilting, and faulting in the Yellowstone caldera based on Yellowstone Lake shorelines: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 02-0142, 62 p. [ PDF ]

·       Meyer, G.A., Pierce, J.L., Wood, S.H., and Jull, A.J.T., 2001,  Fires, storms, and sediment yield in the Idaho batholith: Hydrological Processes, v. 15, p. 3025-3038.

·       Meyer, G.A., 2001,  Recent large-magnitude floods and their impact on valley-floor environments of northeastern Yellowstone: Geomorphology, v. 40, p. 271-290.

·       Marcus, W.A., Meyer, G.A., Nimmo, D.R., 2001,  Geomorphic control of persistent mine impacts in a Yellowstone Park stream and implications for the recovery of fluvial systems: Geology, v. 29, no. 4, p. 355-358. [ PDF ]

·       Meyer, G.A., and Leidecker, M.E., 1999,  Fluvial terraces along the Middle Fork Salmon River, Idaho, and their relation to glaciation, landslide dams, and incision rates: A preliminary analysis and river-mile guide, in Hughes, S.S., and Thackray, G.D., eds., Guidebook to the Geology of Eastern Idaho: Pocatello, Idaho Museum of Natural History, p. 219-235. [ PDF ]

·       Meyer, G.A., and Wells, S.G., 1997,  Fire-related sedimentation events on alluvial fans, Yellowstone National Park, U.S.A.: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. A67, p. 776-791.

·       Meyer, G.A., editor, 1995, Late Pleistocene?Holocene evolution of the northeastern Yellowstone landscape: Friends of the Pleistocene, Rocky Mountain Cell, Field Conference Guidebook, 55 p. [ PDF ]

·       Meyer, G.A., Wells, S.G., and Jull, A.J.T., 1995,  Fire and alluvial chronology in Yellowstone National Park: Climatic and intrinsic controls on Holocene geomorphic processes: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 107, p. 1211-1230.  (1997 GSA Kirk Bryan Award recipient) [ PDF ]

·       Locke, W.W., and Meyer, G.A., 1994,  A 12,000-year record of vertical deformation across the Yellowstone caldera margin: The shorelines of Yellowstone Lake: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 99, n. B10, p. 20,079-20,094.

·       Meyer, G.A., Wells, S.G., Balling, R.C., Jr., and Jull, A.J.T., 1992,  Response of alluvial systems to fire and climate change in Yellowstone National Park: Nature, v. 357, p. 147-150. [ PDF ]

·       Locke, W.W., Meyer, G.A., and Pings, J.C., 1992,  Morphology of a post-glacial fault scarp across the Yellowstone (Wyoming) caldera margin and its implications: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 82(1), p. 511-516. [ PDF ]

·       Balling, R.C., Jr., Meyer, G.A., and Wells, S.G., 1992,  Climate change in Yellowstone National Park: Is the drought-related risk of wildfires increasing?: Climatic Change, v. 22, p. 34-35. [ PDF ]


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