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Grant
A. Meyer
Associate
Professor
Ph.D.,
Research and Academic Interests:
GEOMORPHOLOGY: Hillslopes
and fluvial systems; climatic, tectonic and environmental geomorphology;
Quaternary geology; ecosystem processes Courses:
Research Projects:
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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]
Publications: [ request
reprints/preprints/PDFs ]
· Lanza, N.L., Meyer, G.A., Okubo, C.H., Newsom, H.E., and Wiens, R.C. (2009)
Evidence for debris flow gully formation initiated by shallow subsurface water
on Mars: Icarus (in press)
· Frechette, J.D. and Meyer, G.A. (2009) Holocene
fire-related alluvial-fan deposition and climate in ponderosa pine and
mixed-conifer forests, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico: The Holocene 19(4), p. 639-651, doi: 10.1177/0959683609104031.
· Persico, L.P., and Meyer, G.A. (2009) Holocene
beaver damming, fluvial geomorphology, and climate in Yellowstone National
Park, Wyoming: Quaternary Research
71, 340–353, doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2008.09.007
· Burnett, B.N., Meyer, G.A., and McFadden, L.D.
(2008), Aspect controls on hillslope geomorphology and implications for slope
evolution, northeastern Arizona: Journal
of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface 113, F03002,
doi:10.1029/2007JF000789. [ 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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