People | James Eugene Pizzuto

• Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy in Geology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1982.

Fluvial geomorphology, sediment transport, river restoration

• Width adjustment during floods: a laboratory study
• Sediment budget of a mercury contaminated valley, South River, Virginia
• Suspended sediment trapping by Large Woody Debris in a gravel-bed river
• Tripod-mounted LiDAR surveys of eroding river banks

Andrea Barbieri (M.S. student)

Pramenath Narinesingh (PhD student)

Katherine J. Skalak (PhD student)

• GEOL/GEOG/PLSC 667 Analysis of Selected Earth Surface Processes (S08)
• GEOL/GEOG 411/611 Fluvial Geomorphology (F07)
• GEOL303 Earth Surface Processes (F07)
• GEOL306 Field Geology (S08)

Selected Recent Publications

Skalak, K., and Pizzuto, J.E., in review, Fine-grained channel margin deposits in a gravel-bed river: occurrence, distribution, and ¹⁴C dating. Geology.

Skalak, K., and Pizzuto, J.E. in press, The Geomorphic Effects of Existing Dams and Historic Dam Removals in the Mid-Atlantic Region, U.S.A. ASCE Monograph on Dam Removal. 

Lewicki, M., J. E. Pizzuto, G. E. Moglen, and N. E. Allmendinger (2007), A watershed scale numerical model of the impact of land use change on bed material transport in suburban Maryland, USA, Water Resour. Res., 43, W07424, doi:10.1029/2006WR004959.

Skalak, K.S., Pizzuto, J.E., and Hart, D.H. in revision. Long-term recovery of streams from dam removal in the mid-Atlantic region. Journal of the American Water Resources Association.

Pizzuto, J.E., Moody, J.A., and Meade, R.H. In press. Anatomy and dynamics of a floodplain, Powder River, Montana. Journal of Sedimentary Research.

Nelson, K.C., Palmer, M.A., Pizzuto, J.E., Moglen, G.E., Angemeier, P.L., Dettinger, M., Hayhoe, K. Ecological forecasting in a complex world: urbanization, climate change, and headwater streams. In review. Ecological Applications.

Pizzuto, J.E., Moglen, G.E., Palmer, M.A., Nelson, K.C. in press. Two model scenarios illustrating  the effects of land use and climate change on gravel riverbeds of suburban Maryland, U.S.A. in Gravel Bed Rivers 6 – From Process Understanding to River Restoration, ed. Rinaldi, M., Ergenzinger, P., Habersack, H., Hoey, T., and Piegay, H. Elsevier B.V., Oxford.

Allmendinger, N.E., Pizzuto, J.E., Moglen, G., and Lewicki, in press, A Sediment Budget for an  urbanizing watershed, 1951-1996, Montgomery Co. Maryland, U.S.A. Journal of the American Water Resources Association.

Allmendinger, N.E., Pizzuto, J.E., Potter, N. Jr., Johnson, T.E., Hession, E.C., 2005, The influence of  riparian vegetation on stream width, eastern Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 117, 229-243.