Interdisciplinary synthesis of recent natural and managed floods

Principal Investigators:

William K. Michener, and Richard Haeuber

Science, policy, and resource management knowledge gaps as they relate to flooding will be addressed by three NCEAS working groups. Specific objectives are to:

synthesize existing knowledge, incorporating inter-site comparative analyses where appropriate;
relate results from studies of natural flood disturbances to those of managed floods to devise scientifically sound management prescriptions;
examine how floods have served as the impetus for policy change and evaluate the effectiveness of those... more

Science, policy, and resource management knowledge gaps as they relate to flooding will be addressed by three NCEAS working groups. Specific objectives are to:

synthesize existing knowledge, incorporating inter-site comparative analyses where appropriate;
relate results from studies of natural flood disturbances to those of managed floods to devise scientifically sound management prescriptions;
examine how floods have served as the impetus for policy change and evaluate the effectiveness of those policies; and
identify needs and design research approaches that can take advantage of new ¿¿¿windows of opportunity¿¿¿.

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Participants and Meetings

Working Group Participants

Activity	Dates	Further Information
Working Group	14th—16th September 1998	Participant List
Working Group	1st—7th May 1999	Participant List
Working Group	13th—19th November 1999	Participant List
Working Group	7th—12th May 2000	Participant List

Participant Contact Information

Nicholas G. Aumen	nick_aumen@nps.gov	South Florida Water Management
Betsy Cody		Congressional Research Office
Nancy B. Grimm	nbgrimm@asu.edu	Arizona State University
Richard Haeuber		Ecological Society of America
William K. Michener	william.michener@gmail.com	Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center
John C. Schmidt	jack.schmidt@usu.edu	Utah State University
Margaret A. Shannon	mshannon@buffalo.edu	State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo
Fred Swanson	fswanson@lternet.edu	USDA Forest Service
Thomas Birkland		State University of New York (SUNY), Albany
Alice Celay		University of California, Santa Barbara
Hanna J. Cortner	hcortner@ag.arizona.edu	University of Arizona
Thomas Dunne	tdunne@bren.ucsb.edu	University of California, Santa Barbara
Greg Edgar		University of California, Santa Barbara
Mary Freeman	mary@ttrout.ecology.uga.edu	University of Georgia
David L. Galat	galatd@missouri.edu	University of Missouri
Gordon Grant	gordon.grant@orst.edu	USDA Forest Service
Paula Johnson	aluap@arches.uga.edu	Unknown
Sherri L. Johnson	sherri.johnson@oregonstate.edu	Oregon State University
Jeff Mason	leal@geog.ucsb.edu	University of California, Santa Barbara
N. LeRoy Poff	poff@lamar.colostate.edu	Colorado State University
Richard E. Sparks	rsparks@uiuc.edu	University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Emily H. Stanley	ehstanley@wisc.edu	University of Wisconsin
Lou Toth	ltoth@sfwmd.gov	South Florida Water Management
Ray Burby	burby@email.unc.edu	University of New Orleans
David Conrad	conrad@nwf.org	National Wildlife Federation
Len Houston	leonard.houston@usace.army.mil	US Army Corps of Engineers
Berton Lee Lamb	laml@usgs.gov	US Geological Survey (USGS)
Martin Reuss	martin.a.reuss@hq02.usace.army.mil	US Army Corps of Engineers
Susan Selby	susan.selby@lvvwd.com	Southern Nevada Water Authority
Richard F. Wells	rwells@pn.usbr.gov	US Bureau of Reclamation
Robb Jacobson	robb_jacobson@usgs.gov	US Geological Survey (USGS)
Peter J. May	pmay@u.washington.edu	University of Washington

Products: Publications, Reports, Datasets, Presentations, Visualizations

Type	Products of NCEAS Research
Book Chapter	Benda, Lee; Miller, D. J.; Dunne, Thomas; Reeves, Gordon H.; Agee, J. K. 1998. Dynamic landscape systems. Edited by Naiman, R.; Bilby, R.; Kantor, S.. River Ecology and Management: Lessons from the Pacific Coastal Ecoregion. Springer-Verlag. New York. Pages 261-288.
Journal Article	Birkland, Thomas; Burby, Ray; Conrad, David; Cortner, Hanna J.; Michener, William K. 2003. River ecology and flood hazard mitigation. Natural Hazards Review. Vol: 4(1). Pages 46-54.
Journal Article	Dunne, Thomas. 1998. Critical data requirements for prediction of erosion and sedimentation in mountain drainage basins. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. Vol: 34(4). Pages 795-808.
Journal Article	Dunne, Thomas; Mertes, Leal; Meade, R. H.; Richey, J. E.; Forsberg, Bruce R. 1998. Exchanges of sediment between flood plain and the channel of the Amazon River in Brazil. Geological Society of America Bulletin. Vol: 110. Pages 450-467.
Book Chapter	Dunne, Thomas. 1998. Hydrologic science...in landscapes...on a planet...in the future. National Academy Press. Washington, DC. Pages 10-43.
Presentations	Dunne, Thomas. 1999. Amazon River basin hydrology from whole-basin to hillslope scales. Regional Conference. International Association of Geomorphology. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Presentations	Dunne, Thomas. 1999. Channel-floodplain sedimentation. Pacific Division of Americon Association for the Advancement of Science. San Francisco, California.
Journal Article	Haeuber, Richard; Michener, William K. 1998. Natural flood control. Issues in Science and Technology. Vol: 15. Pages 74.
Journal Article	Johnson, Sherri L.; Swanson, Fred; Grant, Gordon; Wondzell, Steve. 2000. Riparian forest disturbances by a mountain flood - the influence of floated wood. Hydrological Processes. Vol: 14. Pages 3031.
Journal Article	Michener, William K. 1997. Quantitatively evaluating restoration experiments: Research design, statistical analysis, and data management considerations. Restoration Ecology. Vol: 5. Pages 324-337.
Book	Michener, William K.; Brunt, James W. 2000. Ecological Data: Design, Management and Processing (Ecology Series). Blackwell. Oxford.