| Douglas J. Faulkner
Associate Professor of Geography E-mail: faulkndj@uwec.edu
Education
Courses Taught (at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire)
Courses Taught (at the University of Missouri-Kansas City) Courses Taught (at Dartmouth College) Research Interests One of the main thrusts of my current research is the reconstruction of the Holocene history of sediment delivery in small watersheds in the central Great Plains. I am also investigating the Holocene alluvial history of the Platte River, the largest river in the central Great Plains and the largest tributary of the Missouri River. The specific focus of my work is on alluvial fans in the Platte River valley of south-central Nebraska and on the buried soils they contain, which provide a means for deciphering chronologies of watershed sediment yield and for determining past changes of the Platte River. (To view a map of my study area, click here. But before you do, be forewarned that this is a large image -- ~250 KB.) A second thrust of my research focuses on recent channel changes and floodplain sedimentation in the lower Buffalo River watershed in west-central Wisconsin. In the summer of 2001, I, along with Tobi Rutten (UWEC geography major), resurveyed several transects across tributary streams that I originally surveyed in 1992 and 1993 in order to quantify the channel and floodplain changes that have occurred over the past decade. In the future, I will also be taking part in collaborative investigations of the lower Chippewa River, which was recently designated a State Natural Area by the Governor and the Natural Resources Board of Wisconsin. The lower Chippewa is an interesting river that exhibits both braided and meandering planforms. My research goals will be to reconstruct the channel changes that have occurred over the past century and to identify the factors that control why certain reaches of the river appear to be more morphologically dynamic than others. Recent
Publications Faulkner, D.J. 1998. "Spatially Variable Historical Alluviation and Channel Incision in West-Central Wisconsin." Annals, Association of American Geographers 88: 666-685.
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