Vita

Ellen E. Wohl


Education

1988 Ph.D. University of Arizona (Geosciences)
1984 B.S. Arizona State University (Geology)

Employment

1989-1996 Assistant Professor Colorado State University
1996-2000 Associate Professor Colorado State University
2000-present Professor Colorado State University

Honors and Activities

1991 Fulbright Fellowship to Israel 
1995 Gladys W. Cole Memorial Award, Geological Society of America 
1996 Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 

2000,

2003

Assoc. Am. Geographers, Geomorphology Specialty Group, G.K. Gilbert Award for Excellence in Geomorphological Research
2001 CSU Water Center Award for Outstanding Contributions to Interdisciplinary Water Education, Research and Outreach
2004 Chair, Geol. Soc. America Quaternary Geology & Geomorphology Division
  Member, Am. Geophys. Union Erosion & Sedimentation Committee
  Associate Editor: Geomorphology; Geol. Soc. Am. Bulletin; Water Resources Research

Professional Affiliations

Selected Bibliography:

Recent Refereed Publications (of more than 60 total)

 

Chin, A. and Wohl, E. 2005. Toward a theory for step pools in stream channels. Progress in Physical Geography 29: 275-296.

Wohl, E., Angermeier, P.A., Bledsoe, B., Kondolf, G.M., MacDonnell, L., Merritt, D.M., Poff, N.L., Palmer, M.A., and Tarboton, D. 2005. River restoration. Water Resources Research 41: 10.1029/2005WR003985, 12 p.

Wohl, E. and Merritt, D.M. 2005. Prediction of mountain stream morphology. Water

Resources Research 41: 10.1029/2004WR003779, 10 p.

Wohl, E. and Wilcox, A. 2005. Channel geometry of mountain streams in New Zealand.

Journal of Hydrology 300: 252-266.

Wohl, E. 2004. Limits of downstream hydraulic geometry. Geology 32: 897-900.

Rathburn, S. and Wohl, E. 2003. Predicting fine sediment dynamics along a pool-riffle mountain channel. Geomorphology 55: 111-124.

Springer, G.S., Wohl, E.E., Foster, J.A. and Boyer, D.G. 2003. Testing for reach-scale adjustments of hydraulic variables to soluble and insoluble strata: Buckeye Creek and Greenbrier River, West Virginia. Geomorphology 56: 201-217.

MacFarlane, W.A. and Wohl, E.E. 2003. The influence of step composition on step geometry and flow resistance in step-pool streams of the Washington Cascades. Water Resources Research 39: ESG3-1 to ESG3-13.

Wohl, E. and Legleiter, C.J. 2003. Controls on pool characteristics along a resistant-boundary channel. Journal of Geology 111: 103-114.

Cenderelli, D.A. and Wohl, E.E. 2003. Flow hydraulics and geomorphic effects of glacial-lake outburst floods in the Mount Everest region, Nepal. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 28: 385-407.

 

Books:

 

Wohl, E. 2004. Disconnected rivers: Draining the vitality of U.S. Waterways. Yale

University Press.

Wohl, E.E. 2001. Virtual Rivers: lessons from the mountain rivers of the Colorado Front

Range. Yale University Press, New Haven, 210 pp.

Wohl, E. 2000. Mountain rivers. American Geophysical Union, Water Resources

Monograph 14, 320 pp.

Wohl, E. 2000. (Ed.) Inland flood hazards: Human, riparian, and aquatic communities.

Cambridge University Press, 498 pp.

Tinkler, K.J. and Wohl, E.E. 1998. (Eds.) Rivers over rock: fluvial processes in bedrock

channels. Am. Geophys. Union Geophysical Monograph 107, 323 pp.