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Box 351310 University of Washington

Seattle WA 98195-1310



Mercator's Map of Iceland, 16th Century.

Who We Are

The Geomorphology Research Group operates under the supervision of Dr. David R. Montgomery at the University of Washington, and consists of a team of staff and graduate students working on hillslope, fluvial, and tectonic geomorphology and historical ecology (or environmental history).

Recent and Forthcoming Publications

Montgomery, D.R. 2017 Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life W. W. Norton&Co.

Montgomery, D.R. and Biklé, A. 2016 The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health W. W. Norton&Co.

Montgomery, D. R., 2003, King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon, Westview Press, Boulder, 290 p.

Larsen, Isaac J., Almond, Peter C., Eger, Andre, Stone, John O., Montgomery, David R., Malcolm,Brendan, Rapid Soil Production and Weathering in the Southern Alps, New Zealand, Science, v. 343, p. 637-640, 7 February 2014.

Montgomery, D. R., Huang, M. Y.-F., and Huang, A Y.-L., Regional soil erosion in response to land use and increased typhoon frequency and intensity, Quaternary Research, v. 81, p. 15-20, 2014

Huang, M. Y.-F., and Montgomery, D. R., Altered regional sediment transport regime after a large typhoon, southern, Taiwan, Geology, v. 41, p. 1223-1226, 2013

Montgomery, D. R., Faith in floods: Field and theory in landscape evolution before geomorphology, Geomorphology, v. 200, p. 9-19, 2013

Lang, K. A., Huntington, K. W., and Montgomery, D.R., Erosion of the Tsangpo Gorge by megafloods, eastern Himalaya, Geology, v. 41, p 1003-1006, 2013.

Bandfield, J. L., Edwards, C. S., Montgomery, D. R., and Brand, B., The dual nature of the martian crust: Young lavas and old clastic materials, Icarus, v. 222, p. 188-199, 2013.

Buffington, J. M., and Montgomery, D. R., Geomorphic classification of rivers, Treatise on Geomorphology, Volume 9, Fluvial Geomorphology, Shroder, J. F. (Ed. In Chief), Wohl, E. (volume ed.), pp. 730-767, Academic Press, San Diego, 2013.

Weekes, A. A., Torgersen, C. E., Montgomery, D. R., Woodward, A., and Bolton, S., A process-based hierarchical framework for monitoring glaciated Alpine headwaters, Environmental Management, v. 50, p. 983-997, 2012.

Montgomery, D. R., The evolution of creationism, GSA Today, v. 22, no.11, November, 2012.

Huang, A. Y.-L., and Montgomery, D. R., Topographic locations and size of earthquake- and typhoon-generated landslides, Tachia River, Taiwan, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms,, in press

Larsen, Isaac J. and Montgomery, David R., Landslide erosion coupled to tectonics and river incision, Nature Geoscience Letters, DOI: 10.1038/NGEO1479, 27 May 2012.

Mohr, C., Montgomery, D. R., Huber, A., Bronstert, A., and Iroumé, A, Streamflow response in small upland catchments in the Chilean Coastal Range to the 8.8-M w Maule earthquake on 27 February 2010, Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, v. 117, F02032, doi:10.1029/2011JF002138, 2012.

Bandfield, J. L., Edwards, C. S., Montgomery, D. R., and Brand, B., The dual nature of the martian crust: Young lavas and old clastic materials, Icarus, v. 222, p. 188-199, 2013.

Collins, B. D., Montgomery, D. R., Fetherston, K., and Abbe, T. B., The wood cycle in structuring forested floodplains in the Pacific Northwest, Geomorpohology, v. 139-140, p. 460-470, 2012.

Note: Please refer to the Publications page for a complete listing.

Contact Us

David R. Montgomery

Geomorphological Research Group

Department of Earth & Space Sciences

Box 351310 University of Washington

Seattle WA 98195-1310



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