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

The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood Montgomery, D. R., 2012, The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood, W. W. Norton &Co.

[Review in Publisher's Weekly]       [Review in Library Journal]
[Review in UW Daily]       [Review in Crosscut]
[Review in The Daily Beast]       [Review in Wall Street Journal]
[Review in Religion Dispatches]       [Review in New Scientist]
[Review in Seattle Times]   [Interview in Seattle Times 17Sept2012]
[TED Talk]       [Fox News Interview]       [TVW Interview]   [...and comments]
[Dr.Cochran podcast]       [order from Amazon]

Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, David R. Montgomery Montgomery, D. R., 2007, Dirt: Erosion of Civilizations, University of California Press, 296 p. (translated into Japanese, German, Turkish, Korean, and Estonian)

[Review in Nature]   [Review in Crop Science]   [Review in blogs.agu.org]
[Review in knowwhereyourfoodcomesfrom.com]

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

Montgomery, D. R., The evolution of creationism, GSA Today, v. 22, no. 11, p. 4-9, November, 2012.

Download PDF: Fluvial response to rapid episodic erosion by earthquake and typhoons, Tachia River, central Taiwan Huang, Y.-F., and Montgomery, D. R., Fluvial response to rapid episodic erosion by earthquake and typhoons, Tachia River, central Taiwan, Geomorphology, v. 175-176, p. 126-138, 2012.

Download PDF: Traces of the Great Flood Montgomery, D. R., Traces of the Great Flood, Discover Magazine, July/August, p. 42-46, 2012.

Download PDF: Landslide erosion controlled by hillslope material Larsen, I. J., Montgomery, D. R., and Korup, O., Landslide erosion controlled by hillslope material, Nature Geoscience, v. 3, p. 247-251, 2010.

Download PDF: Streamflow response in small upland catchments in the Chilean Coastal Range to the 8.8-Mw Maule earthquake on 27 February 2010 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-Mw Maule earthquake on 27 February 2010, Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, v. 117, F02032, doi:10.1029/2011JF002138, 2012.

Download PDF: Soil and Civilization: Time for a Greener Revolution Montgomery, D. R., Soil and Civilization: Time for a Greener Revolution, Food Ethics, v. 7, p. 4-6, 2012.

Download PDF:Periodic bedrock ridges on Mars Montgomery, David R., Bandfield, Joshua L., and Becker, Scott K., Periodic bedrock ridges on Mars, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 117, 9 March 2012.

Download PDF:The wood cycle in structuring forested floodplains in the Pacific Northwest 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.


 

Contact Us

David R. Montgomery
Geomorphological Research Group
Department of Earth & Space Sciences
Box 351310 University of Washington
Seattle WA 98195-1310

dave@ess.washington.edu