Professor Hussam Mahmoud has published an article in Nature‘s online journal under the World View section entitled “The causes of wildfires are clear. How they burn through communities is not.” In the article, Mahmoud calls for community-wide mitigation to reduce damage from wildfires. His own groundbreaking wildfire model is one such way to increase resilience…Read more
Morrison develops framework for measuring floodplain integrity across the contiguous U.S. Associate Professor Ryan Morrison details his latest research in the development of an index of floodplain integrity in an article published by Communications Earth & Environment entitled “Degradation of floodplain integrity within the contiguous United States.” Floodplains provide critical environmental benefits such as reducing the impact…Read more
Associate Professor Ryan Morrison and coauthors Ellen Wohl and Richard Knox of the Department of Geosciences received the news that their paper, “A river ran through it: Floodplains as America’s newest relict landform” was selected by faculty in the Warner College of Natural Resources for this year’s Outstanding Publication award. WCNR Dean Alonso Aguirre called…Read more