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Education

• PhD (2018, expected), Civil Engineering, Colorado State University (CSU)
  • Dissertation: The effects of sediment supply, width variation, and unsteady flow on riffle-pool dynamics
• MS (2013), Civil Engineering, University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC)
  • Thesis: Bed degradation of the lower Missouri River
• BS (2011), Civil Engineering, Tennessee Technological University (TTU)

Experience

• Graduate Research Assistant, 2013–Present, Colorado State University (CSU)
• Geotechnical Technician, 2011–2013, Olsson Associates' (OA)

Software Experience

• Hydro-morphodynamic modeling
• iRIC (Nays2DH, FaSTMECH)
• Delft3D
• HEC-RAS
• Geographic information system
• ArcGIS
• QGIS
• Structure-from-Motion photogrammetry
• AgiSoft PhotoScan
• VisualSFM
• Miscellaneous
• CloudCompare

Computer Languages

• Proficient: MATLAB, Fortran 90
• Familiar: Python, LaTeX, HTML/CSS, Visual Basic, Batch

Affiliations

• American Society of Civil Engineers, Environmental and Water Resources Institute
• American Geophysical Union, Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Focus Group
• Geological Society of America, Quaternary Geology & Geomorphology Division
• Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System, Terrestrial Working Group

Field/Laboratory Experience

• Land surveying
• RTK-GPS surveying (Topcon GR-5/Tesla)
• Total station surveying
• Automatic level surveying
• Terrestrial lidar
• Leica ScanStation HDS3600 (time-of-flight)
• Faro Laser Scanner Focus 3D S (phase-shift)
• Structure-from-Motion photogrammetry
• Wolman-style pebble counts

Publications

Refereed Papers

• Morgan, J.A., D.J. Brogan, and P.A. Nelson, 2017, Application of Structure-from-Motion photogrammetry in laboratory flumes, Geomorphology, 276: 125–143, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.10.021.

• Nelson, P.A., A.K. Brew, and J.A. Morgan, 2015, Morphodynamic response of a variable-width channel to changes in sediment supply, Water Resources Research, 51(7): 5717–5734, doi:10.1002/2014WR016806.

Conference Proceedings

• Morgan, J.A. and P.A. Nelson, 2016, Hydro- and morphodynamics of riffle-pool sequences in the middle Elwha River, Washington, USA, in Constantinescu, Garcia, and Hanes (Eds.), River Flow 2016, Taylor & Francis Group, London: 1212–1217, doi:10.1201/9781315644479-191. [link]

• Brew, A.K., J.A. Morgan, and P.A. Nelson, 2015, Bankfull width controls on riffle-pool morphology under conditions of increased sediment supply: Field observations during the Elwha River dam removal project, in SEDHYD 2015: 10^th Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference and 5^th Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference, Reno, Nev., 19–23 Apr. [link]

Theses

• Morgan, J.A., 2013, Bed degradation of the lower Missouri River, M.S. Thesis, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 172 p.

Abstracts and Presentations

• Morgan, J.A., P.A. Nelson, and D.J. Brogan, 2017, Hydro-geomorphology of the middle Elwha River, Washington, following dam removal, presented at 2017 AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, Louis., 11–15 Dec.

• Nelson, P.A. and J.A. Morgan, 2017, Flow, sediment supply, and channel width controls on gravel bedform dynamics (poster), presented at 2017 AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, Louis., 11–15 Dec.

• Brogan, D.J., P.A. Nelson, L.H. MacDonald, and J.A. Morgan, 2017, Geomorphic complexity of sequential fire and floods in mountain watersheds, presented at 2017 AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, Louis., 11–15 Dec.

• Morgan, J.A. and P.A. Nelson, 2017, Two-dimensional modeling of variable-width gravel bed morphodynamics (poster), presented at CSDMS Annual Meeting: Modeling Coupled Earth and Human Systems, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo., 23–25 May.

• Brogan, D.J., P.A. Nelson, L.H. MacDonald, and J.A. Morgan, 2017, How disturbing: The complications of sequential fire and floods in mountain catchments, presented at AGU Hydrology Days 2017, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colo., 20–22 Mar. [link]

• Morgan, J.A., P.A. Nelson, and D.J. Brogan, 2017, Morphological changes in the middle Elwha River, Washington following dam removal, presented at AGU Hydrology Days 2017, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colo., 20–22 Mar. [link]

• Schoelkopf, A., J.A. Morgan, and P.A. Nelson, 2017, Bedload sheet characteristics under steady versus unsteady flow, presented at AGU Hydrology Days 2017, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colo., 20–22 Mar. [link]

• Morgan, J.A. and P.A. Nelson, 2016, Numerical and physical experiments on the effect of variations in channel width on gravel-bed river morphodynamics (poster), presented at 2016 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Calif., 12–16 Dec.

• Morgan, J.A. and P.A. Nelson, 2016, Numerical simulatios on the effect of variations in channel width on the morphodynamics of gravel-bed rivers, presented at 2016 GSA Annual Meeting, Denver, Colo., 25–28 Sept.

• Morgan, J.A. and P.A. Nelson, 2016, Morphodynamics of riffle-pool sequences in the middle Elwha River, Washington, presented at AGU Hydrology Days 2016, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colo., 21–23 Mar. [link]

• Morgan, J.A. and P.A. Nelson, 2015, Numerical experiments on sediment pulse dynamics, presented at 2015 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Calif., 14–18 Dec.

• Morgan, J.A. and P.A. Nelson, 2015, Geomorphic changes in riffle-pool sequences of the middle Elwha River (poster), presented at 2015 Elwha River Science Symposium, NatureBridge, Port Angeles, Wash., 18–20 Nov.

• Morgan, J.A. and P.A. Nelson, 2015, Numerical experiments on the effects of channel width, unsteady flow, and sediment supply on gravel-bed river morphodynamics (poster), presented at Gravel Bed Rivers 8, Kyoto, Japan, 14–18 Sept.

• Morgan, J.A. and P.A. Nelson, 2015, Numerical experiments on the effects of channel width, unsteady flow, and sediment supply on gravel-bed river morphodynamics, presented at AGU Hydrology Days 2015, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colo., 23–25 Mar. [link]

• Brew, A.K., J.A. Morgan, and P.A. Nelson, 2014, Analysis of variations in channel width and sediment supply on riffle pool dynamics, before and after dam removal, presented at AGU Hydrology Days 2014, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colo., 24–26 Mar. [link]

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