Gary Parker
Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois
United States of America
Biography
Gary Parker joined the faculty of the Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering group in the summer of 2005. He holds a 75 percent appointment in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a 25 percent appointment in the Department of Geology, where he is the W.H. Johnson Professor of Geology.
Research Interest
Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering
Publications
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Ganti, V. Chu, Z-X, Lamb, M.P., Nittrouer, J.A. and Parker, G. 2015. Testing morphodynamic controls on the location and frequency of river avulsions on fans versus deltas: Huanghe (Yellow River), China. Geophysical Research Letters 41(22), 7882-7890, DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061918.
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Zhang, L., Parker, G., Stark, C.S., Inoue, T., Viparelli, E., Fu, X.D. and Izumi, N. 2015. Macro-roughness model of bedrock-alluvial river morphodynamics, Earth Surf. Dynam. 3, 113-138, www.earth-surf-dynam.net/3/113/2015/doi:10.5194/esurf-3-113-201, doi:10.5194/esurf-3-113-2015..
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Viparelli, E., Nittrouer, J.A and Parker, G. 2015. Modeling flow and sediment transport dynamics in the lowermost Mississippi River, Louisiana, USA, with an upstream alluvial-bedrock transition and a downstream bedrock-alluvial transition: implications for land-building using engineered diversions. Journal of Geophysical Research, published online March 17, 2015, DOI: 10.1002/2014JF003257.