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David Jon Furbish is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States. Their research primarily covers Environmental Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Engineering, with a strong focus on subfields such as Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Computational Mechanics, Atmospheric Science, Ocean Engineering, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Granular flow and fluidized beds
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Aeolian processes and effects

Frequent co-authors collaborating with David Jon Furbish are:

  • Tyler H. Doane
  • Joshua J. Roering
  • Brandt M. Gibson
  • Simon A.F. Darroch
  • Sarah G. Williams

Publication venues where David Jon Furbish has published repeatedly include:

  • Earth Surface Dynamics
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by David Jon Furbish are:

  • Depth-dependent soil mixing persists across climate zones, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Particle motion on burned and vegetated hillslopes, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Ancient life and moving fluids, 2020, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • The perpetual fragility of creeping hillslopes, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Rarefied particle motions on hillslopes - Part 4: Philosophy, 2021, Earth Surface Dynamics

Best Publications

  • The Use of Hypsometry to Indicate Long-Term Stability and Response of Valley Glaciers to Changes in Mass Transfer

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  • Growth of plutons by incremental emplacement of sheets in crystal-rich host: Evidence from Miocene intrusions of the Colorado River region, Nevada, USA

    Calvin F. Miller;David J. Furbish;Barry A. Walker;Lily L. Claiborne

  • A probabilistic description of the bed load sediment flux: 1. Theory

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  • The illusion of diffusion: Field evidence for depth-dependent sediment transport

    Arjun M. Heimsath;David Jon Furbish;William E. Dietrich

  • A probabilistic description of the bed load sediment flux: 2. Particle activity and motions

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  • On the shape and widening of salt marsh creeks

    Sergio Fagherazzi;David Jon Furbish

  • THE EFFECT OF BIDIRECTIONAL FLOW ON TIDAL CHANNEL PLANFORMS

    Sergio Fagherazzi;Emmanuel J. Gabet;David Jon Furbish

  • Flow, sedimentation, and biomass production on a vegetated salt marsh in South Carolina: toward a predictive model of marsh morphologic and ecologic evolution

    S. Fagherazzi;S. M. Mudd;J. T. Morris;D. J. Furbish

  • Flow, Sedimentation, and Biomass Production on a Vegetated Salt Marsh in South Carolina: Toward a Predictive Model of Marsh Morphologic and Ecologic Evolution

    Simon Marius Mudd;Sergio Fagherazzi;James T. Morris;David Jon Furbish

  • Rain splash of dry sand revealed by high-speed imaging and sticky paper splash targets

    David Jon Furbish;Katherine K. Hamner;Mark Schmeeckle;Miriam N. Borosund

  • Influences of coarse bank roughness on flow within a sharply curved river bend

    Stephen D. Thorne;David Jon Furbish

  • Spatial autoregressive structure in meander evolution

    David Jon Furbish

  • Responses of soil‐mantled hillslopes to transient channel incision rates

    Simon Marius Mudd;David Jon Furbish

  • Statistical description of slope‐dependent soil transport and the diffusion‐like coefficient

    David Jon Furbish;Peter K. Haff;William E. Dietrich;Arjun M. Heimsath

  • River-bend curvature and migration: How are they related?

    David Jon Furbish

  • Experimental evidence of statistical ensemble behavior in bed load sediment transport

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  • Stability of creeping soil and implications for hillslope evolution

    David Jon Furbish;Sergio Fagherazzi

  • Influence of chemical denudation on hillslope morphology

    Simon Marius Mudd;David Jon Furbish

  • Annual precipitation and river discharges in Florida in response to El Niño- and La Niña-sea surface temperature anomalies

    Hongbing Sun;David J. Furbish

  • A probabilistic description of the bed load sediment flux: 4. Fickian diffusion at low transport rates

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  • Estimating depth‐averaged velocities in rough ­channels

    Tracy C. Byrd;David Jon Furbish;Jeff Warburton

  • The use of sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) as a tracer of septic tank effluent in the Florida Keys

    K.S. Dillon;D.R. Corbett;J.P. Chanton;W.C. Burnett

  • Numerical Solution of the Dam-Break Problem with a Discontinuous Galerkin Method

    Sergio Fagherazzi;Patrick Rasetarinera;M. Youssuff Hussaini;David J. Furbish

  • Moisture content effect on radon emanation in porous media

    Hongbing Sun;David J. Furbish

  • Using chemical tracers in hillslope soils to estimate the importance of chemical denudation under conditions of downslope sediment transport

    Simon Marius Mudd;David Jon Furbish

Frequent Co-Authors

James T. Morris
James T. Morris University of South Carolina
Sergio Fagherazzi
Sergio Fagherazzi Boston University
Marc Laflamme
Marc Laflamme University of Toronto
Simon M. Mudd
Simon M. Mudd University of Edinburgh
Emmanuel J. Gabet
Emmanuel J. Gabet San Jose State University
William C. Burnett
William C. Burnett Florida State University
Vincent J. M. Salters
Vincent J. M. Salters Florida State University
Jeff Warburton
Jeff Warburton Durham University
Jeffrey P. Chanton
Jeffrey P. Chanton Florida State University
Jeroen E. Sonke
Jeroen E. Sonke Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées

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