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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

David Mohrig is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on understanding surface processes and sediment dynamics.

Their published work covers main fields of study including:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Subfields of research addressed by Mohrig include:

  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Ecology
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Soil Science
  • Global and Planetary Change

Key topics explored in their publications are:

  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics

Recent papers authored or coauthored by David Mohrig include:

  • Deep-water depositional systems supplied by shelf-incising submarine canyons: Recognition and significance in the geologic record, 2021, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Autogenic translation and counter point bar deposition in meandering rivers, 2021, Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • The anatomy of exhumed river-channel belts: Bedform to belt-scale river kinematics of the Ruby Ranch Member, Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah, USA, 2020, Sedimentology
  • Deep-ocean seafloor islands of plastics, 2020, Science
  • Bidirectional River-Floodplain Connectivity During Combined Pluvial-Fluvial Events, 2022, Water Resources Research

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated extensively with Mohrig include:

  • Paola Passalacqua
  • T. A. Goudge
  • Hima J. Hassenruck-Gudipati
  • Benjamin T. Cardenas
  • Zoltán Sylvester

David Mohrig's work has been published in various venues, notably:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Sedimentology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geology
  • Earth Surface Dynamics

In recognition of their contributions, David Mohrig was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Hydroplaning of subaqueous debris flows

    David Mohrig;David Mohrig;Kelin X. Whipple;Miki Hondzo;Christopher Ellis

  • The “unreasonable effectiveness” of stratigraphic and geomorphic experiments

    Chris Paola;Kyle Straub;Kyle Straub;David Mohrig;Liam Reinhardt

  • Lateral accretion packages (LAPs): an important reservoir element in deep water sinuous channels

    Vitor Abreu;Morgan Sullivan;Carlos Pirmez;David Mohrig

  • Interpreting avulsion process from ancient alluvial sequences: Guadalope-Matarranya system (northern Spain) and Wasatch Formation (western Colorado)

    David Mohrig;Paul L. Heller;Chris Paola;William J. Lyons

  • Natural Processes in Delta Restoration: Application to the Mississippi Delta

    Chris Paola;Robert R. Twilley;Douglas A. Edmonds;Douglas A. Edmonds;Wonsuck Kim

  • Equilibrium Profile and Baselevel in Submarine Channels: Examples from Late Pleistocene Systems and Implications for the Architecture of Deepwater Reservoirs

    Carlos Pirmez;R. T. Beaubouef;S. J. Friedmann;D. C. Mohrig

  • Conditions for branching in depositional rivers

    Douglas J. Jerolmack;David Mohrig

  • Alluvial Fans Formed by Channelized Fluvial and Sheet Flow. I: Theory

    Gary Parker;Chris Paola;Kelin X. Whipple;David Mohrig

  • Compensational Stacking of Channelized Sedimentary Deposits

    Kyle M. Straub;Chris Paola;David Mohrig;Matthew A. Wolinsky

  • Channel Dynamics, Sediment Transport, and the Slope of Alluvial Fans: Experimental Study

    Kelin X. Whipple;Gary Parker;Chris Paola;David Mohrig

  • Experiments on the relative mobility of muddy subaqueous and subaerial debris flows, and their capacity to remobilize antecedent deposits

    David Mohrig;Anders Elverhøi;Gary Parker

  • Palaeohydraulics revisited: palaeoslope estimation in coarse‐grained braided rivers

    Chris Paola;David Mohrig

  • Spatial and temporal trends for water-flow velocity and bed-material sediment transport in the lower Mississippi River

    Jeffrey A. Nittrouer;John Shaw;Michael P. Lamb;David Mohrig

  • Backwater and river plume controls on scour upstream of river mouths: Implications for fluvio‐deltaic morphodynamics

    Michael P. Lamb;Jeffrey A. Nittrouer;David Mohrig;John Shaw

  • Constraining the efficiency of turbidity current generation from submarine debris flows and slides using laboratory experiments

    David Mohrig;Jeffrey G. Marr

  • How do bedform patterns arise? New views on the role of bedform interactions within a set of boundary conditions

    Gary A Kocurek;Ryan C. Ewing;David Mohrig

  • Spatial grain size sorting in eolian ripples and estimation of wind conditions on planetary surfaces: Application to Meridiani Planum, Mars

    Douglas J. Jerolmack;David Mohrig;John P. Grotzinger;John P. Grotzinger;David A. Fike

  • Is It Feasible to Build New Land in the Mississippi River Delta

    Wonsuck Kim;David Mohrig;Robert Twilley;Chris Paola

  • A Unified Model for Subaqueous Bed Form Dynamics

    Douglas J. Jerolmack;David Mohrig

  • Interactions between turbidity currents and topography in aggrading sinuous submarine channels: A laboratory study

    Kyle M. Straub;David Mohrig;Brandon McElroy;James Buttles

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary Parker
Gary Parker University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gary Kocurek
Gary Kocurek The University of Texas at Austin
Chris Paola
Chris Paola University of Minnesota
Carlos Pirmez
Carlos Pirmez Eburon Resources LLC
Peter B. Flemings
Peter B. Flemings The University of Texas at Austin
Douglas J. Jerolmack
Douglas J. Jerolmack University of Pennsylvania
Michael P. Lamb
Michael P. Lamb California Institute of Technology
Ryan C. Ewing
Ryan C. Ewing Texas A&M University
Caleb I. Fassett
Caleb I. Fassett Marshall Space Flight Center
John P. Grotzinger
John P. Grotzinger California Institute of Technology

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