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2026

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Citations
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in New Zealand Leader Award

Overview

Gary Brierley is affiliated with the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Their research primarily falls under Environmental Science, with a focus on several interrelated subfields including Ecology, Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science, and Geography, Planning and Development.

The scientific topics central to their work encompass:

  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Geographies of human-animal interactions

Gary Brierley has contributed to a number of recent papers in the geomorphology and earth science domains. Notable publications include:

  • "Truths of the Riverscape: Moving beyond command-and-control to geomorphologically informed nature-based river management" (2022) published in Geoscience Letters
  • "The dark art of interpretation in geomorphology" (2021) published in Geomorphology
  • "Managing sediment (dis)connectivity in fluvial systems" (2020) published in The Science of The Total Environment (authored by Ronald E. Poeppl but listed among recent papers)
  • "Assemblages of geomorphic units: A building block approach to analysis and interpretation of river character, behaviour, condition and recovery" (2021) published in Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (authored by Kirstie Fryirs but listed among recent papers)
  • "Things we can do now that we could not do before: Developing and using a cross-scalar, state-wide database to support geomorphologically-informed river management" (2021) published in PLoS ONE (authored by Kirstie Fryirs but listed among recent papers)

The venues where Gary Brierley publishes frequently include:

  • Geomorphology
  • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water
  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Remote Sensing
  • CATENA

Their collaboration network involves multiple frequent co-authors, including:

  • Kirstie Fryirs
  • Xilai Li
  • Yan Shi
  • Jay Gao
  • Meiqin Han

Best Publications

  • Geomorphology and River Management: Applications of the River Styles Framework

    Gary J Brierley;Kirstie A Fryirs

  • Buffers, barriers and blankets : the (dis)connectivity of catchment-scale sediment cascades

    Kirstie A. Fryirs;Gary J. Brierley;Nicholas J. Preston;Mio Kasai

  • The use of system dynamics simulation in water resources management

    Ines Winz;Gary Brierley;Sam Trowsdale

  • Landscape connectivity: the geographic basis of geomorphic applications

    Gary Brierley;Kirstie Fryirs;Vikrant Jain

  • RANGELAND DEGRADATION ON THE QINGHAI-TIBET PLATEAU: IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATION

    X.-L. Li;J. Gao;G. Brierley;Y.-M. Qiao

  • Geomorphic Analysis of River Systems: An Approach to Reading the Landscape

    Kirstie A. Fryirs;Gary J. Brierley

  • Connectivity as an emergent property of geomorphic systems

    Ellen Wohl;Gary Brierley;Daniel Cadol;Tom J. Coulthard

  • River Styles, a Geomorphic Approach to Catchment Characterization: Implications for River Rehabilitation in Bega Catchment, New South Wales, Australia.

    Gary J. Brierley;Kirstie Fryirs

  • Catchment-scale (dis)connectivity in sediment flux in the upper Hunter catchment, New South Wales, Australia

    Kirstie A. Fryirs;Gary J. Brierley;Nicholas J. Preston;John Ronald Spencer

  • A geomorphological framework for river characterization and habitat assessment

    J.R. Thomson;M.P. Taylor;K.A. Fryirs;G.J. Brierley

  • Variability in sediment delivery and storage along river courses in Bega catchment, NSW, Australia: implications for geomorphic river recovery

    Kirstie Fryirs;Gary J Brierley

  • The long-term control of vegetation and woody debris on channel and flood-plain evolution: insights from a paired catchment study in southeastern Australia

    Andrew Pattrick Brooks;Gary J. Brierley;Robert G. Millar

  • Geomorphic responses of lower Bega River to catchment disturbance, 1851–1926

    Andrew P. Brooks;Gary J. Brierley

  • Application of the River Styles framework as a basis for river management in New South Wales, Australia

    G Brierley;K Fryirs;D Outhet;C Massey

  • Geomorphic mapping and taxonomy of fluvial landforms

    Joseph M. Wheaton;Kirstie A. Fryirs;Gary Brierley;Sara G. Bangen

  • What is a fluvial levee

    Gary J. Brierley;Rob J. Ferguson;Ken J. Woolfe

  • Reading the landscape: Integrating the theory and practice of geomorphology to develop place-based understandings of river systems

    Gary Brierley;Kirstie Fryirs;Carola Cullum;Marc Tadaki

  • Landscape memory: the imprint of the past on contemporary landscape forms and processes

    Gary John Brierley

  • Don’t Fight the Site: Three Geomorphic Considerations in Catchment-Scale River Rehabilitation Planning

    Gary Brierley;Kirstie Fryirs

  • Mediated equilibrium: the influence of riparian vegetation and wood on the long‐term evolution and behaviour of a near‐pristine river

    Andrew Pattrick Brooks;Gary J. Brierley

  • An approach for measuring confinement and assessing the influence of valley setting on river forms and processes

    Kirstie A. Fryirs;Joseph M. Wheaton;Gary J. Brierley

Frequent Co-Authors

Kirstie Fryirs
Kirstie Fryirs Macquarie University
Zhaoyin Wang
Zhaoyin Wang Tsinghua University
Zhiwei Li
Zhiwei Li Central South University
Joseph M. Wheaton
Joseph M. Wheaton Utah State University
James Robertson Thomson
James Robertson Thomson Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research
Mark Patrick Taylor
Mark Patrick Taylor Macquarie University
Tim J Cohen
Tim J Cohen University of Wollongong
George L. W. Perry
George L. W. Perry University of Auckland
He Qing Huang
He Qing Huang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Edward J. Hickin
Edward J. Hickin Simon Fraser University

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