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  • 2017 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2003 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Gary Parker is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a concentration on several subfields including ecology, soil science, earth-surface processes, atmospheric science, and areas involving management, monitoring, policy, and law.

The main topics of investigation in their body of work include hydrology and sediment transport processes, soil erosion and sediment transport, geological formations and processes, landslides and related hazards, hydraulic flow and structures, flood risk assessment and management, as well as hydrology and watershed management studies.

Frequent publication venues for Gary Parker include:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Water Resources Research
  • Earth Surface Dynamics
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Frequent co-authors in their research efforts are:

  • Xudong Fu
  • Chenge An
  • Michael P. Lamb
  • Jeffrey A. Nittrouer
  • Jeremy G. Venditti

Representative recent publications by Gary Parker include:

  • "Mud in rivers transported as flocculated and suspended bed material," 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • "Amplification of downstream flood stage due to damming of fine-grained rivers," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Entrainment and suspension of sand and gravel," 2020, Earth Surface Dynamics
  • "Suspended Sediment-Induced Stratification Inferred From Concentration and Velocity Profile Measurements in the Lower Yellow River, China," 2020, Water Resources Research
  • "Numerical Simulations of Meanders Migrating Laterally as They Incise Into Bedrock," 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface

Gary Parker has been recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2017 and has been a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) since 2003.

Best Publications

  • Surface-based bedload transport relation for gravel rivers

    Gary Parker

  • Bend theory of river meanders. Part 1. Linear development

    Syunsuke Ikeda;Gary Parker;Kenji Sawai

  • Bedload and Size Distribution in Paved Gravel-Bed Streams

    Gary Parker;Peter C. Klingeman;David G. McLean

  • SELF-ACCELERATING TURBIDITY CURRENTS

    Gary Parker;Yusuke Fukushima;Henry M. Pantin

  • On why gravel bed streams are paved

    Gary Parker;Peter C. Klingeman

  • Reanalysis and Correction of Bed-Load Relation of Meyer-Peter and Müller Using Their Own Database

    Miguel Wong;Gary Parker

  • Entrainment of Bed Sediment into Suspension

    Marcelo Garcia;Gary Parker

  • On the cause and characteristic scales of meandering and braiding in rivers

    Gary Parker

  • Model Experiments on Mobile, Paved Gravel Bed Streams

    Gary Parker;Sundararajan Dhamotharan;Heinz Stefan

  • Self-formed straight rivers with equilibrium banks and mobile bed. Part 2. The gravel river

    Gary Parker

  • Experiments on turbidity currents over an erodible bed

    G. Parker;M. Garcia;Y. Fukushima;W. Yu

  • Hydroplaning of subaqueous debris flows

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

  • HYDRAULIC GEOMETRY OF ACTIVE GRAVEL RIVERS

    Gary Parker

  • Physical basis for quasi-universal relations describing bankfull hydraulic geometry of single-thread gravel bed rivers

    Gary Parker;Peter R. Wilcock;Chris Paola;William E. Dietrich

  • Selective Sorting and Abrasion of River Gravel. I: Theory

    Gary Parker

  • Selective Sorting and Abrasion of River Gravel. II: Applications

    Gary Parker

  • Conditions for the ignition of catastrophically erosive turbidity currents

    Gary Parker

  • Experiments on the entrainment of sediment into suspension by a dense bottom current

    Marcelo Horacio Garcia;Gary Parker

  • Linear Theory of River Meanders

    Helgi Johannesson;Gary Parker

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

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

  • Self-formed straight rivers with equilibrium banks and mobile bed. Part 1. The sand-silt river

    Gary Parker

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcelo H. Garcia
Marcelo H. Garcia University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chris Paola
Chris Paola University of Minnesota
David Mohrig
David Mohrig The University of Texas at Austin
Peter Richard Wilcock
Peter Richard Wilcock Utah State University
Carlos Pirmez
Carlos Pirmez Eburon Resources LLC
William E. Dietrich
William E. Dietrich University of California, Berkeley
Guangqian Wang
Guangqian Wang Tsinghua University
Yasuyuki Shimizu
Yasuyuki Shimizu Hokkaido University
Michael P. Lamb
Michael P. Lamb California Institute of Technology
Jacques Locat
Jacques Locat Université Laval

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