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Overview

Gregory B. Pasternack is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research spans various topics within environmental sciences and agricultural and biological sciences, with a focus on areas related to hydrology, sediment transport, and ecology.

The main fields of study covered in their work include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Their research further delves into specialized subfields such as:

  • Ecology
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Soil Science
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Global and Planetary Change

Key topics in their scholarly output address:

  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Hydrological Forecasting Using AI

Gregory B. Pasternack's recent papers include:

  • "Machine Learning Predicts Reach-Scale Channel Types From Coarse-Scale Geospatial Data in a Large River Basin" (2020), published in Water Resources Research
  • "A hydrologic feature detection algorithm to quantify seasonal components of flow regimes" (2020), published in Journal of Hydrology
  • "Mapping subaerial sand-gravel-cobble fluvial sediment facies using airborne lidar and machine learning" (2022), published in Geomorphology
  • "Flooding duration and volume more important than peak discharge in explaining 18 years of gravel-cobble river change" (2021), published in Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • "Automated analysis of lateral river connectivity and fish stranding risks-Part 1: Review, theory and algorithm" (2020), published in Ecohydrology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Pasternack include:

  • Belize Lane
  • Hervé Guillon
  • Samuel Sandoval-Solís
  • C. F. Byrne
  • Kenneth Larrieu

They have published regularly in several academic venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Ecohydrology
  • Geomorphology
  • Journal of Ecohydraulics
  • Proceedings of the 39th IAHR World Congress

Best Publications

  • Application of a 2D hydrodynamic model to design of reach‐scale spawning gravel replenishment on the Mokelumne River, California

    Gregory B. Pasternack;C. Lau Wang;Joseph E. Merz

  • Volcanic lake systematics I. Physical constraints

    Gregory B. Pasternack;Johan C. Varekamp

  • Flow convergence routing hypothesis for pool-riffle maintenance in alluvial rivers

    Michael L. MacWilliams;Joseph M. Wheaton;Joseph M. Wheaton;Gregory B. Pasternack;Robert L. Street

  • Volcanic lake systematics II. Chemical constraints

    J.C. Varekamp;G.B. Pasternack;G.L. Rowe

  • Spawning habitat rehabilitation ‐I. Conceptual approach and methods

    Joseph M. Wheaton;Gregory B. Pasternack;Joseph E. Merz

  • Linking geomorphic changes to salmonid habitat at a scale relevant to fish

    Joseph M. Wheaton;James Brasington;Stephen E. Darby;Joseph E. Merz

  • Predicting benefits of spawning-habitat rehabilitation to salmonid (Oncorhynchus spp.) fry production in a regulated California river

    Joseph E Merz;Jose D Setka;Gregory B Pasternack;Joseph M Wheaton

  • Impact of historic land-use change on sediment delivery to a Chesapeake Bay subestuarine delta

    Gregory B. Pasternack;Grace S. Brush;William B. Hilgartner

  • Sedimentation Cycles in a River-Mouth Tidal Freshwater Marsh

    Gregory B. Pasternack;Grace S. Brush

  • Riffle-pool maintenance and flow convergence routing observed on a large gravel-bed river

    April M. Sawyer;Gregory B. Pasternack;Hamish J. Moir;Aaron A. Fulton

  • The role of effective discharge in the ocean delivery of particulate organic carbon by small, mountainous river systems

    Robert A. Wheatcroft;Miguel A. Goñ i;Jeff A. Hatten;Gregory B. Pasternack

  • Spawning habitat rehabilitation ‐ II. Using hypothesis development and testing in design, Mokelumne river, California, U.S.A.

    Joseph M. Wheaton;Gregory B. Pasternack;Joseph E. Merz

  • Error propagation for velocity and shear stress prediction using 2D models for environmental management.

    Gregory B. Pasternack;Andrew T. Gilbert;Joseph M. Wheaton;Joseph M. Wheaton;Evan M. Buckland

  • Sediment budget for salmonid spawning habitat rehabilitation in a regulated river

    Joseph E. Merz;Joseph E. Merz;Gregory B. Pasternack;Joseph M. Wheaton

  • Hydrogen peroxide treatment effects on the particle size distribution of alluvial and marsh sediments

    Andrew B. Gray;Gregory B. Pasternack;Elizabeth B. Watson

  • Backwater control on riffle pool hydraulics, fish habitat quality, and sediment transport regime in gravel-bed rivers

    Gregory B. Pasternack;Michael K. Bounrisavong;Kaushal K. Parikh

  • Effects of LiDAR-derived, spatially distributed vegetation roughness on two-dimensional hydraulics in a gravel-cobble river at flows of 0.2 to 20 times bankfull

    T.R. Abu-Aly;G.B. Pasternack;J.R. Wyrick;R. Barker

  • Relationships between mesoscale morphological units, stream hydraulics and Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) spawning habitat on the Lower Yuba River, California

    Hamish J. Moir;Gregory B. Pasternack

  • Geospatial organization of fluvial landforms in a gravel-cobble river: Beyond the riffle-pool couplet

    J.R. Wyrick;G.B. Pasternack

  • Comparison of methods for analysing salmon habitat rehabilitation designs for regulated rivers.

    Rocko A. Brown;Gregory B. Pasternack;Gregory B. Pasternack

Frequent Co-Authors

Miguel A. Goñi
Miguel A. Goñi Oregon State University
Joseph M. Wheaton
Joseph M. Wheaton Utah State University
Jonathan A. Warrick
Jonathan A. Warrick United States Geological Survey
Thomas J. Johnson
Thomas J. Johnson The University of Texas at Austin
Robert A. Wheatcroft
Robert A. Wheatcroft Oregon State University
Wesley W. Wallender
Wesley W. Wallender University of California, Davis
Curt D. Storlazzi
Curt D. Storlazzi United States Geological Survey
John L. Largier
John L. Largier University of California, Davis
Hervé Piégay
Hervé Piégay École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Tim D. Fletcher
Tim D. Fletcher University of Melbourne

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