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68
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20117
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1116
National Ranking
512

Overview

Gregory E. Tucker is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a total of 58 and 33 publications respectively recorded in these areas.

Their work focuses on several subfields including Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Soil Science, Water Science and Technology, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. This indicates a broad engagement with both natural and applied aspects of earth system science.

Main research topics covered by Gregory E. Tucker include:

  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Scientific Computing and Data Management
  • Research Data Management Practices

Frequent coauthors associated with their work are:

  • Katherine R. Barnhart
  • Matthew W. Rossi
  • Eric Hutton
  • Benjamin Campforts
  • Irina Overeem

Gregory E. Tucker has contributed to several publication venues repeatedly, including:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • HydroShare Resources
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Representative recent papers by this scientist include:

  • Short communication: Landlab v2.0: a software package for Earth surface dynamics, 2020, Earth Surface Dynamics
  • Call for transparency of COVID-19 models, 2020, Science
  • The Basic Model Interface 2.0: A standard interface for coupling numerical models in the geosciences, 2020, The Journal of Open Source Software
  • Inverting Topography for Landscape Evolution Model Process Representation: 1. Conceptualization and Sensitivity Analysis, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Depth-dependent soil mixing persists across climate zones, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Dynamics of the stream‐power river incision model: Implications for height limits of mountain ranges, landscape response timescales, and research needs

    Kelin X. Whipple;Gregory E. Tucker

  • Landscape response to tectonic forcing: Digital elevation model analysis of stream profiles in the Mendocino triple junction region, northern California

    Noah P. Snyder;Kelin X. Whipple;Gregory E. Tucker;Dorothy J. Merritts

  • Implications of sediment‐flux‐dependent river incision models for landscape evolution

    Kelin X. Whipple;Gregory E. Tucker

  • Hillslope processes, drainage density, and landscape morphology

    Gregory E. Tucker;Rafael L. Bras

  • Drainage basin responses to climate change

    Gregory E. Tucker;Rudy Slingerland

  • Modelling landscape evolution

    Gregory E. Tucker;Gregory R. Hancock

  • Erosional dynamics, flexural isostasy, and long-lived escarpments: A numerical modeling study

    Gregory E. Tucker;Rudy L. Slingerland

  • Topographic outcomes predicted by stream erosion models: Sensitivity analysis and intermodel comparison

    G. E. Tucker;K. X. Whipple

  • Channel response to tectonic forcing: field analysis of stream morphology and hydrology in the Mendocino triple junction region, northern California

    Noah P Snyder;Kelin X Whipple;Gregory E Tucker;Dorothy J Merritts

  • A stochastic approach to modeling the role of rainfall variability in drainage basin evolution

    Gregory E. Tucker;Rafael L. Bras

  • An object-oriented framework for distributed hydrologic and geomorphic modeling using triangulated irregular networks

    Gregory E. Tucker;Stephen T. Lancaster;Nicole M. Gasparini;Rafael L. Bras

  • The Channel-Hillslope Integrated Landscape Development Model (CHILD)

    Gregory Tucker;Stephen Lancaster;Nicole Gasparini;Rafael Bras

  • Bedrock channel adjustment to tectonic forcing: Implications for predicting river incision rates

    Alexander C. Whittaker;Patience A. Cowie;Mikaël Attal;Gregory E. Tucker

  • Statistical analysis of drainage density from digital terrain data

    Gregory E Tucker;Filippo Catani;Andrea Rinaldo;Rafael L Bras

  • Importance of a stochastic distribution of floods and erosion thresholds in the bedrock river incision problem

    Noah P. Snyder;Kelin X. Whipple;Gregory E. Tucker;Dorothy J. Merritts

  • Drainage basin sensitivity to tectonic and climatic forcing: implications of a stochastic model for the role of entrainment and erosion thresholds

    Gregory E. Tucker

  • Predicting sediment flux from fold and thrust belts

    Gregory E. Tucker;Rudy Slingerland

  • Runoff-generated debris flows: Observations and modeling of surge initiation, magnitude, and frequency

    Jason W. Kean;Scott W. McCoy;Gregory E. Tucker;Dennis M. Staley

  • Statistical treatment of fluvial dose distributions from southern Colorado arroyo deposits

    L.J. Arnold;L.J. Arnold;R.M. Bailey;G.E. Tucker

  • Rock damage and regolith transport by frost: an example of climate modulation of the geomorphology of the critical zone

    Robert S. Anderson;Robert S. Anderson;Suzanne P. Anderson;Suzanne P. Anderson;Gregory E. Tucker;Gregory E. Tucker

  • Creative computing with Landlab: an open-source toolkit for building, coupling, and exploring two-dimensional numerical models of Earth-surface dynamics

    Daniel E. J. Hobley;Daniel E. J. Hobley;Daniel E. J. Hobley;Jordan M. Adams;Sai Siddhartha Nudurupati;Eric W. H. Hutton

Frequent Co-Authors

Erkan Istanbulluoglu
Erkan Istanbulluoglu University of Washington
Rafael L. Bras
Rafael L. Bras Georgia Institute of Technology
Suzanne P. Anderson
Suzanne P. Anderson University of Colorado Boulder
Francis K. Rengers
Francis K. Rengers United States Geological Survey
Kelin X. Whipple
Kelin X. Whipple Arizona State University
Alexander C. Whittaker
Alexander C. Whittaker Imperial College London
Patience A. Cowie
Patience A. Cowie University of Bergen
Gerald P. Roberts
Gerald P. Roberts Birkbeck, University of London
Heather Viles
Heather Viles University of Oxford
Jason W. Kean
Jason W. Kean United States Geological Survey

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