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84
Citations
21809
World Ranking
407
National Ranking
13

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1993 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Michael Church is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily spans fields such as Environmental Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these areas, their work focuses on subfields including Ecology, Soil Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Water Science and Technology.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of subjects related to earth and environmental processes, with particular attention to:

  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management

Among Michael Church's recent papers are:

  • What Is a Debris Flood?, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • Are Results in Geomorphology Reproducible?, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Michael Church include:

  • Jeremy G. Venditti
  • Colin D. Rennie
  • Eva Kwoll
  • Kirsti Fairweather
  • Marwan A. Hassan

Michael Church's work appears in a variety of publication venues, with notable frequency in:

  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Federated Research Data Repository
  • Water Resources Research
  • Geophysical Research Letters

The scientist has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by Boydell & Brewer eBooks.

Awards received by Michael Church include recognition as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2015, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2007, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1993, where the honor was specifically for contributions to the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • Paraglacial Sedimentation: A Consideration of Fluvial Processes Conditioned by Glaciation

    Michael Church;June M Ryder

  • BED MATERIAL TRANSPORT AND THE MORPHOLOGY OF ALLUVIAL RIVER CHANNELS

    Michael Church

  • Disequilibrium of Holocene sediment yield in glaciated British Columbia

    Michael Church;Olav Slaymaker

  • Geomorphic thresholds in riverine landscapes

    Michael Church

  • A Simple Universal Equation for Grain Settling Velocity

    R.I. Ferguson;M. Church

  • An assessment of bed load sediment transport formulae for gravel bed rivers

    Basil Gomez;Michael Church

  • Stabilizing self-organized structures in gravel-bed stream channels: Field and experimental observations

    Michael Church;Marwan A. Hassan;John F. Wolcott

  • Grain size along two gravel-bed rivers: statistical variation, spatial pattern and sedimentary links

    Stephen Rice;Michael Church

  • Geomorphology of steepland headwaters: the transition from hillslopes to channels

    Lee Benda;Marwan A. Hassan;Michael Church;Christine L. May

  • Channel morphology, gradient profiles and bed stresses during flood in a step pool channel

    André Zimmermann;Michael Church

  • Proglacial Fluvial and Lacustrine Environments

    Michael Church;Robert Gilbert

  • Geomorphic response to river flow regulation: Case studies and time-scales

    Michael Church

  • Form and stability of step-pool channels : Research progress

    Michael Church;André Zimmermann

  • Baffin Island sandurs: a study of Arctic fluvial processes

    M Church

  • Bed material transport estimated from the virtual velocity of sediment

    Judith K. Haschenburger;Michael Church

  • Pattern of Instability in a Wandering Gravel Bed Channel

    Michael Church

  • Sampling surficial fluvial gravels; the precision of size distribution percentile sediments

    Stephen Rice;Michael Church

  • Measurement of bed load velocity using an acoustic Doppler current profiler

    Colin D. Rennie;Robert G. Millar;Michael A. Church

  • Sediment transport and channel morphology of small, forested streams.

    Marwan A. Hassan;Michael Church;Thomas E. Lisle;Francesco Brardinoni

  • Turbulent flow in a depth-limited boundary layer

    Arthur R. M. Nowell;Michael Church

  • Distance of movement of coarse particles in gravel bed streams

    Marwan A. Hassan;Michael Church;Asher P. Schick

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeremy G. Venditti
Jeremy G. Venditti Simon Fraser University
Marwan A. Hassan
Marwan A. Hassan University of British Columbia
Olav Slaymaker
Olav Slaymaker University of British Columbia
Robert I. Ferguson
Robert I. Ferguson Durham University
Stephen P. Rice
Stephen P. Rice Newcastle University
Ray Kostaschuk
Ray Kostaschuk Simon Fraser University
Sean J. Bennett
Sean J. Bennett University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Mead A. Allison
Mead A. Allison Tulane University
Robert Gilbert
Robert Gilbert Queen's University
James Leonard Best
James Leonard Best University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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