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Peter Richard Wilcock

Peter Richard Wilcock

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Earth Science

D-Index
55
Citations
13359
World Ranking
2523
National Ranking
1053

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Peter Richard Wilcock is affiliated with Utah State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, covering specific subfields such as Water Science and Technology, Soil Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's work centers on key topics including Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Soil erosion and sediment transport, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation, and Environmental Conservation and Management.

Peter Richard Wilcock has contributed to various publication venues, notably:

  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Water Resources Research
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

The scientist's recent papers include:

  • Integrated assessment modeling reveals near-channel management as cost-effective to improve water quality in agricultural watersheds, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Implementing landscape connectivity with topographic filtering model: A simulation of suspended sediment delivery in an agricultural watershed, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Experimental Observations of Bedload Tracer Movement: Effects of Mixed Particle Sizes and Bedforms, 2023, Water Resources Research
  • Simulation of fluvial sediment dynamics through strategic assessment of stream gaging data: A targeted watershed sediment loading analysis, 2020, Journal of Environmental Management
  • SIMULATION OF FLUVIAL SEDIMENT DYNAMICS THROUGH STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT OF STREAM GAGING DATA: A TARGETED WATERSHED SEDIMENT LOADING ANALYSIS, 2020, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include:

  • Se Jong Cho
  • B. J. Dalzell
  • Christine L. Dolph
  • Patrick Belmont
  • Karen B. Gran

Peter Richard Wilcock was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Surface-based Transport Model for Mixed-Size Sediment

    Peter R. Wilcock;Joanna C. Crowe

  • Mountaintop mining consequences

    M. A. Palmer;E. S. Bernhardt;W. H. Schlesinger;K. N. Eshleman

  • Decline of the world's saline lakes

    Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh;Craig Miller;Sarah E. Null;R. Justin DeRose

  • Surface-based Fractional Transport Rates: Mobilization Thresholds and Partial Transport of a Sand-gravel Sediment

    Peter Richard Wilcock;B. W. McArdell

  • 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

  • Metrics for Assessing the Downstream Effects of Dams

    J. C. Schmidt;Peter Richards Wilcock

  • Stream restoration strategies for reducing river nitrogen loads

    Laura S Craig;Margaret A Palmer;Margaret A Palmer;David C Richardson;Solange Filoso

  • Critical Shear Stress of Natural Sediments

    Peter Richard Wilcock

  • Partial Transport of a Sand-Gravel Sediment

    Peter Richard Wilcock;B. W. McArdell

  • Estimating Local Bed Shear Stress from Velocity Observations

    Peter Richard Wilcock

  • Experimental study of the transport of mixed sand and gravel

    Peter R. Wilcock;Stephen T. Kenworthy;Joanna C. Crowe

  • Toward a Practical Method for Estimating Sediment Transport Rates in Gravel-bed Rivers

    Peter Richard Wilcock

  • The Flushing Flow Problem: Defining and Evaluating Objectives

    G. Mathias Kondolf;Peter R. Wilcock

  • Downstream Fining by Selective Deposition in a Laboratory Flume

    Chris Paola;Gary Parker;Rebecca Seal;Sanjiv K. Sinha

  • Two-Fraction Model of Initial Sediment Motion in Gravel-Bed Rivers

    Peter Richard Wilcock

  • Mechanics in the Earth and Environmental Sciences

    G. V. Middleton;Peter Richard Wilcock

  • Large shift in source of fine sediment in the upper Mississippi River

    Patrick Belmont;Patrick Belmont;Karen B. Gran;Karen B. Gran;Shawn P. Schottler;Peter R. Wilcock;Peter R. Wilcock

  • Experimental study of incipient motion in mixed‐size sediment

    Peter Richard Wilcock;J. B. Southard

  • A two‐fraction model for the transport of sand/gravel mixtures

    Peter R. Wilcock;Stephen T. Kenworthy

  • Methods for Estimating the Critical Shear Stress of Individual Fractions in Mixed-Size Sediment

    Peter Richard Wilcock

  • Prediction in Geomorphology: Wilcock/Prediction in Geomorphology

    Peter R. Wilcock;Richard M. Iverson

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Belmont
Patrick Belmont Utah State University
Gary Parker
Gary Parker University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou University of California, Irvine
John C. Schmidt
John C. Schmidt Utah State University
Chris Paola
Chris Paola University of Minnesota
Benjamin F. Hobbs
Benjamin F. Hobbs Johns Hopkins University
John Pitlick
John Pitlick University of Colorado Boulder
Jacques C. Finlay
Jacques C. Finlay University of Minnesota
William E. Dietrich
William E. Dietrich University of California, Berkeley

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