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2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
94
Citations
25322
World Ranking
209
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Stuart N. Lane is affiliated with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research spans a range of topics primarily within Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Water Science and Technology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics of their work reflect a focus on cryospheric studies and observations, hydrology and watershed management studies, landslides and related hazards, hydrology and sediment transport processes, climate change and permafrost, soil erosion and sediment transport, as well as geology and paleoclimatology research.

Lane has recently published papers including the following:

  • High Mountain Asia hydropower systems threatened by climate-driven landscape instability, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • Warming-driven erosion and sediment transport in cold regions, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Dam builders and their works: Beaver influences on the structure and function of river corridor hydrology, geomorphology, biogeochemistry and ecosystems, 2021, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Mitigating systematic error in topographic models for geomorphic change detection: accuracy, precision and considerations beyond off-nadir imagery, 2020, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Climate Change Impacts on Sediment Yield and Debris-Flow Activity in an Alpine Catchment, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Lane are:

  • Davide Mancini
  • Tom J. Battin
  • Matteo Roncoroni
  • Gilles Antoniazza
  • Bettina Schaefli

Lane's publications are regularly featured in a variety of venues, including:

  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Glaciology

Best Publications

  • Estimation of erosion and deposition volumes in a large, gravel‐bed, braided river using synoptic remote sensing

    Stuart N. Lane;Richard M. Westaway;D. Murray Hicks

  • The science and practice of river restoration

    Ellen E. Wohl;Stuart N. Lane;Andrew C. Wilcox

  • Doing flood risk science differently: an experiment in radical scientific method

    S N Lane;N Odoni;C Landström;S J Whatmore

  • Urban fluvial flood modelling using a two‐dimensional diffusion‐wave treatment, part 1: mesh resolution effects

    Dapeng Yu;Stuart N. Lane

  • Connectivity as an emergent property of geomorphic systems

    Ellen Wohl;Gary Brierley;Daniel Cadol;Tom J. Coulthard

  • A restatement of the natural science evidence concerning catchment-based 'natural' flood management in the UK.

    Simon J. Dadson;Jim W. Hall;Anna Murgatroyd;Mike Acreman

  • Developments in monitoring and modelling small‐scale river bed topography

    S. N. Lane;S. N. Lane;K. S. Richards;J. H. Chandler

  • Linking River Channel Form and Process: Time, Space and Causality Revisited

    Stuart N. Lane;Keith S. Richards

  • Influence of drought-induced acidification on the mobility of dissolved organic carbon in peat soils

    Joanna M. Clark;Pippa J. Chapman;John K. Adamson;Stuart N. Lane

  • The application of computational fluid dynamics to natural river channels: three-dimensional versus two-dimensional approaches

    S.N. Lane;K.F. Bradbrook;K.S. Richards;P.A. Biron

  • Interactions between sediment delivery, channel change, climate change and flood risk in a temperate upland environment.

    S. N. Lane;V. Tayefi;S. C. Reid;D. Yu

  • Sediment export, transient landscape response and catchment-scale connectivity following rapid climate warming and Alpine glacier recession

    Stuart N. Lane;Maarten Bakker;Chrystelle Gabbud;Natan Micheletti

  • High Mountain Asia hydropower systems threatened by climate-driven landscape instability

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  • Investigating the geomorphological potential of freely available and accessible structure-from-motion photogrammetry using a smartphone

    Natan Micheletti;Jim H. Chandler;Stuart N. Lane

  • Morphology and flow fields of three-dimensional dunes, Rio Paraná, Argentina: Results from simultaneous multibeam echo sounding and acoustic Doppler current profiling

    Daniel R. Parsons;James L. Best;Oscar Orfeo;Richard J. Hardy

  • Splitting rivers at their seams: bifurcations and avulsion

    Maarten G. Kleinhans;Robert I. Ferguson;Stuart N. Lane;Richard J. Hardy

  • Environmental impacts and metal exposure of aquatic ecosystems in rivers contaminated by small scale gold mining: the Puyango River basin, southern Ecuador

    N.H Tarras-Wahlberg;A Flachier;S.N Lane;O Sangfors

  • Flow in meander bends with recirculation at the inner bank

    Robert I. Ferguson;Dan R. Parsons;Stuart N. Lane;Richard J. Hardy

  • Numerical simulation of three-dimensional, time-averaged flow structure at river channel confluences

    K. F. Bradbrook;S. N. Lane;K. S. Richards

  • Guidelines on the use of Structure from Motion Photogrammetry in Geomorphic Research

    Mike R. James;Jim H. Chandler;Anette Eltner;Clive Fraser

  • Coproducing Flood Risk Knowledge: Redistributing Expertise in Critical ‘Participatory Modelling’:

    Catharina Landström;Sarah J Whatmore;Stuart N Lane;Nicholas A Odoni

  • Catchment-scale mapping of surface grain size in gravel bed rivers using airborne digital imagery

    Patrice E. Carbonneau;Stuart N. Lane;Normand E. Bergeron

  • Landform monitoring, modelling, and analysis

    [edited by] Stuart N. Lane;Keith S. Richards;Jim H. Chandler

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel R. Parsons
Daniel R. Parsons University of Hull
James Leonard Best
James Leonard Best University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jim H. Chandler
Jim H. Chandler Loughborough University
Philip Ashworth
Philip Ashworth University of Brighton
Peter Molnar
Peter Molnar University of Colorado Boulder
Andrew Nicholas
Andrew Nicholas University of Exeter
Keith Richards
Keith Richards University of Cambridge
Robert I. Ferguson
Robert I. Ferguson Durham University
Ann Louise Heathwaite
Ann Louise Heathwaite Lancaster University
Dapeng Yu
Dapeng Yu Peking University

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