Publications
Moran, K. E., Nittrouer, J. A., Perillo, M. M., Lorenzo-Trueba, J., and J. B. Anderson (2016) “Morphodynamic modeling of fluvial channel fill and avulsion timescales during the early Holocene transgression, as constrained by the incised valley stratigraphy of the Trinity River, Texas” Accepted pending revisions, Journal of Geophysical Research, Earth Surface
Dong, T. Y., Nittrouer, J. A., Il’icheva, E., Pavlov, M., McElroy, B., Czapiga, M., Ma, H., and G. Parker (2016) “Controls on gravel termination in seven distributary channels of the Selenga River delta, Baikal Rift basin, Russia” Geological Society of America Bulletin, doi:10.1130/B31427.1
Czapiga, M. J., Smith, V. B, Nittrouer, J. A., Mohrig, D, and G. Parker (in press) “Internal connectivity of meandering rivers: statistical generalization of channel hydraulic geometry”, Water Resources Research.
Viparelli, E., Nittrouer, J. A. and G. Parker (2015) “Modeling flow and sediment transport dynamics in the lowermost Mississippi River, Louisiana, USA, with an upstream alluvial-bedrock transition and a downstream bedrock-alluvial transition: implications for land-building using engineered diversions”, Journal of Geological Research, Earth Surface. 10.1002/2014JF003257Nittrouer, J. A. and E. Viparelli (2014) Reply to Nature Geoscience Correspondence. Nature Geoscience, 7, pp. 852.
Nittrouer, J. A. and E. Viparelli (2014) “Sand as a stable and sustainable resource for nourishing the Mississippi River delta”, Nature Geoscience, 7, pp. 350-354. 10.1038/ngeo2142.
Ganti, V., Zhongxin, C., Lamb, M. P., and J. A. Nittrouer (2014) “Testing morphodynamic controls on the location and frequency of river avulsions on fans and deltas: Huanghe (Yellow River), China”, Geophysical Research Letters. 10.1002/2014GL061918
Nittrouer, J. A. (2013) “Backwater hydrodynamics and sediment transport in the lowermost Mississippi River Delta: Implications for the development of fluvial-deltaic landform in a large lowland river”, Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences-IAHS-IAPSO-IASPEI Assembly, Gothenburg, Sweden. IAHS Publication; in press. *Invited review by International Association of Hydraulic Sciences.
Kenney, M. A., Hobbs, B. F., Mohrig, D., Huang, H., Nittrouer, J. A., Kim, W., and G. Parker (2013) “Cost analysis of water and sediment diversions to optimize land building in the Mississippi River delta”, Water Resources Research, 46(6), pp. 3388-3405. 10.1002/wrcr.20139 *WRR Editors’ Choice Award
Nittrouer, J. A., Best, J. L., Brantley, C., Czapiga, M., Cash, R. W., Kumar, P., and G. Parker, (2012) “Mitigating land loss in coastal Louisiana by controlled diversion of Mississippi River sand”, Nature Geoscience, 5, pp. 534-537. doi. 10.1038/NGEO1525
Nittrouer, J. A., Shaw, J., Lamb, M. P., and D. Mohrig (2012) “Spatial and temporal trends for water-flow velocity and bed-material sediment transport in the lower Mississippi River” GSA Bulletin, 124, pp. 400-414. doi:10.1130/B30497.1
Lamb, M. P., Nittrouer, J. A., Shaw, J., and D. Mohrig (2012) “Backwater and river-plume controls on scour upstream of river mouths: Implications for fluvio-deltaic morphodynamics”, Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, doi:10.1029/2011JF002079
Chatanantavet, P., Lamb, M. P., and J. A. Nittrouer (2012) “Backwater controls on avulsion locations on deltas”, Geophysical Research Letters, 39, doi:10.1029/2011GL050197
Nittrouer, J. A., Mohrig, D., Allison, M. A., and A. B. Peyret (2011), “The Lowermost Mississippi River: A mixed bedrock-alluvial channel”, Sedimentology, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2011.01245.x
Nittrouer, J. A., Mohrig, D., and M. A. Allison (2011), “Punctuated sand transport in the lowermost Mississippi River”, Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, pp. 1914-1934. doi: 10.1029/2011JF002026
Nittrouer, J. A., Allison, M. A., and R. Campanella (2008) “Bedform transport measurements in the lower Mississippi River”, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, F03004, doi: 10.1029/2007JF000795
Presentations
Nittrouer, J. A. (2016), “Sustainability of massively anthropic deltas via dispersal of sediment to manage land building: results from two unique case studies, the Mississippi River (U.S.A.) and the Yellow River (China) deltas”, European Geophysical Union Spring 2016 Annual Meeting, Vienna, Austria, Abstract
Nittrouer, J. A., Dong, T. Y., Ilicheva, E., Pavlov, M., Parker, G., and B. McElroy (2015), “Sediment Dispersal Linked to Hydrodynamics on the Selenga River delta topset, Lake Baikal: Combining Field Data and Morphodynamic Modeling”, International Geographical Union Regional Conference, Moscow, Russia, Abstract
Nittrouer, J. A. (2015), “Hydrodynamic Controls on the Downstream Elimination of gravel, and implications for fluvial-deltaic Stratigraphy: Two End0member Case Studies from the Selenga River, Russia, and the Mississippi River, U.S.A.”, American Geophysical Union Fall 2015 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Abstract
Ma, H., Nittrouer, J. A., Moodie, A. J., Carlson, B., and G. Parker (2015), “Role of River Bends for the Formation and Evolution of Channel Bedforms: Combined Field Studies and Numerical Modeling from the Tidally Influenced Zones of the Yellow River, China, and Mississippi River, USA”, American Geophysical Union Fall 2015 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Abstract
Demet, B. P., Anderson, J. B., Nittrouer, J. A., Simkins, L., Halberstadt, A. R., and L. O. Prothro (2015), “Sedimentary Processes of Unstable Ice Sheet Grounding Zones: Comparing Polar and Temperate Grounding Zone Wedges Using Marine Geophysical Data and Outcrop Studies”, American Geophysical Union Fall 2015 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Abstract
Liu, Z., Dugan, B., Masiello, C. A., Gonnermann, H. M., and J. A. Nittrouer (2015), “Effect of Freeze-Thaw Cycles on Grain Size of Biochar”, American Geophysical Union Fall 2015 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Abstract
Carlson, B. N., Nittrouer, J. A., Ma, H., and A. J. Moodie (2015), “Channel Infilling Processes on the Huanghe (Yellow River) Deltaic Coastal Plain, China”, Geological Society for America Fall Meeting 2015, Baltimore, Maryland, Abstract
Moodie, A. J., Ma, H., Nittrouer, J. A., Carlson, B. N., and G. C. Kineke (2015), “Spatiotemporal Channel-bed Evolution Patterns Observed for the Huanghe (Yellow River), China: Implications for Evaluating System Response and Complexity to External Perturbations”, Geological Society for America Fall Meeting 2015, Baltimore, Maryland, Abstract
Ma, H., Naito, K., Nittrouer, J. A., Zhang, Y., Fu, X., Parker, and G. Parker (2015), “Sediment Transport in the Lower Huanghe (Yellow River), China: Assessing the Physical Conditions that Produce Hyperpycnal Flow Events”, Geological Society for America Fall Meeting 2015, Baltimore, Maryland, Abstract
Lopez, A., Burmeister, K. C., Avalos, R. M., Stokes, M., Nittrouer, J. A., Carter, M. J., Giorgis, S. D., and F. A. Corsetti (2015), “Petrofabric Analysis of Samples from the Cyclothem Sequences of the Western Irish Namurian Basin (WINB) Deformed within the Variscan Foreland Fold Thrust Belt”, Geological Society for America Fall Meeting 2015, Baltimore, Maryland, Abstract
Duncan, M. S., Weller, M. B., and J. A. Nittrouer (2015), “Formation Timescales of Kasei Valles, Mars: Determination from Observations and an Erosional Model”, Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract.
Dong, T. Y., Nittrouer, J. A., McElroy, B., Czapiga, M., Il’icheva, E., Pavlov, M., and G. Parker (2014), “Sediment Transport Dynamics Linked to Morphological Evolution of the Selenga River delta, Lake Baikal, Russia”, American Geophysical Union Fall 2014 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Abstract
Moran, K., Nittrouer, J. A., Lorenzo-Trueba, J. and J. Anderson (2014), “Linking grain size and sedimentary structure to autogenic and allogenic processes associated with Holocene Valley Infill and Evolution, Brazos River, TX, U.S.A.”, American Geophysical Union Fall 2014 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Abstract
Venditti, J. G., Nittrouer, J. A., Allison, M., Humphries, R. P. Bradley, R, and M. Church (2014), Supply Limited Bedform Patterns and Scaling Through a Gravel-Sand Transition”, Geological Society for America Fall Meeting 2014, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Abstract
Huff, S., Nittrouer, J. A., and J. Lorenzo-Trueba (2014), “The Influence of Large Woody Debris on the Geometry of the Subaerial Brazos River Delta, As Demonstrated 8 Through Field Observations and a First Order Coastal Model”, Geological Society for America Fall Meeting 2014, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Abstract
Stokes, M., Dwyer, S. M., and J. A. Nittrouer (2014) “Growth Faults and Dewatering Structures in Prodelta Sedimentary Deposits: Using Sedimentary Structures to Constrain Post-Failure Seidment Transport in the Western Irish Namurian Basin”, Geological Society for America Fall Meeting 2014, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Abstract winner: GSA Sedimentology Division Best Student Presentation
Dwyer, S. M., Nittrouer, J. A., Burmeister, K. C., and M. J. Carter (2014) “Preliminary Assessment of Structural Controls on the Spatial Relationships Among Fluvial Systems in the Carboniferous Western Irish Namurian Basin, County Clare, Ireland”, Geological Society for America Fall Meeting 2014, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Abstract
Duncan, M. S., Weller, M. B., and J. A. Nittrouer (2014) “Erosional and Depositional Evolution of Kasei Valles, Mars: Implications for Timescales of Formation”, Geological Society for America Fall Meeting 2014, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Abstract
Dong, T. and J. A. Nittrouer (2014), “Morphology and Sediment Transport Dynamics of the Selenga River delta, Lake Baikal, Russia”, Deltas: Genesis, Dynamics, Modelling, and Sustainable Development, International Deltas Meeting, Istomino, Russia, Abstract
Khanna, P., Droxler, A. W., and J. A. Nittrouer (2014), “Uppermost Pleistocene Banks Along the South Texas Shelf Edge: A Clear Case of Drowning Based Upon Their Morphologies”, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Houston, TX
Nittrouer, J. A. (2013), “Sediment transport processes and their resulting stratigraphy: informing science and society”, Sharp Lecture, American Geophysical Union Fall 2013 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Abstract
Nittrouer, J. A., and E. Viparelli (2013), “Sand transport in the lower Mississippi River does not yield to dams: applications for building deltaic land in Louisiana”, American Geophysical Union Fall 2013 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Abstract
Dong, T. Y., Il’icheva, L., Nittrouer, J. A., and M. Pavolv (2013), “Morphology and sediment transport dynamics of the Selenga River delta, Lake Baikal, Russia”, American Geophysical Union Fall 2013 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Abstract
Khanna, P., Droxler, A. W., Nittrouer, J. A., Tunnell, W., Shirly (2013), “Detailed bathymetry of Uppermost Pleistocene Drowned Coralgal Banks along the South Texas Shelf Edge: Record of Episodic Rapid Sea-Level Rise During Last Deglaciation Between 9 Meltwater Pulses 1A and 1B”, American Geophysical Union Fall 2013 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Abstract
Khanna, P., Droxler, A. W., Nittrouer, J. A., Tunnell, W., Shirly, T, Nash, H. L. (2013), “Detailed Bathymetric Survey of Uppermost Pleistocene Drowned Banks along the South Texas Shelf Edge: A Glimpse at their Growth and Demise During Last Deglaciation”, Geological Society of America South Central Section 47th Annual Meeting, Austin, TX
Nittrouer, J. A., Best, J., Viparelli, E., and G. Parker (2013), “Grain size variation and bedrock exposure in the lower Mississippi River”, 8th Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics, Santander, Spain
Nittrouer, J. A. (2013), “Backwater hydrodynamics and sediment transport in the lowermost Mississippi River Delta: Implications for the development of fluvial-deltaic landform in a large lowland river”, Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences-IAHS-IAPSO-IASPEI Assembly, Gothenburg, Sweden
Nittrouer, J. A. (2013), “Sand transport dynamics in the lower Mississippi River: applications to building and sustaining deltaic landscapes”, joint Penrose-Chapman Conference, “Coastal Processes and Environments Under Sea-Level Rise and Changing Climate: Science to Inform Management”, Galveston, TX
Nittrouer, J. A. and J. Lorenzo-Treuba (2013) “Coastal landscape dynamics: understanding the evolution of the upper Texas Gulf Coast”, American Planning Association Texas Chapter, annual meeting, Galveston, TX
Nittrouer, J. A. (2013) “Hydrodynamics and sediment transport in the lowermost Mississippi River: Implications for the development of fluvial-deltaic stratigraphy in large lowland rivers basins”, Gulf Coast Associate of Geological Societies, annual meeting, New Orleans, LA, Abstract and invited talk