I grew up in St. Charles, Missouri, in that wedge of land between the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. Like many mid-westerners, I moved to Colorado to ski bum. Shortly after realizing that British Literature was not my thing, I ended up as a Geology and Watershed Science major at Colorado State University's Department of Geosciences, where Ellen Wohl introduced me to fluvial geomorphology.
I obtained a masters in Watershed Science, focusing on fluvial geomorphology, with Jack Schmidt. For my masters degree, I reconstructed an annual-scale depositional history of the floodplain of the upper Green River in Dinosaur National Monument to examine how changes in climate and dam operations affected river channel morphology. I have 10 years of professional experience, 4 as a consultant with water- resources engineering firms in California and Colorado, and 6 with the U.S. Geological Survey in Nebraska. Nebraska was where I became interested in macro-form sandbars in Great Plains Rivers. I came to UW to study them full-time.
I spend my free time with my wife and two children. We love to canoe, ski, canoe some more, and ski some more...and fish whenever the wind in Wyoming decides to quit. We also love to travel.Visit my FB page for photos.