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Lisa Davis

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Lisa Davis

Associate Professor
Graduate Program Director

Education

  • PhD, University of Tennessee, 2005
  • MPhil, University of Wales, Swansea, U.K., 2003
  • BA, University of Southern Mississippi, 1998

Research Areas

  • Fluvial Geomorphology
  • Erosional and Depositional Geomorphology of Rivers
  • Paleoflood Hydrology and Flood Science

Bio

Research Groups: Fluvial Geomorphology Group (FGG)

Selected Publications

  • Erosional and Depositional Geomorphology in Rivers
  • Haney, N. R.* and L. Davis. 2015.  Potential controls of alluvial bench deposition and erosion in southern Piedmont streams, Alabama (USA). Geomorphology 241: 292-303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.04.005.
  • Davis, L.and C. P. Harden. 2014.  Identification of factors contributing to bank stability in channelized, alluvial streams.  River Research and Applications 30(1): 71-80.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rra.2621.
  • Sherman, D. J., L. Davis, and S. L. Namikas. 2013. Sediments and Sediment Transport. In: Treatise on Geomorphology(Shroder, J., Jr., Ed. In Chief), Elsevier, Ltd., Oxford, U.K., http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-374739-6.00013-0.
  • Royall, D., L. Davis, and D. R. Kimbrow*. 2010. In-channel alluvial benches in small watersheds: examples from the Southern Piedmont. Southeastern Geographer, Special Issue: Fluvial Processes in Small Southeastern Watersheds 50(4): 445-467. https://doi.org/10.1353/sgo.2010.0012.
  • Davis, L. 2009.  Sediment entrainment potential in modified alluvial streams: implications for re-mobilization of stored in-channel sediment. Physical Geography 30(3): 249-268, http://dx.doi.org/10.2747/0272-3646.30.3.249.
  • Geo-Eco Interactions
  • Atkinson, C. L., D. C. Allen, L. Davis, and Z. Nickerson. 2018. Enhancing system resiliency in streams through ecogeomorphic feedbacks: a review and directions moving forward. Geomorphology 305: 123-140, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.07.016
  • Lin, L. L. Davis, E. Chapman*, S. Cohen, and J. Edmonds. 2016. The influence of geomorphic unit spatial distribution on nitrogen retention and removal in a large river. Ecological Modeling 336: 26-35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2016.05.018.
  • Vaughn, R. S.* and L. Davis. 2015. Abiotic controls of emergent macrophyte density in a bedrock channel – The Cahaba River, AL (USA). Geomorphology 246:146-155.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.06.018
  • Davis, L., R. Lombardi*, M. Gage, M. Therrell, G. Stinchcomb, C. Stewart*, D. Leigh, A. Milewski, R. Speakman, L. Tran, H. Cyr, S. Horn, and L. McKay. 2017. Paleoflood evidence of past flooding events: investigation into the available sources of paleoflood evidence in humid environments. Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA:https://www.epri.com/ – /pages/product/3002010667/.
  • Paleoflood Hydrology and Flood Science
  • Davis, L., R. Lombardi*, M. Gage, M. Therrell, G. Stinchcomb, C. Stewart*, D. Leigh, A. Milewski, R. Speakman, L. Tran, H. Cyr, S. Horn,  and L. McKay. 2017. Paleoflood evidence of past flooding events: investigation into the available sources of paleoflood evidence in humid environments. Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA, https://www.epri.com/ – /pages/product/3002010667/.
  • Shankman, D., L. Davis, and J. de Leeuw. 2009.  River management, landuse change, and future flood risk in China’s Poyang Lake region.  InternationalJournal of River Basin Management 7: 423-43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15715124.2009.9635400.
  • Fluvial activity in major river basins of the eastern U.S. during the Holocene
  • Sediments and sediment transport