Rivers as Reflections
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by Castle Mountain Lodge
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by Jesse Speer
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by Jesse Speer
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"Inheriting our Past: Rivers as Reflections of Landscape History"
Kicking off this years lyceum series on Saturday, January 26, is Dr. Ellen
Wohl, Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University. Rivers integrate landscapes and are influenced by a wide variety of factors, from precipitation carried between hemispheres to sediment released from a nearby construction site. Rivers also integrate the history of change within a drainage basin, from advances and retreats of glaciers, to 19th-century timber harvest and 20th-century flow regulation. Because of their central role in the landscape, rivers can be used to examine how historical attitudes and patterns of resource use shaped the world we live in today, how changes in our attitudes influence the way we use resources today, and how our actions will likely shape the world. Rocky Mountain National Park includes the headwaters of the Colorado and South Platte Rivers, two rivers of central importance in the western United States. The park provides an appropriate setting in which to examine how rivers reflect landscape history.
Dr. Wohl received her BS in geology from Arizona State University in 1984 and her PhD in geology from the University of Arizona in 1988. She has been on the faculty at Colorado State University since 1989. Dr. Wohls research interests focus on the physical processes and forms of rivers, and particularly mountain streams and bedrock canyons. She has conducted field-based research on every continent but Antarctica, but much of her research focuses on the mountain streams of the Colorado Front Range. Dr. Wohl states I am especially interested in how people interact with landscapes and influence rivers.
The Keynote Speaker is sponsored by the Estes Park League of Women Voters through their generous donation to Rocky Mountain National Parks Lyceum series.
Ticket Price:
Free
Event Contact Phone #:
970-586-1206
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