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Member Since 1969
Tom Dunne
Research Professor, Bren School of Environmental Sci & Mgmt, University of California Santa Barbara
Professional Experience
University of California Santa Barbara
Research Professor, Bren School of Environmental Sci & Mgmt
1969 - Present
Education
Johns Hopkins University
Doctorate
1969
Honors & Awards
Robert E. Horton Medal
Received 2016
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G.K. Gilbert Award in Surface Processes
Received 2011
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Walter Langbein Lecture
Received 2003
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Publications
Sediment Recruitment and Redistribution in Mountain Channel Networks by Post‐Wildfire Debris Flows

We used lidar differencing and field observations to map volumes, and interpret the origins of, sediment mobilized from mountain canyons by large p...

December 24, 2021
AGU Abstracts
Evolution of a restored, meandering, gravel-bed river
ADVANCES IN APPLIED WATERSHED SCIENCE: INTEGRATION OF WATERSHED PROCESSES, ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS, AND SOCIETAL SYSTEMS I POSTER
earth and planetary surface processes | 15 december 2023
Lee Harrison, Thomas Dunne
We investigated the morphodynamic evolution of a meandering, gravel-bed river that had been restored according to a widely adopted conceptual model. T...
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Taming the complex rheology of debris flows: insights from the physics of dense suspensions
GRANULAR AND FLUID PHYSICS IN GEOMORPHOLOGY II POSTER
earth and planetary surface processes | 16 december 2021
Robert Kostynick, Hadis Matinpour, Shravan Pradeep...
Researchers have measured and debated the meaning of the rheology of debris-flow materials for decades because distinct material components interact i...
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Understanding particle suspension by a single water droplet impacting an immersed granular bed
FLOW, TRANSPORT, AND MORPHOLOGY: LINKAGES BETWEEN EROSION, TRANSPORT, DEPOSITION, AND MORPHOLOGY ACROSS SCALES IV POSTERS
earth and planetary surface processes | 08 december 2020
Hadis Matinpour, Alban Sauret, Douglas J. Jerolmac...
Surface water erosion during rainstorms begins when raindrops penetrate and disturb a thin sheet of runoff and mobilize particles from the substrate i...
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