Portrait of Scott Peckham
Research Associate
• Hydrology • Geomorphology • Modeling • Cyberinfrastructure

Fax: 303 735-8180

Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System (CSDMS)

Scott's research interests include physically-based mathematical and numerical modeling, watershed-scale hydrologic systems, source-to-sink sediment transport, scaling analysis, differential geometry, component-based modeling, grid-based computational methods, efficient computer algorithms and fluvial landscape evolution models. Scott has authored numerous, open-source, earth surface process models including a spatially-distributed hydrologic model called TopoFlow and a fluvial landscape evolution model called Erode. He is also CEO and founder of Rivix, LLC which sells a software product for terrain and watershed analysis called RiverTools.

Scott has been honored to pursue research as a NASA Global Change Student Fellow (1990-1993) and a National Research Council Research Associate (1995-1998).

Education

  • PhD, Geophysics: University of Colorado, Boulder, 1995
  • MS, Mathematics: Oregon State University, Corvallis, 1989
  • BS, Physics: Oregon State University, Corvallis, 1987
  • BS, Engineering Physics: Oregon State University, Corvallis, 1987

Awards

  • National Research Council Research Associate, National Research Council (NRC), 1995
  • NASA Global Change Student Fellow, NASA, 1990

Courses taught

  • GEOL/GEOG 5700: Surface Process Modeling: Applying the CSDMS Modeling Tool

Publications