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Bio
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
Research
Scott's research interests include cyberinfrastructure for modeling, hydrologic modeling, fluvial landscape evolution, seafloor and stratigraphic evolution, nonlinear PDEs, differential geometry, scaling theory, sediment plumes, coastal dynamics, efficient computer algorithms, and source-to-sink sediment transport.
Publications
Recent publications
Land-Surface Parameters and Objects in Hydrology
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Type: Chapter
Geomorphometry and spatial hydrologic modeling
Type: Chapter
New Software Architecture for Integrated Water Modeling: CUAHSI/OpenMI Workshop for Integrating Water Models; Wallingford, United Kingdom, 7-10 April 2008
Publication Date: 2008-10-21
Type: Journal Article
A new method for estimating suspended sediment concentrations and deposition rates from satellite imagery based on the physics of plumes
Publication Date: 2008-10-01
Type: Journal Article
On the form and stability of seafloor stratigraphy and shelf profiles: A mathematical model and solution method
Publication Date: 2008-10-01
Type: Journal Article
Predicting the flux of sediment to the coastal zone: Application to the Lanyang Watershed, Northern Taiwan
Publication Date: 2005-05-01
Type: Journal Article
Predicting the terrestrial flux of sediment to the global ocean: a planetary perspective
Publication Date: 2003-11-01
Type: Journal Article
Fluvial landscape models and catchment-scale sediment transport
Publication Date: 2003-10-01
Type: Journal Article
Modeling the temporal variability in the flux of sediment from ungauged river basins
Publication Date: 2003-10-01
Type: Journal Article
A reformulation of Horton's laws for large river networks in terms of statistical self-similarity
Publication Date: 1999-09-01
Type: Journal Article
EFFICIENT EXTRACTION OF RIVER NETWORKS AND HYDROLOGIC MEASUREMENTS FROM DIGITAL ELEVATION DATA
Type: Chapter
The physical basis of glacier volume-area scaling
Publication Date: 1997-09-10
Type: Journal Article
Observations and analysis of self-similar branching topology in glacier networks
Publication Date: 1996-11-10
Type: Journal Article
NEW RESULTS FOR SELF-SIMILAR TREES WITH APPLICATIONS TO RIVER NETWORKS
Publication Date: 1995-04-01
Type: Journal Article
ON A SYMMETRY OF TURBULENCE
Publication Date: 1992-07-01
Type: Journal Article
PROBABLE ERRORS IN WIDTH DISTRIBUTIONS OF SEA ICE LEADS MEASURED ALONG A TRANSECT
Publication Date: 1991-10-15
Type: Journal Article
Pages
Teaching
Past courses
- GEOL/GEOG 5700: Surface Process Modeling: Applying the CSDMS Modeling Tool
Outreach
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