Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1988

Department of Geography
Callcott, Room 206
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone: (803) 777-6117   Fax: (803) 777-4972
Email: ajames@sc.edu
Current Vitae (pdf version)
Personal Home Page

Recent Honor:
Elected 2005 -2007
Panelist Quaternary Geology & Geomorphology Div., Geological Soc. Amer.

Grants:
National Science Foundation. Tracking Hydraulic Mining Sediments from the Sierra Piedmont into Flood Bypasses of the Sacramento Valley, California. Collaborative Research with Univ. Calif. Santa Barbara (Singer & Dunne) and Univ. Washington (Aalto).

Areas of Interest
Fluvial geomorphology
Water resources
Flood hydrology
Erosion and sedimentation
Quaternary science

Web Sites
Home page of the AAG Geomorphology Specialty Group
Home page of the AAG Water Resources Specialty Group

Recent Publications
Books
_____ and W. A. Marcus (Eds.). (In preparation for publication by Oct., 2006). The Human Role in Changing Fluvial Systems. Proc. Binghamton Geomorphology Conf., Oct. 20-22, 2006, Columbia, SC.

_____. (In final revision for publication in Spring, 2006). Watersheds and Water Resources, 600pp. Textbook for Prentice-Hall. Twenty-one chapters reviewed, revised, and resubmitted, July, 2005.

Platt, R.H., _____, et al. 1995. Flood Risk Management and the American River Basin: An Evaluation. National Research Council, Committee on Flood Control Alternatives in the American River Basin. Wash., D.C.: National Academy Press. 236 pp.

Articles
_____. Bed waves at the basin scale: implications to river management and restoration. (Accepted with minor revisions) Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Sept., 2005.

_____. 2005. Sediment from Hydraulic Mining Detained by Englebright and Small Dams in the Yuba Basin. Geomorphology 71: 202-226.

_____, 2004. Tailings fans and valley-spur cutoffs created by hydraulic mining. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 29(7): 869-882.

_____, 2004. "Decreasing sediment yields in northern California: Vestiges of hydraulic gold-mining and reservoir trapping," In, Golosov, V., Wallbrink, P.J. & Walling, D.E. (eds.), Sediment Transfer through the Fluvial System. Internat. Assn. Hydrological Sci. Publ. 288 (Red Book). Proc. Symp. August, 2004 meeting in Moscow.

Fabel, D., J. Harbor, D. Dahms, _____, D. Elmore, K. Daley, and C. Steele, 2004. "Spatial patterns of valley scale glacial erosion derived from terrestrial cosmogenic ¹⁰Be and ²⁶Al concentrations in rock," Annals, Assn. Amer. Geogs. 94(2): 241-255.

_____, 2004. Non-Point Sources: Historical Sedimentation and 20th Century Geography. In, pp. 405-410, B. Warf, D. Janelle, and K. Hansen (eds.). World Minds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems. London: Kluwer Acad. Pubs

_____, 2003. "Glacial Erosion and Geomorphology in the Northwest Sierra Nevada, California," Geomorphology 55(1-4): 283-303.

_____, 2003. "Glacial Erosion and Geomorphology in the Northwest Sierra Nevada, California," pp.283-303; Butler, D.R.; S.J. Walsh and G.P. Malanson (Eds.), Mountain Geomorphology - Integrating Earth Systems; Proc. 2001 International Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium., Oct. 20 & 21, 2001, Univ. North Carolina - Chapel Hill; N.Y.: Elsevier; 398 pp. (Invited paper).

_____, 2003. "Non-point source pollution and the Clean Water Act: Policy problems and professional prospects." Water Resources Update 126: 60-67. (Invited paper).

_____ and C. Lant. 2003. "Water-Resources Issues for the New Millennium: Geographic Perspectives." Water Resources Update 126: 1-5. (Introduction to special issue as invited guest editor).

Brown, A.G., F. Pétit and _____. 2003. "Archaeology and Human Artefacts." In, pp.59-75, H. Piegay and M. Kondolf (eds.), Tools in Fluvial Geomorphology. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.

_____, Harbor, J., Fabel, D., Dahms, D., and D. Elmore. 2002. "Late Pleistocene Glaciations in the Northwestern Sierra Nevada," California, Quaternary Research, 57: 409-419.

_____. 2001. Book Review of Virtual Rivers: Lessons from the Mountain Rivers of the Colorado Front Range, Ellen E. Wohl, Yale University Press, New Haven, xiv+210 pp., in EOS, Transactions American Geophysical Union, Oct. 2, 2001.

Shankman, D. and _____. 2001. "Mountain environments - Appalachia and the Eastern Cordillera" in The Physical Geography of North America, Antony Orme (Ed.), N.Y. & London: Oxford University Press, pp. 291-306.

Shepherd, A. M. and _____. 2001. "Interpolation of Horizon Contours from Parallel 2D Seismic Sections", Preview, Australian Association of Exploration Geophysicists 95(Dec.): 2001.

_____. 1999. "Time and persistence of alluvium: River engineering, fluvial geomorphology," Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium, Bologna, Italy, 1997. Also in Geomorphology 31: 265-290.

_____. 1999. "Review of Guyton's Glaciers of California." Geotimes.

Magilligan, F.J., J.D. Phillips, _____, and B. Gomez. 1998. "Geomorphic and sedimentalogical controls on the effectiveness of an extreme flood." Journal of Geology 106: 87-95.

_____. 1998. "Review of Short and Blair's "Geomorphology from Space" (CD-ROM). Professional Geographer 50(3): 400.

Gomez, B., J.D. Phillips, F.J. Magilligan, and _____. 1997. "Floodplain sedimentation and sensitivity: Summer 1993 flood, upper Mississippi River valley." Earth Surface Processes & Landforms 22: 923-936.

_____. 1997. "Channel Incision on the lower American River, California, from streamflow gage records." Water Resources Research 33:485-490.

Teaching
Geog 103: Introduction to Geography
Geog 200: Introduction to Physical Geography
Geog 201: Introduction to Landforms
Geog 347: Water as a Resource
Geog 549: Water and Watersheds
Geog 747: Seminar in Physical Geography (topics vary)
Geog 748: Geomorphology from Space

Graduate Students
Darrel Watson, Masters Candidate
Duke Brantley, Masters Candidate (MEERM program)