L. Allan James

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 Web Page

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

Recent Publications
Books

James, L. A. and W. A. Marcus (Eds.).  2006.  The Human Role in Changing Fluvial Systems. Proc. Binghamton Geomorphology Conf., Oct. 20-22, 2006, Columbia, SC.

Platt, R.H., James, L.A., 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

Perveen, S. and L. A. James.  (in press)  Multiscale effects on spatial variability metrics in global water resources data.  Water Resources Management.

James, L. A. (in press)  Sediment Waves, Bed Waves, Legacy Sediment, and Hydraulic Myopia.  Geography Compass.  Invited.

James, L. A.  2009.  Integrating Water-Quality into a Water Resources Research Agenda.  Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education 142: 10-15. Invited.  http://www.ucowr.siu.edu/updates/142/3.pdf

James, L. A., M. B. Singer,  S. Ghoshal, and M. Megison.  2009.  Sedimentation in the lower Yuba and Feather Rivers, California: Long-term effects of contrasting river-management strategies, in James, L.A., Rathburn, S.L., and Whittecar, G.R., eds.  Management and Restoration of Fluvial Systems with Broad Historical Changes and Human Impacts: Geological Society of America Special Paper 451, doi: 10.1130/2009.2451(04).

James, L.A., S. L. Rathburn, and G. R. Whittecar.  2009.  Managing Rivers with Broad Historical Changes and Human Impacts.  Introductory chapter to Management and Restoration of Fluvial Systems with Broad Historical Changes and Human Impacts: Geological Society of America Special Paper 451, doi: 10.1130/2009.2451(00).

James, L. A.  and S. Cutter.  2008.  Flood Hazards in the Central Valley of California.  Introduction to special issue of Natural Hazards Review 9(3): 101-103.

James, L. A. and M. B. Singer.  2008.  Development of the lower Sacramento Valley flood-control system: An historical perspective. Natural Hazards Rev. 9(3): 125-135.

Singer, M. B., R. Aalto, and L. A. James.   2008.  Status of the lower Sacramento Valley flood-control system within the context of its natural geomorphic setting.   Natural Hazards Rev. 9(3): 104-115.

James, L. A.,  D. G. Watson, W. F. Hansen.  2007.  Using LiDAR to map gullies and headwater streams under forest canopy: South Carolina, USA.  Catena 71: 132-144.

James, L. A.  2006.  Bed waves at the basin scale: implications to river management and restoration.  Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 31: 1692-1706.

James, L. A. and W. A. Marcus.  2006.  The human role in changing fluvial systems: Retrospect, inventory and prospect.  Geomorphology 79: 152-171.

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

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

James, L.A., 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, James, L.A., 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.

James, L.A., 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

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

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

James, L.A. and C. Lant. 2003. Water-Resources Issues for the New Millennium: Geographic Perspectives. Water Resources Update 126: 1-5.

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

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

Shankman, D. and James, L.A.. 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 James, L.A.. 2001. Interpolation of Horizon Contours from Parallel 2D Seismic Sections, Preview, Australian Association of Exploration Geophysicists 95(Dec.): 2001.

James, L.A.. 1999. Time and persistence of alluvium: River engineering, fluvial geomorphology. Geomorphology 31: 265-290.

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

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

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

Teaching
Introduction to Landforms (Geog 201)
Water as a Resource (Geog 347)
Fluvial Geomorphology (Geog 547)
Water and Watersheds (Geog 549)
Seminar in Physical Geography (Geog 747; topics vary)
Geomorphology from Space (Geog 748)

Graduate Supervision: 1 Ph.D. and 9 Master's completed

Current Graduate Students:
Subhajit Ghoshal, Ph.D. candidate
Kirsten Hunt, Ph.D. candidate
Darrel Watson, Master's