INSTAAR: Nel Caine

Fellow of INSTAAR; Professor Emeritus of Geography, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder.

PhD, Australian National University, Canberra, 1966.

cainen@spot.colorado.edu
(303) 492-5053, 492-8642

Specialty: Geomorphology and hydrology.

Research Interests:Research interests are in the fields of present-day erosional and hydrologic processes in mountain environments and in mass wasting and slope development. This includes studies of snow hydrology, streamflow generation, and sediment transport. It incorporates work on periglacial processes, mountain permafrost, and hillslope processes.Over the past 20 years, this has involved continuing work in the mountains of Colorado that is now incorporated into the Long-Term Ecological Research Program. It has also included work in the mountains of Tasmania, in central Europe, Nepal, and the Oregon Cascades.

Outstanding Awards: 1989 Fellow AAAS, 1993 Frost Lecturer BGRG, 1994 G. K. Gilbert Award AAG.

Selected Publications:

Caine, N., 1995: Snowpack influences on geomorphic processes in Green Lakes Valley, Colorado Front Range. Geographical Journal (in press).
Caine, N., 1992: Modulation of the diurnal streamflow response by the seasonal snowcover of an alpine basin. Journal of Hydrology, 137:245-260.
Caine, N., 1992: Spatial patterns of geochemical denudation in a Colorado alpine environment. In: Dixon, J.C. and Abrahams, A.D. (eds.), Periglacial Geomorphology. New York: Wiley, pp. 63-88.
Caine, N., and Thurman, E.M., 1990: Temporal and spatial variations in the solute content of an alpine stream, Colorado Front Range. Geomorphology, 3:55-72.

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