INSTAAR: Scott D. Peckham

INSTAAR Fellow.

PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1995.

scott.peckham@colorado.edu
(303) 492-6752

INSTAAR Directorate Members

Specialty: Surface water hydrology, geomorphology, scaling analysis, and mathematical modeling

Research Interests: Physically-based mathematical and numerical modeling of watershed-scale hydrologic systems, source-to-sink sediment transport, scaling analysis, river networks, theoretical geomorphology, grid-based computational methods, efficient computer algorithms and fluvial landscape evolution models.

Selected Publications:

Peckham, S.D. (2001) Fluvial landscape models and catchment-scale sediment transport, to appear in: Global and Planetary Change (special issue).
Morehead, M.D., Syvitski, J.P.M., Hutton, E.W.H. and Peckham, S.D. (2001) Modeling the inter-annual and intra-annual variability in the flux of sediment from ungauged river basins, to appear in: Global and Planetary Change (special issue).
Peckham, S.D. and V.K. Gupta (1999) A reformulation of Horton's laws for large river networks in terms of statistical self-similarity, Water Resources Research, 35(9), 2763-2777.
Peckham, S.D. (1999) Solutions to nonlinear partial differential equations - A geometric approach, In: Proceedings of the Conference on Geometry in Present-Day Science, edited by O.E. Barndorff-Nielsen and E.B. Vedel Jensen, World Scientific, New Jersey, 165-186.
Peckham, S.D. (1998) Efficient extraction of river networks and hydrologic measurements from digital elevation data, In: Stochastic Methods in Hydrology: Rain, Landforms and Floods, edited by O.E. Barndorff-Nielsen, World Scientific, New Jersey, 173-203.
Bahr, D.B., M. Meier, and S.D. Peckham (1997) The physical basis of glacier volume-area scaling, J. Geophys. Res., 102(B9), p. 20355.

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