Noah P. Snyder

geology & geophysics

Noah P. Snyder, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2001)
B.A. Bates College (1993)

INTERESTS:

Earth surface processes: river erosion, transport and deposition

CONTACT INFO:

phone: 617-552-0839
e-mail: snyderno@bc.edu
Personal Home Page:  www2.bc.edu/~snyderno/

COURSES:

GE 132 - Exploring the Earth I (Fall 2008)
GE 692 - Earth Systems Seminar (Fall 2008)
GE 170 - Rivers and the Environment (Spring 2009)
GE 490 - Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation (Spring 2009)

CURRENT GRADUATE STUDENTS AND PROJECTS:

Eric Hazlinsky Documenting 20th century changes in river morphology using aerial photographs and field surveys: Narraguagus and Sheepscot Rivers, Maine.
Elizabeth Johnson Hydraulic and Geomorphic Effects of Large Woody Debris Additions in the Narraguagus Watershed, Coastal Maine.
Adam Pearson Morphologic changes in the Souhegan River due to the removal of the Merrimack Village Dam, Merrimack, New Hampshire.
Benjamin Wilkins Geomorphic comparison of two Atlantic coastal streams: Jacquet River,, New Brunswick, Canada, and Narraguagus River, Maine, USA.

M.S. ALUMNI AND PROJECTS:

Michael Castele Modeling sediment transport and quantifying channel morphology of the Sheepscot River, coastal Maine. (2007).
Lisa Schultz Investigation of the transient response of Gower Gulch to forced diversion, Death Valley, California. (2005).


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• Snyder, N.P., Wright, S.A., Alpers, C.N., Flint, L.E., Holmes, C.W., and Rubin, D.M, 2006,
reconstructing depositional processes and history from reservoir stratigraphy: Englebright Lake, Yuba River, northern California, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 111, F04003, doi:10.1029/2005JF000451.

• Snyder, N.P., Castele, M.R.*, and Wright, J.R., 2008.  Bedload entrainment in low-gradient coastal
rivers of Maine, U.S.A.: reach-scale effects of glacial history and land-use change, Geomorphology.

• Snyder, N.P., and Kammer, L.L.*, 2008.  Dynamic adjustments in channel width in response to a forced diversion:  Gower Gulch, Death Valley National Park, California, Geology, v. 25, doi: 10.1130/G24217A.1, 187-190.

• Wobus, C.W., Whipple, K.X., Kirby, E., Snyder, N.P., Johnson, J., Spyropolou, K., Crosby, B., and Sheehan, D., 2006, Tectonics from topography: Procedures, promise, and pitfalls, in Willett, S.D., Hovius, N., Brandon, M.T., and Fisher, D.M., editors, Tectonics, Climate, and Landscape Evolution, Geological Society of America Special Paper 398, p. 55-74 doi: 10.1130/2006.2398(04)

• Snyder, Noah P., Rubin, David M., Alpers, Charles N., Childs, Jonathan R., Curtis, Jennifer A., Flint, Lorraine E., and Wright, Scott A., 2004, Estimating rates and properties of sediment accumulation behind a dam: Englebright Lake, Yuba River, northern California, Water Resources Research, v. 40, W11301, doi:10.1029/2004WR003279.

• Snyder, Noah P., Whipple, Kelin X, Tucker, Gregory E., and Merritts, Dorothy J., 2003, Importance of a stochastic distribution of floods and erosion thresholds in the bedrock river incision problem, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 108 (B2), 2117, doi: 10.1029/2001JB001655.

• Snyder, Noah P., Whipple, Kelin X, Tucker, Gregory E., and Merritts, Dorothy J., 2003, Channel response to tectonic forcing: analysis of stream morphology and hydrology in the Mendocino triple junction region, northern California, Geomorphology, v. 53, p. 97-127.

• Snyder, Noah P., Whipple, Kelin X, Tucker, Gregory E., and Merritts, Dorothy J., 2002, Interactions between onshore bedrock-channel incision and nearshore wave-base erosion forced by eustasy and tectonics, Basin Research, v. 14, p. 105-127.

• Snyder, Noah P., Whipple, Kelin X, Tucker, Gregory E., and Merritts, Dorothy J., 2000, Landscape response to tectonic forcing: digital elevation model analysis of stream profiles in the Mendocino triple junction region, northern California, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 112, n. 8, p. 1250-1263.

• Snyder, Noah P., and Hodges, Kip V., 2000, Depositional and tectonic evolution of a supradetachment basin: 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of the Nova Formation, Panamint Range, California, Basin Research, v. 12, n. 1, p. 19-30.

• Whipple, Kelin X, Snyder, Noah P., and Dollenmayer, Kate, 2000, Rates and processes of bedrock incision by the Upper Ukak River since the 1912 Novarupta ash flow in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, Geology, v. 28, n. 9, p. 835-838.