projects – Shayla Triantafillou

Bedform topography and wood

Bedforms create critical habitat diversity for aquatic species. Habitat-driven management decisions often aim to create many pools for fish, especially species that require deep, slow water as flood refuge. While wood and quantity of pools has been shown across many regions, the relationship…

Logjam process domains

Logjams, formerly abundant in forested catchments, serve important hydrologic, geomorphic, and ecological roles. We delineated spatial and temporal domains for logjam storage in the Southern Rockies. Additionally, we explored the implications of these analyses with smaller datasets.

Wood-induced channel dynamism

Almost 100 years of aerial imagery in Iowa show the impacts of a logjam in a single reach. Preliminary findings suggest that the reach with a logjam present multiple times throughout the image history has a dynamic channel planform.

River resilience to wildfire

Wildfire causes a cascade of disturbances that threaten water quality, human infrastructure, and life. We surveyed geomorphic, vegetation, and burn characteristics from the headwaters to the outlets of catchments that burned in the Cameron Peak fire in 2020s. Reach-scale characteristics rather…

Floodplain phosphorus deposition

Phosphorus delivery is a major water quality concern in the Lake Champlain basin. We quantified sediment and associated P deposition on floodplains to understand drivers of nutrient attenuation.