Shanti B. Penprase

My research is focused on understanding how changes in climate, glaciation, and land use impact the morphology of river catchments. My work connects landscapes of the icy past during the Last Glacial Maximum (approx. 20,000 years ago) to more modern changes caused by Euro-American farming and paraglacial (or post-glacial) landscape evolution. I address my research questions using a number of approaches, including optically stimulated luminescence and 10Be cosmogenic nuclide dating, DEM analysis of watershed-scale morphology and channel networks, detailed sediment description, and passive/active source seismic methods.