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Member Since 2001
Isaac J. Larsen
Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Professional Experience
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Associate Professor
2015 - Present
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Assistant Professor
Education
University of Washington Seattle
Doctorate
2013
Current Roles
Member
Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Student Travel Grant Award Committee
Honors & Awards
Robert Sharp Lecture
Received 2017
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Luna B. Leopold Early Career Award
Received 2017
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Outstanding Student Presentation Award
Received 2009
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Publications
The Future of Soils in the Midwestern United States

Soil is the source of the vast majority of food consumed on Earth, and soils constitute the largest terrestrial carbon pool. Soil erosion associate...

May 25, 2023
AGU Abstracts
Variations in Chemical Weathering and Solute Generation from Geomorphic Features and Land Cover Gradients in Rocky Mountain Watersheds
ADVANCING UNDERSTANDING OF MOUNTAINOUS CRITICAL ZONES THROUGH OBSERVATIONS AND NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS I POSTER
hydrology | 14 december 2023
John Slosson, Isaac J. Larsen, Matthew Winnick, Jo...
The processes of physical and chemical weathering in Earths high mountain critical zones provide sediment to downstream fluvial systems, control river...
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The rockslide that blocked salmon migration in the Fraser River, British Columbia
LIFE AND LANDSCAPES ACROSS SCALES: HOW SURFACE PROCESSES SHAPE AND ARE SHAPED BY ECOLOGY, EVOLUTION, AND BEHAVIOR I ORAL
earth and planetary surface processes | 14 december 2023
Jeremy G. Venditti, Brian Menounos, Derek Heathfie...
On November 1st, 2018 the Big Bar Landslide temporarily blocked Fraser River, the most productive salmon-bearing watershed in Canada, presenting a bar...
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Drainage network signatures of landscape reorganization in post-glacial landscapes
FLUID FLOW, SEDIMENT TRANSPORT, AND LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION IN FLUVIAL SYSTEMS ACROSS SCALES II ORAL
earth and planetary surface processes | 13 december 2023
Jeffrey S. Kwang, Andrew D. Wickert, Isaac J. Lars...
Earth's drainage networks encode clues that can be used to decipher geologic and geomorphic history. Dendritic drainage patterns, the most common, typ...
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Volunteer History
2023 - 2025
Member
Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Student Travel Grant Award Committee
2021 - 2021
Member
Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Student Travel Grant Award Committee
2019 - 2020
Member
Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Student Travel Grant Award Committee
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