My History

Education

• Ph.D. Geology
  University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
  Department of Geology, 1982
  

• B.A. Geology
  Carleton College
  Department of Geology, 1975
  

Professional Experience

• 1988-present, University of Delaware, Department of Geology, Associate Professor
• 1982-1987, University of Delaware, Department of Geology, Assistant Professor

Professional Activities

• Memberships in:
  • Geological Society of America;
  • American Geophysical Union;
  • International Association of Sedimentologists;
  • Society for Sedimentary

Publications

• Lisle, T.E., Pizzuto, J.E., Ikeda, H., Iseya, F., and Kodama, Y., Evolution of a sediment wave in an experimental channel. Water Resources Research. In revision.

• Moody, J., Pizzuto, J.E., Meade, R., Ontogeny of a floodplain. Submitted to GSA Bulletin.

• Pizzuto, J.E. 1997. Combining geological and statistical methods with numerical modeling to evaluate the impacts of land use changes on rivers, Conference on Management of Landscapes Disturbed by Channel Incision, Oxford, MS, 6 p.

• Pizzuto, J.E., and Schwendt, A.E. 1997. Mathematical modeling of autocompaction of a transgressive valley fill deposit, Wolfe Glade, Delaware. Geology, 25, 57-60.

• Webb, R.H., Melis, T.S., Griffiths, P.G., Elliott, J.G., Pizzuto, J., Randle, T., and Hammack, L. 1997. Reworking of aggraded debris fans by the 1996 Glen Canyon Dam Beach/Habitat-Building Flow on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon. Symposium on the Glen Canyon Dam Spring 1996 Beach/Habitat-Building Flow, April 8-10, 1997, Flagstaff, AZ. 13 p.

• ASCE Task Committee on River Width Adjustment, Processes and mechanisms of river width adjustment. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, in press.

• ASCE Task Committee on River Width Adjustment, Modeling river width adjustment. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, in press.

• Pizzuto, J.E. 1991. A numerical model for calculating the distributions of velocity and boundary shear stress across irregular straight open channels. Water Resources Research 27: 2457- 2466;

• Pizzuto, J.E. 1990. Numerical 8 simulation of gravel river widening. Water Resources Research 26: 1971-1980;

• Pizzuto, J.E. 1989. Evaluation of a linear bank erosion equation. Water Resources Research 25: 1005-1013;

• Pizzuato, J.E. 1987. Dispersion of dyed sand tracers in an oscillatory flowfield. Journal of Geophysical Research (Oceans) 92: 1923-1933;

• Pizzuto, J.E. 1986. Barrier island migration and onshore sediment transport southwestern Delaware Bay, U.S.A. Marine Geology 71: 299-326

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