Research Interests
Fluvial geomorphology and soils, urban stream phenomena, the legacy effects of human land use on critical zone processes, community-based watershed monitoring, and mobile GIS.
Martin Lafrenz is a geomorphologist with broad interests in human alteration of the hydrologic cycle and its implications for landscape change. He has ongoing research and publications in floodplain response to dam removal, estuary response to dike removal, sea level rise impacts on coastal ecogeomorphology, and hillslope response to deglaciation.
Graduate Students
- Bruce Rash
- Keith VanderBrooke
- Elinore Webb: GIS, geomorphology, and the spatial distribution of arbuscular mycorrhizae in Oregon coastal wetlands
Courses Taught
- GEOG 210 Physical Geography
- GEOG 320 Geomorphic Processes
- GEOG 345 Resource Management
- GEOG 4/507 Fluvial Geomorphology
- GEOG 4/515 Soils and Land Use
- GEOG 4/520 Field Methods in Physical Geog.
- GEOG 4/589 Building a GIS Database with GPS