Amy McDonough (Church)
Amy McDonough (Church) came to Vermont and was the first to study
alluvial fans here. Her work catalyzed several subsequent studies and
demonstrated the importance of human landscape change in controlling fan
sedimentation rate.
MS Thesis, Geology (University of Vermont, 1997)
Fan deposits in northwestern Vermont: Depositional
activity and aggradation rates over the last 9,500 years
download pdf of MS thesis
Honors and Awards
Geological Society of America, Howard Award,
1995
Undergraduate Degree
Miami University (Ohio), B.A. Geology, 1993
Related Links
Current Position and Contact Information (4/2008)
Senior Hydrogeologist
Tighe & Bond, Inc.
53 Southampton
Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Refereed Papers
Bierman, P. R., Lini, A., Davis, P. T., Southon, J.,
Baldwin, L., Church, A. and Zehfuss, P. (1997) Post-glacial ponds and
alluvial fans: recorders of Holocene landscape history. GSA Today. v. 7,
p. 1-8. ()
Clapp, E., Bierman, P. R., Church, A. B., Larsen, P. L., Schuck, R. A. and Hanzas, J. P. (1996) Teaching geohydrology through
analysis of groundwater resources and glacial geology, Northwestern
Vermont. Journal of Geoscience Education. v. 44, p. 45-51.
Abstracts
Baldwin, L., Bierman, P. R., Schwartz, A., Church, A. and
Larsen, P. (1995) The effects of colonial disturbance and subsequent
reforestation on the Vermont landscape. GSA
Abstracts with Programs, Annual meeting, New Orleans, LA. v. 27, p. 28. ()
Church, T. M. and Bierman, P. R. (1995) Episodic fan
aggradation in the Winooski drainage basin, northwestern Vermont.
GSA Abstracts with Programs, Annual meeting, New Orleans, LA. v. 27, p. A-36.
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Church, A. and Bierman, P. R. (1994) Post-glacial landscape
change in northern Vermont: Erosion and sedimentation in the Winooski
Basin. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Annual meeting, Seattle, WA. v. 26, p.
A-301. ()