Lyman Persico
Lyman is pebble man. Placing 1600 painted and numbered pebbles at four
sites in the Mojave Desert he tracked their movement over time and space
using repeated total station surveys. Lyman also assisted Kyle Nichols
in the Mojave and worked closely with several urban hydrology projects
in Burlington.
BS Honors Thesis (University of Vermont, 2002)
Tracking painted pebbles on a Mojave Desert piedmont: Annual rates of sediment
movement and impact of off-road vehicles
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Undergraduate Degree
University of Vermont, B.S. Environmental
Science with honors, 2002
Honors and Awards
University of Vermont, Charles G. Doll Award,
2002
University of Vermont, Hawley Award, 2000 and 2002
Additional Degrees
University of New Mexico, Ph.D. Geology, 2012
University of New Mexico, M.S. Geology, 2007
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Current Position and Contact Information (8/2018)
Assistant Professor of Geology and Environmental Studies
Whitman College
Refereed Papers
Persico, L. P., Nichols, K. K. and Bierman, P. R. (2005)
Tracking painted pebbles: short-term rates of sediment movement on four
Mojave Desert piedmont surfaces. Water Resources Research. v. 41(7), p.
W07004.
Nichols, K. K., Bierman, P. R., Persico, L., Bosley, A.,
Melillo, P. and Kurfis, J. (2003) Quantifying land use and urban runoff
changes through service learning hydrology projects. Journal of
Geoscience Education. v. 51(4), p. 365-372.
Abstracts
Nichols, K. K., Bierman, P. R., Persico, L. P., Larsen, J.,
Caffee, M. and Finkel, R. (2003) U.S. Army impacts on Mojave Desert
sediment, past and present. International Conference on Military Geology
and Geography, p. 47. ()
Persico, L., Nichols, K. K. and Bierman, P. R. (2002) The
tortoise, the tank, and the sage: What really moves Mojave Desert
pebbles: GSA
Abstracts with Programs, Annual meeting, Denver, CO. Abstract 123-14. ()
Kurfis, J., Bierman, P. R., Nichols, K., Persico, L. and
Melillo, P. (2001) Green university town succumbs to blacktop:
Quantifying the increase in impermeable surfaces and runoff through
time. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Annual meeting, Boston, MA. v. 32, p.
A-179, Abstract 74-0. ()
Nichols, K. K., Bierman, P. R., Hooke, R. L., Eppes, M. C.,
Persico, L., Caffee, M. and Finkel, R. (2001) Regular cosmogenic
nuclide dosing of sediment moving down desert piedmonts. EOS, AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA. v. 82(47), Abstract H42D-0392. ()
Persico, L. P., Nichols, K. K. and Bierman, P. R. (2001)
Tracking painted pebbles in the Mojave: annual rates of sediment
transport and the impact of offroad vehicles. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Annual meeting, Boston, MA. v. 33, p. A-439. ()
Persico, L. P., Mallard, L. D., Bierman, P. R. and Massey,
C. A. (2000) Forest to farmland and back again: A changing Vermont
landscape. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Annual meeting, Reno, NV. v. 32,
p. A-24. ()