Joe Wheaton

Fluvial geomorphologist committed to healthy riverscapes. Associate Professor of Riverscapes at Utah State University.

[Joe Wheaton @fluvialwheaton]

Researchers Partner with Ranchers, #Beavers, and @NASA, @BoiseState and @USU_WATS on rewilding

Another version of the great @JayWilde3 Birch Creek story... this time to produce the Apps through @RiverscapesC to help facilitate doing this work beyond https://t.co/viCf2V9RvU

[Joe Wheaton @fluvialwheaton]

Thinking about going back to graduate school and interested in #beaverrewilding and #lowtechPBR? I am seeking a graduate student here @USU_WATS on a @NASA funded project with an awesome team at BSU led by Jodi Brandt. For more info see: https://t.co/mWhglWQUV9

[Joe Wheaton @fluvialwheaton]

Well, kayaking of course!

[Rivers are Life @riversarelife]

Rivers are amazing for an infinite number of reasons; one of those reasons being that they are fun! With so many different activities to choose from such as rafting, fishing, kayaking, and many more, there is always a way to enjoy the river.
What's your favorite river activity?

[Joe Wheaton @fluvialwheaton]

Thank you @VSkarpich, Tomáš and Jan for sharing amazing Czech #riverscapes at the focus of wonderful longterm monitoring efforts and publications. Such a treat! I was particularly partial to our lunchstop on the river at Hospuudka u Bobra . A #beaver, or #bobra Octoberfest!

[Vaclav Skarpich @VSkarpich]

On Saturday, we showed our river research sites (Odra R. where we are monitoring LWD and Morávka R. where long story of channel development had analysed) to Hervé Piégay from @ENSdeLyon and Joe Wheaton @fluvialwheaton from @CNRUSU.

@Fyz_geografieOU @Prf_Ostravska @Ostravska_Uni

[Joe Wheaton @fluvialwheaton]

I am excited to be hosted @H2oLyon and the Collegium de Lyon for the year on sabbatical! Join us and @ECRRnetwork tomorrow to hear more about efforts to reverse #structuralstarvation in #riverscapes by getting #LWD back in these systems!

[H2O'Lyon @H2oLyon]

Webinar not to be missed on Technics for Renaturing Rivers with Large Wood from Abroad!
📆20 sept 2022, 5pm to 7pm (Paris time)
with @bfc_region @forestservice @Rijkswaterstaat #ECCR @fishmigration
Info & registration https://t.co/2D5ejWgjYJ

[Joe Wheaton @fluvialwheaton]

Yep, what's the essence of our understanding? See https://t.co/Jp42heDCtN and https://t.co/TGbMVaHNZi details. We're working on a manuscript as well to get a refined set of #RiverscapeHealth principles out there.

[Joe Wheaton @fluvialwheaton]

@B_McDavitt Well thanks for your kind words @B_McDavitt. Credit goes to @maestasjd who asked the simple questions back when we were packaging this #lowtechPBR "what are your organizing principles"?

[Joe Wheaton @fluvialwheaton]

More great reporting highlighting work of @theOAEC and #beaver! @EmilyFairfax is such an awesome spokesperson for this stuff. Go CA Beaver! "Why this underappreciated rodent is one of California’s best chances to fight climate change" https://t.co/PqXcdJ3laH via @sfchronicle

[Joe Wheaton @fluvialwheaton]

Nice eye candy @Matt__gibbs. And extra points to anyone who is unfamiliar with the Gregory River to explain how they know which direction the river is flowing? From a) From Top to Bottom or b) Bottom to Top? #GeekyFluvialGeomorphTrivia

[Matt Gibbs @Matt___gibbs]

We’ve just received some 1m #LiDAR and I couldn’t resist trying out @OpenTopography's RiverREM python package on an interesting section of the Gregory River at Gregory Downs. Pretty cool result from 4 lines of code!

[Joe Wheaton @fluvialwheaton]

Great to see @CBSMornings highlight how #lowtechPBR to build #BDAs as soft-landing pads for beaver. Nice work @beaverbunkhouse, @RestorationUSU , @EmilyFairfax, @UtahDWR and @AnabranchS! "Beavers used to make land drought-resistant " → https://t.co/0VXudN2wh4

[Joe Wheaton @fluvialwheaton]

Op-Ed: Want to fight climate change and drought at the same time? Bring back beavers https://t.co/qXWdz8lNlm

Spot on @EmilyFairfax and CJ!

[Joe Wheaton @fluvialwheaton]

Chalk up another tally in the win column for #CommonSenseAndBeavers. I like how @BenjiSJones uses the benefits of beavers' ecosystem engineering to cast them as heat wave heroes https://t.co/2ciEBF0tbN via @voxdotcom

[Joe Wheaton @fluvialwheaton]

I love that @ben_a_goldfarb is shining a spotlight on the fact that beaver dams of all ages and neglect (by beaver) can still provide huge values. So not just shiny, young new beaver dams are cool, but so are old derelict ones... Spot on.

[Ben Goldfarb @ben_a_goldfarb]

Beavers haven't actively maintained this pond for a decade or two, but it's still holding a few thousand gallons at the headwaters of Tenmile Creek. Love the archaeological feel of these derelict sites.

#CastorLongaVitaBrevis

[Dr. Emily Fairfax @EmilyFairfax]

@hybog Reminds me of this old clip of a firefighting helicopter scooping water from beaver ponds up by Yellowstone (I think that’s where it was at least).

[Ben Goldfarb @ben_a_goldfarb]

Lately I've been noticing the geomorphological signature of old beaver *lodges*, which, though not nearly as world-changing as dams, are influential in their own right. The depression on the left is definitely a lodge footprint, and the keyhole on the right looks suspicious, too.

[Joe Wheaton @fluvialwheaton]

@Nv_pyromelana @ben_a_goldfarb Sometime for sure! Actually, just got back from a fun field trip in the headwaters of the Humboldt on the Marys and its tributaries. Some stunning NV riverscapes out there! (sorry for awful DJI soundtrack).

https://t.co/MfHFW7JVyN

[Joe Wheaton @fluvialwheaton]

@NVJims @EmilyFairfax @NVJims cool photo... here's another one over the hill in the Humboldt Headwaters on a tributary to the Marys River (near Chimney Creek). I don't remember the name, but more beaver-made rice paddies.

[Joe Wheaton @fluvialwheaton]

@mtmagog @ben_a_goldfarb Thanks @mtmagog... Here it is: https://t.co/34TwTGA16n

[Joe Wheaton @fluvialwheaton]

@abbyleetee @ben_a_goldfarb @mtmagog Yep... that's Spawn @abbyleetee! For those particularly bored, you can take the virtual tour of Spawn Creek and Temple Fork here: https://t.co/34TwTGipHN

[Joe Wheaton @fluvialwheaton]

@EmilyFairfax Agreed @EmilyFairfax. BRAT does a little of this and it tends to be just in low-order headwater tributaries (steep, but no too excessive stream order), when dam capacity is reached in downstream mainstems and they disperse upstream...