Nicole M. Gasparini

Dr. Gasparini's research interests include Fluvial geomorphology; Tectonic geomorphology; Evolution of alluvial and bedrock river networks; Landscape evolution modeling and numerical model development; Interactions among climate, tectonics, and erosion; Effects of climate change on landscape evolution; Sediment production and transport of sediment from hillslopes to rivers to depositional systems; Human influences on landscape evolution.

Recent Publications

(* = student; ^ = post-doc)

*Adams, J.M., Gasparini, N.M., ^Hobley, D.E.J., Tucker, G.E., Hutton, E.W.H., *Siddhartha Nudurupati, S. and Istanbulluoglu, E., 2017, The Landlab OverlandFlow component: a Python library for computing shallow-water flow across watersheds, Geoscientific Model Development (GMD), doi:10.5194/gmd-10-1645-2017

Whipple, K.X., Forte, A., DiBiase, R.A., Gasparini, N.M. and Ouimet, W., 2017, Timescales of landscape response to divide migration and drainage capture: Implications for the role of divide mobility in landscape evolution, accepted at JGR Earth Surface.

^Hobley, D.E.J., *Adams, J.M., *Siddhartha Nudurupati, S. Huttong, E.W.H., Gasparini, N.M., Istanbulluoglu, E., Tucker, G.E., 2017, Creative computing with Landlab: an open-source toolkit for building, coupling, and exploring two-dimensional numerical models of Earth-surface dynamics, ESurf, doi:10.5194esurf-5-21-2017.

Murphy, B. P, Johnson, J. P. L., Gasparini, N. M., and Sklar, L. S., 2016, A mechanism for the climatic control of bedrock river incision, Nature, doi: 10.1038/nature17449.

Murray, A.B., Gasparini, N.M., Goldstein, E.B., and van der Wegen, M., 2016, Uncertainty quantification in modeling earth surface processes: more applicable for some types of models than for others, Computers and Geosciences, doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2016.02.008.

Shen, Z., Dawers, N. H., Tornqvist, T. E., Gasparini, N. M., Hijma, M. P., and Mauz, B., 2016, Mechanisms of late Quaternary fault throw-rate variability along the North-central Gulf of Mexico coast: Implications for coastal subsidence, Basin Research, doi: 10.1111/bre.12184.

Tucker, G.E., Hobley, D.E.J., Hutton, E, Gasparini, N.M., Istanbulluoglu, E., *Adams, J.M. and *Nudurupati, S.S., 2016, CellLab-CTS 2015: A Python library for continuous-time stochastic cellular automaton modeling using Landlab, Geoscientific Model Development, doi:10.5194/gmd-9-823-2016.

Gasparini, N.M, Fischer, G.C., Adams, J.M., Dawers, N.H. and Janoff, A.M., 2015, Morphological signatures of normal faulting in low-gradient alluvial rivers in Southeastern Louisiana, USA. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, doi: 10.1002/esp.3852

Han, J., Gasparini, N.M. and Johnson, J.P.L., 2015, Measuring the imprint of orographic rainfall gradients on the morphology of steady‐state numerical fluvial landscapes." Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, doi: 10.1002/esp.3723.

Adams, J.M., Nudurupati, S.S., Gasparini, N.M., Hobley, D.E.J., Hutton, E.W.H, Tucker, G.E., and Istanbulluoglu, E., 2014, Landlab: Sustainable Software Development in Practice, reviewed conference paper in the 2nd Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE2), 16 Nov. 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1097629.

Gasparini, N.M., and Whipple, K.X., 2014, Diagnosing climatic and tectonic controls on topography: Eastern flank of the northern Bolivian Andes. Lithosphere, doi: 10.1130/L322.1.

Whipple, K.X., & Gasparini, N.M., 2014, Tectonic control of topography, rainfall patterns, and erosion during rapid post–12 Ma uplift of the Bolivian Andes. Lithosphere, doi:10.1130/L325.1.

Han, J., Gasparini, N.M., Johnson, J.P.L., & Murphy, B.P., 2014, Modeling the influence of rainfall gradients on discharge, bedrock erodibility, and river profile evolution, with application to the Big Island, Hawai'i. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, doi: 10.1002/2013JF00296.

Giachetta, E., Caplongo, D., Refice, A., Gasparini, N.M., and Pazzaglia, F.J., 2014, Orogen-scale drainage network evolution and response to climate change: insights from numerical experiments, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, doi: 10.1002/esp.3579

Willenbring, J.K., Gasparini, N.M., Crosby, B.T., and Brocard, G., 2013, What does a mean mean? The temporal evolution of detrital cosmogenic denudation rates in a transient landscape, Geology, doi:10.1130/G34746.1.

Menking, J.A., Han, J., Gasparini, N.M. and Johnson, J.P.L., 2013, The effects of orographic precipitation gradients on river profile evolution on the Big Island of Hawai’i, GSA Bulletin, doi:10.1130/B30625.1