Paul E. Grams 

Post-doctoral Research Associate
Department of Watershed Sciences
Utah State University
Logan, Utah 84322-5210
(435)797-6784
Office:  BNR 361

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Current Research Topics

  • Bedload transport and sediment routing in channel networks affected by streamflow diversions
  • Sand entrainment and transport over a rough bed - flume experiments and modeling
  • Channel degradation and bank adjustment on the Colorado River in Glen Canyon
  • Channel narrowing of the Green River in the Eastern Uinta Mountains
  • Geomorphology and the Distribution of Ute Ladies Tresses orchid
  • Sand bar erosion and deposition along the Colorado River in Grand Canyon
  • Erosion of fluvial terraces at cultural resource sites along the Snake River in Hells Canyon

 

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Publications

               

Grams & Wilcock, 2007, Equilibrium entrainment of fine sediment over a coarse immobile bed (pdf)

 

Wiele, Wilcock & Grams, 2007, Reach-averaged sediment routing model of a canyon river  (pdf)

 

Grams, Schmidt & Topping, 2007, The Rate and Pattern of Bed Incision and Bank Adjustment on the Colorado River in Glen Canyon Downstream from Glen Canyon Dam  (pdf)

 

Grams, 2006, Sand transport over a coarse and immobile bed (dissertation)  (pdf)

 

Grams & Schmidt, 2005, Equilibrium or indeterminate? Where sediment budgets fail: Sediment mass balance and adjustment of channel form, Green River downstream from Flaming Gorge Dam, Utah and Colorado  (pdf)

                                                                                                                                             

Grams, Wilcock & Wiele, 2005, Entrainment and non-uniform transport of fine-sediment in coarse-bedded rivers  (pdf)

 

Grams & Schmidt, 2002, Streamflow regulation and multi-level f lood plain formation: Channel narrowing on the aggrading Green River in the eastern Uinta Mountains, Colorado and Utah  (pdf)

 

Schmidt, Parnell, Grams, Hazel, Kaplinski, Stevens & Hoffnagle, 2001, The 1996 controlled flood in Grand Canyon: hydrology, hydraulics, sediment transport, and geomorphic change: Ecological Applications, 11(3): 657-671.

 

Grams & Schmidt, 1999, Geomorphology of the Green River in the Eastern Uinta Mountains, Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado and Utah  (pdf)

 

Schmidt, Grams & Leschin, 1999, Variation in the magnitude and style of deposition and erosion in three long (8-12 km) reaches as determined by photographic analysis. In: R.H. Webb, J.C. Schmidt, R.A. Valdez and G.R. Marzolf (Editors), The Controlled Flood in Grand Canyon. Geophysical Monograph 110. American Geophysical Union, pp. 185-203.

 

Schmidt, Grams & Webb, 1995, Comparison of the Magnitude of Erosion Along Two Large Regulated Rivers  (pdf)

 

Grams, 1991, Degradation of Alluvial Sand Bars Along the Snake River Below Hells Canyon Dam, Hells Canyon National Recreation Area, Idaho  (pdf)

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