James (Jake) Gearon

James (Jake) Gearon

Sedimentologist and geoinformaticist in the Global Hydrology Lab @ UNC Chapel Hill. Looking at sand from space. Currently working on SWOT data to investigate coastal backwater dynamics and river hazards. PhD from Indiana University (July 2025). opinions are my own.

Publications

River avulsion precursors figure

River Avulsion Precursors Encoded in Alluvial Ridge Geometry

Gearon, J.H. and Edmonds, D.A.

Geophysical Research Letters, 2025

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River avulsion patterns

Rules of river avulsion change downstream

Gearon, J.H., Martin, H., DeLisle, C., Barefoot, E., Mohrig, D., Paola, C., and Edmonds, D.

Nature, 2024

This paper presents a novel theoretical framework for predicting river avulsions.

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2024

Topographic roughness as an emergent property of geomorphic processes and events

Doane, T.H., Gearon, J.H., Martin, H.K., Yanites, B.J., and Edmonds, D.A.

AGU Advances

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2022

Uinta Basin channel deposits

The supply-generated sequence: A unified sequence-stratigraphic model

Gearon, J.H., Olariu, C., & Steel, R.J.

Journal of Sedimentary Research

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2020

Boulder City landscape

Geomorphic controls on shrub canopy volume and spacing

Gearon, J.H., & Young, M.H.

Landscape Ecology

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