Gordon Grant, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Daniel C. White, Elowyn M. Yager, Carl J. Legleiter, Gordon Grant, Laura Hempel, Christina Leonard, Katherine Adler, Merritt Harlan, Becky Fasth. 2026. Estimating discharge from undular hydraulic jumps: Feasibility assessment based on flume experiments
• Carl J. Legleiter, Gordon Grant, Inhyeok Bae, Becky Fasth, Elowyn Yager, Daniel C. White, Laura Hempel, Merritt E. Harlan, Christina Leonard, Robert Dudley. 2025. Remote sensing of river discharge based on critical flow theory
• Leif Karlstrom, Nathaniel Klema, Gordon Grant, Carol Finn, Pamela L. Sullivan, Sarah Cooley, Alex Simpson, Becky Fasth, Katharine Cashman, Ken Ferrier, Lyndsay Ball, Daniele McKay. 2025. State shifts in the deep Critical Zone drive landscape evolution in volcanic terrains
• Amy E. East, Gordon Grant. 2023. A watershed moment for western U.S. dams
• Xavier Comas, Sarah Kruse, Gordon Grant, Brooks Hanson, Laura Lyon. 2023. Envisioning a near-surface geophysics center for convergent science
• John Kirkland, Gordon Grant, Susan Charnley. 2023. Are you a beaver believer? Reasonable expectations for beaver-related restoration
• Carolyn E. Gombert, Stephen T. Lancaster, Gordon Grant, Rebecca Flitcroft. 2023. Novel dimensionless index for physically based assessment of thermal refugia characterizes off‐channel habitat on gravel bed river
• Kyle Hardage, Shawn J. Wheelock, Rowan Gaffney, Theresa O’Halloran, Benjamin Serpa, Gordon Grant, Michelle Coppoletta, Adam Csank, Christina Tague, Matthew Staudacher, Scott Tyler. 2022. Soil moisture and micrometeorological differences across reference and thinned stands during extremes of precipitation, southern Cascade Range
• Jerad Bales, Aditi Bhaskar, Greg Characklis, Alejandro Flores, Troy Gilmore, Jesus Gomez-Velez, Gordon Grant, Anne Jefferson, Safeeq Khan, Sarah Ledford, Steve Loheide, Gretchen Miller, Ashok Mishra, Anne Nolin, Jeanne VanBriesen, Jay Zarnetske, Margaret Zimmer, Adam S. Ward. 2022. COVID‐19 impacts highlight the need for holistic evaluation of research in the hydrologic sciences
• H. R. Dietterich, Gordon Grant, B. Fasth, J. J. Major, K. V Cashman. 2022. Can lava flow like water? Assessing applications of critical flow theory to channelized basaltic lava flows
• Clément Roques, David E. Rupp, Jean-Raynald de Dreuzy, Laurent Longuevergne, Elizabeth R. Jachens, Gordon Grant, Luc Aquilina, John S. Selker. 2022. Recession discharge from compartmentalized bedrock hillslopes
• John Kirkland, Rebecca Flitcroft, Gordon Grant. 2021. Let the fish do the talking: How fish behavior is linked to patterns of temperature and stream discharge
• Cara Steger, Julia A. Klein, Robin S. Reid, Sandra Lavorel, Catherine Tucker, Kelly A. Hopping, Rob Marchant, Tara Teel, Aida Cuni-Sanchez, Tsechoe Dorji, Greg Greenwood, Robert Huber, Karim-Aly Kassam, David Kreuer, Anne Nolin, Aaron Russell, Julia L. Sharp, Mateja Šmid Hribar, Jessica P.R. Thorn, Gordon Grant, Mohammed Mahdi, Martha Moreno, Daniel Waiswa. 2021. Science with society: Evidence-based guidance for best practices in environmental transdisciplinary work
• Caroline Nash, Gordon Grant, Susan Charnley, Jason Dunham, Hannah Gosnell, Mark Hausner, David Pilliod, Jimmy D. Taylor. 2021. Great expectations: Deconstructing the process pathways underlying beaver-related restoration
• Rachel M. LovellFord, Rebecca Flitcroft, Sarah A. Lewis, Mary V Santelmann, Gordon Grant. 2020. Patterns of river discharge and temperature differentially influence migration and spawn timing for Coho Salmon in the Umpqua River basin, Oregon
• Andrea Watts, Gordon Grant. 2020. Going with the flow: New insights into the hydraulics of high-energy fluids
• Laurel E. Stratton, Roy Haggerty, Gordon Grant. 2019. The importance of coarse organic matter and depositional environment to carbon burial behind dams in mountainous environments
• Laurel E. Stratton, Gordon Grant. 2019. Autopsy of a reservoir: Facies architecture in a multidam system, Elwha River, Washington, USA
• Ying Fan, Gordon Grant, Suzanne P. Anderson. 2019. Water within, moving through, and shaping the Earth's surface: Introducing a special issue on water in the critical zone
• Mohammad Safeeq, Gordon Grant, Sarah A. Lewis, Shannon K. Hayes. 2019. Disentangling effects of forest harvest on long-term hydrologic and sediment dynamics, western Cascades, Oregon
• Caroline S. Nash, Gordon Grant, John S. Selker, Steven M. Wondzell. 2019. Discussion: “Meadow restoration increases baseflow and groundwater storage in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California” by Luke J.H. Hunt, Julie Fair, and Maxwell Odland
• Andrea Watts, Gordon Grant, Jon Major. 2019. The Spirit Lake dilemma: Engineering a solution for a lake with a problematic outlet
• Y. Fan, M. Clark, D. M. Lawrence, S. Swenson, L. E. Band, S. L. Brantley, P. D. Brooks, W. E. Dietrich, A. Flores, Gordon Grant, J. W. Kirchner, D. S. Mackay, J. J. McDonnell, P. C. D. Milly, P. L. Sullivan, C. Tague, H. Ajami, N. Chaney, A. Hartmann, P. Hazenberg, J. McNamara, J. Pelletier, J. Perket, E. Rouholahnejad‐Freund, T. Wagener, X. Zeng, E. Beighley, J. Buzan, M. Huang, B. Livneh, B. P. Mohanty, B. Nijssen, Mohammad Safeeq, C. Shen, W. Verseveld, J. Volk, D. Yamazaki. 2019. Hillslope hydrology in global change research and Earth system modeling
• Mark B. Hausner, Justin L. Huntington, Caroline Nash, Charles Morton, Daniel J. McEvoy, David S. Pilliod, Katherine C. Hegewisch, Britta Daudert, John T. Abatzoglou, Gordon Grant. 2018. Assessing the effectiveness of riparian restoration projects using Landsat and precipitation data from the cloud-computing application ClimateEngine.org
• Caroline S. Nash, John S. Selker, Gordon Grant, Sarah L. Lewis, Paul Noël. 2018. A physical framework for evaluating net effects of wet meadow restoration on late-summer streamflow
• J. J. McDonnell, J. Evaristo, K. D. Bladon, J. Buttle, I. F. Creed, S. F. Dymond, Gordon Grant, A. Iroume, C. R. Jackson, J. A. Jones, T. Maness, K. J. McGuire, D. F. Scott, C. Segura, R. C. Sidle, C. Tague. 2018. Water sustainability and watershed storage
• David S. Pilliod, Ashley T. Rohde, Susan Charnley, Rachael R. Davee, Jason B. Dunham, Hannah Gosnell, Gordon Grant, Mark B. Hausner, Justin L. Huntington, Caroline Nash. 2018. Survey of beaver-related restoration practices in rangeland streams of the western USA
• M. M. Foley, J. Ryan Bellmore, J. E. O'Connor, J. J. Duda, A. E. East, Gordon Grant, C. W. Anderson, J. A. Bountry, M. J. Collins, P. J. Connolly, L. S. Craig, J. E. Evans, S. L. Greene, F. J. Magilligan, C. S. Magirl, J. J. Major, G. R. Pess, T. J. Randle, P. B. Shafroth, C. E. Torgersen, D. Tullos, A. C. Wilcox. 2017. Dam removal: Listening in
• Susan L. Brantley, William H. McDowell, William E. Dietrich, Timothy S. White, Praveen Kumar, Suzanne P. Anderson, Jon Chorover, Kathleen Ann Lohse, Roger C. Bales, Daniel D. Richter, Gordon Grant, Jérôme Gaillardet. 2017. Designing a network of critical zone observatories to explore the living skin of the terrestrial Earth
• Allison G. Danner, Mohammad Safeeq, Gordon Grant, Charlotte Wickham, Desirée Tullos, Mary V. Santelmann. 2017. Scenario-based and scenario-neutral assessment of climate change impacts on operational performance of a multipurpose reservoir
• Gordon Grant, Jon J. Major, Sarah A. Lewis. 2017. The geologic, geomorphic, and hydrologic context underlying options for long-term management of the Spirit Lake outlet near Mount St. Helens, Washington
• Scott Tyler, Sudeep Chandra, Gordon Grant. 2017. Management strategies for sustainable western water
• Caty F. Clifton, Kate T. Day, Gordon Grant, Jessica E. Halofsky, Charlie H. Luce, Brian P. Staab. 2017. Climate change, water resources, and roads in the Blue Mountains [Chapter 4]
• Caty F. Clifton, Kate T. Day, Kathie Dello, Gordon Grant, Jessica E. Halofsky, Daniel J. Isaak, Charlie H. Luce, Mohammad Safeeq, Brian P. Staab, John Stevenson. 2017. Climate change and hydrology in the Blue Mountains [Chapter 3]
• Gordon Grant, Jim E. O'Connor, Elizabeth Safran. 2017. Excursions in fluvial (dis)continuity
• Marie Oliver, Gordon Grant. 2017. Liberated rivers: lessons from 40 years of dam removal
• Diego García de Jalón, Martina Bussettini, Massimo Rinaldi, Gordon Grant, Nikolai Friberg, Ian G. Cowx, Fernando Magdaleno, Tom Buijse. 2016. Linking environmental flows to sediment dynamics
• Rebecca Flitcroft, Sarah A. Lewis, Ivan Arismendi, Rachel LovellFord, Mary V. Santelmann, Mohammad Safeeq, Gordon Grant, Kyle A. Young. 2016. Linking hydroclimate to fish phenology and habitat use with ichthyographs
• Rachel White, Susan Charnley, Gordon Grant, Mary M. Rowland, Michael Wisdom. 2016. Restoring rivers, sustaining communities
• James Vose, Chelcy F. Miniat, Charles H. Luce, Heidi Asbjornsen, Peter V. Caldwell, John Campbell, Gordon Grant, Daniel J. Isaak, Steven P. Loheide, Ge Sun. 2016. Echohydrological implications of drought for forests in the United States
• E.B. Safran, J.E. O'Connor, L.L. Ely, P.K. House, Gordon Grant, K. Harrity, K. Croall, E. Jones. 2015. Plugs or flood-makers? The unstable landslide dams of eastern Oregon
• J. E. O'Connor, J. J. Duda, Gordon Grant. 2015. 1000 dams down and counting
• Mohammad Safeeq, Shraddhanand Shukla, Ivan Arismendi, Gordon Grant, Sarah A. Lewis, Anne Nolin. 2015. Influence of winter season climate variability on snow-precipitation ratio in the western United States
• Mohammad Safeeq, Gordon Grant, Sarah A. Lewis, Brian Staab. 2015. Predicting landscape sensitivity to present and future floods in the Pacific Northwest, USA
• Gordon Grant, Sarah A. Lewis. 2015. The remains of the dam: what have we learned from 15 years of US dam removals?
• Mohammad Safeeq, Guillaume S. Mauger, Gordon Grant, Ivan Arismendi, Alan F. Hamlet, Se-Yeun Lee. 2014. Comparing large-scale hydrological model predictions with observed streamflow in the Pacific Northwest: effects of climate and groundwater
• W.K. Jaeger, A.J. Plantinga, H. Chang, K. Dello, Gordon Grant, D. Hulse, J.J. McDonnell, S. Lancaster, H. Moradkhani, A.T. Morzillo, P. Mote, A. Nolin, M. Santlemann, J. Wu. 2013. Toward a formal definition of water scarcity in natural human systems
• Gordon Grant. 2012. The geomorphic response of gravel-bed rivers to dams: perspectives and prospects
• Marie Oliver, Gordon Grant, Barbara Burkholder. 2011. Thermal pollution in rivers: Will adding gravel help to cool them down?
• Kathleen A. Farley, Christina Tague, Gordon Grant. 2011. Vulnerability of water supply from the Oregon Cascades to changing climate: linking science to users and policy
• A. Jefferson, Gordon Grant, S.L. Lewis, S.T. Lancaster. 2010. Coevolution of hydrology and topography on a basalt landscape in the Oregon Cascade Range, USA
• Katharine V. Cashman, Natalia I. Deligne, Marshall W. Gannett, Gordon Grant, Anne Jefferson. 2009. Fire and water: volcanology, geomorphology, and hydrogeology of the Cascade Range, central Oregon
• Christina Tague, Gordon Grant. 2009. Groundwater dynamics mediate low-flow response to global warming in snow-dominated alpine regions
• Noreen Parks, Gordon Grant. 2009. A ravenous river reclaims its true course: the tale of Marmot Dam's demise
• Bret Bruce, Diana Allen, Henrique Chaves, Gordon Grant, Gualbert Oude Essink, Henk Kooi, Ian White, Jason Gurdak, Jay Famiglietti, Jose Luis Martin-Bordes, Kevin Hiscock, Matthew Rodell, Neno Kukuric, Peter B. McMahon, Richard Taylor, Timothy Green, Yoseph Yechieli. 2008. Groundwater Resources Assessment under the Pressures of Humanity and Climate Changes
• Christina Tague, Gordon Grant, Mike Farrell, Janet Choate, Anne Jefferson. 2008. Deep groundwater mediates streamflow response to climate warming in the Oregon Cascades
• Jon J. Major, Jim E. O'Connor, Gordon Grant, Kurt R. Spicer, Heather M. Bragg, Abagail Rhode, Dwight Q. Tanner, Chauncey W. Anderson, J. Rose Wallick. 2008. Initial fluvial response to the removal of Oregon's Marmot Dam
• Gordon Grant, Sarah A. Lewis, Frederick J. Swanson, John H. Cissel, Jeffrey J. McDonnell. 2008. Effects of forest practices on peak flows and consequent channel response: a state-of-science report for western Oregon and Washington.
• J. J. McDonnell, M. Sivapalan, K. Vache, S. Dunn, Gordon Grant, R. Haggerty, C. Hinz, R. Hooper, J. Kirchner, M.L. Roderick, J. Selker, M. Weiler. 2007. Moving beyond heterogeneity and process complexity: a new vision for watershed hydrology
• Jennifer Rose Wallick, Gordon Grant, Stephen T. Lancaster, John P. Bolte, Roger P. Denlinger. 2007. Patterns and controls on historical channel change in the Willamette River, Oregon, USA
• Christina Tague, Michael Farrell, Gordon Grant, Sarah A. Lewis, Serge Rey. 2007. Hydrogeologic controls on summer stream temperatures in the McKenzie River basin, Oregon
• John Kirkland, Gordon Grant. 2006. Does wood slow down "sludge dragons?" The interaction between riparian zones and debris flows in mountain landscapes
• Matt E. Sakals, John L. Innes, David J. Wilford, Roy C. Sidle, Gordon Grant. 2006. The role of forests in reducing hydrogeomorphic hazards.
• Marwan A. Hassan, Michael Church, Thomas E. Lisle, Francesco Brardinoni, Lee Benda, Gordon Grant. 2005. Sediment transport and channel morphology of small, forested streams.
• Jim E. O'Connor, Gordon Grant, Tana L. Haluska. 2003. Overview of geology, hydrology, geomorphology, and sediment budget of the Deschutes River Basin, Oregon.
• Heidi Fassnacht, Ellen M. McClure, Gordon Grant, Peter C. Klingeman. 2003. Downstream effects of the Pelton-Round Butte hydroelectric project on bedload, transport, channel morphology, and channel-bed texture, lower Deschutes River, Oregon.
• Jim E. O'Connor, Janet H. Curran, Robin A. Beebee, Gordon Grant, Andrei Sarna-Wojcicki. 2003. Quaternary geology and geomorphology of the lower Deschutes River Canyon, Oregon.
• Robin A. Beebee, Jim E. O'Connor, Gordon Grant. 2002. Geology and geomorphology of the Lower Deschutes River Canyon, Oregon.
• John H. Cissel, Frederick J. Swanson, Gordon Grant, Deanna H. Olson, Gregory V. Stanley, Steven L. Garman, Linda R. Ashkenas, Matthew G. Hunter, Jane A. Kertis, James H. Mayo, Michelle D. McSwain, Sam G. Swetland, Keith A. Swindle, David O. Wallin. 1998. A landscape plan based on historical fire regimes for a managed forest ecosystem: the Augusta Creek study.
• David J. Brooks, Gordon Grant. 1992. New perspectives in forest management: background, science issues, and research agenda.
• Kathleen Sullivan, Thomas E. Lisle, C. Andrew Dolloff, Gordon Grant, Leslie M. Reid. 1987. Stream channels: The link between forests and fishes
• Frederick J. Swanson, Lee E. Benda, Stanley H. Duncan, Gordon Grant, Walter F. Megahan, Leslie M. Reid, Robert Ziemer. 1987. Mass failures and other processes of sediment production in Pacific northwest forest landscapes
• Kathleen Sullivan, Thomas E. Lisle, C. Andrew Dolloff, Gordon Grant, Leslie M. Reid. 1987. Stream channels: The link between forests and fishes. Chapter Three

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  Northwest Water Research Initiative

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  Pacific Northwest Research Station
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  Watershed and Aquatic Sciences

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  Pacific Northwest Research Station

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Events

• Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D., Geomorphology, 1986