biography...

 Gordon Grant is a Research Hydrologist with the U.S. Forest Service at the Pacific Northwest Research Station and also a Courtesy Professor in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University, in Corvallis, OR.  Following a decade-long career as a whitewater river guide on western rivers, he received his Ph.D. from John Hopkins University in 1986.  His research focused on the geomorphic response of rivers to changes in stream flow and sediment transport due to land use, dams, dam removal, volcanic eruptions, and climate change.  This work involves extended collaborations with research groups in Japan, China, and Italy.  Gordon is a former Deputy and Associate Editor of the journal, Water Resources Research, and a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.  He currently chairs the National Steering Committee for the U.S. National Science Foundation- sponsored Critical Zone.