Dr. Jeff Nittrouer

Education
Ph D, University of Texas at Austin, Geological Sciences
MS, Tulane University, Earth and Environmental Sciences
BS, University of Washington, Geology

Experience
Associate Professor, Texas Tech University
Assistant Professor, Rice University
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Illinois

 

Intellectual Contributions
Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Osborn, Ryan , Et. al., , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A (August 2023). "The flocculation state of mud in the lowermost freshwater reaches of the Mississippi River: spatial distribution of sizes, seasonal changes, and their impact on vertical concentration profiles"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, Barefoot, Eric (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2023). "Time dilation in the stratigraphic record "

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, Et al., , Chenliang, Wu (May 2023). "Pace of meandering and avulsion set lowland river sinuosity on Earth and Mars"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Dong, Tian , Et. al., , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2023). "Impacts of tectonic subsidence on basin depth and delta lobe building"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, et al, , Moodie, Andrew (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2022). "SedEdu: a suite of sediment-related educational modules"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Nittrouer, Jeffrey , et al, , Dunne, Kieran (September 2022). "Enhanced probability of catastrophic Mississippi River floods under high emissions scenarios"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Ma, Hongbo , et al, , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A (June 2022). "Amplification of downstream flood stage due to damming of fine-grained rivers"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Moodie, Andrew , et al, , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2022). "Suspended-sediment induced stratification inferred from concentration and velocity profile measurements in the flooding lower Yellow River, China"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Et al., , Carlson, Brandee , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2021). "Impacts of engineered diversions and natural avulsions on delta-lobe stability"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Moodie, Andrew , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2021). "Optimized river diversion scenarios promote sustainability of urbanized deltas"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Barefoot, Eric , et al., , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A (June 2021). "Non-monotonic responses to changes in flooding intensity"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, Osborn, Ryan , et al, (May 2021). "FlocARAZI: An In-Situ, Image-Based Profiling Instrument for Sizing Solid and Flocculated Suspended Sediment"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Barefoot, Eric , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, et al, (May 2021). "Evidence for enhanced lateral mobility and grain-size sorting in floodplain deposits due to precipitation seasonality during the PETM"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Dubravko, J , et al, , Nittrouer, Jeffrey (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2021). "Transport Processes in the Gulf of Mexico Along the River-Estuary-Shelf-Ocean Continuum: a Review of Research from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Dong, Tian , et al, , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A (November 2020). "Predicting water and sediment partitioning in a delta channel network under varying discharge conditions"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Wu, Xiao , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, et al, (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2020). "Can reservoir regulation along Yellow River be a sustainable way to save a sinking delta?"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Wu, Chenliang , et al, , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2020). "Dune-scale cross-strata across the fluvial-deltaic backwater regime: preservation potential of an autogenic stratigraphic signature"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Carlson, Brandee , et al, , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A (May 2020). "Infilling abandoned deltaic channels through tidal sedimentation: a case study from the Huanghe (Yellow River) delta, China"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
et al, , Zhang, Li , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2020). "How canyons evolve by incision into bedrock: Rainbow Canyon, Death Valley National Park, USA"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Lamb, Michael , et al, , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2020). "Mud in rivers transported as flocculated, suspended bed material"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
et al, , Wu, Chenliang , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2020). "Morphodynamic equilibrium of lowland river systems during autoretreat"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
et al, , Carlson, Brandee , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A (March 2020). "Modeling the filling process of abandoned fluvial-deltaic distributary channel: An example from the Yellow River delta, China"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, Dingle, Elizabeth , et al, (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2020). "Sediment dynamics across gravel-sand transitions: Implications for river stability and floodplain recycling"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, Leeuw, Jeffrey , et al, (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2020). "Entrainment and suspension of sand and gravel"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Hoitink, Ton , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, et al, (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2020). "Grasping River Delta Resilience in the Anthropocene"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
et al, , Cisneros, Julia , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2020). "The Shape of Dunes in the World’s Big Rivers"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
et al, , Wu, Xiao , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2020). "Evolution of a tide-dominated abandoned channel: a case of the abandoned Qingshuigou course, Yellow River"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
et al, , Ma, Hongbo , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2019). "Universal sediment transport relation for fine-bed rivers with phase transition"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
et al, , Moodie, Andrew , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2019). "Modeling deltaic lobe-building cycles and avulsions of the Yellow River delta, China"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Wu, Chenliang , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2019). "Impacts of backwater hydrodynamics on fluvial-deltaic stratigraphy"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Naito, Nait , et al, , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2019). "Extended Engelund-Hansen type sediment transport relation for mixtures based on the sand-silt-bed lower Yellow River, China"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
et al, , Chadwick, Austin , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2019). "Origin of a preferential avulsion node on lowland river deltas"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, Venditti, Jeremy , et al, (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2019). "Supply Limited Bedform Patterns and Scaling through a Gravel-Sand Transition"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, et al, , Dong, Tian (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2019). "Roles of bank material in setting bankfull hydraulic geometry as informed by the Selenga River delta, Russia"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, Phillips, Jeffrey , et al, (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2019). "Low-angle eolian deposits formed by protodune migration, and insights into slipface development at White Sands Dune Field, New Mexico"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
et al, , Demet, Brian , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2018). "Sedimentary processes at ice sheet grounding-zone wedges: comparing planform morphology from the western Ross Sea (Antarctica) to internal stratigraphy from outcrops of the Puget Lowlands (Washington State, U.S. A.)"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
et al, , Maselli, Vittorio , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2018). "River morphodynamic evolution under dam-induced backwater: an example from the Po River (Italy)"

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)
Liu, Zuolin , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, et al, (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2018). "Effect of freeze-thaw cycling on grain size of biochar"

 

 

Presentations
Nittrouer, Christine , Dee, Sylvia , Nittrouer, Jeffrey , Torres, Mark , SIOP, "In our own backyard: Diversity science in academic work contexts," SIOP, Chicago, IL. (April 17, 2024).

Nittrouer, Jeffrey , Et. al., , Nelson, John , American Geophysical Union Fall 2023 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, "Investigating channel migration patterns, flow regimes, and sediment types of peat bedded streams, Cedar Creek, Minnesota U.S.A.," AGU, San Francisco. (December 2023).

Deng, G. , Ma, Hongbo , Chen, X. , Nittrouer, Jeffrey , American Geophysical Union Fall 2023 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, "Observations of self-accelerating turbidity currents and their application in the Xioalangdi Reservoir, Yellow River, China," AGU, San Francisco. (December 2023).

Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, Nelson, John , Parker, Gary , American Geophysical Union Fall 2022 Annual Meeting, Chicago, "Channel migration patterns of streams in peat bogs: an example from Cedar Creek, Minnesota," AGU, Chicago. (December 2022).

Et. al., , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, Cisneros, Julia , American Geophysical Union Fall 2022 Annual Meeting, Chicago, "Giant dune dynamics: findings from a recent field survey in Algodones Dune Field, CA," AGU, Chicago. (December 2022).

Ma, Hongbo , Et al., , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, American Geophysical Union Fall 2022 Annual Meeting, Chicago, "How does damming on fine-grained rivers counterintuitively raise the flood risk of downstream channels?," AGU, Chicago. (December 2022).

Nittrouer, Jeffrey , Departmental Seminar, Louisiana State University, "Sediment dispersal, accumulation, and transformation into stratigraphy: Interpreting environmental changes across time and space for fluvial-deltaic landscapes," Baton Rouge, LA. (October 2022).

Nittrouer, Jeffrey , American Geophysical Union Fall 2021 Annual Meeting, "Lowland river diversions and impacts on channel sedimentation and stage: a case study from the Old River Control Complex, lower Mississippi River," American Geophysical Union, New Orleans.

Carlson, Brandee , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, American Geophysical Union Fall 2021 Annual Meeting, "Antecedent channel bed elevation dictates stability of delta lobes after avulsions and diversions," American Geophysical Union, New Orleans.

Abolfazli, Esan , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, American Geophysical Union Fall 2021 Annual Meeting, "Study of Mud Flocs in the Mississippi River in Southern Louisiana ," American Geophysical Union , New Orleans.

Moodie, Andrew , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, American Geophysical Union Fall 2021 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Abstract, "Linking natural delta development and artificial river diversion scenarios to promote sustainability of urbanized deltaic coastlines," American Geophysical Union, New Orleans.

McElroy, Brandon , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, American Geophysical Union Fall 2021 Annual Meeting, "Evaluating potential sediment transport changes in lower Mississippi River due to engineered meander cutoffs in the 20th century: no case for large-scale flux increases," American Geophysical Union, New Orleans.

Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, Dong, Tian , American Geophysical Union Fall 2021 Annual Meeting, "Impacts of tectonic subsidence and variable basin depth on delta lobe building as informed by the Selenga River delta, Lake Baikal, Russia”, ," American Geophysical Union, New Orleans.

Wu, Chenliang , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, American Geophysical Union Fall 2021 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, "Pace of Meandering and Avulsion Set River Sinuosity near Coast on Earth and Mars," American Geophysical Union,

Dunne, Kieran , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, American Geophysical Union Fall 2021 Annual Meeting, "On the Hydrodynamically-Driven Deposition of Mud in River Systems ," American Geophysical Union, New Orleans.

Cisneros, Julia , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, American Geophysical Union Fall 2021 Annual Meeting, "Preliminary assessment of giant dune morphology in fluvial and aeolian environments," American Geophysical Union , New Orleans.

Nittrouer, Christine , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, American Geophysical Union Fall 2021 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, "Using allies to expand your network: The state of recruitment and retention of minoritized students in the geosciences and the role of allies”, ," American Geophysical Union, New Orleans.

Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, Strom, Kyle , American Geophysical Union Fall 2021 Annual Meeting, "Vertical profiles of mud floc size and concentration in the lower Mississippi River," American Geophysical Union, New Orleans.

Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, Osborne, Ryan , American Geophysical Union Fall 2020 Annual Meeting, "Characterization of in-situ floc sizes over the vertical within the Mississippi River and its distributaries," American Geophysical Union,

Barefoot, Eric , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, American Geophysical Union Fall 2020 Annual Meeting, "Non-monotonic surface process response to increased flooding intensity," American Geophysical Union,

Carlson, Brandee , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, American Geophysical Union Fall 2020 Annual Meeting, "Stratigraphy of abandoned deltaic distributary channels and implications for assessing avulsion style," American Geophysical Union,

Dunne, Kieran , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, American Geophysical Union Fall 2020 Annual Meeting, "Field Investigation of cohesive sediment flocculation and sedimentation across the fluvial to marine transition," American Geophysical Union,

Nittrouer, Jeffrey , Departmental Seminar, University of Münster (Germany), University of Münster, Münster, Germany.

Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, Abolfazli, Esan , American Geophysical Union Fall 2020 Annual Meeting, "Effects of salinity and turbulent shear variations on floc size in the lower Mississippi River”," American Geophysical Union ,

Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, Wu, Chenliang , American Geophysical Union Fall 2020 Annual Meeting, "Spatial variability in river sinuosity across the backwater regime," American Geophysical Union,

Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, Baykut, Tanyel , American Geophysical Union Fall 2020, "Upper slope 3D morphologies along the Lighthouse Reef Margin (Belize): punctuated global record of last deglacial sea level fluctuations? ," American Geophysical Union.

Nittrouer, Jeffrey , Departmental Seminar, University of Tübingen (Germany), University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.

Nittrouer, Jeffrey , Departmental Seminar, U. of Hull (U.K.), University of Hull, Hull, U.K..

Swanson, Travis , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, American Geophysical Union Fall 2019 Annual Meeting, "Chaotic barrier island behavior driven by steady sea-level rise and variable bay accommodation," American Geophysical Union, San Francisco.

Barefoot, Jeffrey , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, American Geophysical Union Fall 2019 Annual Meeting, "Field evidence of the impact of increased channel mobility on sand body stacking density in an alluvial basin," American Geophysical Union , San Francisco.

Cole, Jeffrey , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, American Geophysical Union Fall 2019 Annual Meeting, "Elucidating Terrestrial Organic Carbon Burial Mechanisms – Insights from the Western Irish Namurian Basin, County Clare, Ireland," American Geophysical Union, San Francisco.

Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, Moodie, Jeffrey , American Geophysical Union Fall 2019 Annual Meeting, "Density stratification in open-channel flow due to high sediment concentration in the flooding Lower Yellow River," American Geophysical Union, San Francisco.

Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, Hoitink, Ton , American Geophysical Union Fall 2019 Annual Meeting, "Morphology of a tidal river subject to uplift: introducing the Kapuas (East Kalimantan, Indonesia) ," American Geophysical Union, San Francisco.

Zhang, L , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, American Geophysical Union Fall 2019 Annual Meeting, "Canyons Evolve by Incision into Bedrock: What Does Rainbow Canyon Tell Us?," American Geophysical Union, San Francisco.

Ma, Hongbo , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, American Geophysical Union Fall 2019 Annual Meeting, "Observations of self-accelerating turbidity currents in the Xiaolangdi reservoir, Yellow River, China," American Geophysical Union, San Francisco.

Dong, Tian , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, American Geophysical Union Fall 2019 Annual Meeting, "Practical framework for predicting water and sediment partitioning in a delta under varying discharge conditions," American Geophysical Union, San Francisco.

Carlson, Brandee , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, American Geophysical Union Fall 2019 Annual Meeting, "“The impacts of channel diversion characteristics on retreat rates of abandoned deltaic lobes, as informed by the Huanghe (Yellow River) delta of China," American Geophysical Union, San Francisco.

Nittrouer, Jeffrey , Departmental Seminar, Wageningen University (Netherlands), Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Nittrouer, Jeffrey , Departmental Seminar, Moscow State University, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography and Hydrology, Moscow, Russian Federation.

Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, Wu, Chenliang , Geological Society for America Fall Meeting 2018, "Impacts of non-uniform flow hydraulics on fluvial-deltaic stratigraphy: Linking field investigations and hydrodynamic modeling ," Geological Society for America , Indianapolis, Indiana.

Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, Wu, Chenliang , American Geophysical Union Fall 2018 Annual Meeting, "Dune morphodynamics and forward models of set-scale architecture within the backwater zone of the Mississippi River, USA," American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C..

Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, Barefoot, Jeffrey , American Geophysical Union Fall 2018 Annual Meeting , "Paleohydraulic estimates from alluvial strata during the PETM: an example from the Piceance Basin, Colorado ," American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C..

Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, Moodie, Andrew , American Geophysical Union Fall 2018 Annual Meeting, "Suspended-sediment induced stratification inferred from concentration and velocity profile measurements in the flooding lower Yellow River, China," American Geophysical Union , Washington, D.C..

Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, Ma, Hongbon , American Geophysical Union Fall 2018 Annual Meeting, "Turbidity currents in Xiaolangdi reservoir, Yellow River, China: dynamics and geomorphic expression," American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C..

Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, Swanson, Travis , American Geophysical Union Fall 2018 Annual Meeting, "Exploring the influence of bay morphology during coastal barrier retreat ," American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C..

Dong, Tian , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, American Geophysical Union Fall 2018 Annual Meeting, "Evaluating delta lobe evolution from the tectonically active Selenga River delta: a case study of auto and allogenic controls on sedimentation patterns," American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C..

Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, Ma, Hongbo , American Geophysical Union Fall 2018 Annual Meeting, "Change in downstream bedform type, bed material sediment transport regime and flood potential in response to sediment blockage by a dam: can bed degradation increase flooding risk? ," American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C..

Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, Carlson, Jeffrey , American Geophysical Union Fall 2018 Annual Meeting, "Modeling the Filling Processes of an Abandoned Fluvial-deltaic Distributary Channel: an Example From the Yellow River Delta of China ," American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C..

Carlson, Brandee , Nittrouer, Jeffrey A, American Geophysical Union Fall 2018 Annual Meeting, "Seasonal sediment delivery to an abandoned deltaic distributary channel," American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C..

Nittrouer, Jeffrey , Departmental Seminar, U. of Minn., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

Nittrouer, Jeffrey , Departmental Seminar, Tulane University, Earth and Environ. Sciences, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.

Nittrouer, Jeffrey , Departmental Seminar, Univ. of Wyoming, Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY.

Nittrouer, Jeffrey , Ocean University of China, Marine Geology, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China.

Nittrouer, Jeffrey , Departmental Seminar, UH Dept. of Earth and Atmos. Sciences, University of Houston, Dept. of Earth and Atmosph. Sciences, Houston, TX.

Nittrouer, Jeffrey , Departmental Seminar, BEG @ UT-Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX.

Nittrouer, Jeffrey , Departmental Seminar, LSU Geography, Louisiana State University, Department of Geography, Baton Rouge, LA.

Nittrouer, Jeffrey , Departmental Seminar, UH Civil and Env. Engineering, University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX.

Nittrouer, Jeffrey , Departmental Seminar, Helmholtz Centre for Environ., Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany.