Biographical Sketch: John (Jack) C. Schmidt

 

EDUCATION

Ph. D., Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; May 1987

M. A., Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley, CA; June 1974

B.A., Department of Political Science, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA; May 1972; cum laude

 

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

2006 - present: Professor, Utah State University, Dept. of Aquatic, Watershed, and Earth Resources

1997 - 2006: Associate Professor; 1991 - 1997: Assistant Professor

1991 - present: Joint appointment, Dept. of Geology, Utah State University

1988- 1991: Assistant Professor, Middlebury College

March 1985 - January 1988: Arizona District, U. S. Geological Survey, Tucson; hydrologist.

April 1978 - March 1985: owner, Earth Resource Associates (environmental consulting firm), Helena, MT.

 

AWARDS

1997, Shoemaker Communications Award, U.S. Geological Survey, "for excellence in communicating scientific information" [cited with coauthors M. J. Collier and R. H. Webb for the book Dams and Rivers: primer on the downstream effects of dams].

 

PUBLICATIONS 2003 - Present

Hazel, J. E., Jr., Topping, D. J., Schmidt, J. C., and Kaplinski, M. A., 200-, Influence of a dam on fine-sediment storage in a canyon river with fan-eddy complexes: Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, in press.

Larsen, I. J., Pederson, J. L., and Schmidt, J. C. 200-. Geologic versus wildfire controls on hillslope processes and debris flow initiation in the Green River canyons of Dinosaur National Monument. Geomorphology, in press.

Schmidt, J. C., 2006, The Colorado River, in Large Rivers: Geomorphology and Management, edited by A. Gupta, John Wiley & Sons, in press.

Topping, D. J., Rubin, D. M., Schmidt, J. C., Hazel, J. E., Jr., Melis, T. S., Wright, S. A., Kaplinski, M., Draut, A. E., Breedlove, M. J. 2006. Comparison of sediment-transport and bar-response results from the 1996 and 2004 controlled flood experiments on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon. Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference Proceedings, in press.

Doyle, M. W., Stanley, E. H., Strayer, D. L., Jacobson, R. B., and Schmidt, J. C., 2005, Effective discharge analysis of ecological processes in streams: Water Resources Research 41 (W11411).

Gaeuman, D. A., Schmidt, J. C., and Wilcock, P. R., 2005, Complex channel responses to changes in stream flow and sediment supply on the lower Duchesne River, Utah: Geomorphology 64: 185-206.

Gaeuman, D., Symanzik, J., Schmidt, J. C., 2005, A map overlay error model based on boundary geometry: Geographical Analysis 37: 350-369.

Grams, P. E., and Schmidt, J. C., 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: Geomorphology 71: 156-181.

Schmidt, J. C., Smelser, M. G., Stamp, M. L., and Gaeuman, D. A., 2005, Channel adjustment in response to surface-water development in the Duchesne River watershed, in Uinta Mountain Geology, edited by C. A. Dehler, J. L. Pederson, D. A. Sprinkel, and B. J. Kowallis. Utah Geological Association, Utah Geological Association Publication 33, p. 189-204.

Topping, D. J., Rubin, D. M., and Schmidt, J. C., 2005, Regulation of sand transport in the Colorado River by changes in the surface grain size of eddy sandbars over multi-year timescales: Sedimentology 52:1133-1153.

White, M. A., Schmidt, J. C., and Topping, D. J., 2005, Application of wavelet analysis for monitoring the hydrologic effects of dam operation: Glen Canyon Dam and the Colorado River at Lees Ferry, Arizona: River Research and Applications 21: 551-565.

Larsen, I. J., Schmidt, J. C., and Martin, J. A., 2004, Debris fan reworking during low magnitude floods in the Green River canyons of the eastern Uinta Mountains, Colorado and Utah: Geology 32(4): 309-312.

Schmidt, J. C. and Brim Box, J., 2004, Application of a dynamic model to assess controls on age-0 Colorado pikeminnow distribution in the middle Green River, Colorado and Utah: Annals of the Association of American Geographers 94 (3): 458-476.

Gaeuman, D.A., Schmidt, J. C., and Wilcock, P. R., 2003, Evaluation of in-channel gravel storage with morphology-based gravel budgets developed from planimetric data: Journal of Geophysical Research 108 (F1): 2-1 to 2-16.

Grant, G. E., Schmidt, J. C., and Lewis, S., 2003, A geological framework for interpreting downstream effects of dams on rivers, in A Peculiar River: Geology, Geomorphology, and Hydrology of the Deschutes River, edited by J. E. O'Conner and G. E. Grant. American Geophysical Union Water Science and Application 7, p. 203-219.

Pederson, J. L., Schmidt, J. C., and Anders, M. D., 2003, Pleistocene and Holocene geomorphology of Marble and Grand Canyons, canyon cutting to adaptive management, in Quaternary Geology of the United States, INQUA 2003 Field Guide Volume, edited by D. J. Easterbrook. Reno, Desert Research Institute, p. 407-438.

Schmidt, J.C., Everitt, B. L. and Richard, G. A., 2003, Hydrology and geomorphology of the Rio Grande and implications for river restoration, in Aquatic Fauna of the Northern Chihuahuan Desert, edited by G.P. Garrett and N. L. Allan: Museum of Texas Tech University, Special Publication Number 46, p. 25-45.

Topping, D. J., Schmidt, J. C., and Vierra, L. E., Jr. 2003, Discharge of the Colorado River at Lees Ferry, Arizona, during the 1884 flood and between May 8, 1921, and September 30, 2000: construction and analysis of a continuous record of instantaneous discharge: U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1677.

Wilcock, P.R., Schmidt, J.C., Wolman, M.G., Dietrich, W. E., Dominick, D., Doyle, M. W., Grant, G. E., Iverson, R. M., Montgomery, D. R., Pierson, T. C., Schilling, S. P., and Wilson, R. C., 2003, When models meet managers: examples from geomorphology, in Prediction in Geomorphology, edited by P.R. Wilcock and R.M. Iverson: American Geophysical Union Geophysical Monograph 135, 27-40.

Larsen, I. J., Pederson, J. L., and Schmidt, J. C. 200-. Geologic versus wildfire controls on hillslope processes and debris flow initiation in the Green River canyons of Dinosaur National Monument. Geomorphology, in press. Published - GEOMORPHOLOGY 81 (1-2): 114-127 NOV 20 2006

Hazel, J. E., Jr., Topping, D. J., Schmidt, J. C., and Kaplinski, M. A., 200-, Influence of a dam on fine-sediment storage in a canyon river with fan-eddy complexes: Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, in press. Published - JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-EARTH SURFACE 111 (F1): Art. No. F01025 MAR 28 2006