Jeffrey F. Mount
Professor
Jeffrey Mount, professor, geology, and the Roy J. Shlemon Chair in Applied Geosciences, is a watershed expert specializing in the rivers of California and land-use impacts on rivers and streams. He studies the natural function of variable rainfall and snowfall in watersheds and floodplains, levee safety and future flood risks. His frequently quoted message to residents and policy-makers in California is that costly levees, channels and dams, are in conflict with the natural behaviors of rivers. Mount suggests that it is cheaper, safer and more environmentally sustainable to adapt to a river, than to force it to adapt to us. Mount directs the Center for Watershed Sciences, John Muir Institute of the Environment, and conducts research in the Great Basin, the Sierra Nevada foothills and the Flinders Range in South Australia. He studies floodplains, floodplain restoration methods and development of ecosystem models for environmental monitoring.
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Department of Geology
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616
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URL: http://www.geology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/mount.html