Curriculum Vitae
John Trusal Kemper, PhD
(he/him)
john (dot) kemper (at) uvm (dot) edu
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Education
PhD, Geosciences, Colorado State University, 2022
MS, Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2017
BS, Geology with High Honors, University of Maryland, 2013
Employment & Appointments
2023 – present: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Geography & Geoscience and the Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology (CIROH), University of Vermont
2022 – 2023: Adjunct Professor, Colorado Mountain College
2020 – 2022: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
2018 – 2022: Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University
2013 – 2018: Staff Research Assistant, Center for Urban Environmental Research & Education (CUERE), University of Maryland Baltimore County
Publications
Kemper, J.T., Knox, R., Muhammad, R., Schulz, E., Bailey, R., Morrison, R.R., Wohl, E. 2024. Estimating catchment-scale sediment storage in a large river basin, Colorado River, USA. River Research and Applications (in press). https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.4300
Kemper, J.T., Scamardo, J. 2023. Snow avalanches as a driver of large wood dynamics in mountain streams. Geophysical Research Letters, 50 (24), e2023GL106355. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL106355.
Rathburn, S., Eysteinsson, Þ., Sæmundsson, Þ., Kemper, J.T., Wieting, C.D., Friedman, J.M. 2023. Putting down roots: Afforestation and bank cohesion of Icelandic Rivers. River Research and Applications. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.4172
Kemper, J.T., Rathburn, S.L., Mueller, E.R., Wohl, E. Scamardo, J., 2023. Geomorphic response of low-gradient, meandering and braided alluvial river channels to increased sediment supply. Earth-Science Reviews 241: 104429.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104429
Wohl, E., Uno, H., Dunn, S.B., Kemper, J.T., Marshall, A., Means-Brous, M., Scamardo, J.E., Triantafillou, S.P. 2023. Why wood should move in rivers. River Research and Applications. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.4114
Welty, C., Moore, J., Bain, D.J., Talebpour., M., Kemper, J.T., Duncan, J.M., Groffman, P.M. 2023. Spatial heterogeneity and temporal stability of baseflow water quality in an urban watershed. Water Resources Research. E2021WR031804 https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR031804
Kemper, J.T., Rathburn, S.L., Friedman, J.M., Nelson, J.M., Mueller, E.R., Vincent, K.R. 2022. Fingerprinting historical tributary contributions to floodplain sediment using bulk geochemistry. CATENA 214(3-4): 106231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2022.106231
Kemper, J.T., Thaxton, R.D., Rathburn, S.L., Friedman, J.M., Mueller, E.R., Scott, M.L. 2022. Sediment-ecological connectivity in a large river network. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 47(2): 639-657. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5277
Gellis, A.C., Fuller, C.C., Van Metre, P. Mahler, B., Welty, C., Miller, A.J., Nibert, L., Clifton, Z., Malen, J., Kemper, J.T. 2020. Pavement alters delivery of sediment and fallout radionuclides to urban streams. Journal of Hydrology 588: 124855. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124855
Kemper, J.T., Miller, A.J., Welty, C. 2019. Spatial and temporal patterns of suspended sediment transport in nested urban watersheds. Geomorphology 336: 95-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.03.018
Duncan, J.M., Welty, C., Kemper, J.T., Groffman, P.M., Band, L.E. 2017. Dynamics of nitrate concentration-discharge patterns in an urban watershed. Water Resources Research 53(8): 7349-7365. https://doi:10.1002/2017WR020500