Assistant Professor Will Ouimet receives NSF RAPID grant to study the 2013 Colorado floods

Ouimet - RAPID grant picDr. Will Ouimet is the principal investigator on a RAPID grant from the National Science Foundation through the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program (Division of Earth Sciences).  The grant is titled “RAPID: Characterizing Sediment Mobilization and Landscape Response to the Combined Effects of Wildfire and Extreme Flooding along Fourmile Canyon, Front Range Colorado”.  The project seizes an opportunity to view exposures and sample flood deposits associated with severe flooding along the Colorado Front Range in September 2013.  This region experienced a large, intense wildfire in September 2010, and since that time Dr. Ouimet and a team of others (including a former UConn undergraduate thesis student) have been studying the effects of the wildfire on soils, erosion and sediment deposition along Fourmile Creek. The major flooding of September 2013 affords a unique opportunity to confirm and expand on this work.

Congratulations to Prof. Ouimet in receiving this grant.