William Ouimet

Dr. William OuimetPh.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2007)

Office: AUST 430

Office phone: 860-486-1348

william.ouimet@uconn.edu

Research Interests:

Erosion Processes

Landform & Landscape Evolution

geomorphology.uconn.edu [research website]

UConn Geography Research Cluster:

Earth System Science

Courses

GEOG 1070/GSCI 1070: Global Climate and Natural Disasters

GEOG 3310: Fluvial Geomorphology

GEOG 4098/GSCI 4999: Watershed Characterization/Service Learning

GEOG 4230/GSCI 4230: GIS and Remote Sensing for Geoscience Applications

GEOG 5230/GSCI 5230: Advanced GIS and Remote Sensing for Geoscience Applications

GEOG 5310: Advanced Fluvial Geomorphology

GSCI 4995: Study Abroad: Field Studies in Taiwan

Selected Publications

Dethier, D., Ouimet, W., Murphy, S, Kotikian, M., Wicherski, W. and Samuels, R., 2017, Investigating Holocene and Anthropocene landscape change and the legacy of 19th and 20th century mining using geomorphic and stratigraphic evidence in Fourmile Canyon, Colorado, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, In Press.

Johnson, K and Ouimet, W., 2016, Physical properties and spatial controls of stone walls in the northeastern USA: implications for Anthropocene studies of 17th to early 20th century agriculture, Anthropocene, 15: 22-36. doi: 10.1016/j.ancene.2016.07.001

Raab, T., Hirsch, F., Ouimet, W., Johnson, K., Dethier, D. and Raab, A., 2016, Architecture of Relict Charcoal Hearths (RCHs) in Northwestern Connecticut, USA, GeoArchaeology, 32 (4): 502-510. doi: 10.1002/gea.21614

Hsu, W.H., Byrne, T., Ouimet, W., Lee, Y.H, Chen, Y.G., Van Soest, M. and Hodges, K., 2016, Pleistocene onset of rapid, punctuated exhumation in the eastern Central Range of the Taiwan orogenic belt, Geology, 44 (9): 719-722. doi: 10.1130/G37914.1

Ouimet, W., Dethier, D., Bierman, P., Wyshnytzky, C., Shea, N., and Rood, D.H., 2015, Spatial and temporal variations in meteoric 10Be inventories and long-term deposition rates, Colorado Front Range. Quaternary Science Reviews, 109: 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.11.003