Tom Lisle

Contact Information

• Office: Redwood Sciences Laboratory
• Phone: 707-825-2900
• Email: tlisle* substitute @fs.fed.us for *
• Personal Web Site: http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/programs/cumulative_effects/staff/tlisle/

Research Interests

Fluvial geomorphology
Relation of watershed processes to aquatic and riparian ecosystems

Education History

BA, Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, IA, 1970
MS, Univ. of Montana, Missoula, 1972
PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1976

Professional Background

Research Hydrologist-Redwood Sciences Laboratory

Publications

Buffington, John M., Thomas E. Lisle, Richard D. Woodsmith, and Sue Hilton. In press. Controls on the size and occurrence of pools in coarse-grained forest rivers. Regulated Rivers.

Cui, Y., G. Parker, T. E. Lisle, J. Gott, M. E. Hansler, J. E. Pizzuto, N. E. Almendinger, and J. M. Reed. In press. Sediment pulses in mountain rivers. Part 1. Experiments. Water Resources Research.

Cui, Y., G. Parker, J. E. Pizzuto, and T. E. Lisle. In press. Sediment pulses in mountain rivers. Part 2. Comparison between experiments and numerical predictions. Water Resources Research.

Lisle, Thomas E. In press. How much dead wood in stream channels is enough? In: Proceedings, Symposium on Dead Wood in Western Forest Ecosystems, 2-4 November 1999, Reno, Nevada. PSW General Technical Report.

Lisle, Thomas E., Yantao Cui, Gary Parker, James E. Pizzuto, and Annjanette M. Dodd. 2001. The dominance of dispersion in the evolution of bed material waves in gravel-bed rivers. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 26, 1409-1420.

Lisle, Thomas E., and Michael Church. In review. Sediment transport-storage relations for degrading alluvial reservoirs. Water Resources Research. (submitted 10/22/01)

Sutherland, D. G., M. E. Hansler, S. Hilton, and T. E. Lisle. In press. Evolution of a landslide-induced sediment wave in the Navarro River, California. Geological Society of America Bulletin.

Harvey, Bret C., and Thomas E. Lisle. 1999. Scour of chinook salmon redds on suction dredge tailings. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 19(2): 613-617.