Devin McPhillips

Devin came to the UVM Cosmogenic Lab in June 2011 for a two-year post-doc. His work at the Lab focuses on the fluvial response to the last glacial-interglacial climate transition in southern Peru. His interests span the tectonics and surface processes of active mountain belts.

PhD dissertation (Yale University, 2011)

Erosion and Mountain Evolution: New Insights from Thermochronology

Undergraduate degree

Carleton College, B.A. Geology

Current Position and Contact Information (7/2018)

U.S. Geological Survey
525 South Wilson Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91106

Refereed Papers

Schmidt, A. H., Sosa-Gonzalez, V., Bierman, P. R., McPhillips, D. and Rood, D. (in revision, 5/2017) Topographic control of steady state erosion at the southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Geophysical Research Letters.

McPhillips, D., Hoke, G. D., Liu-Zeng, J., Bierman, P. R., Rood, D. H. and Niedermann, S. (2016) Dating the incision of the Yangtze River Gorge at the First Bend using three-nuclide burial ages. Geophysical Research Letters. v. 43, p. 101-110. doi:10.1002/2015GL066780

McPhillips, D., Bierman, P. R., Sweeney, M. and Rood, D. R. (2014) Millennial-scale record of landslides in the Andes consistent with earthquake trigger. Nature Geoscience. v. 7, p. 925–930. doi:10.1038/ngeo2278

McPhillips, D., Bierman, P. R. and Rood, D. R. (2013) Landscape response to Pleistocene-Holocene precipitation changes in the Western Cordillera, Peru: ¹⁰Be concentrations in modern and terrace sediments, Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface. v. 118(4), p. 2488–2499. doi:10.1002/2013JF002837

Abstracts

McPhillips, D., Hoke, G. D., Zeng, J. L., Biermam, P. R., Rood, D. H. and Niedermann, S. (2015) Incision of the Yangtze River Gorge at the First Bend determined by three-nuclide burial dating. EOS, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Abstract T24B-02. (download pdf)

McPhillips, D., Hoke, G., Liu-Zeng, J., Bierman, P. R. and Rood, D.H. (2014) Evolution of the paleolandscape(s) of Yunnan, China: implications from ¹⁰Be erosion rates and river channel morphology. EOS, AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA. Abstract EP24B-06. (download pdf)

McPhillips, D., Bierman, P. R. and Rood, D. (2013) Identical erosion rates and processes across the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, Western Cordillera, Peru: single-clast ¹⁰Be results. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Annual meeting, Boulder, CO. v. 45(7), p. 192, Abstract 69-8. (download pdf)

McPhillips, D., Bierman, P. R., Crocker, T. and Rood, D. H. (2012) Fluvial response to precipitation change: ¹⁰Be in paired terrace and modern stream sediment samples, Pisco River, Peru. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Annual meeting, Charlotte, NC. v. 44(7), p. 417, Abstract 166-8. (download pdf)

McPhillips, D., Bierman, P. R., Sweeney, M. R. and Rood, D. H. (2012) Insight into the processes of erosion derived from single-clast ¹⁰Be measurements, Pisco River, Peru. EOS, AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA. Abstract EP53E-1077. (download pdf)