Amy McDonough (Church)

Amy McDonough (Church) came to Vermont and was the first to study alluvial fans here. Her work catalyzed several subsequent studies and demonstrated the importance of human landscape change in controlling fan sedimentation rate.

MS Thesis, Geology (University of Vermont, 1997)

Fan deposits in northwestern Vermont: Depositional activity and aggradation rates over the last 9,500 years
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Honors and Awards

Geological Society of America, Howard Award, 1995

Undergraduate Degree

Miami University (Ohio), B.A. Geology, 1993

Current Position and Contact Information (4/2008)

Senior Hydrogeologist
Tighe & Bond, Inc.
53 Southampton Road
Westfield, MA 01085

Refereed Papers

Bierman, P. R., Lini, A., Davis, P. T., Southon, J., Baldwin, L., Church, A. and Zehfuss, P. (1997) Post-glacial ponds and alluvial fans: recorders of Holocene landscape history. GSA Today. v. 7, p. 1-8. (download pdf)

Clapp, E., Bierman, P. R., Church, A. B., Larsen, P. L., Schuck, R. A. and Hanzas, J. P. (1996) Teaching geohydrology through analysis of groundwater resources and glacial geology, Northwestern Vermont. Journal of Geoscience Education. v. 44, p. 45-51. doi:10.5408/1089-9995-44.1.45

Abstracts

Baldwin, L., Bierman, P. R., Schwartz, A., Church, A. and Larsen, P. (1995) The effects of colonial disturbance and subsequent reforestation on the Vermont landscape. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Annual meeting, New Orleans, LA. v. 27, p. 28. (download pdf)

Church, T. M. and Bierman, P. R. (1995) Episodic fan aggradation in the Winooski drainage basin, northwestern Vermont. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Annual meeting, New Orleans, LA. v. 27, p. A-36. (download pdf)

Church, A. and Bierman, P. R. (1994) Post-glacial landscape change in northern Vermont: Erosion and sedimentation in the Winooski Basin. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Annual meeting, Seattle, WA. v. 26, p. A-301. (download pdf)