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Profile
| Academic position | Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader |
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| Research fields | Geology |
| Keywords | Floods, Flood frequency, Hydrology, Geomorphology, River engineering |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Davis |
| Institution | University of California, Davis |
| Institute | Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Center for Watershed Sciences |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Rienk R. Ploeg | Institut für Bodenkunde (IFBK), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover |
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| Prof. Dr. Helge Bormann | Institut für Biologie und Umweltwissenschaften (IBU), Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/01/2003 |
Programme(s)
| 2002 | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Nicholas Pinter's research focuses on magnification of flood hazard as a result of man made and natural changes to river systems. On the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers he has made seminal contributions by documenting the worsening of flooding over time due to river engineering and how theses trend can be manifested in flood-frequency calculations. His approach can be considered as an independent test of model-driven analyses and documents how overreliance on structural flood protection may lead to flood hazard misinterpretations. |