Prof. Gary Parker

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

W. H. JOHNSON PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY

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About

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Universities and Academia

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Technical Committees

Committee Name
Committee on Fluvial Hydraulics
Committee on Ecohydraulics
Committee on Fluid Mechanics

IAHR Position

Committee Name	Position	Start Date	End Date
JHR Editorial Board	Associate Editors	2012-01-01	2024-05-31

My Papers and Presentations

Title	Year
Significance of Time Dependence in the Effect of Wing Dams on Water Levels	2022
Hydraulic resistance in mixed bedrock-alluvial meandering channels	2021
3D Numerical Study on Local Scour Around Spur Dikes with Different Layout Angles	2019
Bankfull Shields number versus slope and grain size	2019
Extended Engelund–Hansen type sediment transport relation for mixtures based on the sand-silt-bed Lower Yellow River, China	2019
The 3D Numerical Study on Flow and Sediment Properties of a River with Grouped Spur Dikes	2018
Closure to “Variable Shields number model for river bankfull geometry: bankfull shear velocity is viscosity-dependent but grain size-independent” by CHUAN LI, MATTHEW J. CZAPIGA, ESTHER C. EKE, ENRICA VIPARELLI, and GARY PARKER, J. Hydraulic Res. 53(1), 2	2016
Variable Shields number model for river bankfull geometry: bankfull shear velocity is viscosity-dependent but grain size-independent	2015
Aquatic interfaces: a hydrodynamic and ecological perspective	2014
Bedform Regime Diagram for Rivers and Turbidity Currents: Conditions for the Formation and Obliteration of Dunes	2013
Investigation of Lutocline Dynamics in a Turbulent Couette Flow: A Simplified Model for Muddy Tidal Inlets	2013
Modeling of Incision of Bedrock Rivers Subject to Temporally Varying Sediment Supply	2013
Modelling deltaic progradation constrained by a moving sediment source	2013
Temporal Change in Bankfull Characteristics of the Yellow River: Single-Thread Versus Multiple-Thread Reach	2013
Co-evolving delta faces under the condition of a moving sediment source	2011
River morphodynamics with creation/consumption of grain size stratigraphy 1: laboratory experiments	2010
River morphodynamics with creation/consumption of grain size stratigraphy 2: numerical model	2010
Aggradational Cyclic Steps: Sedimentary Structures Found in Flume Experiments	2009
Breaching as a Mechanism for Generating Sustained Turbidity Currents	2009
Experimental Evidence for Cyclic Steps Created by Turbidity Currents	2009
The response of turbidity currents to a canyon–fan transition: internal hydraulic jumps and depositional signatures	2006
Progradational sand-mud deltas in lakes and reservoirs. Part 1. Theory and numerical modeling	2003
Progradational sand-mud deltas in lakes and reservoirs. Part 2. Experiment and numerical simulation	2003
The arrested gravel front: stable gravel-sand transitions in rivers Part 1: Simplified analytical solution	1998
The arrested gravel front: stable gravel-sand transitions in rivers Part 2: General numerical solution	1998
Linear Analysis of Coupled Equations for Sediment Transport	1997
Numerical simulation of aggradation and downstream fining	1996
Transfer function for the deposition of poorly sorted gravel in response to streambed aggradation	1996

My Videos

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IAHR Awards

IAHR Awards	Date
M. Selim Yalin Lifetime Achievement Award	2007
Harold Jan Schoemaker Award	2003
Harold Jan Schoemaker Award	1999
Arthur Thomas Ippen Award	1995