BRETT EATON


recent journal articles

  • Eaton BC, Church M. 2011. A rational sediment transport scaling relation based on dimensionless stream power. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms: 36(7): 901-910

  • Eaton BC, Moore RD, Giles TR. 2010. Forest fire, bank strength and channel instability: the “unusual” response of Fishtrap Creek, British Columbia. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms: 35(1): 1167-1183.

  • Eaton BC, Millar RG, Davidson S. 2010. Channel patterns: braided, anabranching and single-thread. Geomorphology: 120: 353-364. note: this version corrects several formatting errors that persist in the official published version of this paper

  • Eaton BC, Andrews CAE, Giles TR, Phillips JC. 2010. Wildfire, morphologic change and bed material transport at Fishtrap Creek, British Columbia. Geomorphology: 118: 409-424.

  • Phillips JC, Eaton BC. 2009. Detecting the timing of morphologic change using stage-discharge regressions: a case study at Fishtrap Creek, British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Water Resources Journal: 34(3): 285-300.

  • Eaton BC, Giles TR. 2009. Assessing the effect of vegetation-related bank strength on channel morphology and stability in gravel bed streams using numerical models. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms: 34: 712-713.

  • Ashmore PE, Biron PM, Eaton B, Rennie C. 2009. Recent Canadian research on fluvial sediment transport and morphology since 2003. Canadian Water Resources Journal: 34(2): 149-162.

  • Eaton BC, Church M. 2009. Channel stability in bedload dominated streams with non-erodible banks: inferences from experiments in a sinuous flume. Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 109(F03011): doi: 10.1029/2007JF000902.

  • Eaton BC, Hassan MA, Phillips JC,. 2008. A method for using magnetic tracer stones to monitor changes in stream channel dynamics. Streamline, 12(1): 22-28.

  • Phillips JC, Eaton BC. 2008. Techniques for monitoring channel disturbance: a case study of Fishtrap Creek, British Columbia. Streamline, 12(1): 16-21.

  • Eaton BC. 2008. Potential channel changes following wildfire: applying the UBC Regime Model to Fishtrap Creek, BC. Streamline, 12(1): 28-33.

  • Eaton BC, Church M. 2007. Predicting downstream hydraulic geometry: A test of rational regime theory. Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 112(F03025): doi: 10.1029/2006JF000734.

  • Eaton BC, Church M, Davies TRH. 2006. A conceptual model for meander initiation in bedload-dominated streams. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 31: 875-891.

  • Eaton BC. 2006. Bank stability analysis for regime models of vegetated gravel bed rivers. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 31: 1438-1444.

  • Eaton BC, Millar RG. 2004. Optimal alluvial channel width under a bank stability constraint. Geomorphology, 62: 35-45.

  • Eaton BC, Church M, Millar RG. 2004. Rational regime model of alluvial channel morphology and response. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 29(4): 511-529.

  • Eaton BC, Church M. 2004. A graded stream response relation for bedload dominated streams. Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 109(F03011): doi: 10.1029/2003JF000062.

  • Eaton B, Church M, Ham D. 2002. Scaling and regionalization of flood flows in British Columbia, Canada. Hydrological Processes, 16(16): 3245-3263.

  • Eaton BC, Lapointe MF. 2001. Effects of large floods on sediment transport and reach morphology in the cobble-bed Sainte Marguerite River. Geomorphology, 40(3-4): 291-309.

  • Lapointe MF, Eaton BC, Driscoll S, Latulippe C. 2000. Modelling the probability of salmonid egg pocket scour due to floods. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science, 57: 1120-1130.


conference proceedings

  • Hassan MA, Smith BJ, Hogan DL, Luzi DS, Zimmermann AE, Eaton BC. 2008, Sediment storage and transport in coarse bed streams: scale considerations, in Habersack, H., Piegay, H., and Rinaldi, M., eds., Gravel-Bed Rivers VI: From Process Understanding to River Restoration, Elsevier, p. 473-496.

  • Eaton, BC. “Modeling stream channel response to changes in sediment supply using physical models”. Fifth International Symposium on Environmental Hydraulics. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, December 4-7, 2007.


book chapters

  • Eaton BC. in press. Chapter 9.18: Hydraulic Geometry. In Wohl EE (ed.), Treatise on Geomorphology, vol. 9, Fluvial Geomorphology, Elsevier, Oxford, UK.

  • Eaton, BC and RD Moore. in press. "Chapter 4: Regional Hydrology". Watershed Management: Compendium of Forest Hydrology and Geomorphology in British Columbia. Ed. Robin Pike. Victoria: Ministry of Forests.


posters

  • Luzi DS, Eaton BC. December, 2009. Morphodynamics of a steep gravel bed stream: inferences from a Froude-scaled experimental river. American Geophysical Union 2009 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California.

  • Phillips JC, Eaton BC, Giles T. December, 2006. Dynamics of a gravel bed stream in transition: Fishtrap Creek, British Columbia. American Geophysical Union 2006 Fall Meeting . San Francisco, California, United States.

  • Eaton, BC. Dec, 2004. Toward a theory of hydraulic geometry: the principle of flow resistance for the fluvial system (H43A-0351). American Geophysical Union 2004 Fall Meeting. San Francisco, California, United States.



Brett Eaton, Ph.D., P.Geo.

Associate Professor
Department of Geography
The University of British Columbia


Contact

Phone: 604.822.2257

Fax: 604.822.6150

Office: rm 232, Geography

E-mail: brett (dot) eaton (at) ubc (dot) ca

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