Dr. David Rowbotham
Areas of Specialization:
Terrain analysis; natural hazards; geomorphology; geographic information systems
Research Interests:
Hazardous slope processes; mountains; digital elevation models; Western Cordillera; Himalaya
Current & Future Research:
Debris flow hazards using analysis of digital elevation models
Routing of phosphorus through the Wasi River watershed
Rowbotham, D. N., de Scally, F., and J. Louis (2005) The identification of debris torrent basins using morphometric measures derived within a GIS. Geografiska Annaler87A(4): 527-537.
De Scally, F., Mattson, L.E., and D. N. Rowbotham (2003/04). Five Mile Creek : the 1999 debris flow.Western Geography13/14: 1-18.
Jones, N. and D. N. Rowbotham (2000/01) Glaciological and historical analyses at the Boundary Glacier, Canadian Rocky Mountains.Western Geography10/11: 30-42.
Rowbotham, D. N. and D. Dudycha (1998). GIS modelling of regional slope stability in Phewa Tal watershed, Nepal. Geomorphology 26 (1-3): 151-170.