How do landscapes respond to perturbations? What clues do they possess that help us reconstruct their past histories to better inform us about possible future changes?  My consulting, research, and teaching tries to answer these questions by better understanding landscape evolution, adaptability, and resiliency, as well as tackling challenges at the human built-natural landscape interface. 
​                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 -- Jason Barnes, PhD, LG, GISP

     Tools: field data collection, mapping, image analysis, GIS , geospatial analytics, geochronology, isotopes, data visualization,
                   interpretation, and modeling.
     Data: digital topography, satellite images, (paleo)climate, water chemistry, river sediments, geo-thermochronology, cosmogenic
​                   nuclides, geothermics, balanced cross sections, palinspatic reconstructions, and basin sedimentology.

Example project soundbites:

• ​​Testing fault growth models in the Nevada Basin & Range with (U-Th)/He thermochronology
• Developing the go-to, wiki-based environmental remediation info clearinghouse (Environmental Restoration Wiki)
• Simulating cosmogenic nuclide concentrations in fluvial sediments following complex erosion histories in the Himalaya
• Groundwater flow and plume modeling of contaminents at low permeability sites
• Quantifying sediment thermal histories in the US Appalachian basin
• Modeling climate-change driven affects on precipitation phase changes in the Sierra Nevada mountains