PTYS/LPL Faculty

Gould-Simpson 360
Jon Pelletier
Professor
Ph.D., 1997, Cornell
Years with LPL: 1999 to present
Planetary Surfaces, Geosciences, Geography and regional development, Planetary sciences
Landforms on Earth's surface are sculpted by flowing water in the form of rivers and glaciers and by the wind and windborne particles. My work seeks to understand the intrinsic feedbacks between landforms on Earth's surface and the fluid flow above the surface which creates these self-organized patterns. I focus primarily on computer modeling and in the integration of model results with field and remote-sensing data. I have divided my research time roughly equally between fluvial geomorphology, tectonic geomorphology, hillslope/soil geomorphology, eolian geomorphology, and surface processes on Mars. I have also published a bit on Earth's climate system and ecosystem dynamics.
Current Grants
- National Science Foundation Earth Surface Processes Program, Transformative Behavior of Water, Energy and Carbon in the Critical Zone: An Observatory to Quantify Linkages among Ecohydrology, Biogeochemistry, and Landscape Evolution (with 11 co-PIs), $4.3M over five years; 7/1/09-6/30/14.
- ExxonMobil Corporation, Convergent Orogen Systems Analysis (COSA) (PI: Peter DeCelles, 7/1/07-present)
Based on Google Scholar and NASA ADS: NASA ADS Author search: Jon D. Pelletier
Refereed publications: Calendar Year 2017 through June 2020
E.I. Schaefer, J.D. Pelletier, An algorithm to reduce a river network or other graph-like polygon to a set of lines, Computers & Geosciences, 2020, 104554, ISSN 0098-3004, doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2020.104554
Pelletier, J. D., Controls on the hydraulic geometry of alluvial channels: bank stability to gravitational failure, the critical-flow hypothesis, and conservation of mass and energy, Earth Surface Dynamics Discussions,2020, Volume 2020, pages 1-18, doi.org/10.5194/esurf-2020-44
Moravec, B. G., White, A. M., Root, R. A., Sanchez, A., Olshansky, Y., Paras, B. K., Carr, B., McIntosh, J., Pelletier, J. D., Rasmussen, C., Holbrook, W. S., Chorover, J. Resolving Deep Critical Zone Architecture in Complex Volcanic Terrain 2020JGRF..12505189M
Lawrence, D. M., Fisher, R. A., Koven, C. D., Oleson, K. W., Swenson, S. C., Bonan, G., Collier, N., Ghimire, B., van Kampenhout, L., Kennedy, D., Kluzek, E., Lawrence, P. J., Li, F., Li, H., Lombardozzi, D., Riley, W. J., Sacks, W. J., Shi, M., Vertenstein, M., Wieder, W. R., Xu, C., Ali, A. A., Badger, A. M., Bisht, G., van den Broeke, M., Brunke, M. A., Burns, S. P., Buzan, J., Clark, M., Craig, A., Dahlin, K., Drewniak, B., Fisher, J. B., Flanner, M., Fox, A. M., Gentine, P., Hoffman, F., Keppel-Aleks, G., Knox, R., Kumar, S., Lenaerts, J., Leung, L. R., Lipscomb, W. H., Lu, Y., Pandey, A., Pelletier, J. D., Perket, J., Randerson, J. T., Ricciuto, D. M., Sanderson, B. M., Slater, A., Subin, Z. M., Tang, J., Thomas, R. Q., Val Martin, M., Zeng, X. The Community Land Model Version 5: Description of New Features, Benchmarking, and Impact of Forcing Uncertainty 2019JAMES..11.4245L
Williams, Z. C., Pelletier, J. D., Meixner, T. Self-Affine Fractal Spatial and Temporal Variability of the San Pedro River, Southern Arizona 2019JGRF..124.1540W
Fan, Y., Clark, M., Lawrence, D. M., Swenson, S., Band, L. E., Brantley, S. L., Brooks, P. D., Dietrich, W. E., Flores, A., Grant, G., Kirchner, J. W., Mackay, D. S., McDonnell, J. J., Milly, P. C. D., Sullivan, P. L., Tague, C., Ajami, H., Chaney, N., Hartmann, A., Hazenberg, P., McNamara, J., Pelletier, J., Perket, J., Rouholahnejad-Freund, E., Wagener, T., Zeng, X., Beighley, E., Buzan, J., Huang, M., Livneh, B., Mohanty, B. P., Nijssen, B., Safeeq, M., Shen, C., van Verseveld, W., Volk, J., Yamazaki, D. Hillslope Hydrology in Global Change Research and Earth System Modeling 2019WRR....55.1737F
Shepard, C., Pelletier, J. D., Schaap, M. G., Rasmussen, C. Signatures of Obliquity and Eccentricity in Soil Chronosequences 2018GeoRL..4511147S
Field, J. P., Pelletier, J. D. Controls on the aerodynamic roughness length and the grain-size dependence of aeolian sediment transport 2018ESPL...43.2616F
Pelletier, J. D. Controls on Yardang Development and Morphology: 2. Numerical Modeling 2018JGRF..123..723P
Pelletier, J. D., Kapp, P. A., Abell, J., Field, J. P., Williams, Z. C., Dorsey, R. J. Controls on Yardang Development and Morphology: 1. Field Observations and Measurements at Ocotillo Wells, California 2018JGRF..123..694P
Pelletier, J. D., Barron-Gafford, G. A., Gutiérrez-Jurado, H., Hinckley, E.-L. S., Istanbulluoglu, E., McGuire, L. A., Niu, G.-Y., Poulos, M. J., Rasmussen, C., Richardson, P., Swetnam, T. L., Tucker, G. E. Which way do you lean? Using slope aspect variations to understand Critical Zone processes and feedbacks 2018ESPL...43.1133P
Pelletier, J. D. Quantifying the controls on potential soil production rates: a case study of the San Gabriel Mountains, California 2017ESuD....5..479P
Pelletier, J. D., Swetnam, T. L. Asymmetry of weathering-limited hillslopes: the importance of diurnal covariation in solar insolation and temperature 2017ESPL...42.1408P
McIntosh, J. C., Schaumberg, C., Perdrial, J., Harpold, A., Vázquez-Ortega, A., Rasmussen, C., Vinson, D., Zapata-Rios, X., Brooks, P. D., Meixner, T., Pelletier, J., Derry, L., Chorover, J. Geochemical evolution of the Critical Zone across variable time scales informs concentration-discharge relationships: Jemez River Basin Critical Zone Observatory 2017WRR....53.4169M
Norman, L. M., Sankey, J. B., Dean, D., Caster, J., DeLong, S., DeLong, W., Pelletier, J. D. Quantifying geomorphic change at ephemeral stream restoration sites using a coupled-model approach 2017Geomo.283....1N
van Haren, J., Dontsova, K., Barron-Gafford, G. A., Troch, P. A., Chorover, J., Delong, S. B., Breshears, D. D., Huxman, T. E., Pelletier, J. D., Saleska, S. R., Zeng, X., Ruiz, J. CO2diffusion into pore spaces limits weathering rate of an experimental basalt landscape 2017Geo....45..203V
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Semester | Course | Day/Time | Location | Resources |
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Fall 2021 | PTYS 502-00001 | TTH 12:30-1:45p.m. | Gould-Simpson 213 | |
Fall 2017 | PTYS 502-001 | TTH 9:30-10:45a.m. | Gould-Simpson 209 |