William Ouimet

Associate Professor

Department of Geography, Sustainability, Community, and Urban Studies

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Education

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2007)

Areas of Specialty

Earth System Science

Current Research Interests

Erosion Processes

Landform & Landscape Evolution

Selected Publications

Dethier, D., Ouimet, W., Murphy, S, Kotikian, M., Wicherski, W. and Samuels, R., 2017, Investigating Holocene and Anthropocene landscape change and the legacy of 19th and 20th century mining using geomorphic and stratigraphic evidence in Fourmile Canyon, Colorado, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, In Press.

Johnson, K and Ouimet, W., 2016, Physical properties and spatial controls of stone walls in the northeastern USA: implications for Anthropocene studies of 17th to early 20th century agriculture, Anthropocene, 15: 22-36. doi: 10.1016/j.ancene.2016.07.001

Raab, T., Hirsch, F., Ouimet, W., Johnson, K., Dethier, D. and Raab, A., 2016, Architecture of Relict Charcoal Hearths (RCHs) in Northwestern Connecticut, USA, GeoArchaeology, 32 (4): 502-510. doi: 10.1002/gea.21614

Hsu, W.H., Byrne, T., Ouimet, W., Lee, Y.H, Chen, Y.G., Van Soest, M. and Hodges, K., 2016, Pleistocene onset of rapid, punctuated exhumation in the eastern Central Range of the Taiwan orogenic belt, Geology, 44 (9): 719-722. doi: 10.1130/G37914.1

Ouimet, W., Dethier, D., Bierman, P., Wyshnytzky, C., Shea, N., and Rood, D.H., 2015, Spatial and temporal variations in meteoric 10Be inventories and long-term deposition rates, Colorado Front Range. Quaternary Science Reviews, 109: 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.11.003