Patrick Belmont
Postdoctoral Research Associate  
University of Minnesota, SAFL
Mississippi River at Third Avenue SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414-2196  
Email: belmont (HINT: rhymes with cat, hat and bat) umn (dot) edu  
Curriculum Vita    
     
 

National Center for
Earth-surface Dynamics

Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory
University of Minnesota
Department of Geology and Geophysics
 
  My Research Interests:  
 

I am a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Minnesota working with the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics. My primary research interest is watershed science, which encompasses aspects of geology and ecology. More specifically, my research is dedicated to understanding how landscapes change over long and short timescales and how living organisms influence, and are influenced by, those changes.

I am currently working on three projects:

1) Developing an integrated sediment budget for the Le Sueur River, southern Minnesota

2) Using 10-Be to estimate erosion rates and deconstruct erosional processes in the talus-dominated Lemhi Range, eastern Idaho

3) Calibrating the molecular clock for Oncorhynchus clarki (cutthroat trout) in the Clearwater River, western Washington

 
 

Recently completed work:

1) 2004 - 2007 Basin-wide erosion rates and landscape evolution in the Olympic Peninsula, western Washinton state

 

 
Professional Society Memberships:    
American Geophysical Union      
Geological Society of America      
North American Benthological Society      
Ecological Society of America      
       
       
Courses Taught:      
Lehigh University Environmental Science Field Course (for majors)    
Lehigh University Geology Field Course (for majors)    
The Science of Environmental Issues (for non-majors)    
Global Environmental Change (for non-majors)    
Environmental Systems and Solutions (for non-majors)    
       
       
Select Recent Publications:      
Belmont, P., Morris, D.P., Pazzaglia, F.J., and Peters, S.C. (submitted) Penetration of ultraviolet radiation in streams of eastern Pennsylvania: environmental controls and the role of suspended particulates. submitted to Aquatic Sciences.  
   
Gran, K., Belmont, P., Day, S., Jennings, C., Johnson, A., Lauer, W., Parker, G., Perg, L., Wilcock, P., (submitted) Evaluating sediment sources, storage, and policy implications in the agricultural Le Sueur River watershed, central Minnesota.submitted to GSA Special Paper on Management and Restoration of Fluvial Systems  
   
Belmont, P., Pazzaglia, F.J., Gosse, J.C. (2007) Cosmogenic 10-Be as a Tracer for Hillslope and Channel Sediment Dynamics in the Clearwater River Basin, Western Washington State. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 264: 123-135. [PDF]  
       
Belmont, P., (2007) Landscape Evolution and Aquatic Ecology: Long-term Sediment Dynamics and Landscape Influences in Stream Ecosystems. Doctoral Dissertation, Lehigh University. [PDF]  
       
Belmont, P., Hargreaves, B.R., Morris, D.P., Williamson, C.E. (2007) Estimating attenuation of ultraviolet radiation in streams: field and laboratory methods. 83: 1-9. [PDF]  
       
Hartman, P., Belmont, P., Zuber, S., Ishii, N., Anderson, J. (2003) Relationship between catalase and life span in recombinant inbred strains of Caenorhabditis elegans. Journal of Nematology. 35 (3) 314-319. [PDF]  
       
Belmont, P. (2003) An initial inspection of the transparency of streams to ultraviolet radiation in 16 small Pennsylvania watersheds. M.S. Thesis, Lehigh University. [PDF]