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sediment + landscapes

at human & geologic timescales

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Susannah M. Morey

Assistant Professor | Vanderbilt University

I am fluvial geomophologist interested in the role that sediment plays in shaping landscapes both at human and geologic timescales. I do this through the lens of studying catastrophic events that instantaneously (geologically speaking, at least) transport sediment across landscapes.

Outburst floods and landslides are my favorite!

In August 2025, I started as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Vanderbilt University.

If you are are a prospective graduate student or postdoc interested in projects about sediment in mountain landscapes, please reach out!

active research

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landslides at geologic timescales

collaborators:

Greg Tucker, Irina Overeem, Benjamin Campforts, Charlie Shobe, Alison Duvall

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the legacy of sediment in the Front Range

collaborators:

Greg Tucker, Irina Overeem, Benjamin Campforts, Charlie Shobe, Alison Duvall

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megafloods in the eastern Himalaya

collaborators:

Kate Huntington, Dave Montgomery, Alison Duvall, Charlie Shobe, Karl Lang, Mike Turzewski

As an earth scientist, it is my responsibility to acknowledge that the space I occupy in Tennessee is the ancestral and traditional Lands of the Cherokee and Shawnee peoples. As a new Tennessee resident, I am beginning to learn to recognize, support, and advocate for the Indigenous individuals and communities who live here now, and for those forcibly removed from their Homelands. This statement will be refined as I learn more about the land I now call home and the people who have ancestral and traditional connections to this land.

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