Ranbir Kang

My research focuses on surficial processes related to human impact on fluvial systems, urban hydrology & geomorphic/hydrological sustainability of urban areas, interaction of streams and riparian communities, stream bank erosion, biogeomorphology, and water resources. Trained as an applied geomorphologist with a special interest in urban rivers and human connections in river landscapes, I have research projects in the Shiwalik Foothills of the Indian Himalayas, Central Punjab (India), Washington DC area, Red-bed Plains of Oklahoma, Upper Mississippi Basin, and the Atlanta metropolitan area. My collaborators include geologists, biologists, agricultural engineers, cultural geographers, sociologists, and agricultural geographers. I am always looking for more interdisciplinary connections and new ways of studying river landscapes and communities with different methodologies. My research projects involve a suite of geomorphic techniques along with environmental statistics, GIS, terrestrial Earth Observation/Remote Sensing, and a variety of field methods. Currently, I am also involved with various applications of terrestrial LiDAR in fluvial research at high spatial precision. My research projects cover the following areas of surficial processes: 1. Urban hydrology (River Science + Urban Geography + Economics); 2. Stream bank erosion (River Science + Plant Biology); 3. Urban river restoration (River Science + Sociology + Public Policy); 4. Effects of check dams (River Science + Social Geography); 5. Point cloud analysis and terrestrial LiDAR application (River Science/Fluvial Geomorphology + Surveying/Civil Engineering); 6. Water resource conservation; and 7. Fluvial geomorphology.