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Scott Dusterhoff is a Senior Scientist and Managing Director of the Resilient Landscapes Program at the San Francisco Estuary Institute. He is an experienced geomorphologist with a background in fluvial geomorphology, watershed hydrology, and estuarine/tidal wetland dynamics. For more than two decades, Scott has been working in coastal and upland watersheds throughout California, Oregon, and Washington, as well as in the Mid-Atlantic, on projects that use in-depth scientific investigations to inform sustainable ecosystem management approaches. He specializes in understanding the impacts of land disturbance and flow regulation on geomorphic processes and aquatic habitat for a variety of endangered species. He has extensive experience using a combination of field-based data, numerical modeling, and geospatial tools to characterize fluvial and coastal sediment transport dynamics and hydrologic/hydraulic processes. Scott received a B.S in Geology from the University of Maryland and an M.S. in Environmental Sciences and Hydrology from the University of Virginia.
Highlighted Work at SFEI
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Projects
Conceptual Understanding of Fine Sediment Transport in San Francisco Bay
Central California Coast Steelhead Regional Temperature Study
Landscape Vision for Calabazas Creek, San Tomas Aquino Creek and Pond A8
Historical Ecology and Landscape Change in the Central Laguna de Santa Rosa
Russian River Watershed Projects at the San Francisco Estuary Institute
Lower Laguna de Santa Rosa and Mark West Creek: Changes in Historical Channel Alignment
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