Bodo Bookhagen

Assistant Professor

Contacts

Ellison Hall 1832
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060

tel: (805) 893-3568
fax: (805) 893-3146
bodo@geog.ucsb.edu

Personal web site

Team that surveyed the Holocene beach berms located in the eastern part of the Santa Maria Island (from left to right: Manfred Strecker, Helmut Echtler, Bodo Bookhagen, Marcos Moreno, Daniel Melnick). We have used a laser total station with two reflectors and collected nearly 10,000 elevation measurements.

Research Description

Dr. Bookhagen applies a combination of remote sensing, field, laboratory, and numerical methods to understand and quantify climatic and geomorphic processes. More specifically, he relies on optical, active and passive radar satellite imagery to quantify climatic parameters (precipitation, snowcover) to identify their variability through time. In the field, he identifies geomorphic processes and determines some of their rates in the laboratory through cosmogenic nuclide (10Be, 21Ne, 26Al) measurements.

Biography

Dr. Bookhagen comes to UCSB after postdoc at Stanford University.

Selected Publications