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Dick D., Hum K., Smith L., Street K., Hansen J., Schotanus P., Schwarz D., Eyles C., Papangelakis E., Peace A. (2025). Improving accessibility of in-situ paleontological geoheritage via digital conservation: A case-study using table-based LiDAR in the Niagara Aspiring Geopark. Geoheritage, 17, 71. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-025-01127-z

Ramharrack-Maharaj S., Papangelakis E. (2025). The geomorphic sensitivity of rivers in the Spencer Creek watershed and its implications for watershed management in Hamilton, Ontario. Canadian Water Resources Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/07011784.2025.2484179

Papangelakis E., Raso T., Hassan M.A., MacVicar B., Ashmore P. (2025). Sediment dynamics of watershed urbanization and river restoration: Insights from 10 years of research in small gravel-bed rivers. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 50(1), e6047. https://doi.org/10.1002/ESP.6047

Papangelakis E., MacVicar B., Montakhab A., Ashmore P. (2024). Modelling bedload particle travel lengths in rivers with different hydrologic regimes. In Ferreira da Silva A.M., Rennie C., Gaskin S., Lacey J., MacVicar B. (Eds.). River Flow 2022.. CRC Press, London. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003323037-26

Maloney K.M., Peace A.L., Hansen J., Hum K.L, Nielsen J.P., Pearson K.F., Ramharrack-Maharaj S., Schwarz D., Papangelakis E., Eyles C.H. (2023). GeoTrails: Accessible Online Tools for Outreach and Education. Geoscience Canada, 50(3), 73-84. https://doi.org/10.12789/geocanj.2023.50.198

Papangelakis E., Hassan M., Luzi D., Burge L., Peirce S. (2023). Measuring geomorphology in river assessment procedures 2:  Recommendations for supporting river management goals. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA), 59(6), 1360-1382. https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13145

Papangelakis E., Hassan M., Luzi D., Burge L., Peirce S. (2023). Measuring geomorphology in river assessment procedures 1: A global overview of current practices. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA), 59(6), 1342-1359. https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13146

Papangelakis E., MacVicar B., Montakhab A.F., Ashmore P. (2022). Modelling bedload particle travel lengths in rivers with different hydrologic regimes. River Flow 2022: Proceedings of the Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, Kingston and Ottawa, Canada. Taylor & Francis Group, London. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003323037-26
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Papangelakis E., MacVicar B., Montakhab A.F., Ashmore P. (2022). Flow strength and bedload sediment travel distance in gravel-bed rivers . Water Resources Research, 58(7), e2022WR032296. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR032296

Papangelakis E., MacVicar B., Ashmore P., Gingerich D., Bright C. (2022). Testing a watershed-scale stream power index tool for erosion risk assessment in an urban river. Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment, 8(3), 04022008 (Editor's Choice).  https://doi.org/10.1061/JSWBAY.0000989 

MacVicar B., Papangelakis E. (2021). Lost and found: Maximizing the information from a series of bedload tracer surveys. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 47(2), 399-408. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5255

Luzi D., Hassan M. A., Papangelakis E., Eaton B. (2021). Cycles of aggradation and degradation in gravel-bed rivers mediated by sediment storage and morphologic evolution.  Geomorphology, 395(11), 108001. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2021.108001 

Peirce S., MacVicar B., Papangelakis E., Vervynck L., Ashmore P. (2021). Experiments on restoring alluvial cover using gravel augmentation in a variable width channel with irregular meanders. Geomorphology, 379, 107585. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2020.107585

Papangelakis E., Welber M., Ashmore P., MacVicar B. (2021). Controls of alluvial cover formation, morphology, and bedload transport in a sinuous channel with non-alluvial boundary. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 46(2), 399-416.  https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5032

Welber M., Papangelakis E., Ashmore P., MacVicar B. (​2020). Experiments on restoring alluvial cover in straight and meandering rivers using gravel augmentation. ​River Research and Applications, 36(8), 1543-1558. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3699

Cain A., Iannetta M., Muirhead C., Papangelakis E., Raso T., Ashmore P., MacVicar B. (2020). Bedload tracking in urban semi-alluvial creeks: Technological improvements and comparisons of the mean annual particle velocity. River Flow 2020: Proceedings of the International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, Delft, The Netherlands. Taylor & Francis Group, London. https://doi.org/10.1201/b22619

Papangelakis E., MacVicar B. (​​2020). Process-based assessment of success and failure in a constructed riffle-pool river restoration project. River Research and Applications, 36(7), 1222-1241. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3636

Papangelakis E., MacVicar B., Ashmore P. (2019). Bedload sediment transport regimes of semi-alluvial rivers conditioned by watershed urbanization and stormwater management. Water Resources Research, 55(12), 10565-10587. (Editor's Choice Award) https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR025126

Papangelakis E., Muirhead C., Schneider A., MacVicar B. (2019). Synthetic Radio Frequency Identification tracer stones with weighted inner ball for estimating burial depth. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 145(12), 06019014. (Editor's Choice) https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)HY.1943-7900.0001650

Bevan V., MacVicar B., Chapuis M., Ghunowa K., Papangelakis E., Parish, J., Snodgrass W. (2018). Enlargement and evolution of a semi-alluvial creek in response to urbanization. ​Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 43, 1483. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4391

Papangelakis E., Hassan M.A. (2016). The role of channel morphology on the mobility and dispersion of bed sediment in a small gravel-bed stream. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 41(15): 2191-2206. (Editor's Choice)​ https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.3980

McCarthy F., McAndrews J.H., Papangelakis E. (2015). Paleoenvironmental context for early Holocene caribou migration on the Alpena-Amberly Ridge in Sonnenburg E., Lemke AK, O’Shea J (Eds.), Caribou Hunting the in the Upper Great Lakes: Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Paleoenvironmental Perspectives (pp. 13-30), Memoir 57, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. ) Available online. 
Elli Papangelakis, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Fairley Gadsby Research Chair in Fluvial Geomorphology


Office: General Science Building, 231
Email: [email protected]


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McMaster University 

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