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Journal Publications

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. Available online. 

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. 

Conference Presentations

Papangelakis E., Raso T, MacVicar B., Hassan M.A. (2023, January). The management of small gravel-bed rivers in urban environments: Insights from 10 years of research. Gravel Bed Rivers 9, Villarrica, Chile.

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, MacVicar B., Montakhab A.F., Ashmore P. (2022, November). Modelling bedload particle travel lengths in rivers with different hydrologic regimes. Oral presentation. River Flow 2022: International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, Kingston and Ottawa, ON.

Papangelakis E., Burge L., Luzi D., Hassan M., Mueller L., Kenyon T., MacVicar B. (2022, August). Using a scaled model to assess the performance of the Penticton Creek Restoration Project, British Columbia. Oral presentation. National Stream Restoration Conference, Nashville, TN. ​

Papangelakis E., Welber, M., Ashmore P., MacVicar B. (2020, December). First order control of alluvial cover morphology by channel sinuosity and sediment supply rate. Oral presentation: EP008-01. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. 

Papangelakis E., MacVicar B., Ashmore P. (2019, December). Bedload transport dynamics in rivers conditioned by urbanization and stormwater management. eLightning presentation: EP22B-09. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

MacVicar B., Papangelakis E., Ghunowa K. (2019, May). Local and network scale changes to sediment transport in urban river channels. Oral presentation. 2nd Annual Open Science Meeting, Saskatoon, SK. 

Papangelakis E., Montakhab A., MacVicar B., Ashmore P. (2018, December). Predicting bedload sediment transport in urban rivers. eLightning presentation: EP52C-21. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Washington, DC.
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Papangelakis E. (2018, May). Linking urban hydromodification to bedload sediment transport. Oral presentation. 6thConference on Natural Channel Systems, Guelph, ON.

Papangelakis E., Bevan V., Ghunowa K., MacVicar B. (2017, May). 60 years of channel evolution in a suburban semi-alluvial creek: Wilket Creek, Toronto. Oral presentation. Canadian Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC.

Papangelakis E. (2016, September). Bedload transport in urbanized creeks with and without stormwater management. Oral presentation. 5th Conference on Natural Channel Systems, Niagara Falls, ON. 

Papangelakis E., Huynh P., Raso T., Krick J., Murphy S., Ashmore P., Roy A, MacVicar B. (2016, May). Tracking stones: using tracers to measure and characterize sediment transport in streams. Oral presentation. 5th Water Resources Engineering Graduate Student Research Symposium, Ottawa, ON.  

Papangelakis E., Raso T., Krick J., Ashmore P., Roy A., MacVicar B. (2016, April). Year 1: An (nearly) ideal test of sediment transport response to urban hydrology in the GTA. Oral presentation. “From sources to outlets: Understanding and protecting streams in the Greater Toronto Area” conference and workshop, Toronto, ON. 

Papangelakis E. (2014, December). Bed morphology and sediment dispersion: a particle tracing study in the field and flume. Poster presentation: EP33C-3657. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

McCarthy F., McAndrews J.H., Papangelakis E. (2015, May). Drought in the Lake Huron basin – causes and implications. Oral presentation. International Association for Great Lakes Research 57th Annual Conference on Great Lakes Research, Hamilton, ON. 

Papangelakis E. (2012, August). The influence of confluences on the morphology of river channels in Southern Ontario. Oral presentation. Annual CGCS Conference, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.

Upcoming Publications

Papangelakis E., MacVicar B., Montakhab A.F., Ashmore P. (in press). 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.

Papangelakis E., Hassan M., Luzi D., Burge L., Peirce S. (under review). Measuring geomorphology in river assessment procedures 1: A global overview of current practices. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA)

Papangelakis E., Hassan M., Luzi D., Burge L., Peirce S. (under review). Measuring geomorphology in river assessment procedures 2:  Recommendations for supporting river management goals. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA)
Elli Papangelakis, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Fairley Gadsby Research Chair in Fluvial Geomorphology


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Email: papangee@mcmaster.ca


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