Aerial view of the Iron Gate Dam and Hatchery along the Klamath River near Hornbrook, California. A series of hydroelectric facilities (JC Boyle, Copco No. 1, Copco No. 2, and Iron Gate) separate the Klamath River into upper and lower basins.
Jennifer A. Curtis
Jennifer A. Curtis - Research Geologist - California Water Science Center
Jenny Curtis is a geomorphologist and her research focuses on climate and human impacts in rivers and estuaries. Her expertise spans a broad spectrum of topics: streamflow, floods, and drought; groundwater and surface water interactions; fluvial sediment transport and sediment budgets; sediment source analysis including sediment fingerprinting; and the effects of water management, land use, and climate change.
Science and Products
Klamath Dam Removal Studies
The influence of geomorphology on sediment accretion and soil carbon development in a restored tidal wetland, White Slough, Humboldt Bay National Refuge, CA
Improving Water Resilience and Availability Through Culturally Prescribed Fires as a Management Tool on Yurok Tribal Lands
Scotts Creek Nutrient Erosion Study, Lake County, California
Channel Complexity Synthesis - Trinity River Restoration Program
Sediment Mobility and Riparian Corridor Assessment, Klamath River, CA
Examining Erosion at Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park, a Sierra Nevada Gold Mine
Impact of Climate Change on Future Suitability of the Sierra Nevada for Wolverines
Sedimentation in the Lower Laguna-Mark West Drainage
Sediment supply, salt marsh monitoring, and the carbon budget of Humboldt Bay, CA
Assessing Geomorphic Change in Support of Science-Based Restoration, Trinity River, CA
Geospatial mapping products derived from 2018, 2020, and 2022 NAIP aerial imagery for the Scotts Creek Watershed, Lake County, CA
Sediment grain-size data from the Klamath estuary, California
Point cloud, digital surface model (DSM), and orthoimagery derived from historical aerial imagery of the South Cow Mountain Recreational Area, Lake County, California, May 27, 1977
Baseline High Resolution Land Cover Map for the Mainstem Klamath River Corridor Downstream of Iron Gate Dam, Klamath River, CA, 2018
Baseline geomorphic map and land-surface parameters, derived from integrated topobathymetric elevation data, for the mainstem Klamath River corridor downstream of Iron Gate Dam, CA, 2018
Salt marsh monitoring during water years 2013 to 2019, Humboldt Bay, CA – water levels, surface deposition, elevation change, and carbon storage
Model Archive Summary for a Suspended-Sediment Concentration Surrogate Regression Model for Station 405219124085601; Mad River Slough near Arcata, CA
Model Archive Summary for a Suspended-Sediment Concentration Surrogate Regression Model for Station 404038124131801; Hookton Slough near Loleta, CA
Sediment grain-size data from the Klamath estuary, California
Airborne thermal infrared imagery and longitudinal stream temperature profiles, Hat Creek, California, August 2018
This dataset includes georeferenced high-resolution, airborne thermal infrared (TIR) imagery, a polyline shapefile of the channel centerline, and a tabular file with longitudinal stream temperature profiles for Hat Creek, a tributary to the Pit River located in northeastern California.
Database of Geomorphic Features, Klamath River, California 2010
Sediment mobility and river corridor assessment for a 140-km segment of the mainstem Klamath River below Iron Gate Dam, CA - vegetation mapping
Aerial view of the Iron Gate Dam and Hatchery along the Klamath River near Hornbrook, California. A series of hydroelectric facilities (JC Boyle, Copco No. 1, Copco No. 2, and Iron Gate) separate the Klamath River into upper and lower basins.
A large sediment accretion wave along a northern California littoral cell
UAS mapping of surface roughness and digital grain size to assess pre-dam removal baseline conditions along the mainstem Klamath River corridor below Iron Gate Dam, California
A summary of water-quality and salt marsh monitoring, Humboldt Bay, California
Amplified impact of climate change on fine-sediment delivery to a subsiding coast, Humboldt Bay, California
Sediment mobility and river corridor assessment for a 140-kilometer segment of the main-stem Klamath River below Iron Gate Dam, California
Regional patterns in hydrologic response, a new three-component metric for hydrograph analysis and implications for ecohydrology, Northwest Volcanic Aquifer Study Area, USA
Quantifying erosion rates by using terrestrial laser scanning at Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park, Nevada County, California, 2014–17
Refining the Baseline Sediment Budget for the Klamath River, California
Four dams in the Klamath River Hydroelectric Project (KHP) in Oregon and California (Figure 1) are currently scheduled to be removed over a period of a few weeks or months, beginning in January 2021. The Klamath dam removal will be the largest in the world by almost all measures, and is an unprecedented opportunity to advance science of river responses to such events. The KHP contains approximatel
A multi-scale soil moisture monitoring strategy for California: Design and validation
Geothermal implications of a refined composition-age geologic map for the volcanic terrains of southeast Oregon, northeast California, and southwest Idaho, USA
Assessing geomorphic change along the Trinity River downstream from Lewiston Dam, California, 1980-2011
Science and Products
Klamath Dam Removal Studies
The influence of geomorphology on sediment accretion and soil carbon development in a restored tidal wetland, White Slough, Humboldt Bay National Refuge, CA
Improving Water Resilience and Availability Through Culturally Prescribed Fires as a Management Tool on Yurok Tribal Lands
Scotts Creek Nutrient Erosion Study, Lake County, California
Channel Complexity Synthesis - Trinity River Restoration Program
Sediment Mobility and Riparian Corridor Assessment, Klamath River, CA
Examining Erosion at Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park, a Sierra Nevada Gold Mine
Impact of Climate Change on Future Suitability of the Sierra Nevada for Wolverines
Sedimentation in the Lower Laguna-Mark West Drainage
Sediment supply, salt marsh monitoring, and the carbon budget of Humboldt Bay, CA
Assessing Geomorphic Change in Support of Science-Based Restoration, Trinity River, CA
Geospatial mapping products derived from 2018, 2020, and 2022 NAIP aerial imagery for the Scotts Creek Watershed, Lake County, CA
Sediment grain-size data from the Klamath estuary, California
Point cloud, digital surface model (DSM), and orthoimagery derived from historical aerial imagery of the South Cow Mountain Recreational Area, Lake County, California, May 27, 1977
Baseline High Resolution Land Cover Map for the Mainstem Klamath River Corridor Downstream of Iron Gate Dam, Klamath River, CA, 2018
Baseline geomorphic map and land-surface parameters, derived from integrated topobathymetric elevation data, for the mainstem Klamath River corridor downstream of Iron Gate Dam, CA, 2018
Salt marsh monitoring during water years 2013 to 2019, Humboldt Bay, CA – water levels, surface deposition, elevation change, and carbon storage
Model Archive Summary for a Suspended-Sediment Concentration Surrogate Regression Model for Station 405219124085601; Mad River Slough near Arcata, CA
Model Archive Summary for a Suspended-Sediment Concentration Surrogate Regression Model for Station 404038124131801; Hookton Slough near Loleta, CA
Sediment grain-size data from the Klamath estuary, California
Airborne thermal infrared imagery and longitudinal stream temperature profiles, Hat Creek, California, August 2018
This dataset includes georeferenced high-resolution, airborne thermal infrared (TIR) imagery, a polyline shapefile of the channel centerline, and a tabular file with longitudinal stream temperature profiles for Hat Creek, a tributary to the Pit River located in northeastern California.
Database of Geomorphic Features, Klamath River, California 2010
Sediment mobility and river corridor assessment for a 140-km segment of the mainstem Klamath River below Iron Gate Dam, CA - vegetation mapping
Aerial view of the Iron Gate Dam and Hatchery along the Klamath River near Hornbrook, California. A series of hydroelectric facilities (JC Boyle, Copco No. 1, Copco No. 2, and Iron Gate) separate the Klamath River into upper and lower basins.
Aerial view of the Iron Gate Dam and Hatchery along the Klamath River near Hornbrook, California. A series of hydroelectric facilities (JC Boyle, Copco No. 1, Copco No. 2, and Iron Gate) separate the Klamath River into upper and lower basins.
A large sediment accretion wave along a northern California littoral cell
UAS mapping of surface roughness and digital grain size to assess pre-dam removal baseline conditions along the mainstem Klamath River corridor below Iron Gate Dam, California
A summary of water-quality and salt marsh monitoring, Humboldt Bay, California
Amplified impact of climate change on fine-sediment delivery to a subsiding coast, Humboldt Bay, California
Sediment mobility and river corridor assessment for a 140-kilometer segment of the main-stem Klamath River below Iron Gate Dam, California
Regional patterns in hydrologic response, a new three-component metric for hydrograph analysis and implications for ecohydrology, Northwest Volcanic Aquifer Study Area, USA
Quantifying erosion rates by using terrestrial laser scanning at Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park, Nevada County, California, 2014–17
Refining the Baseline Sediment Budget for the Klamath River, California
Four dams in the Klamath River Hydroelectric Project (KHP) in Oregon and California (Figure 1) are currently scheduled to be removed over a period of a few weeks or months, beginning in January 2021. The Klamath dam removal will be the largest in the world by almost all measures, and is an unprecedented opportunity to advance science of river responses to such events. The KHP contains approximatel