Sarah Peirce

Sarah Peirce joined the U of T faculty at the St. George Campus as a CLTA Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream in 2019. Sarah teaches the following physical geography courses that have recently migrated to the Department of Earth Sciences under the "JEG" code:

• JEG201 - Geomorphology (formerly GGR201)
• JEG205 -  Introduction to Soil Science (formerly GGR205)
• JEG301 - Fluvial Geomorphology (formerly GGR301)
• JEG308 - Canadian Arctic and Subarctic Environments (formerly GGR308)
• JEG305 - Biogeography (formerly GGR305)
• JEG406 - Geomorphology and the Anthropocene (formerly GGR406)

Before teaching at U of T, Sarah was a Mitacs Elevate postdoctoral fellow investigating the performance and geomorphic monitoring practices of natural channel design projects in Southern Ontario. Sarah’s previous postdoctoral and Ph.D. work at the University of Waterloo and Western University, respectively, made use of physical models of rivers to examine sediment transport and morphological change.

Publications 

 Papangelakis, E., Hassan, M. A., Luzi, D., Burge, L.M., & Peirce, S. (2023). Measuring geomorphology in river assessment procedures 2: Recommendations for supporting river management goals. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 59: 360–1382 DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.13145

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

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

Leduc, P., Peirce, S., and Ashmore, P. (2019) Short Communication: Challenges and Applications of Structure-from-Motion Photogrammetry in a Physical Model of a Braided River. Earth Surface Dynamics. Vol. 7 (1): 97-106. DOI: doi.org/10.5194/esurf-7-97-2019.

Peirce, S., Ashmore, P., and Leduc, P. (2018) Evolution of Grain Size Distributions and Bed Mobility during Hydrographs in Gravel-Bed Braided Rivers. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Vol. 44 (1): 752-765. DOI: 10.1002/esp.4511.

Peirce, S., Ashmore, P., and Leduc, P. (2018) The variability in the morphological active width: results from physical models of gravel-bed braided rivers. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Vol. 43 (11): 2371-2383. DOI:10.1002/esp.4400.