Geology & Planetary Science
412 SRCC
4107 O'Hara Street
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

412-624-8766

dbain@pitt.edu

Degree

PhD in Geography and Environmental Engineering (2004)
Johns Hopkins University
Curriculum Vitae

Research Areas

• Catchment hydrology
• Trace metal biogeochemistry
• Urban and riparian systems
• Fluvial geomorphology

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Courses Offered

• GEOL 1051 Groundwater Geology
  Basic physical and chemical properties of groundwater. For upper level undergraduates. Offered every spring term.
• GEOL 2054 Soils: Geobiochemical Landscapes
  Fundamentals of soil formation, and the interactions of soil with coupled geological, biological, and chemical systems. Graduate level. Offered alternate years.

Representative Publications

Bain, D.J., and Brush, G.S. (2008) Gradients, property templates, and land use change. Professional Geographer 60 (2).

Bain, D.J., and Brush, G.S. (2005) Early chromite mining and agricultural clearance: Opportunities for the investigation of agricultural sediment dynamics in the Eastern Piedmont (USA). American Journal of Science 305, 957-981.

Bain, D.J., and Brush, G.S. (2004) Placing the pieces: Reconstructing the original property mosaic in a warrant and patent watershed. Landscape Ecology 19, 843-856.

Groffman, P.M., Bain, D.J., Band, L.E., Belt, K.T. Brush, G.S., Grove, J.M., Pouyat, R.V. Yesilonis, I.C. and Zipperer, W.C. (2003) Down by the riverside: urban riparian ecology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1, 315-321.

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