John Buffington and I just returned from an 11 day trip to re-survey a one-mile section of the Middle Fork of the Boise River that experienced three simultaneous debris flow inputs following the Hot Creek Fire in 2003. The photo series below (credit: John Buffington) shows the rapid response of the main stem river at the Steel Creek fan.

Our surveys continued on a former postdoc project and sediment transport model developed by Mik Lewiki. I won’t go into too many of those specifics here, but stay tuned for the 2012 repeat photo next week.