Joel Sholtes, PhD, PE, teaches civil engineering specializing in water resources engineering: hydraulics, hydrology and water resource management at Colorado Mesa University. His professional and academic experiences focus on physical river processes (river hydraulics and fluvial geomorphology) with applications to stream rehabilitation, flood hazards, and river corridor land use and infrastructure management. He is currently investigating the hydrologic impacts of stream corridor restoration. Prior to teaching at CMU, Sholtes worked for the Bureau of Reclamation, Sedimentation River Hydraulics Group. He received his PhD in civil engineering from Colorado State University where he was an EPA STAR and NSF IGERT fellow.
Education
- PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering: Colorado State University
- MA, Geography: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- BS, Environmental Science: Duke University
Selected Publications
Sholtes, J.S., Ubing, C., Randle, T. Fripp, J., and Cenderelli, D. (2018). Managing infrastructure in the stream environment. Journal of the American Water Resources Association.听
Sholtes, J.S. Yochum, S.E., Bledsoe, B.P., Scott, J.A. (2018). Longitudinal variability in channel response to floods. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.听
Schook, D., E. Carlson, J.S. Sholtes, and D.J. Cooper (2016). Effects of moderate and extreme flow regulation on Populus growth along the Green and Yampa Rivers, CO and UT. River Res. & Applications. 32(8), 1698-1708.听
Sholtes, J.S. and B.P. Bledsoe (2016) Half-yield discharge: process-based metric for predicting bankfull discharge. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. 04016017.听
Sholtes, J.S., K. Werbylo, and B.P. Bledsoe (2014) A physical context for the theoretical approach of sediment transport magnitude-frequency analysis in alluvial channels. Water Resources AV名湿. 50(10), 7900-7914.听
Sholtes, J.S. and M.W. Doyle. (2010) Impact of channel restoration on flood wave attenuation. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. 137(2), 196-208.听
BenDor, T., J.S. Sholtes, and M.W. Doyle. (2009) Landscape characteristics of a stream and wetland mitigation banking program. Ecological Applications. 19(8), 2078-2092.听