Ajay Limaye leads the Landscape Evolution Group in the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia. The group investigates the processes that shape landscapes and sedimentary deposits from Earth’s seafloor to mountain canyons and the surface of Mars. Meet the research team, or see the Research and Press pages for more on our work.
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Recent and upcoming talks
April 22, 2024: M.S. candidate Ariana Flournoy will present the public portion of her thesis defense on Martian alluvial fans.
April 11, 2024: Ph.D. candidate Yuan Li presented her ongoing thesis research on river migration in the Department of Environmental Sciences Seminar at UVA.
April 3, 2024: Ajay Limaye presented a seminar at the Geology Department at the College of William & Mary.
March 12, 2024: Undergraduate student Sam Verdi (Cornell U.; co-advised by Dr. Alex Hayes) presented a poster at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston with the latest on our work to interpret fluvial features on Saturn’s moon Titan. The poster focused on how the “graininess” of landscapes in radar images impacts our ability to measure and interpret channel features.
December 9-13, 2023: We presented three talks at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco, all on meandering rivers:
- Collaborator Sam Kodama (UC-Santa Cruz) shared his work on the how the Red River in the upper Midwest US has adjusted its lateral migration in response to glacial isostatic uplift following the last ice age. Full details here.
- Ph.D. candidate Yuan Li presented an invited talk, sharing new work that isolates how a key feedback timescale impacts forecasts river migration across landscapes.
- Ajay Limaye shared the first results from our new take on an old problem: what is a meandering river bend?