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 3, 2024: Ajay Limaye will present 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) will present 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 focuses 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 for how meandering rivers migrate across landscapes. In the same session
- Ajay Limaye shared the first results from our new take on an old problem: what is a meandering river bend?