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2004 Sterling L. (Bud) Burks Award for Outstanding Staff Environmental Research
Dr. Marston has been the principal investigator or co-planner on 38 grants totaling $ 1 million. He has supervised over 35 graduate students and given more than 260 presentations at professional meetings. He is the newly elected vice president of the Association of American Geographers, and the Co-Editor in chief of Geomorphology. Dr (Dick) Marston's research focuses landscape disturbance, coal mine reclamation, and land systems mapping. His work has taken him to locations as diverse as the Snake River and the Bighorn Basin in Wyoming, the Ain River in France, the Sand Dunes at Heceta Beach, Oregon, and the Glaciers in the Juneau Ice Fields in Alaska, and to Central Nepal. He has demonstrated the positive effects of large woody debris in rivers, flood regimes on floodplain vegetation, fire runoff and erosion, and badlands topography vs. grazing on soil erosion. Dr. Marston also works with urban developers to minimize adverse environmental impacts.