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Science · 2026

Apparent Hack’s law in river deltas

A global scaling relation links distributary channel length to the area of land deltas build and sustain.

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Geology · 2022

River and channel-belt planform patterns

Quantitative channel-belt patterns help reconstruct the rivers that formed them.

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Peer-reviewed publications

2026
Science

Apparent Hack’s law in river deltas

Dong, T. Y., Vulis, L., Ma, H., Tejedor, A., & Goudge, T. A. 392(6797), 493–498.

2025
Science Advances

High variability in flood discharge and stage accelerates river mobility

Wu, C., Kim, W., Yang, S., Tsai, F., Nittrouer, J. A., Dong, T. Y., et al. 11(48), eadv7637.

2023
JGR: Earth Surface

Impacts of tectonic subsidence on basin depth and delta lobe building

Dong, T. Y., Nittrouer, J. A., Carlson, B., McElroy, B., Il’icheva, E., Pavlov, M., & Ma, H. 128(2), e2022JF006819.

2023
Geomorphology

Characterizing the response of the Coastal Rio Grande to upstream damming

Goudge, T. A., Swartz, J. M., Dong, T. Y., & Mohrig, D. 426, 108604.

2023
Nature Geoscience

Lowland river sinuosity on Earth and Mars set by the pace of meandering and avulsion

Wu, C., Kim, W., Herring, R., Cardenas, B. T., Dong, T. Y., et al. 16, 747–753.

2022
Geology

Quantitative relationships between river and channel-belt planform patterns

Dong, T. Y. & Goudge, T. A. 50(9), 1053–1057.

2021
Geophysical Research Letters

Impacts of engineered diversions and natural avulsions on delta-lobe stability

Carlson, B. N., Nittrouer, J. A., Swanson, T. E., Moodie, A. J., Dong, T. Y., et al. 48(13), e2021GL092438.

2020
Water Resources Research

Predicting water and sediment partitioning in a delta channel network under varying discharge conditions

Dong, T. Y., Nittrouer, J. A., McElroy, B., Il’icheva, E., Pavlov, M., Ma, H., et al. 56(11), e2020WR027199.

2019
Water Resources Research

Roles of bank material in setting bankfull hydraulic geometry as informed by the Selenga River delta, Russia

Dong, T. Y., Nittrouer, J. A., Czapiga, M. J., Ma, H., McElroy, B., Il’icheva, E., et al. 55(1), 827–846.

2018
Acta Geologica Sinica

Wave-enhanced sediment-gravity flows in Bohai Bay lacustrine basin, eastern China

Bai, C., Yu, B., Dong, T. Y., Han, S., Ge, J., & Zhu, D. 92(6), 2416–2431.

2018
Hydrological Processes

Sedimentation patterns in the Selenga River delta under changing hydroclimatic conditions

Pietroń, J., Nittrouer, J. A., Chalov, S. R., Dong, T. Y., Kasimov, N., Shinkareva, G., & Jarsjö, J. 32(2), 278–292.

2016
GSA Bulletin

Controls on gravel termination in seven distributary channels of the Selenga River delta

Dong, T. Y., Nittrouer, J. A., Il’icheva, E., Pavlov, M., McElroy, B., Czapiga, M. J., et al. 128(7–8), 1297–1312.