David Polster: RRNW 2016 Introduction
An introductory biographical slide sequence about David Polster, his early field and academic experience, and selected landslide, riverbank, and restoration-course examples.
4:15 · 23 slides · Historical presentation · No recorded narration
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Source: River Restoration Northwest workshop introduction, 2016. Slides by David Polster; individual image and diagram credits remain in the presentation. This video includes the complete supplied deck. It is an archive slideshow, not a recording of the spoken conference session.
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Introductions
Who am I?
Dave Polster16 on the top of Mt Cooper
24 in the Akamina - KishinenaMount Cooper
Summer of 1974 with Dr. T.C. Brayshaw
What better way to spend a couple of summers than studying alpine vegetation processes?
University days...
University days...
Married Genevieve Singleton in 1977
Ben born in 1983
Amy Jean born in 1986Nathan born in 1988
Rachel born in 1991A busy family for over 20 years...
A busy career over the same time...
...full of interesting things to do and places to see…
2008 SE Yukon Seismic Line Recovery Study...including in the fall of 2012 up at the landslide in Johnson’s Landing.
In the fall of 2008 I was working on this landslide near Pemberton
A rather steep thing with a raging creek at the bottom
This is what it looked like when we were done
June 18, 2010
…treating a riverbank in the fall/winter of 2013/14…
John Rieger Award
October 10, 2013Aldo Leopold’s Shack
October 11, 2013September 18, 2015, Grand Forks restoration course