Dr. Arnaud Temme
Professor and Graduate Program Director
Contact Information
1076 Seaton Hall
785-532-6727
arnaudtemme@k-state.edu
Education
Ph.D., 2008, Wageningen University
Current Research
I study how soils and landscapes slowly dance together and influence each other. Specific interests within that field include the computer simulation of the soil-landscape interactions using my computer model LORICA, the path dependency of landslides, and soil mapping methods that are not landscape-blind. I am in love with mountain soils and landscapes.
Selected Publications
- Román-Sánchez, A., Temme, A., Willgoose, G., van den Berg, D., Gura, C.M., Vanwalleghem, T. 2021. The fingerprints of weathering: Grain size distribution changes along weathering sequences in different lithologies. Geoderma 383:114753.
- Temme, A., Guzzetti, F., Samia, J., Mirus, B.B. 2020. The future of landslides’ past—a framework for assessing consecutive landsliding systems. Landslides 17(7):1519-1528.
- Samia, J., Temme, A., Bregt, A., Wallinga, J., Guzzetti, F., Ardizzone, F. 2020. Dynamic path-dependent landslide susceptibility modelling. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 20 (1):271-285.
- Langston, A.L., Temme, A.J.A.M. 2019. Impacts of Lithologically Controlled Mechanisms on Downstream Bedrock Valley Widening. Geophysical Research Letters 46(21):12056-12064.
- Nijp, J.J., Temme, A.J.A.M., van Voorn, G.A.K., Kooistra, L., Hengeveld, G.M., Soons, M.B., Teuling, A.J., Wallinga, J. 2019. Spatial early warning signals for impending regime shifts: A practical framework for application in real-world landscapes. Global Change Biology 25(6):1905-1921.
Service
- Geography and Geospatial Sciences Graduate Program Director
- Editor-in-chief of CATENA
Short Biographical Sketch
I hold two MS degrees and a PhD degree from Wageningen University in the Netherlands, all along the interface of soils and geomorphology with a strong methodological focus. From 2008 to 2016, I worked at Wageningen as assistant and later associate professor focusing on soils and geomorphology with a focus on (Quaternary) landscape evolution modelling and soil development, before moving to Kansas State University in the Great Plains of the United States. At Kansas, the methodological focus of my work strengthened with the development of my soil-landscape evolution model LORICA and a stronger focus on soil mapping. Some of my work on soil map development and improvement is funded by the United States Department of Agriculture. I am one of the main users and proponents of the Marston Earth System Science laboratory at the department of Geography and Geospatial Sciences. Internationally, in addition to my work as Editor in Chief for CATENA, I regularly review papers for other journals and grant proposals for funding agencies, in English, German or French.