Research Publications

These papers are arranged in chronological order 

Scientific Journal Papers and Books

Hickin, E. J.  1968  Channel morphology, bankfull  stage, and bankfull discharge of streams near  Sydney: The Australian Journal of Science,  30 (7) 274-275.

Hickin, E. J. 1969  A newly identified  process of point bar formation in natural streams: American  Journal of Science,  267,  999-1010.  PDF

Hickin, E. J.  1970  The terraces of the Lower Colo and Hawkesbury drainage basins, New South Wales: The Australian Geographer,  XI (3) 278-287.  PDF

Hickin, E. J.  & Page, K. J.  1971, The age of valley fills in the Sydney Basin: Search, 2 (10) 383-384.

Hickin, E. J.  1972  Pseudomeanders and point dunes - a flume study: American Journal of Science, 272, 762-799. PDF

Hickin, E. J.  1974  The development of meanders in natural  river channels: American Journal of Science,  274, 414-442. PDF

Hickin, E.J. & Nanson, G.C., 1975  The character of channel migration on the Beatton  River,  Northeast  British Columbia,  Canada:  Geological Society of America Bulletin,  86, 487-494. PDF

Hickin, E. J.  1977  The analysis of river planform responses to changes in discharge: In K.J. Gregory (editor), River Channel Changes,  John Wiley & Sons, New York, 249-263. 

Hickin, E. J.  1977  Hydraulic factors  controlling  channel  migration: In  R. E.  Davidson - Arnott  &  W.  Nickling (editors), Research into Fluvial Systems, GeoAbstracts,  Norwich, 59-66.

Hickin, E. J.  1978  Mean flow-structure in meanders of the Squamish River, British Columbia:  Canadian  Journal of Earth Sciences, 15 (11) 1833-1849. PDF

Hickin, E.J. 1979  Concave-bank benches on the Squamish River, British Columbia, Canada: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 16 (1) 200-203. PDF

Hickin, E. J.  1980a   Seismic  velocities of unconsolidated sediments in the Vancouver area of British Columbia: The Canadian Geographer,  XXIV (4) 411-416. PDF

Hickin, E. J.  1983a  River channel changes: retrospect and prospect: International Association of Sedimentologists Special Publication,  6, 61-83.

Nanson, G.C. & Hickin, E.J.  1983  Channel migration and incision on the Beatton River, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, 109 (3) 327-337.

Nanson, G. C. & Hickin, E. J.  1984a  Closure to discussion of "Channel  migration  and  incision on the Beatton  River", Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, 110 (11) 1683-1684.

Hickin, E. J. & Nanson, G. C.  1984b  Lateral  migration rates of river bends: Journal of  Hydraulic Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, 110 (11) 1557-1567. PDF

Hickin, E.J.  1984c Vegetation and river channel dynamics: The Canadian Geographer,  XXVIII (2) 111-126. PDF

Brierley, G. & Hickin, E.J.  1985a  The downstream gradation of particle sizes in the Squamish River, British Columbia: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 10, 597-606.

Hickin, E.J.  1986a  Concave-Bank Benches in the Floodplains of Muskwa and Fort Nelson Rivers,  British Columbia:  The Canadian Geographer, 30 (2)111-122. PDF

Nanson,  G.C. & Hickin,  E.J.  1986  A statistical  analysis  of  bank erosion and channel migration in western Canada: Geological Society of America Bulletin,  97, 497-504. PDF

Hickin, E. J. & Sichingabula, H.M., 1988 The geomorphic impact of the catastrophic October 1984  flood on the  planform of Squamish River, southwestern British Columbia: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 25, 1078-1087. PDF

Hickin,  E. J.  1988a  Lateral  migration  rates  of  river  bends:   In  P.N. Cheremisinoff, N.P. Cheremisinoff, and S.L. Cheng (editors), Handbook of Civil Engineering,  Technomic Publishing,  Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Vol.2: Hydraulics: Mechanics,  419-445.

Hickin, E. J. & Sichingabula, H.M. 1989  Discussion : The geomorphic impact of  the catastrophic October 1984  flood  on  the  planform of Squamish River, southwestern British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 26: 337.  PDF

Hickin, E.J.  1989  Contemporary Squamish River sediment flux to Howe Sound, British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 26: 1953-1963 PDF

Rood, K. M. & Hickin, E.J.  1989  Suspended-sediment concentration and calibre in relation to surface-flow structure in Squamish River estuary, southwestern British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 26: 2172-2176. PDF

Brooks, G.R. & Hickin, E.J.  1991. Debris avalanche impoundments of Squamish  River, Mount Cayley area,  southwestern British Columbia.  Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 28: 1375-1385. PDF

Brierley, G.J. & Hickin, E.J.  1991  Channel planform as a non-controlling factor in fluvial sedimentology: The case of the Squamish River floodplain, British Columbia: Sedimentary Geology, 75, 67-83. PDF

Brierley, G.J. & Hickin, E.J.  1992  Floodplain development based on selective preservation of sediments, Squamish River, British Columbia: Geomorphology, 4, 381-391. PDF

Lian, O. and Hickin, E.J.  1993  Late Pleistocene sedimentary history of Seymour Valley, North Vancouver, British Columbia: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 30, 841-850.  PDF

Hickin, E.J.  1993  Fluvial facies models: a review of Canadian research: Progress in Physical Geography, 17 (2) 167-184.

Hickin, E. J. (editor) 1995a  River Geomorphology, Wiley, Chichester, 233 pp

Hickin, E.J.  1995b  Hydraulic geometry and channel scour: Fraser River, B.C., Canada. In River Geomorphology, E.J.Hickin (editor), Wiley, Chichester, 155-167. PDF

Brooks, G.R. & Hickin, E.J.  1995  The origin of a tephra-like bed near Mount Cayley volcano, southwestern British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 32 (12) 2040-2045.  PDF

Lian, O. & Hickin, E.J.  1996  Early postglacial sedimentation of lower Seymour Valley, southwestern British Columbia. Geographie Physique et Quaternaire, 50 (1), 95-102.  PDF

Babakaiff, C.S. & Hickin, E.J.  1996  Coherent flow structures in Squamish River Estuary, British Columbia, Canada,  In P.J. Ashworth, S.J. Bennett and S.J. McLelland (Eds), Coherent Flow Structures, Wiley, Chichester, 312-342.

Leclerc, R. & Hickin, E.J.  1997  Ground penetrating radar stratigraphy of a meandering river floodplain, South Thompson River, British Columbia: Geomorphology,  21, 17-38.  PDF

Gibson, J. & Hickin, E.J.  1997  Inter-and supratidal sedimentology of a fjord-head estuary, southwestern British Columbia. Sedimentology,  44, 197-220.  PDF

Friele, P.A., Ekes, C. & Hickin, E.J.  1999  Evolution of Cheekye fan, Squamish, British Columbia: Holocene sedimentation and implications for hazard assessment. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 36, 2023-31.  PDF

Paige, A. & Hickin, E.J.  2000  Annual bed-elevation regime in the alluvial channel of Squamish River, southwestern British Columbia, Canada.  Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 25, 991-1009.  PDF

Ekes, C. & Hickin, E.J.  2001 Ground penetrating radar facies of the paraglacial Cheekye Fan, southwestern British Columbia. Sedimentary Geology, 143, 199-217. PDF

Prent, M. & Hickin, E.J.  2001 Annual regime of bedforms, roughness and flow-resistance, Lillooet River, British Columbia. Geomorphology, 41 (4) 369-390. PDF

Wooldridge, C.L. & Hickin, E.J.  2002  Step-pool and cascade morphology, Mosquito Creek, British Columbia: a test of four analytical techniques. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 39, 493-503.  PDF

Hickin, E.J.  2002  Hydraulic Geometry. Encylopedia of Geomorphology, (Andrew Goudie, Editor) Routledge, Oxford.

Hickin, E.J.  2003  Meandering Channels. Encyclopedia of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks (G.R. Middleton, Editor), Kluwer, New York.

Tabata, K. & Hickin, E.J. 2003  Interchannel hydraulic geometry and hydraulic efficiency of the anastomosing Columbia River, southeastern British Columbia, Canada.  Earth Surface Process and Landforms, 28 837-852. PDF

Pelpola, C. & Hickin, E.J.  2004  Long-term bed-load transport rate based on air photo and ground-penetrating radar surveys of fan-delta growth, Coast Mountains, British Columbia. Geomorphology, 57, 169-181. PDF

Wooldridge, C.L. & Hickin, E.J.  2005  Radar architecture of channel bars in wandering gravel-bed rivers. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 75, 884-860. PDF

Reid, D. & Hickin, E.J. 2008  Flow resistance in small steep mountain stream channels in southwestern British Columbia, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 33, 2211-2240. PDF

Rice, S., Church, M., Wooldridge, C. & Hickin, E.J. 2009 Morphology and evolution of bars in a wandering gravel-bed river: lower Fraser River, British Columbia, Canada. Sedimentology, 1365-3091.  PDF

Reid, D.E., Hickin, E.J. & Babakaiff, S. C. 2010 Low-flow hydraulic geometry of small, steep mountain stream in southwest British Columbia.  Geomorphology, 122, 39-55  PDF

Nicoll, T.J. & Hickin, E.J.  2010  Planform geometry and channel migration of confined meandering rivers on the Canadian Prairies.  Geomorphology, 116, 37-47.  PDF

Bauch, G.B. & Hickin, E.J.  2011  Rate of floodplain reworking in response to increasing storm-induced floods, Squamish River, south-western British Columbia, Canada.  Earth Surface Processes and landforms 36, 872-884. PDF

Technical Reports and Other Publications (1976-1998); Incomplete

Hickin, E. J.  1976  Review of  'The Natural Landscapes of Canada', by J.B. Bird: Australian Geographer,  13: 222-223.

Hickin, E. J.  1980b  Drainage basin morphometry and river network analysis: a review and synthesis: Discussion Paper Series, Dept of Geography, Simon Fraser University, 9, 32 p.

Hickin,  E. J.  1980c  Drainage  basin hydrology: a review and synthesis: Discussion Paper  Series, Simon Fraser University, Department of Geography, 10, 123 p.

Hickin, E. J.  1981  River channel dynamics:  Discussion Paper Series, Simon Fraser University, Department of Geography,11, 47p.

Hickin, E. J.  1982  Some  aspects of the hydrology of the Fraser River Basin,   British  Columbia: Discussion Paper Series, Simon Fraser University, Dept of Geography, 14, 19p.

Hickin, E.J.  1983b The Impact of Proposed Channel Modifications on the Estuary  Reach  of  the  Seymour River, North  Vancouver: Consulting Report for Allied Shipbuilders Ltd., North Vancouver, British Columbia, 12p.

Hickin,  E. J.   1984d  A review of Rivers (by K. Richards), American Scientist, 72, (2):198.

Hickin, E. J.  1984e  Channel migration history of the Brackendale reach of  the  Squamish  River: Consulting  Report,  for Ratcliff & Co., North Vancouver, British Columbia, 5 p.

Hickin, E. J.  1985b  Channel  stability,  deposition, and the location of 'normal  high - water'  at  the  Fraser - Thompson  Rivers  confluence, Consulting Report, Lawrence & Shaw, Vancouver, British Columbia,12 p.

Hickin, E. J.,  1985c Channel  migration at river bends: theory, process,  and  engineering applications: Discussion Paper Series, Simon Fraser University, Department of Geography.

Church, M., Gomez, B., Hickin, E.J. and Slaymaker, O. 1985  Sociological Geomorphology:  an editorial comment: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms,  10: 539-540.

Hickin, E.J.  1988b  Environmental background paper, lower Squamish River: Consulting Report , for Ratcliff & Co., North Vancouver, British Columbia, 20 pp.

Hickin, E.J.  1990  Fluvial sediment studies at B.C. Universities:  in Proceedings of the B.C.-Yukon Sediment Issues Workshop: April 24-26, 1990, Vancouver British Columbia, Environment Canada, T.R. Yuzyk and B. Tassone (editors), 25-33.

Hickin, E.J.  1992 An inventory of research conducted in Squamish Basin: Proceedings of the Howe Sound Environmental Workshop (September 30-October 3, 1991, Bowen Island, B.C.),  Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, No 1879, 43-47.

Hickin, E.J.  1992  Review of the proposal by Northern Utilities Inc. (NUI)] for developing a hydroelectric generating facility on Mamquam River and the NUI document prepared by Westland Resources Group [WRG] as a review of the hydro-project proposal; Consulting Report for Ratcliff and Company, North Vancouver, 4p.

Hickin, E.J. and Roberts, M.C.  1992  Ministry of Environment  Report on heavy metal loading in Fraser River floodplain sediments (Part I), 56p.

Hickin, E.J. and Roberts, M.C.  1993  Ministry of Environment Report on heavy metal loading in Fraser River floodplain sediments (Part II), 62p.

Hickin, E.J.  1994  British Columbia Utilities Commission, Confidential Report on the hydrologic impacts of Alcan's Kemano Completion Project, northwestern British Columbia, 66p.

Hickin, E.J.  1998  Natural and engineered channel alignment changes, Lillooett River near Pemberton, BC.  Consulting Report for Russell & DuMoulin, Vancouver, BC, 3p.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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