Peter K. Haff

Research Area(s): Geophysics

Haff's experience lies in Field work and computation on earth surface processes, including the role of humans as geomorphic agents, in the dynamics of the modern technological environment, and in limitations to modeling and prediction in science.

Contact via haff@duke.edu or +1 919 684 5902 (office phone)
Visit via or 103 Old Chem Bldg (office location)

TEACHING (Fall 2008)

EOS 181S.01, THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST, Tu 03:05 PM-05:35 PM
EOS 243S.01, LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS, M 02:50 PM-05:20 PM

Representative Publications (More Publications)

1. Strudley, Mark W. and Murray, A. Brad and Haff, P.K., Emergence of pediments, tors, and piedmont junctions from a bedrock weathering-regolith thickness feedback, Geology, vol. 34 no. 10 (2006), ppt. 805 - 808 , [1] [abs]
   
2. P.K. Haff, Response of Desert Pavement to Seismic Shaking, Hector Mine Earthquake, California, , (2001)
   
3. P.K. Haff, Desert pavement: An environmental canary?, Journal of Geology, vol. 109 (2001), ppt. 661-668 [abs]
   
4. P.K. Haff, Waterbots, , (2001)
   
5. P.K. Haff, Neogeomorphology, Prediction, and the Anthropic Landscape, , (2001)
   
6. Haff, P. K. and Werner, B. T., Dynamical Processes on Desert Pavements and the Healing of Surficial Disturbances, Quaternary Research, vol. 45 no. 1 (1996), ppt. 38 - , [0004]
   
7. P.K. Haff, Rivers and Blood - Allometric Scaling in Biology and River Networks, , (2000)
   
8. Raghuraman, J. and Haff, P.K., Scaling-up of small-scale granular sediment transport laws, Proceedings of Engineering Mechanics, vol. 1 (1996), ppt. 262 - 264 [abs]
   
9. Haff and Furbish, Upslope Transport and Other Oddities of Landscape Diffusion, , (2000)
   
10. Haff, P.K. and Jiang, Z., Vertical mixing of grains during bedload transport, Proceedings of Engineering Mechanics, vol. 2 (1995), ppt. 931 - 933 [abs]
    
11. Furbish and Haff, The Master Equation Applied to Landscape Evolution, , (2000)
    
12. Haff, P.K., Constitutive laws and prediction in granular systems, Proceedings of Engineering Mechanics, vol. 2 (1995), ppt. 786 - 789 [abs]
    
13. Haff, Peter K. and Jiang, Zhenhua and Forrest, Spencer B., Transport of granules by wind and water: Micromechanics to macromechanics in geology and engineering, Mechanics of Materials, vol. 16 no. 1-2 (1993), ppt. 173 - 178 [abs]
    
14. Haff, Peter K., Discrete mechanics of sediment transport, Proceedings of Engineering Mechanics, (1992), ppt. 756 - 759 [abs]
    
15. Forrest, S.B. and Haff, P.K., Mechanics of wind ripple stratigraphy, Science, vol. 255 no. 5049 (1992), ppt. 1240 -
    
16. Haff, Peter K., Basic physical models in sediment transport, , (1991), ppt. 1 - 14 [abs]
    
17. Werner, B.T. and Haff, P.K., Dynamical simulations of granular materials using the Caltech Hypercube, Third Conference on Hypercube Concurrent Computers and Applications, (1988), ppt. 1313 - 18 [abs]
    
18. Anderson, R.S. and Haff, P.K., Simulation of eolian saltation, Science (USA), vol. 241 no. 4867 (1988), ppt. 820 - 3 [abs]
    
19. Haff, P. K. and Werner, B. T., COLLISIONAL INTERACTION OF A SMALL NUMBER OF CONFINED, INELASTIC GRAINS., , vol. 3 (1987), ppt. 483 - 501 [abs]
    
20. Hui, K. and Haff, P. K., KINETIC GRAIN FLOW IN A VERTICAL CHANNEL., International Journal of Multiphase Flow, vol. 12 no. 2 (1986), ppt. 289 - 298 , [0301-9322(86)90031-5] [abs]