Name: River Systems of the Blue Ridge
Start: 2025-02-20T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-20T16:00:00-05:00
Location: The North Carolina Arboretum

Rivers shape our mountains and during this program you will learn about the processes that rivers use to create our peaks and valleys.
About this Event

River Systems of the Blue Ridge

with Anton DuMars

ON-SITE | Thursday, February 20 | 12 - 4 pm

Blue Ridge Naturalist - Core Credit

Blue Ridge EcoGardener - Elective Credit

Water is essential to life but is also a powerful agent of change. Rivers, through both daily processes and catastrophic floods, shape Earth's surface through erosion and sediment transport. In River Systems of the Blue Ridge, we will investigate how the Broad River changes character and shapes the landscape along its course from the headwaters, through the Piedmont, and onto the Atlantic Ocean.

Anton DuMars, a resident of Black Mountain, NC, is an adjunct professor at the College of Charleston. His geological interests include fluvial, deltaic, and coastal processes. Ideally, he’s spending time on a hiking trail or aboard his sailboat.

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