Mentoring Institute for Sediment Transport Research (MIST)
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TechGirls 2023
In July we hosted 32 high school girls from around the world for a 2-week summer camp entitled Exploring Rivers and Landscapes and the Impacts of Climate Change...
New Project – Physical Controls on Embeddedness
A collaborative project with Jon Czuba (Biological System Engineering at VT) was funded by the NSF to investigate the physical controls on the level of embedded...
TechGirls 2022
During the first half of July we were honored to host a summer school/camp for high school girls from all over the world as part of the U.S. Department of State...
The FlocARAZI
In their recent paper, Osborn et al. detail an inexpensive and compact underwater digital camera imaging system (the FlocARAZI) developed to collect in situ hig...
Deicing road salts may contribute to impairment of stream beds through alterations to sedimentation processes
PhD student Ehsan Abolfazli recently published a paper in ES&T Water highlighting that runoff from the application of roadway deicing salts could lead to en...
Tom Ashley wins Krone Award
Congratulations to Tom on winning the Ray Krone Award at the 2021 International Conference on Cohesive Sediment Transport! The Krone award is given in honor of ...
New group members
Two new people joined the group this fall. Kristin Chilton joined as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow who will be looking at how the orientation of fracture planes in...
New collaborative NSF project examining the physical conditions in Bluehead Chub fish nests
We are excited to be a part of the research team studying controls on the physical conditions within mounded nests built by the Bluehead Chub. The effort is led...
How is silt size in a deposit related to current velocity and other flow and sediment characteristics?
This is a question we tackled experimentally with Brian Romans and Andrew Parent for systems dominated by advective dispersal of sediment. Results of the study ...
How does time spent on the bed impact the properties of flocs?
This is a question Duc Tran tackled in a recent paper (Tran and Strom 2019). Overview: Cohesive mud flocs in coastal waterways can go through repeated cycles of...