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...
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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...
Postdoctoral Associate Opening
I am currently looking for a postdoctoral associate to join a team of researchers from Virginia Tech and Indiana University working to understand and model the ...
New Group Members
This fall Ehsan Abolfazli and Ryan Osborn both joined the group as part of their studies at Virginia Tech. Ehsan is a currently a Ph.D. student who has a B.S. f...
Brandon Dillon receives Sussman Exceptional Merit Award
For summer 2019, Brandon Dillon was awarded a Sussman Internship and an accompanying Exceptional Merit Award. The awards allows him to intern with Hydrologist J...