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...
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Spring Graduates
Both Shantanu Bhide and Jeff Culp successfully defended their MS thesis work this past May. Jeff is currently working for Dewberry in Richmond and Shantanu is n...
Limiting floc size to that of the smallest scales of turbulence in floc growth and breakup modeling
We are excited that Rae’s MS work on modeling of floc sizes was recently published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. Kuprenas, R., D. Tran, ...
New Project: Boundary Exchange Modeling of Mud
Project Abstract Morphodynamic modeling of river beds, deltas, and submarine fans require the use of boundary exchange models to account for sediment erosion, t...
Brandon Dillon receives scholarship from VLWA
Congratulations to Brandon on receiving a Virginia Lakes and Watersheds Association’s Leo Bourassa Scholarship Award!
New Project: Flocculation Dynamics In The Fluvial To Marine Transition
We are excited to announce that our collaborative proposal with Jeff Nittrouer of Rice University was recently funded by the Geomorphology and Land-use Dynamics...
Spring Graduates
Congratulations to Duc Tran, Rae Kuprenas, and Elizabeth Angel, who all completed their degrees this semester! Duc Tran successfully defended is dissertation en...
New Paper: The influence of SSC on mud floc size in a turbulent suspension
Duc Tran’s paper on the role that SSC plays in setting the size of mud flocs in a turbulent suspension was recently published in Continental Shelf Researc...
New MS student Jeff Culp
We are excited to have Jeff Culp (pictured above with the mighty Mississippi) joining the group this semester. Jeff will be setting up and running new experimen...
New Paper: Deposition of Clay in Gravel Beds
Our paper on the deposition of suspended clay to gravel beds was recently published in Water Resources Research: Mooneyham, C. and Strom, K. (2018). Deposition ...
AGU in New Orleans
While San Francisco is a great city, it was fun to go somewhere new for AGU this past December. Looking forward to the 2018 meeting being held in DC. Bel...
New paper on lobe thickness scales in steep and sandy submarine fans
Our paper on the connection between hydraulic and sediment transport processes and channel and lobe geometry in supercritical submarine fans was recently publis...