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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 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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...