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...
New Students – Elizabeth Angel and Carlos Guerrero
Two new students joined the group for the fall semester: Elizabeth Angel and Carlos Guerrero. During her undergraduate studies, Elizabeth did research with the ...
A central location for data pertaining to the flocculation of mud
One of the long-term aims of our work on the flocculation of mud is to provide data that can be used to calibrate sediment transport models that account ...
The SoPro
PhD student Brandon Dillon recently developed a wonderful self-contained underwater microscope camera for imaging suspended particulate matter. The camera, affe...
New papers on mud transport
Two papers on mud transport from our group came out over the past few months. The first is by Duc Tran, where he shows that suspended quartz silt grains can bec...
EGU 2017
I thoroughly enjoyed getting to present some of our work at EGU in Vienna this past April. It was good to see the city for the first time and to meet up with ot...
Christian Mooneyham Defends MS
Christian Mooneyham successfully defended his MS thesis this past December. His study was a nice piece of work on the settling of clay suspensions within gravel...
AGU 2016
Group presentations from AGU 2016 Strom, K., and Rouhnia, M. (2016). Vertical Transport of Sediment from Muddy Buoyant River Plumes in the Presence of Different...
Dancing mud?
Rachel Kuprenas featured in the Virginia Sea Grant news article, Dance of the Mud Particles.
TechGirls at VT
In cooperation with the VT’s CEED program, our lab group had the chance to host two groups from TechGirls this summer. TechGirls is a program that exposes...