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...
Mohamad Rouhnia Defends PhD
Mohamad Rouhnia successfully defended is PhD dissertation this past August! The title of his work is: Vertical transport of sediment from muddy buoyant river pl...
River Flow 2016
I had the chance to attend River Flow in St. Louis this past summer for the first time since 2002, when it was held at the Université catholique de Louvain in B...
Rachel Kuprenas wins PhD Fellowship
Congratulations to Rachel Kuprenas, who was recently awarded a Virginia Sea Grant Graduate Research Fellowship! The funding will support her PhD and allow her t...
EWRI 2016
We had a good time at the ASCE/EWRI 2016 World Environmental & Water Resources Congress in West Palm Beach this past May. It was good to see friends and col...