IOWA SEDIMENT CONCENTRATION MEASURING SYSTEM

Sediment Issue Measuring Contaminant Resuspension Resulting from Sediment Capping

Reference Concentration for Shelf Sediment Transport Models

My long-term goals are to advance understanding of sediment transport processes. In this context, the long-term goal of this project is to advance understanding of the reference concentration, i.e. concentration of suspended sediments at a small distance above the seafloor. The scientific interest is in relating this reference concentration to the forcing conditions of waves and currents. The n...

Measuring sediment yields of storms using PSALT

Storm yields of water and sediment are being measured as part of a study of the effects of roading, logging, and burning in a second-growth redwood forest in northern California. Two primary basins, each about 500 ha, and 13 sub-basins in one of them are measured for sediment flux and the presence and magnitude of sediment-based “cumulative effects”. Study objectives require a more sophisticate...

Measuring Suspended Sediment in Small Mountain Streams

The Author: ROBERT B. THOMAS is a mathematical statistician assigned to the Station's research unit studying the management of Pacific Coastal forests on unstable lands, and is stationed in Arcata, California. He earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics at California State University, Hayward (1967) and a master's degree in statistics at the University of California, Berkeley (1971). He joined...

Measuring Time-Frequency Distributions Concentration

Efficient measurement of time-frequency distributions (TFDs) concentration can provide a quantitative criterion for evaluation of various distributions performance. It can be used for adaptive and automatic parameter selection in time-frequency analysis, without supervision of a user. Measures for distribution concentration of monocomponent signals date back to [3], [8]. For more complex signal...