Daniel Jean Stanley. Parallel Laminated Deep-Sea Muds and Coupled Gravity Flow-Hemipelagic Settling in the Mediterranean. Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences, number 19, 19 pages, 7 figures, 1983.—The origin of fine-grained deep-sea facies is often blurred because of interplay of diverse transport mechanisms: sediment gravity flow, traction related to fluid-driven circulation, and ...

Automated data collection is essential to effectively measure suspended sediment loads in storm events, particularly in small basins. Continuous turbidity measurements can be used, along with discharge, in an automated system that makes real-time sampling decisions to facilitate sediment load estimation. The Turbidity Threshold Sampling method distributes sample collection over the range of ris...

By improving numerical representations of coastal circulation, sediment properties, and waves, we seek to develop reliable estimates of sediment concentration, transport and deposition. Efforts to include sediment transport calculations within three-dimensional numerical hydrodynamic models can increase our ability to predict suspended sediment concentrations, water column turbidity, and seabed...

This paper presents a framework for predicting embryo survival in salmonid spawning gravels as a function of sediment deposition. This framework integrates three quantitative relationships modeling the variations of substrate permeability with sediment deposition, apparent velocity with substrate permeability, and embryo survival rate with apparent velocity. The model allows evaluation of the i...

[1] Abrasion by bed load is a ubiquitous and sometimes dominant erosional mechanism for fluvial incision into bedrock. Here we develop a model for bedrock abrasion by saltating bed load wherein the wear rate depends linearly on the flux of impact kinetic energy normal to the bed and on the fraction of the bed that is not armored by transient deposits of alluvium. We assume that the extent of al...

ur long term goal is to develop a tested model of optical properties in the surfzone and adjacent nearshore ocean, including the influence of suspended sediment and bubble population, to assess how optical properties are related to short term events such as individual breaking wave crests, and to determine how wave-driven surfzone circulation influences optical properties just offshore of break...

My long-term goal within the EuroSTRATAFORM program has been to increase our ability to predict sediment transport in fine-grained regions of the continental shelf through field work and application and further development of models at the Adriatic and Gulf of Lions EuroSTRATAFORM sites. Testing and extending our conceptual and numerical sediment transport models at these sites is an important ...

Our long term goal is to develop a tested model of optical properties in the surf zone and adjacent nearshore ocean, including the influence of suspended sediment, bubble population and surface foam, to assess how optical properties are related to short term events such as individual breaking wave crests, and to determine how wave-driven surf zone circulation influences spatial distribution of ...

Time-stratified sampling of sediment for estimating suspended load is introduced and compared to selection at list time (SALT) sampling. Both methods provide unbiased estimates of load and variance. The magnitude of the variance of the two methods is compared using five storm populations of suspended sediment flux derived from turbidity data. Under like conditions, the SALT coefficient of varia...