Abstract. Tracing the origin of sediment is needed to improve our knowledge hydro-sedimentary dynamics at catchment scale. Several fingerprinting approaches have been developed provide this crucial information. In particular, spectroscopy provides a rapid, inexpensive and non-destructive alternative technique conventional analysis geochemical properties. Here, we investigated performance four m...

Stream channel erosion has long been suspected as the major contributor to long-term sediment yield from urbanizing watersheds. For San Diego Creek in southern California, measurements from 1983 to 1993 showed that stream channel erosion furnished 10(5) megagrams per year of sediment, or about two-thirds of the total sediment yield. Thus, because channel erosion can be a major source of sedimen...

This paper introduces a radiographic system for imaging marine sedimentary structures in situ, as an alternative to the currently used intrusive and tedious process of imaging extracted core samples in the laboratory. The system consists of a small isotopic source and a film incorporated into a device that can penetrate the sediment. The design of the device is introduced, and the results of mo...

in this study, the process-based watershed model, soil and water assessment tool (swat), was used for simulating hydrology and sediment transport in the gharesou watershed and for identifying critical areas of soil erosion and water pollution. after model calibration and uncertainty analysis using sufi-2 (sequential uncertainty fitting, ver. 2) method, the outputs of the calibrated model were u...

A food web bioaccumulation model was used to compare transport and fate of polychorinated biphenyls (PCB) congeners in three food webs in the Laurentian Great Lakes of North America. The model was used to quantify the contribution of sediment-derived and freely dissolved PCBs to the body burden of aquatic biota. In eastern Lake Erie (OH, USA), almost 100% of the chemical body burden of biota or...

The ability to achieve meaningful decreases in sediment loads to reservoirs requires a determination of the relative importance of sediment sources within the contributing basins. In an investigation of sources of fine-grained sediment (clay and silt) within the Perry Lake Basin in northeast Kansas, representative samples of channel-bank sources, surface-soil sources (cropland and grassland), a...

Abstract Purpose Evaluating sediment fingerprinting source apportionments with artificial mixtures is crucial for supporting decision-making and advancing modeling approaches. However, are rarely incorporated into research guidelines model testing currently lacking. Here, we demonstrate how to test using laboratory virtual by comparing the results from Bayesian bootstrapped Materials methods La...

In tropical mangroves, brachyuran crabs have been observed to consume high percentages of leaf litter production. However, questions concerning their ability to assimilate this low-quality food remain, as stable isotope analysis of C and N does not seem to support assimilation. Individuals of the common eastern Australian mangrove grapsid Parasesarma erythodactyla feeding on a mangrove leaf lit...