Water-related disasters, such as fluvial floods and cyclonic storm surges, are a major concern in the world’s mega-delta regions. Furthermore, the simultaneous occurrence of extreme discharges from rivers and storm surges could exacerbate flood risk, compared to when they occur separately. Hence, it is of great importance to assess the compound risks of fluvial and coastal floods at a large sca...

Though microplastic (MP/MiP) pollution of the environment is a popular research topic, relatively limited number studies are investigating its geomorphological context. However, site-specific hydrological and morphological parameters fundamentally affect MP transport, deposition mobilization. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate influencing factors on in fluvial sediments Tisza River (Central Europe...

Recent studies highlight linkages among the architecture of ecological networks, their persistence facing environmental disturbance, and the related patterns of biodiversity. A hitherto unresolved question is whether the structure of the landscape inhabited by organisms leaves an imprint on their ecological networks. We analyzed, based on pyrosequencing profiling of the biofilm communities in 1...

[1] Mechanistic theories of fluvial erosion are essential for quantifying large-scale orogenic denudation. We examine the topographic implications of two leading classes of river erosion model, detachment-limited and transport-limited, in order to identify diagnostic and testable differences between them. Several formulations predict distinctly different longitudinal profile shapes, which are s...

Understanding how changes in fluvial and marginal marine architecture correlate with shifts in marine shoreface architecture is a crucial step to understanding the effect of relative sea level changes on terrestrial sedimentary systems. Three measured sections (each >230 m), 2367 paleocurrent measurements, and examinations of lateral facies relationships were made over 3 km of continuous outcro...

This study focuses on the effects of changes in fluvial sediment supply on the plan-form shape of wave-dominated deltas. We apply a one-line numerical shoreline model to calculate shoreline evolution after (I) elimination and (II) time-periodic variation of fluvial input. Model results suggest four characteristic modes of wave-dominated delta development after abandonment. The abandonment mode ...

Vegetation plays an important role in stabilizing the soil and decreasing fluvial erosion. In certain cases, vegetation increases the accumulation of fine sediments. Efficient and accurate methods are required for mapping and monitoring changes in the fluvial environment. Here, we develop an area-based approach for mapping and monitoring the vegetation structure along a river channel. First, a ...

Introduction: Since Mariner 9 first imaged fluvial channels on the surface of Mars thirty years ago, one of the continuing problems of its hydrologic history has been the apparent absence of small, first-order tributaries to the large outflow channels and the larger integrated channels of the highlands [1]. Drawing on terrestrial examples from the northeast Sahara, where Quaternary climate has ...

Keynote Session 1 Title: The ecohydrology of river vegetation Organizer: Dr. Matthew O’Hare (CEH Edinburgh, Bush estate, Penicuik, EH26 0QB, UK Synopsis: This session will focus on the developing field of riverine plant ecohydrology. Riverine plants including both aquatic macrophytes and riparian vegetation respond to their physical environment but they also influence it, effecting both hydrolo...

Introduction: The unifying theme of the Mars Exploration Program is the search for evidence of past or present liquid water [1]. The underlying assumption behind this is that areas on Mars exposed to liquid water would have had the highest probability of capturing and preserving biomarkers. As a part of this program strategy, two Mars Exploration Rovers (MERs) will launch toward Mars in 2003, w...