Collaborative Research: Coupled Backwater and River-Plume Dynamics and their Control on Terrestrial-to-Marine Sediment Transport

主要研究人员将探索陆地到海洋的沉积物运输使用的框架中，河流和河流羽流作为一个动态耦合系统。 实验室实验将分别针对耦合系统的水力和形态动力学。数值模拟将用于研究河口的泥沙运移以及地形和地层演变。最后，模型结果将按比例缩放到实地水平，以探索对密西西比河和埃尔瓦河和羽流系统的影响。

The principal investigators will explore terrestrial-to-marine sediment transport using a framework in which rivers and river plumes act as a dynamically coupled system. Laboratory experiments will separately target the hydro- and morphodynamics of the coupled system. Numerical modeling will be used to investigate sediment transport as well as topographic and stratigraphic evolution at the river mouth. Finally, model results will be scaled to the field level to explore implications for the Mississippi and Elwha river and plume systems.