Linking sediment transport in gravel bed rivers to channel migration and bed stability

在山区，我们的大多数主要运输路线、通信基础设施、城市和城镇至少有一部分位于活跃的砾石河床形成的存款上。因此，横向流迁移往往使道路、房屋和铁路处于危险之中，而垂直切割可能暴露并可能破坏埋在地下的基础设施，如管道和光纤通信电缆。管理这类危险的技术是不够的。我的小组最近的工作表明：随机建模方法可能比传统的确定性更适合描述河道变化;和，身体的工作描述床物质泥沙输运是不足以理解河道稳定性（如先前所假设的）。 目标我的研究计划的长期目标是提高预测河流河道对环境变化的响应的理论基础，包括发展河道稳定性作为自己的独立研究课题。有三个短期目标：（1）量化水流和泥沙供应变化对河道动力学的影响;（2）探索床面结构和组织（共同代表河床状态）与产生河道稳定性的过程之间的关系;（3）将推移质输运的空间和时间变化与河流的横向活动联系起来。方法-第一组实验将测试是否流恒定的流量和泥沙供应率表现出类似的动态变化的流量和泥沙供应率，特别是，我们希望确定是否在变流量实验过程中发生的通道迁移和撕脱的过程也发生在恒定流量实验中的类似速率。为了更好地了解河床状态如何影响河道稳定性，我们将测试一种新的方法，使用小波方法测量河床状态。通过将这些测量结果与UBC首创的光台法泥沙输运的最新数据相结合，我们将弥合泥沙输运与河道稳定性之间的差距。最后，我们将使用我们的实验结果来开发一种方法来量化河流稳定性，并使用它作为诊断工具，估计河流稳定性在现场。 HQP这项发现补助金将资助UBC生物地貌实验室的实验研究。这项工作将由研究生和本科生研究人员组成的团队进行，而博士后研究员将帮助开发各种实验之间的概念联系。我将利用这笔赠款培养1名博士后，4名博士，4名硕士和5名本科生。影响最终，我的目标是大大提高科学基础，了解河流如何表现在相关的人类发展和基础设施毗邻河流的空间尺度。

Recent progress In mountainous regions, most of our major transportation routes, communication infrastructure, cities and towns are located at least in part on a deposit created by an active gravel bed stream. As a result, lateral stream migration often puts roads, houses and railways at risk, while vertical incision can expose and potentially rupture buried infrastructure such as pipelines and fiber optic communications cables. The techniques for managing these kinds of hazards are inadequate. Recent work by my group suggests that: a stochastic modelling approach may be more appropriate than the conventional deterministic ones for describing stream channel change; and, the body of work describing bed material sediment transport is not sufficient for understanding stream channel stability (as has been previously assumed). Objectives The long-term objective of my research program is to improve the theoretical basis for predicting stream channel response to environmental change, including the development of channel stability as it own, independent topic of study. There are three short-term objectives, to: (1) quantify the effect of flow and sediment supply variability on stream channel dynamics; (2) explore the relation between bed surface texture and organization (which together represent the bed state) and the processes producing channel stability; and (3) relate the spatial and temporal variations in bedload transport to the lateral activity of the stream. Methodology The first set of experiments will test whether streams subject to constant flow and sediment supply rates exhibit similar dynamics to those with variable flows and sediment supply rates; in particular, we wish to ascertain whether the processes of channel migration and avulsion that occur during variable flow experiments also occur at similar rates in the constant flow experiments. To develop a better understanding of how bed state influences channel stability, we will test a new approach for measuring the bed state using a wavelet approach. By combining these measurements with state of the art data on sediment transport using the light table approach pioneered at UBC, we will bridge the gap between sediment transport and channel stability. Finally, we will use our experimental results to develop a method to quantify river stability, and use it as a diagnostic tool for estimating river stability in the field. HQP This Discovery Grant will fund experimental research in the Biogeomorphic Experimental Laboratory at UBC. The work will be conducted by teams of graduate and undergraduate researchers, while a post-doc fellow will help develop the conceptual links between the various experiments. I will use this grant to train 1 post-doc, 4 PhDs, 4 MSc and 5 Undergraduates. Impact Ultimately, I aim to substantially improve the scientific basis for understanding how rivers behave at the spatial scales relevant to human development and infrastructure adjacent to rivers.