EP51C:
Fluvial Morphodynamics, Channels Patterns, and Beyond I Posters

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Primary Conveners:  Jorge D Abad, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Co-conveners:  Edgardo M Latrubesse, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States and Stefano Lanzoni, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
OSPA Liaisons:  Jorge D Abad, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Campus, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Numerical Simulations of Floodplain Heterogeneity Effects on Meanders Migration
Stefano Lanzoni, Manuel Bogoni and Mario Putti, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
 
Landscape Evolution in Response to Laccolith Inflation on the Colorado Plateau
Daniel O'Hara, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, Leif Karlstrom, Stanford University, Los Altos Hills, CA, United States, Benjamin A Black, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Kendra E Murray, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
Do river channels decrease in width downstream on Distributive Fluvial Systems? An evaluation of modern mega-fans
Tatiana N Espinoza1, Louis A Scuderi2, Gary S Weissmann2 and Adrian J Hartley3, (1)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
 
Spatial Variation in Bed-material Load as Captured by Dune-form Analysis and its Connection to Geomorphology of the Backwater Zone on the Trinity River, East TX, USA
Jasmine Mason1, Virginia B Smith1 and David C Mohrig2, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)Univ of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
 
Point bar Fine Deposits: Controls, Process and Pattern
Khaled Abdo1, John M Martin2 and Jasim Imran1, (1)University of South Carolina Columbia, Columbia, SC, United States, (2)Shell International, Rijswijk, 2288, Netherlands
 
Revisiting nonlinearity in meandering river planform dynamics using Gradual Wavelet Reconstruc­­tion
Jon Schwenk, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Civil Engineering, Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Civil Engineering, Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Stefano Lanzoni, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
 
Quantifying flood duration controls on chute cutoff formation in a wandering gravel-bed river
April Sawyer, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States and Andrew C Wilcox, University of Montana, Geosciences, Missoula, MT, United States
 
Modeling Sandbar Morphodynamic Response to River Hydrographs: An Empirical Approach Using Landsat TM Imagery
Edward A Bulliner IV1, Caroline M Elliott1, Robert B Jacobson1, Casey Lott2 and Colin Sheppard3, (1)U. S. Geological Survey, Columbia Environmental Research Center, Columbia, MO, United States, (2)American Bird Conservancy, Boise, ID, United States, (3)Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, United States
 
Scaling of alluvial bedforms using the Backwater Number
John B Shaw1,2 and Brandon J McElroy2, (1)University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States, (2)University of Wyoming, Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States
 
Topographic Signatures of Meandering Rivers with Differences in Outer Bank Cohesion
Sara Ann Kelly, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States and Patrick Belmont, Utah State University, Department of Watershed Sciences, Logan, UT, United States
 
Modeling Meandering Channel by Two-Dimensional Shallow Water Equations
Chunshui Yu, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and Jennifer Guohong Duan, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
Global Analysis of River Planform Change using the Google Earth Engine
Alexander Bryk1, William E Dietrich1, Noel Gorelick2, Randy Sargent2 and Christian A Braudrick3, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Google, Mountian View, CA, United States, (3)UC Berkeley, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
 
Efficiently solving morphodynamics in complex geometies using a mass conservative immersed boundary method on a structured grid.
Alberto Canestrelli1, Bert Jagers2, Aukje Spruyt3, Mart Borsboom3 and Rudy L Slingerland4, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (2)Deltares, Delft, 2629, Netherlands, (3)Deltares, Delft, Netherlands, (4)Pennsylvania State Univ, University Park, PA, United States
 
Predicting the Geomorphic and Aquatic Habitat Effects of Extreme Flood Events
Aaron Tamminga and Brett C Eaton, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
 
Estimations of paleochannel geometry and discharge using Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) on terraces of the Le Sueur River, south-central Minnesota
Courtney Ann Targos, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, United States and Karen B Gran, Univ Minnesota, Duluth, MN, United States
 
Linking Flood-Related Damage to Bridges and Stream Geomorphic Conditions in Vermont
Ian Anderson, Mandar Dewoolkar, Donna Rizzo and Dryver Huston, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States
 
Interactive exploration of fluvial morphodynamics
Bert Jagers1, Gennadii Donchyts1 and Fedor Baart2, (1)Deltares, Delft, 2629, Netherlands, (2)Deltares, Delft, Netherlands