EP51D
Erosion and Sediment Transport in Steep Landscapes I

Friday, 18 December 2015: 08:00-10:00
2005 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Joel S Scheingross, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Roman DiBiase, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Chairs:  Joel S Scheingross, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Roman DiBiase, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Joel S Scheingross, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
08:15
Enhanced stability of steep channel beds to mass failure and debris flow initiation (81612)
Jeff Prancevic1, Michael P Lamb1, Francois Ayoub2 and Jeremy G Venditti3, (1)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
08:30
Experimental Investigation of Entrainment Rate by Debris Flows: from Shear Stress to Granular Temperature (86598)
Kimberly M Hill, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
08:45
High-resolution modeling of overland flow and sediment transport following wildfire: Insights into initiation mechanisms and sediment sources for runoff-generated debris flows (74297)
Luke McGuire1, Jason W Kean2, Dennis M Staley1 and Francis K Rengers1, (1)U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO, United States, (2)USGS Central Region Offices Denver, Denver, CO, United States
09:00
Testing the Validity of Local Flux Laws in an Experimental Eroding Landscape (81865)
Kristin E Sweeney, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
09:15
Bedload sediment transport embedded in seismic signals generated from a mountain stream (65656)
Danica L Roth1, Emily E Brodsky1, Noah J Finnegan2, Jens Martin Turowski3, Carlos R Wyss4, Alexandre Badoux5 and Johannes Martin Schneider6, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (3)GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (4)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (5)WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, (6)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Environmental Systems Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland
09:30
Testing, improving and validating models of bedload-induced seismic noise from steep flume experiments (73307)
Florent Gimbert1 and Victor C Tsai1,2, (1)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Caltech-Seismological Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States
09:45
Landslide dynamics from seismology: new results (Invited) (59817)
Colin Peter Stark, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States