EP53D
FFluvial Morphodynamics: Channels Patterns, Process-Based Unsteadiness, Tropical Rivers, and Beyond II

Friday, 18 December 2015: 13:40-15:40
2005 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Jorge D Abad, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Campus, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Conveners:  Edgardo M Latrubesse, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Stefano Lanzoni, University of Padua, Padua, Italy and Annie Ockelford, University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom
Chairs:  Jorge D Abad, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Campus, Pittsburgh, PA, United States and Stefano Lanzoni, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
OSPA Liaisons:  Jorge D Abad, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Campus, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
13:40
Spatial Change in the Geometry and Kinematics of the Trinity River, TX, USA, Defining the Morphodynamics of the Fluvial Coastal Zone (Invited) (76095)
David C Mohrig, Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Virginia B Smith, Villanova University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Villanova, PA, United States and Jasmine Mason, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
13:55
Can we predict the response of large sand bed rivers to changes in flow and sediment supply? The case of the Missouri River. (72840)
Enrica Viparelli, University of South Carolina Columbia, Columbia, SC, United States and Michael D Blum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States
14:10
Morphodynamics of neck cutoffs on elongate meander loops, White River, Arkansas, USA (Invited) (76564)
Kory M Konsoer, Louisiana State University, Geography and Anthropology, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
14:25
The role of relative floodplain width in forming anabranching rivers (78137)
Douglas A Edmonds1, Sara Eugenia Moron Polanco2 and Kathryn Amos2, (1)Indiana University, Geological Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States, (2)Adelaide University, Australian School of Petroleum, Adelaide, Australia
14:40
Nonlocal effects of local cutoff disturbances along the meandering Ucayali River in Peru (80224)
Jon Schwenk, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Civil Engineering, Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
14:55
Meandering river dynamics: finite-domain theory and driven boundary conditions (62915)
Samantha Weiss and Jonathan Higdon, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
15:10
Flow structure caused by a local cross-sectional area increase and curvature in sharp river bends (77201)
Bart Vermeulen, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
15:25
Continental Sources, Sinks and the Human Factor in Large Tropical Rivers: the Case of South America (78745)
Edgardo M Latrubesse, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States