EP34A:
Fluvial Morphodynamics, Channel Patterns, and Beyond II

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Session ID#: 35303

Session Description:
Fluvial sediment transport and channel evolution is governed by coupling of fluid flow and underlying channel form, including planform morphology, riverbed structure, and floodplain architecture. Understanding interactions between fluvial sediment transport and channel form is important, as river morphology exerts a primary control on hydrodynamics, grain stability, and sediment flux. In turn, fluvial sediment transport drives the pace of channel evolution by providing the tools for bedrock incision, the building blocks for alluvial channels and their floodplains, and the basis for salmonid habitats and other ecosystem services. The linkage of channel patterns and their modern formative conditions can also allow for the recognition and interpretation of these processes and their resultant landforms/deposits in ancient geological settings. We welcome field, experimental, theoretical, and modeling efforts aimed at understanding, describing, or predicting the links between fluvial sediment transport processes and their relation to geomorphic signatures, ranging from the grain-scale to the channel-scale.
Primary Convener:  Kory M Konsoer, Louisiana State University, Coastal Studies Institute, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
Conveners:  Claire C Masteller, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Shawn M Chartrand, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada and Edgardo M Latrubesse, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Chairs:  Kory M Konsoer, Louisiana State University, Coastal Studies Institute, Baton Rouge, LA, United States and Edgardo M Latrubesse, Earth Observatory of Singapore, Asian School of the Environment-NTU, Singapore, Singapore
OSPA Liaison:  Kory M Konsoer, Louisiana State University, Coastal Studies Institute, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
Index Terms:

1815 Erosion [HYDROLOGY]
1825 Geomorphology: fluvial [HYDROLOGY]
1862 Sediment transport [HYDROLOGY]
5419 Hydrology and fluvial processes [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

ARE EQUILIBRIUM MULTICHANNEL NETWORKS PREDICTABLE? THE CASE OF THE INDUS RIVER, PAKISTAN (Invited) (232234)
Stephen E Darby, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom and Paul A Carling, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
Modeling and measuring the relationships between sediment transport processes, alluvial bedforms and channel-scale morphodynamics in sandy braided rivers. (228107)
Andrew Paul Nicholas1, Philip J Ashworth2, Jim Best3, Stuart N Lane4, Daniel R Parsons5, Gregory Sambrook Smith6, Chris Simpson2, Robert John, Paul Strick2 and Christopher Adam Unsworth7, (1)University of Exeter, Geography, Exeter, United Kingdom, (2)University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom, (3)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Earth Science & Environmental Change, Champaign, United States, (4)University of Lausanne, Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Lausanne, Switzerland, (5)University of Hull, Energy & Environment Institute, Hull, United Kingdom, (6)University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom, (7)University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
Meander morphodynamics over self-formed floodplains: can the migration history affect the future morphology of the river? (271289)
Manuel Bogoni, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, Stefano Lanzoni, University of Padova, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Padova, Italy and Mario Putti, University of Padova, Department of Mathematics, Padova, Italy
Laboratory Experiments on Meandering Meltwater Channels (247163)
Roberto Fernández, University of Hull, Energy and Environment Institute, Hull, United Kingdom, John Berens, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Gary Parker, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Earth Science and Environmental Change & Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States and Colin Peter Stark, Columbia University in the City of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
Modelling the Effects of Sea-level, Climate Change, Geology, and Tectonism on the Morphology of the Amazon River Valley and its Floodplain (288967)
Rolf E Aalto, University of Exeter, Geography, Exeter, EX4, United Kingdom, Edipo Cremon, INPE-Brazil, Sao Jose Dos Campos, SP, Brazil and Thomas Dunne, Univ California Santa Barbara, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

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