MG42A:
Cohesive Sediment Transport Processes I

Session ID#: 92430

Session Description:
Cohesive sediment transport processes influence the geomorphology and associated ecosystems of estuaries, deltas and continental shelves. Consequently these processes will shape the response of coastal wetlands, deltas and estuaries under the present regime of global sea level change. This session focuses on recent advances in understanding cohesive sediment transport processes. Fundamental challenges include the complex biogeochemical interactions in the bed and the formation, breakup and transport modes of cohesive sediment aggregates and flocs. Furthermore, cohesive sediment transport processes present multifaceted modeling challenges and complex interactions on the character and nature of process to product relations recorded in the sedimentary architecture. Submissions focusing on observational, experimental or modeling of cohesive sediment transport processes are encouraged.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • CP - Coastal and Estuarine Processes
  • PI - Physical-Biological Interactions
Index Terms:

3022 Marine sediments: processes and transport [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
4255 Numerical modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4273 Physical and biogeochemical interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4558 Sediment transport [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Primary Chair:  Richard Styles, Coastal & Hydraulics Laborator, Vicksburg, United States
Co-chairs:  Jarrell Smith, USACE-ERDC Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS, United States, Andrew James Manning, University of Hull, Energy & Environment Institute, Hull, United Kingdom and Xiao Yu, University of Florida, Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, Gainesville, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jarrell Smith, USACE-ERDC Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS, United States
Moderators:  Richard Styles, Coastal & Hydraulics Laborator, Vicksburg, United States and Jarrell Smith, USACE-ERDC Information Technology Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Andrew James Manning, University of Hull, Energy & Environment Institute, Hull, United Kingdom

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A Study of Field Measurements of Suspended Sediment Concentration in the Gaoping River and Numerical Simulation of Hyperpycnal Turbidity Currents in the Gaoping Submarine Canyon (648530)
Yu-Chi Lin1, Julie Chen1 and James T Liu2, (1)National Cheng Kung University, Department of Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering, Tainan, Taiwan, (2)NSYSU National Sun Yat-Sen University, Department of Oceanography, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Grain-resolving Simulations of Cohesive Sediment Transport (647062)
Eckart Heinz Meiburg1, Bernhard Vowinckel2, Jade Withers3, Kunpeng Zhao3, Florian Pomes3, Raphael Ouillon3, Thomas Köllner3 and Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz4, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)Technische Universität Braunschweig, Leichtweiß-Institut für Wasserbau, Braunschweig, Germany, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States, (4)University of California, Santa Barbara, Mechanical Engineering, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Cohesive sediment transport modeling in estuarine shallows: the role of bed erodibility variation (648634)
Rachel M Allen1,2, Jessica R Lacy2, Andrew William Stevens2, David B Senn3, Rusty Holleman4 and Mark T Stacey5, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (3)San Francisco Estuary Institute, Richmond, CA, United States, (4)University of California Davis, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Davis, United States, (5)University of California Berkeley, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, CA, United States
Strain Rate Effects in Soft Estuarine Soils using Portable Free Fall Penetrometers (639612)
Dennis Kiptoo1, Nina Stark1, Grace Massey2, Cristin Wright2 and Carl T Friedrichs3, (1)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, United States, (2)Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States, (3)Virginia Institute Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States
Oil-Mineral Flocculation and Settling Dynamics in Saline Water (646377)
Leiping Ye1, Andrew James Manning2, Tian-Jian Hsu3 and James Holyoke1, (1)University of Delaware, Civil & Environmental Eng., Newark, DE, United States, (2)University of Hull, Energy & Environment Institute, Hull, United Kingdom, (3)University of Delaware, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Newark, United States
Physical Factors that Influence Muddy Bed Aggregate Production During Erosion (655660)
David W Perkey, US Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MS, United States, Jarrell Smith, USACE-ERDC Information Technology Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS, United States and Kelsey Fall, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, United States
Weathering of Cohesive Mud Aggregates by Bedload Transport (655952)
Jarrell Smith, US Army Corps Engineers, Vicksburg, MS, United States, Kelsey Fall, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, United States and Richard Styles, Coastal & Hydraulics Laborator, Vicksburg, United States
Transport modes of marine aggregates (646691)
Richard Styles, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS, United States, Jarrell Smith, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Vicksburg, United States and Kelsey Fall, USACE-ERDC Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS, United States