Looking back at the Upper Mississippi River, moving forward
A student and I are working on finishing a project that has lingered for too many years: a careful analysis of the cumulative effects of river management on islands in the lower part of Pool 6 of the...
View ArticleMarmot Dam removal video
My favorite way to get students excited about dam removal is this video produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting, on the removal of Marmot Dam, near Portland, Oregon in 2008. Part of the reason I love...
View ArticleCondit Dam Removal video
No excited Gordon like at Marmot Dam, but this is one exciting “blow and go” dam removal video. This was Condit Dam on the White Salmon River in Washington in October 2011. Spectacular to watch, and...
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Brock Freyer defends his MS on the Mighty Mississippi
Brock and Anne at the end of field work on the Mississippi River, July 2008. Today, Brock Freyer will be defending the results of his M.S. research. The title of his research project is: Fluvial...
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After the dam came out: The Cuyahoga River in Kent
Cross-posted at Highly Allochthonous We’ve been having one of those perfect spring weeks, where the weather is warm and sunny, the flowers are blooming, and there is nothing more enticing at the end of...
View ArticleThe Cuyahoga Falls dam removal video you’ve been waiting for
Cross-posted at Highly Allochthonous This summer we were treated to not one but two dam removals on the Cuyahoga River, ~10 miles downstream from Kent. Those following me on twitter know that I...
View ArticleBedload transport videos FTW
Today in Fluvial Processes, I’ll be talking about sediment transport. It’s one of those subjects that can easily get bogged down in lots and lots of math, but I prefer to start out with getting...
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Watershed Hydrology Trip to Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory
Kent State University Department of Geology’s Watershed Hydrology class visited the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory on April 5-6, 2014. Penn State post-doc Pamela Sullivan gave them a...
View ArticleThe Secret Life of Rivers (the hyporheic zone)
The Secret Life of Rivers from S Solomon Leaping Frog Films on Vimeo.
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A Riverine Flooding Cookbook, Volume 1: Meteorological Floods
Legendary fluvial geomorphologist Reds Wolman once said “Floods come from too much water,” and that’s the phenomenon distilled to its core essence. But this bit of wisdom doesn’t give us much to go on...
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