RSM River Mechanics Podcast

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RSM River Mechanics Podcast

Conversations about River Mechanics, Sediment Transport, and Fluvial Geomorphology

  1. Peter Wilcock on Gravel Bed Rivers, Partial Transport, Armor Layer Persistence and Channel Design (Plus Wilcock & Crowe)

    4 JUN

    Peter Wilcock on Gravel Bed Rivers, Partial Transport, Armor Layer Persistence and Channel Design (Plus Wilcock & Crowe)

    When HEC hired me to add sediment transport to HEC-RAS almost 20 years ago now, I inherited a set of sediment transport functions that were mostly developed in the early to mid 20th century. These were – and continue to be – important equations.But when I sat down with the RAS team To talk about the new science I was excited to include in a river mechanics model.I pulled out the same binder I brought to this interview We are wrapping up our third season of the podcast, and our...

    1h 31m
  2. Mary Power on River Ecology, Disturbance, and Inverted Pyramids

    19 APR

    Mary Power on River Ecology, Disturbance, and Inverted Pyramids

    tDr. Power is a food web ecologist at UC Berkeley, where she leads the Power lab which has compiled careful, long term data sets in the Angelo Reserve in Northern CA.In addition to her early work, in Panama and the Ozarks - which we touch on briefly - Dr. Power’s multi-decadal data sets on the Eel River, have yielded remarkable findings about how food webs function in gravel bed rivers…and spoiler alert, it sometimes involves the sorts of things we tend to talk about here…like the grave...

    1 hr
  3. Alain Recking on Sediment Sorting, Transport, and Relative Roughness in Mountain Rivers

    4 APR

    Alain Recking on Sediment Sorting, Transport, and Relative Roughness in Mountain Rivers

    Dr Alain Recking has quantified gravel bed transport with just about all the tools available to our discipline.In addition to substantial field work- Dr. Recking has done some important and influential flume experiments.We have talked and will talk about hiding and armoring quite a bit in this podcast, because they are difficult ideas, that are hard to measure and simulate, and critical to gravel bed processes.But Dr. Recking’s contributions to this vertical sorting conversation destabi...

    54 min
  4. Sediment Modeling Failure Modes and Best Practices with Four Model Developers

    21 MAR

    Sediment Modeling Failure Modes and Best Practices with Four Model Developers

    A couple years ago, my agency asked me to write some guidance on sediment modeling, so, I reached out to the morphological modelers I knew, and particularly the model developers who write the morphological model code other people use.I asked them about the common failure modes they have seen and best practices they teach, and realized we had all essentially spent a decade or two, learning the same principles. So when the US federal agencies held their periodic Federal interagency sedimen...

    59 min
  5. Tony Thomas on the Origin of Sediment Modeling and Insights from >55 Years of Sediment Studies

    8 MAR

    Tony Thomas on the Origin of Sediment Modeling and Insights from >55 Years of Sediment Studies

    I’ve heard people call Tony the godfather of Sediment Transport Modeling and - as you’ll hear in our conversation - he very well may be the first person to use a computer to answer an engineering scale sediment question.But most people about my age and older, know Tony for developing the first generalized sediment model. He was part of the original team here at the Hydrologic Engineering Center (HEC) where he developed HEC6, a 1D sediment transport model that was industry standard for d...

    1h 7m
  6. Jim Selegean and the "Classic Paper Draft"

    23 FEB

    Jim Selegean and the "Classic Paper Draft"

    Dr. Jim Selegean is the Sediment Transport Specialist at the Corps Detroit District where he studies the rivers and sediment loads into the great lakes as well as inland costal processes. He is also a professor at Wayne State in Detroit. And that joint position has helped him mentor many young scientists and engineers throughout the years, geomorphically trained Hydraulic engineers who not only currently populate the Detroit district but also includes what we call the Detroit diasp...

    55 min

  7. 9 FEB

    Astrid Blom on Incision on the Rhine, Gravel-Sand Transitions, and Vertical Bedform Sorting

    Dr. Astrid Blom is a professor Civil Engineering & Geosciences at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands is perhaps best known for her recent reach and rive scale work, modeling hundreds of kilometers, sometimes for hundreds or thousands of years. These models explore the long-term equilibrium state of river responses to human modifications and the alternate potential futures associated with different climate change scenarios and management practices. Most of her rec...

    42 min
  8. Marcello Garcia (part 2) on Sedimentation Hazards, the Bulle Effect, and Transport Paradigms

    26 JAN

    Marcello Garcia (part 2) on Sedimentation Hazards, the Bulle Effect, and Transport Paradigms

    In the previous episode, we talked to Dr. Marcelo Garcia about the astonishing compilation of sediment science he edited, the ASCE Sedimentation Manual. In this episode, we turn to some of his work, covering a wide range of topics, but landing for a while on sedimentation hazards including mud and debris flows, the Bulle Effect, and two transport paradigms (the Bagnold vs the Einstein approaches). Dr. Garcia is professor at the University of Illinois-Urbana and the director ...

    54 min
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Conversations about River Mechanics, Sediment Transport, and Fluvial Geomorphology

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  • Creator
    Stanford Gibson
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2024
  • Episodes
    28
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    © 2024 RSM River Mechanics Podcast
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