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Low-slope sand-bed rivers
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Low-slope, sand-bed river course instructors and students
Offered by the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics
  May 27-28, 2006
  Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Goal: provide a quick but substantive overview of sand-bed rivers, geared toward teaching students about ideas and tools of practical use.

NCED Instructors: Bill Dietrich, J. Wesley Lauer, David Mohrig, Chris Paola, Gary Parker, Lesley Perg

Guest Instructors: Jorge Abad, Victor Rivera

Sessions included:

Hydrogeomorphic models of wetlands: templates to forecast ecosystem state change
Linking principals of restoration with river-delta processes: hydrogeomorphic models of coastal restoration science
Hydraulic geometry of lowland sand-bed rivers
Channel-floodplain interaction in large, sand-bed rivers
Sediment balance and exchange between channel and floodplain
Large scale controls on lowland rivers
Flow-bedform interaction in sand-bed rivers
Hydraulics of and sediment transport in lowland sand-bed riverses
Dynamics of anabranching channels in braided sand-bed rivers
Flow and sediment transport in sand-bedded meanders with point bars
Morphodynamics of sand-bed rivers ending in deltas
Principles of cosmogenic and fallout nuclides as means for tracing sediment
Application to nuclide tracers to sediment and contaminant loading in the Minnesota River
Principles of migration of meandering rivers
RVR Meander: a toolbox for re-meandering og channelized streams
Delta-scale numerical modeling: a tool for decisionmaking in the rehabilitation of the Mississippi Delta
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