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| NCED PI Leads Delta Field Trip | | Dr. Robert Twilley, though having long collaborated with several NCED PIs, met the entire group of NCED PIs and staff for the first time at a PI retreat in Cocodrie, Louisiana. While in Cocodrie, Twilley hosted a Mississippi Delta field trip where the group had a chance to learn first hand the unique challenges facing the Delta ecosystem. Twilley, a wetlands ecologist, brings to NCED not only his considerable research experience but the resources and perspectives of CLEAR: Coastal Louisiana Ecosystem Assessment and Restoration. This collaborative effort among university, state, and federal agency scientists and engineers shares NCED's goal of developing tools for landscape and ecosystem forecasting. |  | | Mississippi Delta field trip with Dr. Robert Twilley and NCED PIs/Staff. | | |
| Students report on International Research Experience Program | Leslie Hsu, University of California-Berkeley (UCB), Robert Haydel, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and Michal Tal, University of Minnesota (UMN), participated in the International Research Experience Program (IREP) last year. This program, open to graduate students affiliated with National Science Foundation Science and Technology Centers, allows students the opportunity to conduct international research and learn about different cultures. Hsu, Haydel, and Tal presented their research at NCED videoconferences: - Hsu - Channel erosion in the Illgraben torrent [PowerPoint]
- Haydel - Morphology and flow structure downstream: Two bar-confluences in a large river [Abstract]
- Tal - Untangling the management practices of New Zealand's Canterbury rivers [Abstract]
Graduate students Peter Nelson (UCB), Sara Johnson (UMN), and Amy Hansen (UMN) will participate in the IREP, and present their research to the NCED community, later this year. | |
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