SFU professor Jeremy Venditti, founding director of the School of Environmental Science, whose team carried out the study’s research activities in SFU’s River Dynamics Lab.
SFU professor Jeremy Venditti, founding director of the School of Environmental Science, whose team carried out the study's research activities in SFU's River Dynamics Lab. New research from SFU-s Jeremy Venditti dives into the science of going with the flow predicting the evolution of the Earth's surface. Researchers at Simon Fraser University (SFU) and The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have devised a better way to measure how fast sediment flows in rivers. -information that can help scientists and planners better prepare for flooding and weather-related events, understand salmon activity and even restore rivers. Their solution, outlined in a new paper in Nature , all boils down to the shape and particular features of a sediment grain. -Sediment transport controls the morphology of the Earth's surface-that includes the physical environments of all ecosystems, the beds of rivers and the ocean, and even terrestrial environments,- says SFU professor Jeremy Venditti, founding director of the School of Environmental Science, whose team carried out the study's research activities in SFU-s River Dynamics Lab. -Despite this, accurately predicting sediment transport remains a stubbornly difficult problem.
TO READ THIS ARTICLE, CREATE YOUR ACCOUNT
And extend your reading, free of charge and with no commitment.
