Project

Formation and Reworking of Flood Deposits on the Waipaoa River Shelf, New Zealand: Variability in Sediment Transport and Deposition

I'm using a coupled hydrodynamic-wave-sediment transport numerical model (ROMS-SWAN-CSTMS) to study flood deposits.  Under what conditions may a flood deposit form?  To what extent do waves and currents subsequently rework and redistribute riverine sediment?  What is the role of buoyant vs. gravity-driven transport of sediment?  The role of seabed consolidation? 

This research is part of a larger study analyzing the formation, reworking and accumulation of sedimentary deposits on the Waipaoa Shelf, New Zealand.  We are collaborating with researchers at East Carolina University (JP Walsh, Reide Corbett, Joey Kiker), University of Washington (Andrea Ogston, Rip Hale), and the National Institute of Water and Atmosphere, New Zealand (Alan Orpin) to investigate changes to the seabed over the course of a year using seabed and water column observations and a numerical model.  This work is funded under NSF's MARGINS Source-to-Sink Initiative. 

 

Advisor & Lab:

           Dr. Courtney Harris

          Sediment Transport Modeling Lab 

Links:

          Project Blog: www.ps-s2s.blogspot.com

           W&M Student Research Blog: http://ccsrg.blogs.wm.edu/ 

          NSF's MARGINS Program: http://www.nsf-margins.org/

          ROMS: https://www.myroms.org/

          CSTMS: http://cstms.org

 

Research Interests:

• Transport of sediment, nutrients, and contaminents
• Estuarine and coastal hydrodynamics
• Numerical modeling

 

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