DOE/ICRRR - DOE/ICRRR - MoRPHED PhD Studentship

Project Type: **ICRRR Supported Research **Project Sponsor: Name of Agency, Client or Unsponsored Project Location: Some River, Some State, Some Country or Not Site Specific Status: Completed

Project Overview

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Related Links & Research

• This work is continuing has now been fully funded by NSF: NSF: Sensitivity of Braided River Morphodynamics to Sediment Supply

Project Outputs

Presentations from this Project

• Poster: Kasprak A and Wheaton J. 2011. Morphodynamic Modeling of Gravel Bed Rivers: a Step-Length Based Approach, AGU Fall Meeting 2011. American Geophysical Union: San Francisco, CA. EP23C-0778.

Publications from this Project

• Forthcoming

Software or Tools from this Project

• MORPHED (Model of Riverine Physical Habitat and Ecogeomorphic Dynamics)

Project Details

Project PI: Joseph Wheaton Project Personnel from ET-AL: Alan Kasprak (PhD Student) Project Collaborators: James Brasington (University of Queen Mary, London) Funding Source: Department of Energy appropriation to ICRRR Project Start Date: **September, 2010 **Project End Date (anticipated): August, 2011