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Field Trip Initial Results Research13 December 201413 December 2014

Overwash experiment GIF – continuous scanning @saflumn @stcNCED

Sneak preview of a forthcoming animated feature. Below is a sequence of topographic scans taken from a single run. Data are a bit raw, but they still offer a sense of how active the berm could be. One pass with the laser along the three meter length of the berm required five cross-shore swaths (here…

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Field Trip Initial Results Research4 December 20145 December 2014

“Someone’s gotta help me dig…” (Day 3 @stcNCED @saflumn)

Been singing to myself this line from Father John Misty en route to the lab these past couple of mornings. Today was one of learning systems. Chris Ellis found a rotameter, introduced me to thread-seal tape (Teflon tape), and gave me a plumbing problem to work out (I still managed to install it upside-down the…

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Field Trip Initial Results Research3 December 20145 December 2014

Day 2 @stcNCED @saflumn – check your levels

Yesterday’s trial produced one overwash lobe; today’s produced two. Getting there. I spent much of today off by an eighth of an inch. I misaligned the blocks on the screed we’re using to level the planar surfaces, reminding myself of the classic construction adage to “measure twice, cut once.” After a lot of frowning and…

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Field Trip Initial Results Research2 December 20145 December 2014

“Morphodynamics of breaching” experiments @stcNCED @saflumn – Day 1

It almost worked the first time. I’m writing from the University of Minnesota’s St. Anthony Falls Lab (SAFL) in Minneapolis, home of the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED). Thanks to Chris Paola, I’m here as a visiting scientist, funded by NCED and a small research grant from the British Society for Geomorphology to run…

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