models – The Environmental Dynamics Lab (EDL)

13 December 2014

Race to a spectacular beginning (overwash experiments conclude, for now)

Today was my last on the SAFL shop floor. What a spectacular visit this has been. I’m grateful to both the NCED2 program and the British Society for Geomorphology for the opportunity to work here in Minneapolis these past two weeks. Rich discussions, incredible facilities, and so much enthusiasm from so many people – not…

29 May 2013

On sinuosity (a discursive recap)

Sinuosity sneaked up on me. A couple of miles north of Portland, Maine, there is a mudflat visible from 295, northbound, just before the highway bridge over the Presumpscot River into Falmouth. (I’ve shown it here in Slide 1, via Google Earth.) The mudflat hosts an incised channel that takes a dramatic hook near its…