RSM River Mechanics Podcast
Conversations about River Mechanics, Sediment Transport, and Fluvial Geomorphology
RSM River Mechanics Podcast
Latest Episodes
Gary Parker on Gravel Bed Rivers
Dr. Gary Parker is one of the defining figures in modern river mechanics and sediment transport. He's a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois or Urbana Champlain where he's been since 2005. Before that he was a distinguished pr...
Floodplain Sedimentation Pannel with Desiree Tullos, Janine Castro, and Jon Czuba
About a year ago an interdisciplinary tam at Oregon State invited a collection of subject matter experts for workshop on floodplain sedimentation processes. The workshop took up a very specific question but gathering this much...
Bill Dietrich on Meander Mechanics, Hillslopes, and Where Rivers Begin
Over his career Dr. Bill Dietrich has had an outsized influence on both the discipline of geomorphology and the community that surrounds the discipline. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at the Univ...
Cohesive Sediment Properties and Processes with David Perkey, Jarrell Smith and Danielle Tarpley
So far on this podcast we've generally used the noun "sediment" to describe sand, gravel, and maybe cobbles and boulders. But the same word also gets used for silts, clays, and muds - materials that behave so differently that lumping them toget...
Mike Spoor on the Ohio River, Bank Failure, Glacial and Coal Mining Sediment Legacies...and 60 Years Working with Rivers
I only know one person who can claim >60 years of federal service. This episode's guest, Mike Spoor. Mike spent those years with the US Army Corps of Engineers Huntington District (in West Virginia on the banks of the Ohio River)...
