Grains to Satellites: Sediment and Hydrological Processes Across Scales

 Dear Colleagues,

We wanted to bring this AGU session to your attention.

“Grains to Satellites: Sediment and Hydrological Processes Across Scales” (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm21/prelim.cgi/Session/124770). We welcome studies using laboratory experiments, numerical modeling, field studies, and/or remote sensing techniques that explore the broad linkages and feedbacks between sediment and hydrological processes at and/or across the scales between grains and satellites. Additionally, we welcome studies impacted by the past year that have had to creatively explore our world while working remotely.

Session Description:

The interactions between fluid flow and sediment determine the characteristics of Earth’s surface, from terrestrial to coastal environments. Big data continue to emerge from laboratory-scale grain or pore interactions to remotely sensed river migration recorded by satellites, allowing for an unprecedented view of an evolving Earth. Harnessing these ever growing data streams requires novel hypotheses, theory, analyses, and methods capable of connecting across scales. This broad session aims to include studies that explore water and sediment dynamics, landscape morphology, and/or the linkages between them from a methodological and/or discovery angle. We welcome studies using field and laboratory experiments, modeling, and/or remote sensing techniques that explore the Earth’s surface with an eye towards connecting processes across spatial and temporal scales. Additionally, given the prior year we welcome studies that explore the novel science that can be accomplished when working remotely, broadly construed.

Invited Speakers:

Anastasia Piliouras (Los Alamos National Lab)

Lucy MacKenzie (University of British Columbia)

Hope you will join us!

 Sincerely

John Gardner, Sarah Schanz, Anya Leenman, and Colin Phillips