Fun with cardboard (and geomorphology).

Nov 10, 2010

We’re a little loopy at LRRD now, from both overwork and excitement. Today we moved the Em4 model we hauled to GSA-Denver off a truck and into our lab. The rules of hydraulic similitude dictated a 4-meter length for the Em4.  It’s about the size of a car...

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Gravel roads, NSF, dumpster diving, IGERT students.

Jul 24, 2010

A few photos from today’s work. Little River Research & Design is on a roll.  Like the kind I remember on gravel roads in Arkansas way back, mostly great fun but with seriously unpleasant jolts. Bumps like a rejection from NSF last week. And very cool stuff...

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Missouri’s Current River.

Jun 21, 2010

I’m always surprised how few geomorph types know the Current River in the Missouri Ozarks. Kate and I are finishing a short working trip there. This photo shows me with a project I designed in 1994 at Big Spring. This National Park Service site has a rich...

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A merry Christmas flume.

Dec 25, 2009

More of the little prototype I’m working on, the lights in the background are in our front windows.  Peace and happiness to all.

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Recipe for a river; more on the Braudrick flume study.

Oct 6, 2009

More on the Braudrick et al. work published last week: NPR’s Science Friday made a nice little video, in which Bill Dietrich used the phrase “recipe for a river.” Click on the image above to see it. The recipe includes two sizes and densities of...

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