The Strickland River is the primary sediment source for the Fly River system, a large tropical river that ranks in the global top 20 for both water and sediment discharge. Over the past decade the Strickland sediment discharge has been gauged at many locations. Comprehensive studies are now underway to study the delivery, transport, and storage of sediment throughout this system. A key question...

Sediment is a major agricultural pollutant threatening water quality. Vegetated buffers, including vegetative filter strips, riparian buffers, and grassed waterways, are best management practices (BMPs) installed in many areas to filter sediments from tailwaters, and deter sediment transport to water bodies. Along with reducing sediment transport, the filters also help trap sediment bound nutri...

The Musi Hydropower-Plant catchment area is susceptible to soil erosion and sedimentation. Therefore, this research aimed predict land use cover changes (LULCC) as well their impact on sedimentation in the area. prediction of LULCC was calculated using Land Change Modeler module IDRISI Terrset, while were estimated with Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) Sediment Delivery Ratio (SDR) ...

Falling of rigid body through air, water, and sediment with high speed is investigated experimentally and theoretically. Several experiments were conducted to shoot bomb-like rigid bodies with the density ratio similar to MK84 into the hydrographical tank. During the experiments, we carefully observe the position and orientation of the bomb-like rigid bodies. The theoretical work includes the d...

Researchers have independently documented the effects of land use on rivers and threats to river management institutions, but the relationship between changes in institutional context and river condition is not well described. This study assesses the connections between resource management institutions, land use, and rivers by integrating social science, geospatial analysis, and geomorphology. ...

The InVEST hydrologic models were designed to represent the dominant processes of sediment/nutrient delivery and retention by land use/ land cover (LULC). Since they are not standard rainfall-runoff models, classical calibration and testing methods are not always applicable. Testing and calibration were particularly difficult in our study region due to: i) the absence of local data (e.g. in-str...

Soil losses and the subsequent sediment delivery constitute significant environmental threats. Climate change is likely to have an impact on the availability of water and therefore on sediment yield in catchments. In this context, quantifying the sediment response to an increased atmospheric CO2 concentration and climate change is of utmost importance to the proper management of rural catchment...

Release of reactive (phosphate-like) phosphorus (P) from freshwater sediments represents a significant internal P source for many lakes. Hypolimnetic P release occurs under reducing conditions that cause reductive dissolution of ferric hydroxide [Fe(OH)3]. This hypolimnetic P release may be naturally low or artificially reduced by sediment with naturally high or artificially elevated concentrat...

Experimental studies provide a basis for understanding the mechanisms of rill erosion and can provide estimates for parameter values in physical models simulating the erosion process. In this study, we investigated sediment delivery during rill erosion in purple soil. We used the volume-replacement method to measure the volume of eroded soil and hence estimate the mass of eroded soil. A 12 m ar...