Detailed bathymetry data are collected on short reaches and are usually not available for the entire stream network at a regional scale. By using the field data collected for a reach along the Brazos River in Texas, a geographic information system (GIS) framework for describing river channel bathymetry at regional-scale is presented. The framework is based on deriving relationships among differ...

This paper examines the performance benefits of employing multicast communication and application-level multithreading in the Brazos software distributed shared memory (DSM) system. Application-level multithreading in Brazos allows programs to transparently take advantage of available local multiprocessing. Brazos uses multicast communication to reduce the number of consistency-related messages...

An integrated surface geophysical pilot study at the Texas A&M University Brazos River Hydrologic Field Research Site (BRHFRS), College Station, Texas, was done to determine the effectiveness of methods for defining the hydrostratigraphic framework and hydrogeologic properties for a ground-water availability model. Time-domain electromagnetic (TDEM) soundings and direct-current (2D–DC) resistiv...

The US Gulf of Mexico coastal region has repeatedly been subjected to major flood events. Local geotechnical site characteristics and geomorphology can change due sediment transport processes during such However, field measurements extreme conditions are challenging. This paper discusses initial attempts at a combined geophysical investigation the uppermost layers riverbeds following severe flo...

—Three oxbow lakes with different connection frequencies and an adjacent reach of the middle Brazos River, Texas, were surveyed quarterly from summer 1993 to summer 1996 to examine the effects of hydrology and physicochemical attributes on fish assemblage structure. During flood events, oxbows usually were colonized by about 20 fish species from the river channel, and several fluvial specialist...

Algal carbon has been increasingly recognized as the primary carbon source supporting large-river food webs; however, many of the studies that support this contention have focused on lotic main channels during low-flow periods. The flow variability and habitat-heterogeneity characteristic of these systems has the potential to significantly influence food web structure and must be integrated int...