Riverside embayment is expected to provide good habitat for fish in rivers. We measured flow field and water qualities at the artificial embayment zone in the experimental river of the Aquatic Restoration Research Center in order to investigate the mechanism of water exchange in riverside embayment. In a high water stage, flow structures near the embayment were revealed by the measurement. Vege...

This dissertation presents a detailed numerical study using fully three-dimensional Large Eddy Simulation (LES) simulations of the flow and mass exchange processes in straight channels containing one or multiple embayments with vertical spanwise walls on one side corresponding to the presence of groynes in river reaches. The main focus is on identifying, understanding and quantifying the role p...

Ahwas sandstone and Kalhur evaporate members are two main constituents of the best reservoir unit of Zagros region, i.e. Asmari Formation. Poorly cemented to loose nature of the sandstone member and it’s well textural maturity provide highly porous and permeable zones, whereas highly compacted nature of the evaporate member provide impermeable zones in the reservoir. This paper aims to study th...

The Mississippi Embayment is a prominent physiographic feature of eastern North America consisting of primarily lowland aquatic habitats and a fish fauna that is largely distinct from nearby highland regions. Numerous studies have demonstrated that both pre-Pleistocene and Pleistocene events have had a strong influence on the distributions and relationships of highland fishes in eastern North A...

Cooper, M., Beck, E., and Woolery, E., 2016 Integrated Geophysical Methods forCorrelating the Upper Mississippi Embayment Aquifer System Hydrostratigraphy:Jackson Purchase, Western Kentucky U.S.A.: Southeastern Geological Society ofAmerica Abstracts with Programs, v. 48, no. 3, p. 28-9. Cooper, M., Beck, E., and Woolery, E., 2016 Investigation of the Upper MississippiEmbayment A...

The Izeh fault zone is a transverse fault zone with dextral strike slip (and some reverse component) in the Zagros Mountains (Iran). It causes some structural deformations. This fault zone is acting as eastern boundary of Dezful Embayment and forms subsidence of the embayment. The fault has been recognized using remote sensing techniques in conjunction with surface and subsurface analyses. The ...

Since 1990, Yahtse Glacier in southern Alaska has advanced at an average rate of ∼100m year−1 despite a negativemass balance, widespread thinning in its accumulation area, and a low accumulation-area ratio. To better understand the interannual and seasonal changes at Yahtse and the processes driving these changes, we construct velocity and ice surface elevation time series spanning the years 19...

The decompression rate of magma as it ascends during volcanic eruptions is an important but poorly constrained parameter that controls many of the processes that influence eruptive behavior. In this study, we quantify decompression rates for basaltic magmas using volatile diffusion in olivine-hosted melt tubes (embayments) for three contrasting eruptions of Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii. Incomplete e...

This work describes the water collection experiment component of the Megacollect 2004 campaign. Megacollect was a collaborative campaign coordinated by RIT with several institutions to spectrally measure various target/background scenarios with airborne sensors and ground instruments. An extension to the terrestrial campaign was an effort to simultaneously measure water optical properties in di...

Terrestrial radar interferometry (TRI) is a new technique for studying ice motion and volume change of glaciers. TRI is especially useful for temporally and spatially dense measurements of highly dynamic glacial termini. We conducted a TRI survey of Breiðamerkurjökull, a marineterminating glacier in Iceland, imaging its terminus near the end of the melt season in 2011, 2012 and 2013. The ice ve...