{"id":194,"date":"2017-12-05T21:48:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T01:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/dralston\/?p=194"},"modified":"2017-12-27T11:57:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T15:57:03","slug":"paper-on-sediment-transport-in-tidal-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/dralston\/paper-on-sediment-transport-in-tidal-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper on sediment transport in tidal rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><cite id=\"jgrf20759-cit-0001\"><span class=\"articleTitle\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-195 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/dralston\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2017\/12\/fig05_sedMass2014-300x280.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/dralston\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2017\/12\/fig05_sedMass2014-300x280.png 300w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/dralston\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2017\/12\/fig05_sedMass2014-768x717.png 768w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/dralston\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2017\/12\/fig05_sedMass2014-1024x956.png 1024w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/dralston\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2017\/12\/fig05_sedMass2014.png 1125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" \/><\/span><\/cite> <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/2017JF004337\/full\">Our paper<\/a>\u00a0came out in JGR-Earth Surface on <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/dralston\/areas-of-research\/sediment-transport-2\/\">sediment transport<\/a> in tidal rivers.\u00a0 Using observations and a model for the Hudson River, we diagnose the controls on how much sediment gets trapped in the tidal fresh region and how long it takes to move through the estuary. Settling velocity is key, and for all but the slowest settling particles it can take years to decades for sediment to move through the system, and more than half of it is left behind permanently on depositional shoals.<\/p>\n<p><cite id=\"jgrf20759-cit-0001\"><span class=\"author\">Ralston, D. K.<\/span><\/cite><cite id=\"jgrf20759-cit-0001\">, &amp; <span class=\"author\">Geyer, W. R.<\/span> (<span class=\"pubYear\">2017<\/span>). <span class=\"articleTitle\">Sediment transport time scales and trapping efficiency in a tidal river<\/span>. <span class=\"journalTitle\">Journal of<\/span><\/cite><cite id=\"jgrf20759-cit-0001\"><span class=\"journalTitle\"> Geophysical Research: <\/span><\/cite><cite id=\"jgrf20759-cit-0001\"><span class=\"journalTitle\">Earth Sur<\/span><\/cite><cite id=\"jgrf20759-cit-0001\"><span class=\"journalTitle\">face<\/span>, <span class=\"vol\">122<\/span>. <a title=\"Link to external resource: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/2017JF004337\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/2017JF004337\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/2017JF004337<\/a><\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our paper\u00a0came out in JGR-Earth Surface on sediment transport in tidal rivers.\u00a0 Using observations and a model for the Hudson River, we diagnose the controls on how much sediment gets trapped in the tidal fresh region and how long it takes to move through the estuary. Settling velocity is key, and for all but the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3,5,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/dralston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/dralston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/dralston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/dralston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/dralston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/dralston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/dralston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/dralston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/dralston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/dralston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}