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Fluvial Sediment
- Announcements
- Bedload-Surrogate Monitoring Technologies, USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5091, by J.R. Gray, Jonathan B. Laronne, and Jeffrey D. G. Marr
- Guidelines and Procedures for Computing Time-Series Suspended-Sediment Concentrations and Loads from In-Stream Turbidity-Sensor and Streamflow Data -- Chapter 4 of Book 3, Applications of Hydraulics Section C, Sediment and Erosion Techniques, By Patrick P. Rasmussen, John R. Gray, G. Douglas Glysson, and Andrew C. Ziegler
- Sediment Conferences, Workshops and Events
- Future, compiled by the Subcommittee on Sedimentation
Past USGS-led Workshops:
- Sediment Monitoring Instrument Research and Analysis Research Workshop, September 9-11, 2003, Flagstaff, Arizona
- Turbidity and Other Sediment Surrogates Workshop, April 30-May 2, 2002
- Sediment Technology for the 21st Century, February 17-19, 1998, St. Petersburg, FL
- USGS Sediment Workshop Proceedings, February 4-7, 1997, Reston, VA and Harpers Ferry, WV
- General Fluvial Sediment Information and Publications
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- Selected Fluvial Sediment-Related Publications
- National Sediment
Laboratory Quality Assurance Program
- Bridge Scour
- USGS Sediment Memorandum
- Training
- Sediment Data Collection Training Course SW1091TC - 5 days
- QW1169TC - Geomorphic Analysis of Fluvial Systems
- ID2020TC - Modeling Flow and Transport in a Riverine Environment, 5 days
- SW1091TC - Sediment Data-Collection Techniques, 5 days
- SW2096TC - Sediment Records Computation & Interpretation, 5 days
- SW2008TC - Watershed System Modeling I, 5 days
- SW3018TC - Watershed System Modeling II, 5 days
- Software
- SLEDS - Cascades Volcano Observatory SedLab - SLEDS Program
- MODEIN - Computation of total sediment discharge by the modified Einstein procedure
- SEDDISCH - Computation
of fluvial sediment discharge
- SEDSIZE - Particle-size
statistics of fluvial sediments
- Instrumentation & Technology
- Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project:
Mark Landers, Chief
- Sediment Technology for 21st Century: John Gray
- Other Technology Publications
- Monitoring & Databases
- Summary of U.S. Geological Survey On-Line Instantaneous Fluvial Sediment and Ancillary Data
- OSW
Technical Memorandum No. 99.02, Description of USGS Historical Daily
Value Sediment Data Base
- USGS Historical Sediment Data Base
- Reservoir Sedimentation Databases
- RESSED--An Interactive Database and Website on U.S. REServoir SEDimentation Surveys, by the Subcommittee on Sedimentation
- RESSED--AGU-Eos News Article on RESSED (Vol. 90, No. 23, p. 199, June 2009)
- RESSED--An Online REServoir SEDimentation Survey Database for the United States, an abstract approved for publication in the Proceedings, "From Dust Bowl to Mud Bowl" Sedimentation, Conservation Measures and the Future of Reservoirs," Sept. 14-16, 2009, Kansas City, MO.
- RESIS-II: An Updated Version of the Original Reservoir Sedimentation Survey Information System (RESIS) Database,
by Katherine V. Ackerman, David M. Mixon, Eric T. Sundquist, Robert F. Stallard, Gregory E. Schwarz, and David W. Stewart
- Research & Modeling
- USGS, Water
Resources Division, National Research Project, Geomorophology and Sediment
Transport Projects
- USGS, Geologic Division, Coastal and Marine Geology Program
- Toxics Program
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Virtual Sediment Action Committee
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The Virtual Sediment Action Committee (VSAC) -- "good sounding board to the Office of Surface Water (OSW) on fluvial sediment and geomorphology issues germane to the USGS and those who rely on USGS data" -- was formed on April 25, 2013. The VSAC Charter and initial, dynamic List of Issues, available via links below, in tandem describe VSAC attributes and initial thrusts.
VSAC's original predecessor, the Sediment Action Committee (SAC) was formed in the 1980s after (and in part as a response to sedimentation issues associated with) the May 1980 Mt. St. Helens eruption. The original SAC had at its disposal $250,000, annually allocated by the USGS Volcano Hazards Program. Its mission was to be a ‘good sounding board [on USGS Water Resources Division sediment issues] for the OSW.’
By the mid-to-later 1990s, with the streams draining Mt. St. Helens carrying but a small percentage of their immediate post-eruption sediment loads, already diminished SAC funding was terminated. Then-OSW Chief Tom Yorke abolished SAC by ~1998.
Not surprisingly, the types of issues addressed by the original SAC persisted after its ~1998 abolishment. A meeting of a temporary Sediment Action Committee -- the 1st Ad Hoc SAC -- was held December 2001, at the USGS National Training Center in Lakewood, CO. The 2nd Ad Hoc SAC meeting took place in January 2008 at the Arizona Water Science Center, Tucson. Summaries from the first two Ad Hoc SAC meetings (in the case of the 1st, a draft summary is all that persists; a final summary with recommendations accepted by the OSW, resulted from the 2nd meeting) are available as follows:
- USGS Water Discipline Sediment Laboratories
- Location, Personnel, and Services
- Summaries from the 1998 and 2011 USGS Sediment Laboratory Workshops
2011 National Sediment Laboratory Workshop, Tampa, Florida
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- 1998 National Sediment Laboratory Workshop, Baton Rouge, LA
- Coordination of Federal Sedimentation Activities
- Federal Interagency Subcommittee on Sedimentation
- Current and Proposed International Sedimentation Activities
- World Association for Sedimentation and Erosion Research (WASER)
- Bedload Research International Cooperative (BRIC)
- Proposed International Watershed Research Network
- Selected References and Information Sources
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