Impact of Riverbank Vegetation Topic for Feb. 24 Water@USU Seminar

Water@USU, a Utah State University Water Initiative project, welcomes geomorphologist Michal Tal to campus Tuesday, Feb. 24. Tal presents “Interactions between Braiding and Vegetation Leading to the Formation of Dynamic Single-Thread Channels in a Laboratory Experiment” at 4 p.m. in the Biology-Natural Resources Building, room 102. Her talk is free and open to all. 

Tal, who recently completed a doctorate degree in geology and geophysics at the University of Minnesota, studies the effects of riverbank vegetation on stream flow, sedimentation and channel formation. She will discuss a recent series of laboratory experiments performed at the university’s St. Anthony Falls Laboratory that demonstrate how vegetation can cause a braided or multi-channeled stream to narrow to a single channel.

 

Upcoming Water@USU Seminar speakers include David Stevens, professor of environmental engineering at USU, on March 3. The seminars, free and open to all, are held at 4 p.m. in BNR 102.

 

Registration for Water@USU’s annual Spring Runoff Conference, slated for April 2-3 in the Eccles Conference Center, is now in progress. Information about the conference, which convenes jointly with the USU-based Utah Climate Center’s Intermountain Meteorology Workshop, is available on the conference Web site.

 

Water@USU is an interdisciplinary collaboration of the university’s Utah Water Research Laboratory, the colleges of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, Natural Resources, Science, Engineering, Agriculture and the Huntsman School of Business. Established in 2003, the initiative fosters collegial sharing of water-related research and ideas throughout campus and the community.

 

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Contact: Kim Schreuders (435) 797-2941, kim.schreuders@usu.edu
Writer: Mary-Ann Muffoletto (435) 797-3517, maryann.muffoletto@usu.edu