Sedimentary Systems
Gary Parker, Jim Best, Marcelo Garcia and Bruce Rhoads focus on the fluid
dynamics of river and deep sea sedimentary environemnts, addressing such
issues as the nature of river confluences, river channel planform, the
consequences of dam removal, the evolution and stability of bedforms and
the nature of deep sea sedimentation. Bruce Fouke works on coral-reef and
hot-spring environments, with the goal of understanding the interaction
of microbial, geochemical, and physical processes during the deposition
of carbonates. Sue Keiffer focuses on events where the fluid dynamics requires
the incorporation of strongly nonlinear effects that occur in some “extreme”
events: such as meteorite impacts, geyser and volcanic eruptions, and major
river floods.
- Prof. Bruce Fouke Terrestrial microbiology, coral reef studies, environmental microbiology
- Prof. Jim Best Process sedimentology and the fluid dynamics of clastic sedimentary systems
- Prof. Sue Kieffer Dynamics of volcanic eruptions and of meteorite impacts
- Prof. Gary Parker Evolution of landscapes and seascapes in response to erosion and deposition
- Prof. Marcelo Garcia River Mechanics & Sediment Transpo
- Prof. Bruce Rhoads Fluvial Dynamics, Geomorphology
