EP003
Alluvial and River Corridor Systems: Innovations in Methods, Processes, and Dynamics Across Scales
Session ID#: 250819
Session Description:
Alluvial rivers and their adjacent floodplains form dynamic corridors that integrate hydrological, geomorphological, and ecological processes. These systems are increasingly impacted by climate change, land use shifts, and infrastructure, driving the need for new tools and frameworks to understand and manage their complexity. This session invites contributions that explore innovations in field methods, remote sensing, modeling (e.g., AI/ML, physics-informed models), and data integration to analyze river and floodplain dynamics across spatial and temporal scales. We welcome studies focused on sediment transport, channel-floodplain connectivity, hydro-ecological feedbacks, and river morphodynamics, as well as applied work informing river restoration, hazard mitigation, and water resource management. Submissions that span disciplinary boundaries or link observations with models are particularly encouraged. This session aims to foster dialogue among researchers advancing the science and management of alluvial and river corridor systems in diverse geographic and climatic contexts.
Index Terms:
1821 Floods [HYDROLOGY]
1825 Geomorphology: fluvial [HYDROLOGY]
5419 Hydrology and fluvial processes [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5464 Remote sensing [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
Primary Convener: Amobichukwu Amanambu, University of Alabama, Department of Geography and the Environment, Tuscaloosa, United States
Conveners: Sagy Cohen, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, Adeyemi Olusola, York University, Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change, Toronto, ON, Canada and Bo Wang, Saint Louis University Main Campus, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Saint Louis, United States
Student/Early Career Convener: Pawan Thapa, University of Alabama, Department of Geography and the Environment, Tuscaloosa, United States
Calibrating the Geomorphic Clock: Remote Sensing of Sediment Storage and Transit Timescales in Alluvial River Corridors (1866497)
James Rees, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, United States; Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, United States, Vamsi Ganti, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States, Evan Greenberg, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Gen Li, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Earth Science, Santa Barbara, United States and Kelly K Caylor, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography and Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, Santa Barbara, United States; Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, Santa Barbara, United States
Process-Based Restoration Can Cause River Corridor Recovery in the Intermountain West (1880494)
Emily Iskin, Boise State University, Human-Environment Systems, Boise, ID, United States, Nicholas Kolarik, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States, Juan Camilo Rojas Lucero, Boise State University, Human-Environment Systems, Boise, United States and Jodi Brandt, Boise State University, Boise, United States
Beyond the Annual Maximum Series: Hydrological and Geomorphic Flood Risk in Dryland Streams (1896654)
Michaela Shallue, Utah State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Logan, UT, United States, Julianne Scamardo, Utah State University, Watershed Sciences, Logan, UT, United States and Colin B Phillips, Utah State University, Civil & Environmental Engineering and Utah Water Research Laboratory, Logan, United States
Sediment fingerprinting reveals event-driven shifts in sediment sources for a large federal reservoir, Kansas, USA (1899083)
Cayden Lloyd, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States, Anthony Layzell, University of Kansas, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, United States, Ted Harris, University of Kansas, Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence, KS, United States, Michael Ketterer, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, United States and Admin Husic, PhD, Virginia Tech, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Manassas, United States
Experimental Insights into Frictional Controls on River Avulsion Sites (1900469)
Hamidreza Azarmidokht, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United States, Jeffrey A Nittrouer, Texas Tech University, Department of Geosciences, Lubbock, United States; Texas Tech University, Geosciences, Lubbock, United States, Kyle M Straub, Tulane University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Orleans, United States and Jeffery nittrouer
Global river morphology atlas (1909015)
Niek Collot d'Escury1, Daan Beelen2, Jaap Nienhuis3, Maarten G Kleinhans2 and Esther Stouthamer4, (1)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, (2)Utrecht University, Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands, (3)Utrecht University, Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands, (4)Utrecht University, Faculty of Geosciences, Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands
Flow and Sediment Partitioning Across a Floodplain Channel Network (1919481)
Sadia Afrin Khan1, Muhammad Alif1, Sarah Leach1, Jonathan A Czuba1 and Douglas A Edmonds2, (1)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Biological Systems Engineering, Blacksburg, United States, (2)Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States
Probabilistic quantification of within-reach hydraulic geometry (1925529)
Anzy Lee1, Jose Castejon Villalobos1, Noelle Patterson2, Rebecca Manners Diehl3, Colin B Phillips4 and Belize Arela Albin Lane1, (1)Utah State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Logan, UT, United States, (2)Utah State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Logan, United States, (3)University of Vermont, Geography & Geosciences; Water Resources Institute, Burlington, United States, (4)Utah State University, Civil & Environmental Engineering and Utah Water Research Laboratory, Logan, United States
The Timescale and Future of a Gradual River Shift: A Study of the Athabasca River Avulsion, Canada (1946215)
Bo Wang, Saint Louis University Main Campus, Earth, Environment, and Geospatial Science, Saint Louis, United States, Khaled Khan, Saint Louis University Main Campus, Saint Louis, United States and Douglas A Edmonds, Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States
Enhancing Floodplain Representation in Network Flood Routing Models (1948879)
Rebecca Manners Diehl, University of Vermont, Department of Geography and Geosciences, Burlington, VT, United States, David Baude, University of Vermont, Geography & Geosciences; Water Resources Institute, Burlington, United States, Kristen Underwood, University of Vermont, Civil & Environmental Engineering; Water Resources Institute, Burlington, United States, Julianne Scamardo, Utah State University, Watershed Sciences, Logan, UT, United States and Beverley Wemple, University of Vermont, Department of Geography and Geosciences, Burlington, United States
Linking Agricultural Land Cover to Sediment Dynamics and Surface Morphology of a Lowland Floodplain (1961196)
Muhammad Alif1, Sadia Afrin Khan1, Garrett O'Hara2, Jonathan A Czuba1 and Douglas A Edmonds3, (1)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Biological Systems Engineering, Blacksburg, United States, (2)Indiana University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, United States, (3)Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States
Quantifying Erosion and Deposition Patterns on the Meandering River Floodplain of the East Fork White River, Indiana, USA (1964129)
Garrett O'Hara, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, Douglas A Edmonds, Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States and Jonathan A Czuba, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Biological Systems Engineering, Blacksburg, United States
Connecting sedimentology, geometry and spacing to different process origins of scroll bars on the Kantishna River, Alaska, USA (1964814)
Cooper Sentz1, Ellen P. Chamberlin1 and Jeffrey M Trop2, (1)Bucknell University, Geology & Environmental Geosciences, Lewisburg, United States, (2)Bucknell University, Geology & Environmental Sciences, Lewisburg, PA, United States
Global dynamics of multi-thread channels (1972768)
Feifei Zhao1, Vamsi Ganti2, Austin Chadwick3, Evan Greenberg4, Jonah S McLeod5, Yinxue Liu6, Louise J. Slater6 and Efi Foufoula-Georgiou7, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, United States, (3)Columbia University of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (5)Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, London, United Kingdom, (6)University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom, (7)University of California Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States
Development of a novel proximal sensing system for monitoring deposited sediment dynamics in river systems (1984393)
Andrew Neverman1, Ben Jolly1, Jan Schindler1, Hugh Smith1, Gabor Kereszturi2 and Garth Harmsworth1, (1)New Zealand Institute for Bioeconomy Science, Palmerston North, New Zealand, (2)Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
An Adaptable Method for Monitoring Suspended Sediment Concentration in Ungauged Rivers (1987737)
Xiwei Guo, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, United States, Anastasia Piliouras, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, University Park, PA, United States and Benjamin T Crosby, Idaho State University, Department of Geosciences, Pocatello, United States
Alluvial River-System Responses to the June 2022 floods in the Northern Greater Yellowstone Region, Western United States (1989488)
Andrew C Wilcox1, Riley Henson1, Zack DeLuca2, Lyman Persico3 and Benjamin T Crosby4, (1)University of Montana, Geosciences, Missoula, MT, United States, (2)University of Montana, Geosciences, Missoula, United States, (3)Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, United States, (4)Idaho State University, Department of Geosciences, Pocatello, United States
Using SWOT Satellite Data to Estimate Hydraulic Resistance and Sediment Transport Capacity (1989717)
J. Toby Minear, University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, United States, Joel Johnson, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Geological Sciences, Boulder, United States, Michael P. Lamb, California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States and Taylor Rowley, Louisiana State University, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Baton Rouge, United States
Reconstruction of Holocene Rio Grande Delta Avulsions using a Relative Age Model of the Abandoned Channel Belts (1997334)
Sebastian Lopez1, Tian Yang Dong1, Abdallah Zaki2, Timothy A Goudge3, Jude Benavides4, Juan Luis Gonzalez1 and John M. Swartz5, (1)University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, School of Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences, Edinburg, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Providence, United States, (4)University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, School of Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences, Brownsville, United States, (5)The Water Institute, Baton Rouge, United States
