Since 2006, Leslea Hlusko and Dr. Jackson Njau of the Tanzanian National Natural History Museum have been co-directing a survey project designed to identify new paleontological sites in Tanzania, focusing on sediments from the last 10 million years.
Leslea Hlusko joined Dr. Jackson Njau from the National Museum of Natural History in Arusha, Tanzania, for two months surveying central and southern Tanzania for new sites of paleoanthropolgical interest, focusing on sediments dating from 100.5 mya that may contain fossils and/or archaeological artifacts.
This paper focuses on sediment retention within the wetlands, estimated from annual sediment surveys in the first two years, and discusses establishment costs.
The forecasting part of the study was focused on sediment predictions using the past sediment records belonging either to downstream or upstream stations.
We conclude that future research into system response in this and similar settings should focus on sediment characteristics, production, and flux.
The work primarily focuses on sediment transport, the suspension and movement of sediment within the water column, and how sensing and monitoring can drive small modifications in the water system to construct or deconstruct land.
Due to the large variability in environmental parameters and the variety of landscapes present in the Eastern Mediterranean region, research has focused on sediment archives ranging from small colluvial sites to deltas of large rivers on the Mediterranean coast.
The mega-dune research focuses on sediments, dune morphology, and formation processes.
Our findings outline the importance of systematically taking into consideration the baseflow parameter in research focusing on fine sediment transport across scales.
Marvin Brinke (Federal Institute of Hydrology, Koblenz, Germany) presented a study focused on developing Sediment Quality Guidelines (SQG) for quality assessment of fine freshwater sediments including an evaluation of their predictive ability.
Similarly to the water fluxes discussed in the previous section, we can focus on the sediment fluxes entering and exiting a channel cross section and use them to determine the total sediment budget of a salt marsh.
