Erosion and Sediment Transport Measurement in Rivers: Technological and Methodological Advances
edited by J. Bogen, T. Fergus & D. E. Walling
(December 2003) ISBN 1-901502-42-2; 238 + viii pp. Price £45.50
The growing awareness of the important role of fluvial sediment in a wide range of environmental problems has accentuated the need for better and more consistent information, yet data collection in this field still lags behind other areas of hydrology. New problems call for new approaches, new strategies and new methods, in order to develop an improved understanding of cause and effect relationships for different activities within a river basin.
Developments in what can be measured in the field, or on samples returned to the laboratory, and in how the data can be used, are moving forward apace. In the case of instream measurements, the environment is often hostile but innovative use of new technology enables data collection that was previously unthought of.
This volume comprises a selection of 24 papers from the Oslo Workshop (2002) of the same title. They are grouped into three topics:
Suspended sedimentErosion and sediment sources in catchments
Bed load monitoring and transport processes
Together the papers provide both a synthesis of existing knowledge and a review of the progress of current research and development.