(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Rivers are Earth’s arteries. Water, sediment and nutrients self-organize into diverse, dynamic channels as they journey from the mountains to the sea. Some rivers carve out a ...

It’s mid-morning at an oxbow on the Mendenhall River, and signs of change are all around. A handful of spruce trees, felled by river erosion, sit awash in the gray-green rush. Silty ledges, ...

The study of river bank erosion and channel dynamics is fundamental to understanding the interplay between natural fluvial processes and human interventions in diverse environments. Recent research ...

Large wood (LW) in the river corridor (channel/s and surrounding floodplain) influences hydraulics, sediment deposition and erosion pattern, provides habitat and nutrients for biota, and influences ...

Charlotte Milne receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Public Scholars Initiative at UBC. The research mentioned in this article received funding ...

Every spring, melting snow and heavy rainfall brings a higher risk of flooding and riverbank erosion to parts of Canada. Bank erosion is responsible for a significant portion of annual flood damage in ...