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Most-Active Projects

These are the projects the Pasternack lab is working on most intensively at this time. River Builder and River Architect are software that provide foundational tools for our projects. The theory of GCSs is something we are also actively developing behind the scenes of several projects.

Most of our funded projects fall in the category of near-census river science, so if you click on that lin it will take you into to a new menu and listing with a diversity of individual projects.

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River Builder

World's first open-source, procedural software for creating river terrains exactly to specification.

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River Rehabilitation

What scientific knowledge and technological innovations are necessary to design and build natural riverine processes and landforms?

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Channel Types

Classification and analysis of California's channel types to aid river management.

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eFlows

Explore and visualize California's unimpaired streamflow patterns.

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River Architect

Python platform for ecohydraulic and geomorphic river & river design analysis.

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Near-Census River Science

Comprehensive, spatially explicit, process-based studies using the 1-m scale as the basic building block for investigating rivers.

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Geomorphic Covariance Structures

The fundamental bivariate linkages among river variables.


Long-standing Projects

These are projects that the Pasternack lab has been pursuing for many years and continues to do new research and outreach to draw the most out of the work that has been done.

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Urban Rivers

How may society achieve the many goals it has for its urban rivers using a blend of the available management tools at its disposal?

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Waterfalls

Waterfalls are amazing and complex natural phenomena, but we know surprising little about their hydraulics and morphodynamics.

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Functional Flows Model

How many days per year does a river provides each ecological function?

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Watershed Processes

What are the physical processes responsible for water, sediment, and wood fluxes throughout a watershed?

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Tidal Freshwater Deltas

What are the physical-biological linkages governing tidal freshwater delta landform evolution over multiple time scales?

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Estuarine Processes

What are the ecophysical processes responsible for landform evolution in estuaries?


Archived Projects

These are projects that the Pasternack lab did in the past that we are not actively pursing at this time, but which could be re-energized if of interest to sponsors and students.

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Volcanic Lakes

What physical and chemical processes are stewing in these bizarre lakes?

 

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Chaos in Hydrology

Is streamflow governed by chaotic dynamics?

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Sediment in Irrigated Agriculture

What are the physical processes of sediment generation, transport, and deposition in irrigation-dominated agricultural catchments

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Synthetic River Valleys

(This has been replaced with River Builder, but is content is preserved as introductory to that)

In this Section: Near-Census River Science » Geomorphic Covariance Structures » Synthetic River Valleys » Watershed Processes » River Rehabilitation » Waterfalls » Tidal Freshwater Deltas » Estuarine Processes » Functional Flows Model » Volcanic Lakes » Agricultural Sediment » Urban Rivers » Chaos in Hydrology » Channel Types
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