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RSM River Mechanics Podcast

Stanford Gibson

Conversations about River Mechanics, Sediment Transport, and Fluvial Geomorphology

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62:18

David Topping on the Grand Canyon Prototype...

RSM River Mechanics Podcast ·

2025/07/27

Dr. David Topping is a Research Hydrologist with the US Geological Survey. He did his undergrad at MIT, a masters and Phd at the University of Washington and has published >100 well cited peer review publications. Dr Topping has worked with the USGS for >30 years but for the last 18 or so have been with the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center in Flagstaff AZ where he has been one of the reasons that the Glen Canyon releases have become in one of the most ambitious an...

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56:05

Rob Ettema on River Ice, Ice-Sediment Interactions,...

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2025/04/17

I grew up in one of North America’s great snow belts…and started my career in Buffalo NY So, that background and my fascination with sediment transport primes curiosity in ice transport. I’m sure my ice friends would cringe at this, but I sometimes call ice transport as upside down sediment transport. But despite the symmetry of ice and sediment transport, they are separate, complicated, disciplines with little overlapping expertise. Which is why its remarkable, that this episode’s guest is...

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63:08

Pierre Julien on Bed Forms, High Concentration Flow,...

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2025/03/14

Dr. Pierre Julien joined the Colorado State faculty almost 40 years ago, where he worked at CSU’s Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics laboratory. His book, Erosion and Sedimentation, is one of my most common references, and several of the algorithms we have in HEC-RAS (particularly for mud and debris flows) come directly from this text. But while Dr. Julien’s textbook includes as many partial differential equations and tensors as any other hydraulics text – maybe more – it...

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62:51

Ellen Wohl on World Rivers, River Restoration, and...

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2025/02/21

We’re kicking this season off with one of the most prolific researchers in River Science. Dr. Ellen Wohl is a Fluvial Geomorphologist at Colorado State’s Warner College of Natural Resources. As we will discuss, Dr. Wohl has explored and studied rivers on 6 continents (so far). But she has also focused on river processes in the Colorado front range for more than 20 years, Turning up some important insights from both these scales. I’m not sure if Dr. Wohl leads the fluvial res...

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18:15

"Ask an Editor" with Amy East (Bonus short)

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2025/01/11

The peer review process can feel like hazing to a new (or not-so-new) river scientist. Many excellent practitioners are learning from their rivers every day, but it can feel like if it doesn't get into peer review, it doesn't "count." So we separated this short segment from my conversation with Dr. Amy East, the Editor-in-Chief of AGU's Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface (and >10 years experience editing high impact journals) to provide a little primmer on how to ne...

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90:53

Peter Wilcock on Gravel Bed Rivers, Partial...

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2024/06/04

When HEC hired me to add sediment transport to HEC-RAS almost 20 years ago now, I inherited a set of sediment transport functions that were mostly developed in the early to mid 20th century. These were – and continue to be – important equations.But when I sat down with the RAS team To talk about the new science I was excited to include in a river mechanics model.I pulled out the same binder I brought to this interview We are wrapping up our third season of the podcast, and our...

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59:51

Mary Power on River Ecology, Disturbance, and...

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2024/04/19

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54:12

Alain Recking on Sediment Sorting, Transport, and...

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2024/04/04

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58:38

Sediment Modeling Failure Modes and Best Practices...

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2024/03/21

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67:19

Tony Thomas on the Origin of Sediment Modeling and...

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2024/03/08

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55:23

Jim Selegean and the "Classic Paper Draft"

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2024/02/23

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41:31

Astrid Blom on Incision on the Rhine, Gravel-Sand...

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2024/02/09

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54:07

Marcello Garcia (part 2) on Sedimentation Hazards,...

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2024/01/26

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60:15

Marcelo Garcia Shares Some Sediment Stories and...

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2024/01/20

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53:47

David Montgomery on High Gradient River Mechanics...

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2024/01/03

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12:19

Season 3 Preview Episode (with guest excerpts)

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2023/12/20

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54:44

Jennifer Bountry on Dam Removal

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2023/09/07

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55:23

John Shelley and Paul Boyd on Reservoir Sediment...

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2023/08/24

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55:25

Greg Morris on Reservoir Sediment Management Methods

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2023/08/11

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55:34

George Annandale on the Reservoir Sedimentation...

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2023/07/28

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