Braudrick and Dietrich find sand and vegetation essential for model meandering river

NCED PI Bill Dietrich and graduate student Christian Braudrick have found that vegetated banks and sand are essential ingredients in creating and maintaining a scale-model of a meandering gravel bed river in the laboratory.  Braudrick, Dietrich, and collaborators have recently published their work in PNAS and have since seen it featured in National Public Radio's Science Friday Program, NSF News, and UC Berkeley Newscenter.

View a video highlighting Braudrick and Dietrich's accomplishment:

2:48 min. video produced by Roxanne Makasdjian, UC Berkeley Media Relations