Funding success with the American Chemical Society
We were recently notified that we will be receiving funding from the American Chemical Society’s Petroleum Research
Fund to study the evolution of the morphology and composition of submarine levees. The grant includes money for graduate
and undergraduate support (please contact me if you are interested in pursuing research on this topic). The objective of
this project is to improve our ability to invert levee morphology for deposit composition in deep-water environments. At
present the processes associated with levee growth and our ability to predict levee composition lags behind our understanding
of channelized deep-water deposits. We will build upon an investigation of levee morphology and growth that proposed a levee
growth model that utilized an advection settling model for sediment transport coupled to a vertical sediment concentration
profile. In this project we will extend the capabilities of this levee growth model to allow it to predict the composition of
levees bounding an array of channel configurations.
To the left: Initial modeling results of the evolution of levee morphology and composition resulting from turbidity currents
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