On November 2-7, 2014, PhD student Juan Felipe Paniagua participated in the Sediment Experimentalist European Workshop, held at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. The workshop was focused on discussing recent advances in experimental work, with an emphasis on data management and sharing.
Particularly interesting was the community experiment in which participants used the Eurotank to reproduce two Gilbert-type deltas with steady sediment supply, to address the reproducibility of experiments, and variations in base level, representing an allogenic process.
In one experiment, a deformable bed was simulated by incorporating an additional autogenic process through variations in base level related to the delta formation.
More information regarding the SEN project:
Principal Investigators: Drs. Raleigh Martin, Kim Miller, Leslie Hsu, Wonsuck Kim, and Brandon McElroy.
http://workspace.earthcube.org/sen
http://www.sedexp.net