From August 12 to 21 PhD student Juan Felipe Paniagua Arroyave participated in the Summer Institute in Earth-surface Dynamics at the NSF-funded National Center of Earth-surface Dynamics. The topic for this year’s institute was ‘Complexity and predictability in depositional systems’, and consisted of a series of lectures, hands-on demonstrations and a community experiment in one of the delta tanks at the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL) at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
These exercises provided a theoretical and practical framework in how complexity plays a role in depositional systems. Even with variations in two parameters like base level and sediment supply, the exact behavior of sediment deposition remains almost unpredictable.
http://www.nced.umn.edu/contents/summer-institute-earth-surface-dynamics
