Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Table 2.2
Continued
Breakout session I:
suspended
sediment
Breakout session III
Breakout session IV
Breakout session II:
bedload
Bed material
Bed topography
Data management
Flux computations
Surrogate techniques
Availability of instruments
Many, commer-
cially available
Few, mostly
research, in early
development
Some, but not for
unwadeable
gravel bed
Several, Government
or commercially
available
Create data gaps/
problems; need
qualifying data
Need protocols for
computations
Quantify accuracy
Some need
Major need
Needed
Some need
Major need
Major need
Applicable environments
Fluvial, coastal
zone, estuaries
Fluvial, marine and
coastal zones
Freshwater, marine
and coastal
zones
Freshwater, marine
and coastal zones
Models
Uses and needs
Accurate data
needed for
better models
Uses and needs
Uses and needs
Research and oversight
Basic research sought
Yes
Yes, considerable
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
White paper sought
Past, present,
future
technologies
Extant focus of current
research venues or entities
Many fi eld sites
Need national
calibration
standard sites
Online interest
groups
Need sediment
database manage-
ment task group
SMIAR Program needed
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Organizational oversight of a
SMIAR Program
FISP, or FISP-type
organization
FISP, or FISP-type
organization
FISP, or FISP-type
organization
FISP, or FISP-type
organization
FISP, or FISP-type
organization
FISP, or FISP-type
organization
SMIAR, Sediment Instrument and Analysis Research; FISP, the Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project.
