Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/B504165/1
Integrated field numerical test of stream erosion models using the transient response of bedrock rivers to tectonic forcing.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Dr P Cowie, University of Edinburgh, Sch of Geosciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor G Roberts, Birkbeck College, Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Grant held at:
- University of Edinburgh, Sch of Geosciences
- Science Area:
- Freshwater
- Earth
- Overall Classification:
- Earth
- ENRIs:
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Science Topics:
- Earth Surface Processes
- Sediment/Sedimentary Processes
- Quaternary Science
- Tectonic Processes
- Geohazards
- Abstract:
- Rivers are a familiar feature of our landscape and they have a significant impact on human existence, either as a source of water or as a hazard through flooding or triggering land-slides and debris flows. Therefore it is important that we understand how rivers work. Much research has been focused on alluvial rivers that dominate lowland landscapes. Much less attention has been paid to bed-rock rivers, which typify fluvial channels found in mountainous areas. This project focuses on bed-rock rivers draining mountains in central Italy where present-day earthquake activity is contributing to landscape instability. Rivers are very sensitive to variations in tectonic uplift (through changes in slope and base-level), vegetation cover and precipitation (through changes in discharge). Furthermore, the elevation of mountain regions can amplify trends in climatic conditions. Thus the fundamental scientific question addressed here concerns landscape sensitivity: How might our landscape respond to a change in tectonic and climatic conditions - what is the scale, nature and timing of the response? We can only answer this question if we understand fully the physics of fluvial erosion. So far several competing theories have been published. This project aims to test these theories and thus determine which are most appropriate and where weaknesses in the existing theory may lie.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/B504165/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Standard Grants Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Standard Grant
This grant award has a total value of £149,476
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - T&S | Total - Staff | Total - Other Costs | Total - Equipment | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £15,598 | £85,548 | £5,478 | £3,500 | £39,352 |
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