Current Research Focus

All our Unit's projects are part of the ARS National Programs Water Quality & Management (NP 201) and Soil Resource Management(NP 202). Our current in-house research is carried out under the ARS CRIS Project Number:  6408-12130-011-00D and includes the following projects:

• Erodibility-Soil Properties
• Acoustics
• Land-Management Systems for Erosion Control
• Vegetative Barriers for Runoff and Erosion Control
• Vegetative Barriers - Movie of Flume
• Surface Changes by Rainfall and Overland Flow
• Rainfall Intensity Summarization Tool (RIST)
• Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE)
• Linking Flow Hydraulics with the Transport of Suspended Solids
• Understanding the Interactions Between Stream Flow, Sediment Transport and the Topography of the River Bed
• Studies of Bed Load Transport in Streams
• Local Scour in the Vicinity of Spur Dikes
• Acoustic Measurement of Sediment Load
• Channel Evolution and Prediction of Future Channel Dimensions and Sediment Yields
• Mitigating Land Loss and Sediment Yield Due to Streambank Erosion
• Effects of Positive and Negative Pore Pressures and Soil Moisture on Bank-Material Strength and Streambank
• Dominant Discharge in Incised Channels
• Erosion and Sediment Yield Associated with Head-cut and Gully Development in upland Areas
• Leadership in the Development of AnnAGNPS, the Continuous Version of AGNPS