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Proceedings of the Federal Interagency Sediment Monitoring Instrument and Analysis Research Workshop, September 9-11, 2003, Flagstaff, Arizona, edited by J.R. Gray: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1276, sponsored by the Subcommittee on Sedimentation of the Advisory Committee on Water Information. To access the extended abstracts for this report, visit this url: http://water.usgs.gov/osw/techniques/sediment/sedsurrogate2003workshop/listofpapers.html

THEME: The Sediment Monitoring Instrument and Analysis Research Workshop, sponsored by the Federal Interagency Subcommittee on Sedimentation (SOS), convened public- and private-sector scientists, managers, and others with interests in production of fluvial sediment data using advanced technologies and analytical techniques that are quantifiably accurate, more informative, less expensive, and (or) safer to obtain than data associated with traditional methods for collecting and analyzing those data. The scope of the workshop included the means for measuring, storing, analyzing, and disseminating suspended-sediment, bedload, bed-material, bedform properties, and water clarity data. The general goals were to:

• EXCHANGE INFORMATION on research into new and improved methods and technologies for monitoring fluvial sediment, including suspended sediment, bedload, bed material, or bed topography and related parameters; and propose new research directions; provide an opportunity to view field and laboratory techniques for characterizing selected properties of suspended sediment that are being used or tested.
• PROVIDE A FORUM to consider the ways and means to achieve an agreed-upon vision for acquiring, analyzing, storing, and accessing the reliable, quantifiably accurate fluvial-sediment data needed by the Nation.
• MAKE CLEAR AND TRACTABLE RECOMMENDATIONS to the SOS regarding research on sediment monitoring instruments and analytical procedures.

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