Primary Convener:
Jiyong Lee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Convener:
Julia Cisneros, Virginia Tech
Hongbo Ma, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Steve Darby, University of Southampton
Leo Guerrero, Universidad De Ingenieria Y Tecnologia
Claudia Vega, Wake Forest University

Early Career Convener:
Leo Guerrero, Louisiana State University

Chair:
Kory Konsoer, LSU
Julian Leyland, University of Southampton
Jiyong Lee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Julia Cisneros, Texas A & M University
Leo Guerrero, Universidad De Ingenieria Y Tecnologia

Rivers and lakes continuously evolve with intertwined feedback among hydrodynamics, sediment transport, and geomorphology. Human activities – including alluvial mining, dam construction, and installation of river training structures (e.g., levees, weirs, or spur dikes) – have significantly disrupted the morphodynamic processes. Such interventions alter flow pathways, channel-floodplain connectivity, water quality, substrate composition, and sediment transport in fluvio-lacustrine environments. This session aims to discuss new discoveries in quantifying how alluvial mining or engineered modifications in rivers and lakes affect morphodynamic processes, and what the associated challenges are. We invite contributions from geomorphologists, civil engineers, hydrologists, and environmental scientists highlighting recent methodological advances in laboratory experiments, field measurements, analytical models, numerical simulations, data-driven approaches, and remote sensing.

Index Terms
1803 Anthropogenic effects
1856 River channels
1857 Reservoirs (surface)
1862 Sediment transport

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering

Cross-Listed:
H - Hydrology