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Dr. Edgardo Latrubesse: UF Water Institute Distinguished Scholar Seminar ,

The UF Water Institute is hosting Dr. Edgardo Latrubesse, recipient of the G.K. Gilbert Award for Excellence in Geomorphologic Research, as the December Distinguished Scholar Seminar speaker. Dr. Latrubesse is a professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment at the University of Texas at Austin, and has extensive experience as a researcher of fluvial and mega-geomorphology, paleogeography, and river management.

Please join us as Dr. Latrubesse presents Fluvial Systems, Continental Sediment Sources, Sediment Sinks, and the Human Factor in Tropical South America. The seminar will take place on Tuesday, December 5, from 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM in the J. Wayne Reitz Union room 2360.

If you are unable to attend, a video of the presentation will be uploaded to our website shortly after the seminar. For additional details, please contact UF Water Institute’s Carol Lippincott at calippincott@ufl.edu.

More information on the presentation can be found below.

Fluvial Systems, Continental Sediment Sources, Sediment Sinks, and the Human Factor in Tropical South America

Knowledge of river basin sediment yield at a continental scale, and accumulation in sedimentary basins, provides useful information for quantitative models of landscape evolution; geochemical and sediment mass-balance studies for estimating continental and regional net erosion intensities; and to quantify fluxes of sediments to the ocean. Although several estimates exist of sediment fluxes of large rivers, the role of continental sedimentary basins and fluvial environments acting as major sedimentary sinks is partially understood. This is additionally complicated by human activities that modify rates of production, and trapping and transfer of sediments at continental scales. Results are presented on the role of large source areas and large trapping systems at the continental scale, and sediment budgets of large rivers that have been modified by human activities.