Review of Proceedings of the Eighth Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference

Abstract

The Eighth Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference was held April 2–6, 2006, in Reno, Nevada. Proceedings and individual conference papers can be downloaded for free at www.jfic.org. The next Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference will be held in mid-2010 in conjunction with the Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference. The conference was sponsored by the Subcommittee on Sedimentation, which is chartered under the Advisory Committee on Water Information of the U.S. Department of the Interior. The conference included a wide range of presentations on many sedimentation issues, including sediment yield and transport, sediment and wildlife habitat, watershed modeling, reservoir sedimentation, dam removal and rehabilitation geomorphology, stream restoration, sediment surrogates, instrumentation and turbidity, and sediment tracers. Several notable papers were presented on the sediment yield and transportation applications of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s GSTARS-1D model by Jianchun Huang, Blair Greimann, Travis Bauer, and Chris Holmquist-Johnson, and estimates of hillside erosion and sediment yield in Southern California by Peter Wohlgemuth. The proceedings also included interesting papers on stable channel design, such as one presented by Martin Teal and Phillip Anderson. Additional papers were presented on sediment transport computations in HEC-RAS, including the incorporation of HEC6 and the use of a new sediment analysis tool known as SIAM. These papers were presented by Stan Gibson and Charles Little Jr. of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and David Mooney of the Bureau of Reclamation.