Nikki Strong

Rivers as Complex Systems part of Complex Systems:Workshop 2010:Participant Essays
Nikki Strong, St. Olaf College My Research I am an Earth scientist. I work on cross-disciplinary research (quantitative field, experimental, and theoretical) that applies the discipline of morphodynamics (how ...

Fluvial geomorphology in a tank - The scientific value of physical experiments part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
The beauty and utility of experiments is to illuminate the fundamental processes that drive the evolution of natural systems. Experiments help us build intuition for processes that otherwise might be hard to ...

Some useful Non-dimensional Numbers in Geomorphology and the Art of Deriving New Ones part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
Units of Measure One can express physical quantities in terms of many different units of measure and a particular quantity can take on very different numerical values under different unit systems. For example, ...