# Presentation: 457621

## SUBCOMMITTEE ON SEDIMENTATION

**Report to the ACWI**
**John R. Gray (jrgray@usgs.gov), Chair**
**September 15, 2004**

## SOS Status  

**Formed in 1939**
**ACWI Subcommittee, September 2003**
**Last meeting: Yesterday (9/14/2004)**
**Membership:  Non-Federal orgs  (ASCE-Environmental and Water Research Institute; Colorado State University) interested, but have yet to petition for membership**

**Notes:**
The Subcommittee promotes and supports development and standardization of equipment, methodologies, and calibration and performance criteria for the collection, analysis, interpretation, and interchange of fluvial-sediment data and related technical information. 
 Information and data about sediment transport or deposition rates and the physical and chemical qualities of sediment are important to understanding current resource conditions and trends.  

## 12 Current SOS Members*

| Agricultural Research Service | Bureau of Land Management |
| --- | --- |
| Bureau of Reclamation | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
| Federal Highway Administration | U.S. Forest Service |
| International Boundary and Water Commission | National Park Service |
| Office of Surface Mining | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
| Natural Resources Conservation Service | U.S. Geological Survey |

- * Past members FERC, TVA, BIA, NOAA, and NRC have not been represented on the SOS for years.
- * FHWA has missed consecutive meetings.
- * Currently no non-Federal SOS members, although some are considering membership.

## SOS Charge (1993)  

**Identify the Nation’s major sediment-related problems in the 21’st century**
**Endeavor to coordinate and pool Federal resources to effectively address high-priority problems**
**Remain the primary mechanism for interagency communication and coordination on national sedimentation issues**

**Notes:**
The Subcommittee promotes and supports development and standardization of equipment, methodologies, and calibration and performance criteria for the collection, analysis, interpretation, and interchange of fluvial-sediment data and related technical information. 
 Information and data about sediment transport or deposition rates and the physical and chemical qualities of sediment are important to understanding current resource conditions and trends.  

## Workgroup Reports 

**8****th**** Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference (2006):****  Plans.**
**Turbidity and Other Sediment Surrogates:****  Progress with ASTM International on standards.**
**National Sediment Monitoring and Federal Data Storage and Access:****  Status and future directions**
**Reservoir Information System (RESIS) II:****  Recommendation to the ACWI.**

**Notes:**
Planning for the 8th Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference (FISC):  The SOS has formed an organizing committee to start the planning for the 8th FISC to be held in the spring of 2006. 
 At the recent meeting of the ACWI’s Subcommittee on Hydrology (SOH), the subcommittee voted to suggest to the SOS that the next Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference (FIHMC) be jointly held with the 8th FISC. The FIHMC is the major conference put on by the SOH and the next one (the 3rd FIHMC) is also scheduled for 2006.
  A preliminary analysis of the attendees of the 7th FISC and the 2nd FIHMC indicated that 437 and 350 individuals attended the meeting respectively. Of those, approximately 235 attended both meetings. Given this overlap, it is estimated that a join meeting could save the agencies and companies sending these individuals to the meetings over $250 K in travel funds.

Reorganization of the Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project: The Technical Committee working with SOS has undertaken a reorganization of the FISP. 
 It is hoped that this reorganization will ensure that the calibrated standardized sampling equipment developed by the FISP is available to all who need it and that the research and development activities of the project will be directed to new technologies for measuring sediment in real time. 
 This reorganization is just beginning and the Technical Committee is working out the details.

The Sediment Monitoring Instrument and Analysis Research Workshop: The workshop is scheduled to be held September 9–11, 2003, and 
 will convene 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 workshop will include the means for measuring, storing, analyzing, and disseminating suspended-sediment, bedload, bed-material, bedform properties, and water clarity data. 
The general goals are: 
  (1) 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; 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; 
 (2) 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; 
 and (3) make clear and tractable recommendations to the SOS regarding research on sediment monitoring instruments and analytical procedures.

Sediment activities web site: The SOS has established a working group to look into the possibility of setting up a web page that the members can use to post information on their sedimentation activities and sources of information concerning sediment activities. 
The concept of the page is to electronically not only replace the information formally published in the “Notes on Sediment Activities” but also to have online links to sites where the data and information may be retrieved.

## Joint 8th Federal Interagency Sedimentation and 3rd Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference – April 2-6, 2006

***   “******Interdisciplinary Solutions for Watershed Sustainability.”***
**Silver Legacy Hotel, Reno**
**Estimated 400-600 attendees**
**6 concurrent sessions, ~270 papers**
**60 + poster and computer demonstrations**
**Commercial Exhibit Hall**
**Field Trips**
**Short Courses (may award continuing education units)**
**Call for Papers due out October 1, 2004; ****ASCE advertise****?**
**	****(http://water.usgs.gov/wicp/acwi/hydrology/mtsconfwkshops/ann-4-2-2006.html)****	****	**

**Notes:**
Planning for the 8th Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference (FISC):  The SOS has formed an organizing committee to start the planning for the 8th FISC to be held in the spring of 2006. 
 At the recent meeting of the ACWI’s Subcommittee on Hydrology (SOH), the subcommittee voted to suggest to the SOS that the next Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference (FIHMC) be jointly held with the 8th FISC. The FIHMC is the major conference put on by the SOH and the next one (the 3rd FIHMC) is also scheduled for 2006.
  A preliminary analysis of the attendees of the 7th FISC and the 2nd FIHMC indicated that 437 and 350 individuals attended the meeting respectively. Of those, approximately 235 attended both meetings. Given this overlap, it is estimated that a join meeting could save the agencies and companies sending these individuals to the meetings over $250 K in travel funds.

Reorganization of the Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project: The Technical Committee working with SOS has undertaken a reorganization of the FISP. 
 It is hoped that this reorganization will ensure that the calibrated standardized sampling equipment developed by the FISP is available to all who need it and that the research and development activities of the project will be directed to new technologies for measuring sediment in real time. 
 This reorganization is just beginning and the Technical Committee is working out the details.

The Sediment Monitoring Instrument and Analysis Research Workshop: The workshop is scheduled to be held September 9–11, 2003, and 
 will convene 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 workshop will include the means for measuring, storing, analyzing, and disseminating suspended-sediment, bedload, bed-material, bedform properties, and water clarity data. 
The general goals are: 
  (1) 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; 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; 
 (2) 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; 
 and (3) make clear and tractable recommendations to the SOS regarding research on sediment monitoring instruments and analytical procedures.

Sediment activities web site: The SOS has established a working group to look into the possibility of setting up a web page that the members can use to post information on their sedimentation activities and sources of information concerning sediment activities. 
The concept of the page is to electronically not only replace the information formally published in the “Notes on Sediment Activities” but also to have online links to sites where the data and information may be retrieved.

## Workgroup Reports 

**8****th**** Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference (2006):  Plans.**
**Turbidity and Other Sediment Surrogates:  Progress with ASTM International on standards.**
**National Sediment Monitoring and Federal Data Storage and Access:  Status and future directions**
**Reservoir Information System (RESIS) II:  Recommendation to the ACWI.**

**Notes:**
Planning for the 8th Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference (FISC):  The SOS has formed an organizing committee to start the planning for the 8th FISC to be held in the spring of 2006. 
 At the recent meeting of the ACWI’s Subcommittee on Hydrology (SOH), the subcommittee voted to suggest to the SOS that the next Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference (FIHMC) be jointly held with the 8th FISC. The FIHMC is the major conference put on by the SOH and the next one (the 3rd FIHMC) is also scheduled for 2006.
  A preliminary analysis of the attendees of the 7th FISC and the 2nd FIHMC indicated that 437 and 350 individuals attended the meeting respectively. Of those, approximately 235 attended both meetings. Given this overlap, it is estimated that a join meeting could save the agencies and companies sending these individuals to the meetings over $250 K in travel funds.

Reorganization of the Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project: The Technical Committee working with SOS has undertaken a reorganization of the FISP. 
 It is hoped that this reorganization will ensure that the calibrated standardized sampling equipment developed by the FISP is available to all who need it and that the research and development activities of the project will be directed to new technologies for measuring sediment in real time. 
 This reorganization is just beginning and the Technical Committee is working out the details.

The Sediment Monitoring Instrument and Analysis Research Workshop: The workshop is scheduled to be held September 9–11, 2003, and 
 will convene 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 workshop will include the means for measuring, storing, analyzing, and disseminating suspended-sediment, bedload, bed-material, bedform properties, and water clarity data. 
The general goals are: 
  (1) 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; 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; 
 (2) 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; 
 and (3) make clear and tractable recommendations to the SOS regarding research on sediment monitoring instruments and analytical procedures.

Sediment activities web site: The SOS has established a working group to look into the possibility of setting up a web page that the members can use to post information on their sedimentation activities and sources of information concerning sediment activities. 
The concept of the page is to electronically not only replace the information formally published in the “Notes on Sediment Activities” but also to have online links to sites where the data and information may be retrieved.

## Turbidity Workgroup

**Proceedings of the Fed. Interagency Workshop (USGS Circular 1250*)**
**Propose Federally developed standards for turbidity data-collection and reporting (as many as ****10**** different reporting units for “turbidity”).**
**SOS working with ASTM to develop standards (round-robin testing planned, perhaps in 2004)**
**	****	****	*********http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/circ/2003/circ1250/**

**Notes:**
Planning for the 8th Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference (FISC):  The SOS has formed an organizing committee to start the planning for the 8th FISC to be held in the spring of 2006. 
 At the recent meeting of the ACWI’s Subcommittee on Hydrology (SOH), the subcommittee voted to suggest to the SOS that the next Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference (FIHMC) be jointly held with the 8th FISC. The FIHMC is the major conference put on by the SOH and the next one (the 3rd FIHMC) is also scheduled for 2006.
  A preliminary analysis of the attendees of the 7th FISC and the 2nd FIHMC indicated that 437 and 350 individuals attended the meeting respectively. Of those, approximately 235 attended both meetings. Given this overlap, it is estimated that a join meeting could save the agencies and companies sending these individuals to the meetings over $250 K in travel funds.

Reorganization of the Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project: The Technical Committee working with SOS has undertaken a reorganization of the FISP. 
 It is hoped that this reorganization will ensure that the calibrated standardized sampling equipment developed by the FISP is available to all who need it and that the research and development activities of the project will be directed to new technologies for measuring sediment in real time. 
 This reorganization is just beginning and the Technical Committee is working out the details.

The Sediment Monitoring Instrument and Analysis Research Workshop: The workshop is scheduled to be held September 9–11, 2003, and 
 will convene 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 workshop will include the means for measuring, storing, analyzing, and disseminating suspended-sediment, bedload, bed-material, bedform properties, and water clarity data. 
The general goals are: 
  (1) 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; 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; 
 (2) 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; 
 and (3) make clear and tractable recommendations to the SOS regarding research on sediment monitoring instruments and analytical procedures.

Sediment activities web site: The SOS has established a working group to look into the possibility of setting up a web page that the members can use to post information on their sedimentation activities and sources of information concerning sediment activities. 
The concept of the page is to electronically not only replace the information formally published in the “Notes on Sediment Activities” but also to have online links to sites where the data and information may be retrieved.

## Workgroup Reports 

**8****th**** Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference (2006):  Plans.**
**Turbidity and Other Sediment Surrogates:  Progress with ASTM International on standards.**
**National Sediment Monitoring and Federal Data Storage and Access:  Status and future directions**
**Reservoir Information System (RESIS) II:  Recommendation to the ACWI.**

**Notes:**
Planning for the 8th Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference (FISC):  The SOS has formed an organizing committee to start the planning for the 8th FISC to be held in the spring of 2006. 
 At the recent meeting of the ACWI’s Subcommittee on Hydrology (SOH), the subcommittee voted to suggest to the SOS that the next Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference (FIHMC) be jointly held with the 8th FISC. The FIHMC is the major conference put on by the SOH and the next one (the 3rd FIHMC) is also scheduled for 2006.
  A preliminary analysis of the attendees of the 7th FISC and the 2nd FIHMC indicated that 437 and 350 individuals attended the meeting respectively. Of those, approximately 235 attended both meetings. Given this overlap, it is estimated that a join meeting could save the agencies and companies sending these individuals to the meetings over $250 K in travel funds.

Reorganization of the Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project: The Technical Committee working with SOS has undertaken a reorganization of the FISP. 
 It is hoped that this reorganization will ensure that the calibrated standardized sampling equipment developed by the FISP is available to all who need it and that the research and development activities of the project will be directed to new technologies for measuring sediment in real time. 
 This reorganization is just beginning and the Technical Committee is working out the details.

The Sediment Monitoring Instrument and Analysis Research Workshop: The workshop is scheduled to be held September 9–11, 2003, and 
 will convene 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 workshop will include the means for measuring, storing, analyzing, and disseminating suspended-sediment, bedload, bed-material, bedform properties, and water clarity data. 
The general goals are: 
  (1) 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; 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; 
 (2) 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; 
 and (3) make clear and tractable recommendations to the SOS regarding research on sediment monitoring instruments and analytical procedures.

Sediment activities web site: The SOS has established a working group to look into the possibility of setting up a web page that the members can use to post information on their sedimentation activities and sources of information concerning sediment activities. 
The concept of the page is to electronically not only replace the information formally published in the “Notes on Sediment Activities” but also to have online links to sites where the data and information may be retrieved.

## Nation’s Fluvial-Sediment Data Needs

**Historical:  Maintenance of reservoirs, channels, and hydraulic structures/bridge piers**
**Today’s needs include but are not limited to:  **
**	****- Legal requirements – ****TMDL’s**
**	****- ****Contaminated sediment**** management**
**	****- ****BMP**** Evaluations**
**	****- ****Dam**** decommissioning, rehabilitation, removal**
**	****- ****Fire****-burn hydrology/sedimentology**
**	****- Stream ****restoration****/geomorphic assessments**
**	****- Physical-****biotic**** interactions**
**	****- Global ****carbon**** budget**
**	****- Sand budget and bar maintenance**
**	****- ****Productivity**** of agricultural lands**

## Declining Sediment-Data Collection

**Declining Sediment-Data Collection**

- !!!This graph should be
- considered qualitatively,
- not quantitatively!!!

- *29 in Puerto Rico

## Challenge

- 	How can the Nation’s fluvial-sediment data needs be met with...
- 	Increased temporal and spatial resolution,
- 	Better – and known – accuracy,
- 	Expanded measured characteristics,
- 	Reduced costs, and
- 	Increased safety,
- 	as compared to traditional monitoring techniques?

## Future:  A National Sediment Information Program – NSIP2 ...?

_*There has never been a national sediment*_
_* *__*monitoring network*_
- Core Network of “Sediment Stations”
- Subset of Stations for Sediment Research
- Equipment & Methods Analytical Component
- Data Synthesis Component
- Common Database
- $4M-$16M/year (scope & methods dependent)
- AGU-EOS letter, 9/28/2004 (handout)
-         				 http://water.usgs.gov/osw/techniques/TSS/gray.pdf

## National Sediment Monitoring Costs Estimate (USGS, 2004)

**Proposal based on a U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy Request to develop**
**	****“*****a strategy for improved assessment, monitoring, research, and technology development to enhance sediment management******”***
**$****16M annually**** estimated for a “****full-scale****” monitoring and synthesis program (linked to QW and biological measurements)**

**Notes:**
Planning for the 8th Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference (FISC):  The SOS has formed an organizing committee to start the planning for the 8th FISC to be held in the spring of 2006. 
 At the recent meeting of the ACWI’s Subcommittee on Hydrology (SOH), the subcommittee voted to suggest to the SOS that the next Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference (FIHMC) be jointly held with the 8th FISC. The FIHMC is the major conference put on by the SOH and the next one (the 3rd FIHMC) is also scheduled for 2006.
  A preliminary analysis of the attendees of the 7th FISC and the 2nd FIHMC indicated that 437 and 350 individuals attended the meeting respectively. Of those, approximately 235 attended both meetings. Given this overlap, it is estimated that a join meeting could save the agencies and companies sending these individuals to the meetings over $250 K in travel funds.

Reorganization of the Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project: The Technical Committee working with SOS has undertaken a reorganization of the FISP. 
 It is hoped that this reorganization will ensure that the calibrated standardized sampling equipment developed by the FISP is available to all who need it and that the research and development activities of the project will be directed to new technologies for measuring sediment in real time. 
 This reorganization is just beginning and the Technical Committee is working out the details.

The Sediment Monitoring Instrument and Analysis Research Workshop: The workshop is scheduled to be held September 9–11, 2003, and 
 will convene 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 workshop will include the means for measuring, storing, analyzing, and disseminating suspended-sediment, bedload, bed-material, bedform properties, and water clarity data. 
The general goals are: 
  (1) 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; 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; 
 (2) 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; 
 and (3) make clear and tractable recommendations to the SOS regarding research on sediment monitoring instruments and analytical procedures.

Sediment activities web site: The SOS has established a working group to look into the possibility of setting up a web page that the members can use to post information on their sedimentation activities and sources of information concerning sediment activities. 
The concept of the page is to electronically not only replace the information formally published in the “Notes on Sediment Activities” but also to have online links to sites where the data and information may be retrieved.

## National Sediment Monitoring Costs Estimate (USGS, 2004)

**Proposal based on a U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy Request to develop**
**	****“*****a strategy for improved assessment, monitoring, research, and technology development to enhance sediment management******”***
**$****16M annually**** estimated for a “full-scale” monitoring and synthesis program (linked to QW and biological measurements)**

**Notes:**
Planning for the 8th Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference (FISC):  The SOS has formed an organizing committee to start the planning for the 8th FISC to be held in the spring of 2006. 
 At the recent meeting of the ACWI’s Subcommittee on Hydrology (SOH), the subcommittee voted to suggest to the SOS that the next Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference (FIHMC) be jointly held with the 8th FISC. The FIHMC is the major conference put on by the SOH and the next one (the 3rd FIHMC) is also scheduled for 2006.
  A preliminary analysis of the attendees of the 7th FISC and the 2nd FIHMC indicated that 437 and 350 individuals attended the meeting respectively. Of those, approximately 235 attended both meetings. Given this overlap, it is estimated that a join meeting could save the agencies and companies sending these individuals to the meetings over $250 K in travel funds.

Reorganization of the Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project: The Technical Committee working with SOS has undertaken a reorganization of the FISP. 
 It is hoped that this reorganization will ensure that the calibrated standardized sampling equipment developed by the FISP is available to all who need it and that the research and development activities of the project will be directed to new technologies for measuring sediment in real time. 
 This reorganization is just beginning and the Technical Committee is working out the details.

The Sediment Monitoring Instrument and Analysis Research Workshop: The workshop is scheduled to be held September 9–11, 2003, and 
 will convene 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 workshop will include the means for measuring, storing, analyzing, and disseminating suspended-sediment, bedload, bed-material, bedform properties, and water clarity data. 
The general goals are: 
  (1) 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; 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; 
 (2) 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; 
 and (3) make clear and tractable recommendations to the SOS regarding research on sediment monitoring instruments and analytical procedures.

Sediment activities web site: The SOS has established a working group to look into the possibility of setting up a web page that the members can use to post information on their sedimentation activities and sources of information concerning sediment activities. 
The concept of the page is to electronically not only replace the information formally published in the “Notes on Sediment Activities” but also to have online links to sites where the data and information may be retrieved.

## New Instruments and Techniques

- Laser In Situ Scattering and Transmissometry, LISST

## Data from CO River, Grand Canyon

- Integrated Sand Conc.
- By D-77 Bag Sampler

- LISST-100
- Point Sand Conc.
- Measurements

## USGS Informal Sediment “SuperGage” Network (past, present)

**MS, KS, AZ, FL, NY, TX, CA, PA, IL, OR, GA, WA, MD, formerly PR**

## USGS and ARSInternational Journal of Sediment Research, 1998*

**Sediment Damages in North America Total ****$16 Billion**** Annually**
**If Program Results Were Used to Better Manage Resources Such That a ****1%**** ****Decrease in Sediment Damage**** was Realized, the Program Would ****Pay for Itself 40 Times**** Over (annual basis)**
**	****	****	****	*****http://water.usgs.gov/osw/techniques/Osterkamp.html**

**Notes:**
Planning for the 8th Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference (FISC):  The SOS has formed an organizing committee to start the planning for the 8th FISC to be held in the spring of 2006. 
 At the recent meeting of the ACWI’s Subcommittee on Hydrology (SOH), the subcommittee voted to suggest to the SOS that the next Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference (FIHMC) be jointly held with the 8th FISC. The FIHMC is the major conference put on by the SOH and the next one (the 3rd FIHMC) is also scheduled for 2006.
  A preliminary analysis of the attendees of the 7th FISC and the 2nd FIHMC indicated that 437 and 350 individuals attended the meeting respectively. Of those, approximately 235 attended both meetings. Given this overlap, it is estimated that a join meeting could save the agencies and companies sending these individuals to the meetings over $250 K in travel funds.

Reorganization of the Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project: The Technical Committee working with SOS has undertaken a reorganization of the FISP. 
 It is hoped that this reorganization will ensure that the calibrated standardized sampling equipment developed by the FISP is available to all who need it and that the research and development activities of the project will be directed to new technologies for measuring sediment in real time. 
 This reorganization is just beginning and the Technical Committee is working out the details.

The Sediment Monitoring Instrument and Analysis Research Workshop: The workshop is scheduled to be held September 9–11, 2003, and 
 will convene 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 workshop will include the means for measuring, storing, analyzing, and disseminating suspended-sediment, bedload, bed-material, bedform properties, and water clarity data. 
The general goals are: 
  (1) 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; 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; 
 (2) 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; 
 and (3) make clear and tractable recommendations to the SOS regarding research on sediment monitoring instruments and analytical procedures.

Sediment activities web site: The SOS has established a working group to look into the possibility of setting up a web page that the members can use to post information on their sedimentation activities and sources of information concerning sediment activities. 
The concept of the page is to electronically not only replace the information formally published in the “Notes on Sediment Activities” but also to have online links to sites where the data and information may be retrieved.

## A National Sediment Information Program

**The SOS believes this program is important and needed.**
**If the ACWI concurs, SOS seeks counsel on how to proceed.**

**Notes:**
Planning for the 8th Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference (FISC):  The SOS has formed an organizing committee to start the planning for the 8th FISC to be held in the spring of 2006. 
 At the recent meeting of the ACWI’s Subcommittee on Hydrology (SOH), the subcommittee voted to suggest to the SOS that the next Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference (FIHMC) be jointly held with the 8th FISC. The FIHMC is the major conference put on by the SOH and the next one (the 3rd FIHMC) is also scheduled for 2006.
  A preliminary analysis of the attendees of the 7th FISC and the 2nd FIHMC indicated that 437 and 350 individuals attended the meeting respectively. Of those, approximately 235 attended both meetings. Given this overlap, it is estimated that a join meeting could save the agencies and companies sending these individuals to the meetings over $250 K in travel funds.

Reorganization of the Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project: The Technical Committee working with SOS has undertaken a reorganization of the FISP. 
 It is hoped that this reorganization will ensure that the calibrated standardized sampling equipment developed by the FISP is available to all who need it and that the research and development activities of the project will be directed to new technologies for measuring sediment in real time. 
 This reorganization is just beginning and the Technical Committee is working out the details.

The Sediment Monitoring Instrument and Analysis Research Workshop: The workshop is scheduled to be held September 9–11, 2003, and 
 will convene 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 workshop will include the means for measuring, storing, analyzing, and disseminating suspended-sediment, bedload, bed-material, bedform properties, and water clarity data. 
The general goals are: 
  (1) 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; 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; 
 (2) 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; 
 and (3) make clear and tractable recommendations to the SOS regarding research on sediment monitoring instruments and analytical procedures.

Sediment activities web site: The SOS has established a working group to look into the possibility of setting up a web page that the members can use to post information on their sedimentation activities and sources of information concerning sediment activities. 
The concept of the page is to electronically not only replace the information formally published in the “Notes on Sediment Activities” but also to have online links to sites where the data and information may be retrieved.

## Workgroup Reports 

**8****th**** Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference (2006):  Plans.**
**Turbidity and Other Sediment Surrogates:  Progress with ASTM International on standards.**
**National Sediment Monitoring and Federal Data Storage and Access:  Status and future directions**
**Reservoir Information System (RESIS) II:  Recommendation to the ACWI.**

**Notes:**
Planning for the 8th Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference (FISC):  The SOS has formed an organizing committee to start the planning for the 8th FISC to be held in the spring of 2006. 
 At the recent meeting of the ACWI’s Subcommittee on Hydrology (SOH), the subcommittee voted to suggest to the SOS that the next Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference (FIHMC) be jointly held with the 8th FISC. The FIHMC is the major conference put on by the SOH and the next one (the 3rd FIHMC) is also scheduled for 2006.
  A preliminary analysis of the attendees of the 7th FISC and the 2nd FIHMC indicated that 437 and 350 individuals attended the meeting respectively. Of those, approximately 235 attended both meetings. Given this overlap, it is estimated that a join meeting could save the agencies and companies sending these individuals to the meetings over $250 K in travel funds.

Reorganization of the Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project: The Technical Committee working with SOS has undertaken a reorganization of the FISP. 
 It is hoped that this reorganization will ensure that the calibrated standardized sampling equipment developed by the FISP is available to all who need it and that the research and development activities of the project will be directed to new technologies for measuring sediment in real time. 
 This reorganization is just beginning and the Technical Committee is working out the details.

The Sediment Monitoring Instrument and Analysis Research Workshop: The workshop is scheduled to be held September 9–11, 2003, and 
 will convene 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 workshop will include the means for measuring, storing, analyzing, and disseminating suspended-sediment, bedload, bed-material, bedform properties, and water clarity data. 
The general goals are: 
  (1) 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; 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; 
 (2) 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; 
 and (3) make clear and tractable recommendations to the SOS regarding research on sediment monitoring instruments and analytical procedures.

Sediment activities web site: The SOS has established a working group to look into the possibility of setting up a web page that the members can use to post information on their sedimentation activities and sources of information concerning sediment activities. 
The concept of the page is to electronically not only replace the information formally published in the “Notes on Sediment Activities” but also to have online links to sites where the data and information may be retrieved.

## A Brief Description of RESIS

**Information for 1,819 Federally operated reservoirs**
**Volumetric data for submerged and aerated deposits**
**Originated in Soil Conservation Service                (now the ****NRCS****), early ****1980’s**
**Nearly 6,000 individual surveys from ****1827 to 1992****.**
**Includes various descriptive attributes (e.g., owner, nearest post office, watershed dimensions)**
**For some reservoirs, contains information on size distribution of bed sediments**
**Originally maintained on a PC using Paradox 9**
**Includes reservoirs with drainage areas ranging from ****0.0075 mi****2**** to over 170,000 mi****2**

## Original Data Sheets as Part of RESIS-II

## RESIS-II:  Status 

**Ported to relational database by USGS**
**Some geo-referencing issues to be resolved, including those related to Homeland Security**
**Largely unpopulated since 1980’s**
**An orphan**

**Notes:**
Planning for the 8th Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference (FISC):  The SOS has formed an organizing committee to start the planning for the 8th FISC to be held in the spring of 2006. 
 At the recent meeting of the ACWI’s Subcommittee on Hydrology (SOH), the subcommittee voted to suggest to the SOS that the next Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference (FIHMC) be jointly held with the 8th FISC. The FIHMC is the major conference put on by the SOH and the next one (the 3rd FIHMC) is also scheduled for 2006.
  A preliminary analysis of the attendees of the 7th FISC and the 2nd FIHMC indicated that 437 and 350 individuals attended the meeting respectively. Of those, approximately 235 attended both meetings. Given this overlap, it is estimated that a join meeting could save the agencies and companies sending these individuals to the meetings over $250 K in travel funds.

Reorganization of the Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project: The Technical Committee working with SOS has undertaken a reorganization of the FISP. 
 It is hoped that this reorganization will ensure that the calibrated standardized sampling equipment developed by the FISP is available to all who need it and that the research and development activities of the project will be directed to new technologies for measuring sediment in real time. 
 This reorganization is just beginning and the Technical Committee is working out the details.

The Sediment Monitoring Instrument and Analysis Research Workshop: The workshop is scheduled to be held September 9–11, 2003, and 
 will convene 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 workshop will include the means for measuring, storing, analyzing, and disseminating suspended-sediment, bedload, bed-material, bedform properties, and water clarity data. 
The general goals are: 
  (1) 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; 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; 
 (2) 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; 
 and (3) make clear and tractable recommendations to the SOS regarding research on sediment monitoring instruments and analytical procedures.

Sediment activities web site: The SOS has established a working group to look into the possibility of setting up a web page that the members can use to post information on their sedimentation activities and sources of information concerning sediment activities. 
The concept of the page is to electronically not only replace the information formally published in the “Notes on Sediment Activities” but also to have online links to sites where the data and information may be retrieved.

## From Stallard and others, 2001

## Chronosequence of Dam Construction in the U.S.

- From Before 1800 to 1993

- Based on data in the National Inventory of Dams.  Symbol size and darkness correspond to the size of the reservoir.  **Black** and **gray** symbols correspond to dams older than the indicated time interval.  **Red** symbols correspond to dams constructed during the time interval.

- Prepared by
- Robert Stallard
- US Geological Survey
- Boulder, CO 80303-1066
- e-mail: stallard@usgs.gov

## NID: 1600-2000

- Hit space bar to start sequence.

## NID:  Pre-1800

## NID:  1801-1810

## NID:  1811-1820

## NID:  1821-1830

## NID:  1831-1840

## NID:  1841-1850

## NID:  1851-1860

## NID:  1861-1870

## NID:  1871-1880

## NID:  1881-1890

## NID:  1891-1900

## NID:  1901-1910

## NID:  1911-1920

## NID:  1921-1930

## NID:  1931-1940

## NID:  1941-1950

## NID:  1951-1960

## NID:  1961-1970

## NID:  1971-1980

## NID:  1981-1990

## NID:  1991-2000

## NID: 1600-2000

## Some RESIS-II Findings* 

**The use of a ****GIS**** has enabled a ****more detailed study**** of reservoir sedimentation data and rates.**
**Soil erodibility**** was found to be the ****most influential**** factor affecting reservoir sedimentation rates – A proxy for land-use?**
**A ****negative relation**** was found between ****mean annual rainfall and sedimentation rates**** – Annual rainfall a proxy for land cover?****	**
**A ****positive relation**** exists between ****storm intensity and sedimentation rates**

- *From Stallard and others, 2001

**Notes:**
Planning for the 8th Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference (FISC):  The SOS has formed an organizing committee to start the planning for the 8th FISC to be held in the spring of 2006. 
 At the recent meeting of the ACWI’s Subcommittee on Hydrology (SOH), the subcommittee voted to suggest to the SOS that the next Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference (FIHMC) be jointly held with the 8th FISC. The FIHMC is the major conference put on by the SOH and the next one (the 3rd FIHMC) is also scheduled for 2006.
  A preliminary analysis of the attendees of the 7th FISC and the 2nd FIHMC indicated that 437 and 350 individuals attended the meeting respectively. Of those, approximately 235 attended both meetings. Given this overlap, it is estimated that a join meeting could save the agencies and companies sending these individuals to the meetings over $250 K in travel funds.

Reorganization of the Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project: The Technical Committee working with SOS has undertaken a reorganization of the FISP. 
 It is hoped that this reorganization will ensure that the calibrated standardized sampling equipment developed by the FISP is available to all who need it and that the research and development activities of the project will be directed to new technologies for measuring sediment in real time. 
 This reorganization is just beginning and the Technical Committee is working out the details.

The Sediment Monitoring Instrument and Analysis Research Workshop: The workshop is scheduled to be held September 9–11, 2003, and 
 will convene 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 workshop will include the means for measuring, storing, analyzing, and disseminating suspended-sediment, bedload, bed-material, bedform properties, and water clarity data. 
The general goals are: 
  (1) 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; 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; 
 (2) 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; 
 and (3) make clear and tractable recommendations to the SOS regarding research on sediment monitoring instruments and analytical procedures.

Sediment activities web site: The SOS has established a working group to look into the possibility of setting up a web page that the members can use to post information on their sedimentation activities and sources of information concerning sediment activities. 
The concept of the page is to electronically not only replace the information formally published in the “Notes on Sediment Activities” but also to have online links to sites where the data and information may be retrieved.

## Establish “ownership” & MOU
Form data-entry & QA protocols
Update GUI, place on-line
Maintain and update database
Perform data synthesis
Future:  Sed-quality information?

**Form data-entry & QA ****protocols**
**Update ****GUI****, place on-line**
**Maintain**** and ****update**** database**
**Perform data ****synthesis**
**Future:  ****Sed-quality**** information?**

**RESIS-II: General Steps**

**Notes:**
Planning for the 8th Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference (FISC):  The SOS has formed an organizing committee to start the planning for the 8th FISC to be held in the spring of 2006. 
 At the recent meeting of the ACWI’s Subcommittee on Hydrology (SOH), the subcommittee voted to suggest to the SOS that the next Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference (FIHMC) be jointly held with the 8th FISC. The FIHMC is the major conference put on by the SOH and the next one (the 3rd FIHMC) is also scheduled for 2006.
  A preliminary analysis of the attendees of the 7th FISC and the 2nd FIHMC indicated that 437 and 350 individuals attended the meeting respectively. Of those, approximately 235 attended both meetings. Given this overlap, it is estimated that a join meeting could save the agencies and companies sending these individuals to the meetings over $250 K in travel funds.

Reorganization of the Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project: The Technical Committee working with SOS has undertaken a reorganization of the FISP. 
 It is hoped that this reorganization will ensure that the calibrated standardized sampling equipment developed by the FISP is available to all who need it and that the research and development activities of the project will be directed to new technologies for measuring sediment in real time. 
 This reorganization is just beginning and the Technical Committee is working out the details.

The Sediment Monitoring Instrument and Analysis Research Workshop: The workshop is scheduled to be held September 9–11, 2003, and 
 will convene 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 workshop will include the means for measuring, storing, analyzing, and disseminating suspended-sediment, bedload, bed-material, bedform properties, and water clarity data. 
The general goals are: 
  (1) 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; 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; 
 (2) 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; 
 and (3) make clear and tractable recommendations to the SOS regarding research on sediment monitoring instruments and analytical procedures.

Sediment activities web site: The SOS has established a working group to look into the possibility of setting up a web page that the members can use to post information on their sedimentation activities and sources of information concerning sediment activities. 
The concept of the page is to electronically not only replace the information formally published in the “Notes on Sediment Activities” but also to have online links to sites where the data and information may be retrieved.

##  Year 1       	~$250k
 Year 2&3   	~$150k/yr
 Year 4 ++ 	~$75k/yr

						*to be refined on request 

** ****Year ****2&3   ****	****~$150k/yr**
** ****Year ****4 ++ ****	****~$75k/yr**
**	****	****	****	****	****	*****to be refined on request **

**RESIS-II:  Cost Sum.***

**Notes:**
Planning for the 8th Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference (FISC):  The SOS has formed an organizing committee to start the planning for the 8th FISC to be held in the spring of 2006. 
 At the recent meeting of the ACWI’s Subcommittee on Hydrology (SOH), the subcommittee voted to suggest to the SOS that the next Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference (FIHMC) be jointly held with the 8th FISC. The FIHMC is the major conference put on by the SOH and the next one (the 3rd FIHMC) is also scheduled for 2006.
  A preliminary analysis of the attendees of the 7th FISC and the 2nd FIHMC indicated that 437 and 350 individuals attended the meeting respectively. Of those, approximately 235 attended both meetings. Given this overlap, it is estimated that a join meeting could save the agencies and companies sending these individuals to the meetings over $250 K in travel funds.

Reorganization of the Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project: The Technical Committee working with SOS has undertaken a reorganization of the FISP. 
 It is hoped that this reorganization will ensure that the calibrated standardized sampling equipment developed by the FISP is available to all who need it and that the research and development activities of the project will be directed to new technologies for measuring sediment in real time. 
 This reorganization is just beginning and the Technical Committee is working out the details.

The Sediment Monitoring Instrument and Analysis Research Workshop: The workshop is scheduled to be held September 9–11, 2003, and 
 will convene 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 workshop will include the means for measuring, storing, analyzing, and disseminating suspended-sediment, bedload, bed-material, bedform properties, and water clarity data. 
The general goals are: 
  (1) 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; 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; 
 (2) 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; 
 and (3) make clear and tractable recommendations to the SOS regarding research on sediment monitoring instruments and analytical procedures.

Sediment activities web site: The SOS has established a working group to look into the possibility of setting up a web page that the members can use to post information on their sedimentation activities and sources of information concerning sediment activities. 
The concept of the page is to electronically not only replace the information formally published in the “Notes on Sediment Activities” but also to have online links to sites where the data and information may be retrieved.

##    Recognize importance of  implementing, updating, and maintaining an existing national reservoir sedimentation survey database as an interactive, web-based application. 

	Seek ACWI concurrence and support to develop ways and means for implementation

**	****Seek ACWI concurrence and support to develop ways and means for implementation**

**RESIS-II:  SOS Resolution**

**Notes:**
Planning for the 8th Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference (FISC):  The SOS has formed an organizing committee to start the planning for the 8th FISC to be held in the spring of 2006. 
 At the recent meeting of the ACWI’s Subcommittee on Hydrology (SOH), the subcommittee voted to suggest to the SOS that the next Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference (FIHMC) be jointly held with the 8th FISC. The FIHMC is the major conference put on by the SOH and the next one (the 3rd FIHMC) is also scheduled for 2006.
  A preliminary analysis of the attendees of the 7th FISC and the 2nd FIHMC indicated that 437 and 350 individuals attended the meeting respectively. Of those, approximately 235 attended both meetings. Given this overlap, it is estimated that a join meeting could save the agencies and companies sending these individuals to the meetings over $250 K in travel funds.

Reorganization of the Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project: The Technical Committee working with SOS has undertaken a reorganization of the FISP. 
 It is hoped that this reorganization will ensure that the calibrated standardized sampling equipment developed by the FISP is available to all who need it and that the research and development activities of the project will be directed to new technologies for measuring sediment in real time. 
 This reorganization is just beginning and the Technical Committee is working out the details.

The Sediment Monitoring Instrument and Analysis Research Workshop: The workshop is scheduled to be held September 9–11, 2003, and 
 will convene 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 workshop will include the means for measuring, storing, analyzing, and disseminating suspended-sediment, bedload, bed-material, bedform properties, and water clarity data. 
The general goals are: 
  (1) 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; 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; 
 (2) 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; 
 and (3) make clear and tractable recommendations to the SOS regarding research on sediment monitoring instruments and analytical procedures.

Sediment activities web site: The SOS has established a working group to look into the possibility of setting up a web page that the members can use to post information on their sedimentation activities and sources of information concerning sediment activities. 
The concept of the page is to electronically not only replace the information formally published in the “Notes on Sediment Activities” but also to have online links to sites where the data and information may be retrieved.

## http://water.usgs.gov/osw/techniques/sediment

**Questions?**