# Proceedings of the Federal Interagency Sediment Monitoring Instrument and    Analysis Research Workshop,September 9-11, 2003, Flagstaff, Arizona

U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1276  Edited by John R. GraySponsored by the Subcommittee on Sedimentation of theAdvisory Committee on Water Information

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## Abstract

The Advisory Committee on Water Information's Subcommittee on Sedimentation  sponsored the Federal Interagency Sediment Monitoring Instrument and Analysis  Research Workshop on September 9-11, 2003, at the U.S. Geological Survey Flagstaff  Field Center, Arizona. The workshop brought together a diverse group representing  most Federal agencies whose mission includes fluvial-sediment issues; academia;  the private sector; and others with interests and expertise in fluvial-sediment  monitoring – suspended sediment, bedload, bed material, and bed topography – and  associated data-analysis techniques. The workshop emphasized technological  and theoretical advances related to measurements of suspended sediment, bedload,  bed material and bed topography, and data analyses. This workshop followed  and expanded upon part of the 2002 Federal Interagency Workshop on Turbidity  and Other Sediment Surrogates, which initiated a process to provide national  standards for measurement and use of turbidity and other sediment-surrogatedata.

This report provides a description of the salient attributes    of the workshop and related information, major deliberations and findings,    and principal recommendations. This information is available for evaluation    by the Subcommittee on Sedimentation, which may opt to develop an action  plan based on the recommendations that it endorses for consideration by the  Advisory  Committee on Water Information.

## Table of Contents

Executive Summary

Introduction to the Proceedings of the Federal Interagency    Sediment Monitoring  Instrument and Analysis Research Workshop, September 9-11, 2003,  Flagstaff, Arizona

Breakout      Session I, Suspended-Sediment Measurement: Data Needs, Uncertainty, and  New Technologies

Breakout        Session II, Bedload-Transport Measurement: Data Needs, Uncertainty, and  New Technologies

Breakout          Session          III, Bed-Material and Bed-Topography Measurement: Data Needs, Uncertainty,  and New Technologies

Breakout            Session            IV, Sediment Data: Management, Sediment-Flux Computations, and Estimates  from New Technologies

Appendix              1:              Matrix of selected information gleaned from the four breakout sessions  as compiled in the second plenary session of the Federal Interagency  Sediment Monitoring Instrument and Analysis Research Workshop,              September 9-11, 2003, Flagstaff, Arizona

Appendix                2: List of registrants and respective affiliation for the Federal                Interagency  Sediment Monitoring Instrument and Analysis Research Workshop,  September 9-11, 2003, Flagstaff, Arizona

Appendix                  3:                  Breakout                  session                  attendees as recorded by respective breakout session  leaders, Sediment Monitoring Instrument and Analysis Research                  Workshop,  September 9-11, 2003, Flagstaff, Arizona

Appendix                    4:                    Extended                    abstracts                    submitted as part of the Federal Interagency Sediment Monitoring  Instrument and Analysis Research Workshop, September 9-11, 2003, Flagstaff,  Arizona

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