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Heidi Margaret Nepf
Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Turbulence and Bedload Transport in Submerged Vegetation Canopies
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
13 december 2024
Tian Zhao, Heidi M. Nepf
Using a constant channel velocity, U $U$, flume experiments investigated how canopy density (ah $ah$, with canopy frontal area per unit volume a $a...
Applications of small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (drones) to collect vegetation characteristics for coastal wave attenuation modeling.
REMOTE SENSING OF RIVERS, LAKES, RESERVOIRS, AND WETLANDS V ELIGHTNING
hydrology | 13 december 2024
Ernie In Him Lee, Heidi M. Nepf
Salt marshes are important ecosystems that provide coastal defence by naturally dissipating wave energy because of their high hydrodynamic drag. The m...
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Predicting Characteristic Length Scales of Barrier Island Segmentation in Microtidal Environments
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: EARTH SURFACE
05 october 2024
Rose Palermo, Andrew D. Ashton, Heidi M. Nepf, Mar...
Segmented barrier islands can be found in regions with small tidal ranges. In contrast to tidally dominated barriers, where inlet dynamics are thou...
Vegetation‐Generated Turbulence Does Not Impact the Erosion of Natural Cohesive Sediment
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
10 july 2024
Autumn Deitrick, David K. Ralston, Christopher R. ...
Previous studies have demonstrated that vegetation‐generated turbulence can enhance erosion rate and reduce the velocity threshold for erosio...
Plant Morphology Impacts Bedload Sediment Transport
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
14 june 2024
CHAO LIU, YUQI SHAN, Li He, fujian Li, Xingnian Li...
Bedload sediment transport plays an important role in the evolution of rivers, marshes and deltas. In these aquatic environments, vegetation is wid...
Reply to Comment by Poppema and Wüthrich on “Momentum and Energy Predict the Backwater Rise Generated by a Large Wood Jam”
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
17 april 2024
Elizabeth Follett, Isabella Schalko, Heidi M. Nepf
Follett et al. (2020, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020gl089346) demonstrated that a large wood jam can be modeled as a porous obstruction with mom...
Wave attenuation and economic analysis of hybrid marsh-seawall nature-based solutions
NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS (NBS) FOR COASTAL FLOOD HAZARD RISK REDUCTION: CURRENT STATE OF KNOWLEDGE AND FUTURE GUIDANCE II ORAL
coastal and estuarine hydrodynamics and sediment processes | 23 february 2024
Ernie In Him Lee, Heidi M. Nepf
A seawall fronted by a marsh is a potential hybrid, nature-based solution for both rural and urban coastal protection. The wave attenuation achieved b...
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Quantifying the Influence of Porosity-Induced Drag on Wave Attenuation in Constructed Oyster Reefs
NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS (NBS) FOR COASTAL FLOOD HAZARD RISK REDUCTION: CURRENT STATE OF KNOWLEDGE AND FUTURE GUIDANCE II ORAL
coastal and estuarine hydrodynamics and sediment processes | 23 february 2024
James Vincent Brice, Heidi M. Nepf
There has been great interest in the application of constructed oyster reefs (CORs) as nature-based coastal protection, primarily designed to attenuat...
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