PREDICTING SHOREFORM EVOLUTION IN PUGET SOUND Guidelines and Tools to Estimate Gravel Transport
This project will develop tools and guidance to predict longshore sediment transport rates and shoreform evolution of shorelines within Puget Sound. Equations exist to calculate longshore transport, but input information required to use these equations has not been thoroughly tested in Puget Sound and the results are difficult to interpret with the sparse measurements of this process. This project aims to use observations from previous restoration projects and measurements of sediment movement at restored and reference sites to develop conceptual models and calibrate existing formula for estimating longshore transport to provide reliable approaches for predicting sediment movement at restoration sites in Puget Sound.