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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:21:32 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Living, Meandering River Constructed
Living, Meandering River Constructed
In a feat of reverse-engineering, Christian Braudrick of University of California at Berkeley and three coauthors have successfully built and maintained a scale model of a living meandering gravel-bed river in the lab. Their findings point to the importance of vegetation to reinforce the banks and, surprisingly, to the importance of sand in healthy meandering river life.
The significance of vegetation for slowing erosion and reinforcing banks has been known for a long time, but this is ...
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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:22:51 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Building on Nature
Natural systems are the focus of two intriguing and imperative research areas: creating revolutionary capabilities for sensing and response; and obtaining hydrocarbons from plants and microorganisms.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced 20 grants in these areas for FY 2009, awarding a total of $39,991,202 over four years to 94 investigators from 27 institutions through the NSF Office of Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI).
"Big ideas are ...
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