Really happy to get this flume experiment running at the Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory. Such a rich history of river research at this place, and it’s a treasure trove of flumes for geologists, engineers, biologists and more. The lab is right on the Mississippi River in Minneapolis.

I’m looking at the effect of undulating bedrock below rivers, The undulating bedrock affects changes in stream power and the location of bedrock vs. alluvial channels. It was pretty nice to make a bedrock valley in an afternoon, and to make a flood whenever I wanted by turning the dial.