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Simone Lassar

Undergraduate Student

slassar (at) mit.edu

When water with excess sediment flows through gravel streams it can clog the small spaces in between the gravel, known as interstitial spaces. These interstitial spaces are important for young fish, such as trout and salmon. I will work on a project modeling how sediment clogs up gravel streams, and investigate how adding obstacles (like logs, rocks, etc.) to these streams affects clogging. The turbulence created by adding these obstructions create can alleviate clogging, so this project aims to quantify if and how much clogging is prevented.

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