Research Interests

My research includes monitoring and modelling of fluvial dynamics, with special emphasis on sediment transport and associated geomorphic processes (e.g. sedimentary and morphological processes in the river channel).

My research extends to sediment and water management in regulated rivers (e.g. design and implementation of flushing flows), and to eco-geomorphology (e.g. interactions between macroinvertebrate drift and sediment transport). My PhD and subsequent work in the lower Ebro River (one of the largest regulated rivers in Spain) examined geomorphic adjustment to flow regulation and resulted in the design and implementation of regular environmental flows. Work was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (PI: Ramon J. Batalla) and was carried out in collaboration with the Ebro Water Authorities and Endesa Generacion SA. My current research (based in Aberystwyth University) concerns with methods to derive topographical roughness from detailed 3D point cloud data, acquired using a Terrestrial Laser Scanning in gravel-bed rivers.

(Left Photo: Sandy patch in the River Feshie © Damià Vericat 2007)

Use the links at right to navigate to my Publications, Research Projects in which I'm participating or collaborating, Conferences that I'm attending and to take a look the Media Galery where I'm presenting some of the results of my research.

3D point cloud data obtained by means of Terrestrial Laser Scanning. River Rees, New Zealand.