Flood of Mud: The Roanoke River — Past and Future

September 10th, 2005 - February 29th, 2008 | PROJECT

Flood of Mud: The Roanoke River -- Past and Future is a video project examining long-term impacts of historic land clearing and erosion on temperate rivers and their floodplains. The 17-minute video targets youth and adult visitors to the North Carolina Aquariums. The video highlights the NSF-funded research project EAR-0105929, "Modeling the Impacts of Post-settlement Sediment Deposition on Floodplain Vegetation," which applies paleoecological and dendrochronological methods and computer modeling to examine and predict the impact of sedimentation on forest composition, productivity and functioning of the lower Roanoke River in North Carolina.

Project Website(s)

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Team Members

Cathlyn Merrit Davis, Principal Investigator, University of Maryland
Phillip Townsend, Co-Principal Investigator, University of Maryland

Funders

Funding Source: NSF
Funding Program: ISE/AISL
Award Number: 0527540
Funding Amount: 74938

Tags

Audience: Adults | Museum | ISE Professionals | Youth | Teen (up to 17)
Discipline: Ecology | forestry | agriculture | Geoscience and geography
Resource Type: Project Descriptions
Environment Type: Aquarium and Zoo Exhibits | Exhibitions | Films and IMAX | Media and Technology