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Rob Ettema on River Ice, Ice-Sediment Interactions, and Sediment Scientist Biographies
Rob Ettema on River Ice, Ice-Sediment Interactions, and Sediment Scientist Biographies
I grew up in one of North America’s great snow belts…and started my career in Buffalo NY So, that background and my fascination with sediment transport primes curiosity in ice transport. I’m sure my ice friends would cringe at this, but I sometimes call ice transport as upside down sediment transport. But despite the symmetry of ice and sediment transport, they are separate, complicated, disciplines with little overlapping expertise. Which is why its remarkable, that this episode’s guest is...