Refereed Publications

NELSON, P.A., DIETRICH, W.E., and VENDITTI, J.G., Bed topography and the development of forced bed surface patches, Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, in press.

VENDITTI, J.G., DIETRICH, W.E., NELSON, P.A., WYDZGA, M.A., FADDE, J. and SKLAR, L., Effect of sediment pulse grain size on sediment transport rates and bed mobility in gravel bed rivers, Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, in press.

VENDITTI, J.G., Bedforms in Rivers, In: Treatise on Fluvial Geomorphology, Edited by E. Wohl, Elsevier, Oxford, in press.

VENDITTI, J.G., DIETRICH, W.E., NELSON, P.A., WYDZGA, M.A., FADDE, J. and SKLAR, L., Mobilization of coarse surface layers in gravel-bedded rivers by finer gravel bed load, Water Resources Research, 46, W07506, doi:10.1029/2009WR008329, 2010. PDF

NELSON, P.A., VENDITTI, J.G., DIETRICH, W.E., KIRCHNER, J.W., IKEDA, H., ISEYA, F. and SKLAR, L.S., Response of bed surface patchiness to reductions in sediment supply, Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 114, F02005, doi:10.1029/2008JF001144, 2009. PDF

SKLAR, L., FADDE, J., VENDITTI, J.G., WYDZGA, M.A., NELSON, P.A., and DIETRICH, W.E., Propagation of sediment pulses in flume experiments simulating gravel augmentation in armored channels downstream of dams, in review, Water Resources Research, 45, W08439, doi:10.1029/2008WR007346, 2009. PDF

VENDITTI, J.G., NELSON, P.A., and DIETRICH, W.E. The domain of bedload sheets, In: Marine Sandwave and River Dune Dynamics III. Edited by D. Parsons, J.L. Best, and A.Trentesaux, Leeds Unversity, Leeds, 2008. PDF

LAMB, M. P. AND W. E. DIETRICH, J. G. VENDITTI, Is the critical Shields stress for incipient sediment motion dependent on channel-bed slope? Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 113, F02008, doi:10.1029/2007JF000831, 2008. PDF

CUI, Y., WOOSTER, J., VENDITTI, J.G., DUSTERHOFF, S., DIETRICH, W.E., and SKLAR, L., Simulating sediment transport in a highly two-dimensional flume: Examinations of two one dimensional numerical models, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 134, doi: 0733-9429/2008/7-892–904/, 2008. PDF

VENDITTI, J.G., Turbulent flow and drag over fixed two-dimensional and three-dimensional dunes Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 112, F04008, doi:10.1029/2006JF000650. PDF

VENDITTI, J.G., CHURCH, M.A., and BENNETT, S.J., On interfacial instability as a cause of transverse sedimentary bedforms, Water Resources Research, 42, W07423, doi:10.1029/2005WR004346, 2006. PDF

DIETRICH, W.E., NELSON, P.A., YAGER, E., VENDITTI, J.G., LAMB, M.P. and  COLLINS L., Sediment patches, sediment supply, and channel morphology, in River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics: RCEM 2005 by G. Parker and M.H. Garcia, pp 79-90, Taylor & Francis Group, London, 2006. PDF

VENDITTI, J.G., CHURCH, M.A., and BENNETT, S.J., On the transition between 2D and 3D bedforms, Sedimentology, 52, 1343–1359, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2005.00748.x. PDF

VENDITTI, J.G., CHURCH, M.A., and BENNETT, S.J., Morphodynamics of Small-Scale Superimposed Sandwaves over Migrating Dune Bedforms, Water Resources Research, 41, W10423, doi:10.1029/2004WR003461, 2005. PDF

VENDITTI, J.G., CHURCH, M.A., and BENNETT, S.J., Bedform initiation from a flat sand bed Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 110, F01009, doi:10.1029/2004JF000149, 2005. PDF

VENDITTI, J.G., and BAUER, B.O., Turbulent flow over a dune: Green River, CO, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 30, 289–304, 2005. PDF

VENDITTI, J.G., and BENNETT, S.J., Spectral analysis of turbulent flow and suspended sediment transport over fixed dunes, Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, 22035-22047, 2000. PDF

BENNETT, S.J., and J. VENDITTI, Turbulent flow and suspended sediment transport over fixed dunes, in Proceedings of the Conference on Management of Landscapes Disturbed by Channel Incision: Stabilization, Rehabilitation, and Restoration edited by S.S.Y. Wang, E.J. Langendoen, and F.D. Shields, Jr., pp. 949-955, Center for Computational Hydroscience and Engineering, The University of Mississippi, 1997.

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Theses and Other Publications

VENDITTI,J.G., HUMPHRIES, R.P., ALLISON, M.A, NITTROUER, J.A. and M. CHURCH, M., Morphology and dynamics of a gravel-sand transition. Proceedings of the 9th Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference, June 27-July 1, 2010, Las Vegas, NV. PDF

CHURCH, M., and VENDITTI, J.G., Recommendations for the reestablishment of sediment transport observations at Mission City (WSC Station 08MH024): Final Report. Report to the Fraser River Estuary Management Program (FREMP), 28 November, 2008.

VENDITTI, J.G., SKLAR, L., DIETRICH, W.E., CUI, Y., FADDE, J., HUMPHRIES, R., MINEAR, J.T., NELSON, P.A., WOOSTER, J., WYDZGA, M.A., Gravel Augmentation: Lessons from the Laboratory, in Physical Modeling Experiments to Guide River Restoration Projects: Final Report (Restoration Manuals), Contract No. ERP-02D-P55, by Stillwater Sciences, UC Berkeley, and SFSU, Prepared for CALFED Ecosystem Restoration Program, Sacramento, 2008. PDF

VENDITTI, J.G., CHURCH, M., and BENNETT, S.J., Initiation and Development of Dunes in River Channels, USDA-ARS National Sedimentation Laboratory Research Report No. 46, 2004. PDF

VENDITTI, J.G. (2003) Initiation and Development of Sand Dunes in River Channels.  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of British Columbia, 291 p. PDF - Appendices

VENDITTI, J.G., and BENNETT, S.J. Spectral Analysis of Turbulent Flow and Suspended Sediment Transport Over Fixed Dunes, USDA-ARS National Sedimentation Laboratory Research Report No. 11, 2000.

VENDITTI, J.G. (1997).  Spatial and Temporal Turbulence Structure over Sub-Aqueous Dunes: Field and Laboratory Experiments.  Masters Thesis, University of Southern California, 137 p.

VENDITTI, J.G., (1995).  Factors Affecting the Distribution of Heavy Metal Contaminants in Bed Sediments of Fraser Estuary.  Undergraduate Thesis, University of Guelph, 94 p.

KOSTASCHUK, R.A., S. PENTZ, S. SMITH, and J.G. VENDITTI, Effect of Placer Mining on Suspended Sediment, Yukon Placer Committee, Whitehorse, Yukon, 37 p., 1996.

KOSTASCHUK, R.A., S. PENTZ, and J.G. VENDITTI, A Preliminary Report on the Impact of Placer Mining on Suspended Sediment Concentration in McQuesten River, Placer Mining Section, Mineral Resources Directorate, Northern Affairs Program, Yukon Region, Whitehorse, Yukon, 17 p., 1995.