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River bank instability from unsustainable sand mining in the lower Mekong River (2020)
Journal Article
Hackney, C. R., Darby, S., Parsons, D. R., Leyland, J., Best, J., Aalto, R., Nicholas, A., & Houseago, R. (2020). River bank instability from unsustainable sand mining in the lower Mekong River. Nature Sustainability, 3(3), 217-225. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0455-3

Recent growth of the construction industry has fuelled demand for sand, with considerable volumes being extracted from the world’s large rivers. Sediment transport from upstream naturally replenishes sediment stored in river beds, but the absence of... Read More about River bank instability from unsustainable sand mining in the lower Mekong River.

Hydrological/Hydraulic Modeling-Based Thresholding of Multi SAR Remote Sensing Data for Flood Monitoring in Regions of the Vietnamese Lower Mekong River Basin (2019)
Journal Article
Hong Quang, N., Tuan, V. A., Thi Thu Hang, L., Manh Hung, N., Thi The, D., Thi Dieu, D., Duc Anh, N., & Hackney, C. R. (2020). Hydrological/Hydraulic Modeling-Based Thresholding of Multi SAR Remote Sensing Data for Flood Monitoring in Regions of the Vietnamese Lower Mekong River Basin. Water, 12(1), Article 71. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12010071

Sub‐arctic river bank dynamics and driving processes during the open‐channel flow period (2019)
Journal Article
Lotsari, E., Hackney, C., Salmela, J., Kasvi, E., Kemp, J., Alho, P., & Darby, S. (2020). Sub‐arctic river bank dynamics and driving processes during the open‐channel flow period. Earth surface processes and landforms : the journal of the British Geomorphological Research Group, 45(5), 1198-1216. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4796

There is growing concern that rapidly changing climate in high latitudes may generate significant geomorphological changes that could mobilise floodplain sediments and carbon; however detailed investigations into the bank erosion process regimes of h... Read More about Sub‐arctic river bank dynamics and driving processes during the open‐channel flow period.

Water quality modelling of the Mekong River basin: climate change and socioeconomics drive flow and nutrient flux changes to the Mekong Delta (2019)
Journal Article
Whitehead, P. G., Jin, L., Bussi, G., Voepel, H. E., Darby, S. E., Vasilopoulos, G., Manley, R., Rodda, H., Hutton, C., Hackney, C., Tri, V. P. D., & Hung, N. N. (2019). Water quality modelling of the Mekong River basin: climate change and socioeconomics drive flow and nutrient flux changes to the Mekong Delta. The Science of the total environment, 673, 218-229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.03.315

The Mekong delta is recognised as one of the world's most vulnerable mega-deltas, being subject to a range of environmental pressures including sea level rise, increasing population, and changes in flows and nutrients from its upland catchment. With... Read More about Water quality modelling of the Mekong River basin: climate change and socioeconomics drive flow and nutrient flux changes to the Mekong Delta.

Natural and anthropogenic influences on the Nhecolândia wetlands, SE Pantanal, Brazil (2018)
Journal Article
Castro de Oliveira, E., Pla-Pueyo, S., & Hackney, C. (2019). Natural and anthropogenic influences on the Nhecolândia wetlands, SE Pantanal, Brazil. Geological Society Special Publications, 488, 167-180. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP488.5

The Nhecolândia region covers the southern wetlands of the Pantanal basin in Brazil. Characterized by myriad shallow freshwater and alkaline–saline lakes, the distinct natural features of the Nhecolândia wetland make it highly sensitive to climate ch... Read More about Natural and anthropogenic influences on the Nhecolândia wetlands, SE Pantanal, Brazil.

Low-angle dunes in the Changjiang (Yangtze) Estuary: Flow and sediment dynamics under tidal influence (2018)
Journal Article
Hackney, C. R., Hu, H., Wei, T., Yang, Z., Hackney, C., & Parsons, D. R. (2018). Low-angle dunes in the Changjiang (Yangtze) Estuary: Flow and sediment dynamics under tidal influence. Estuarine, coastal and shelf science, 205, 110-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2018.03.009

It has long been highlighted that important feedbacks exist between river bed morphology, sediment transport and the turbulent flow field and that these feedbacks change in response to forcing mechanisms. However, our current understanding of bedform... Read More about Low-angle dunes in the Changjiang (Yangtze) Estuary: Flow and sediment dynamics under tidal influence.

The influence of flow discharge variations on the morphodynamics of a diffluence-confluence unit on a large river: Impacts of discharge variation on a diffluence-confluence unit (2017)
Journal Article
Hackney, C. R., Darby, S. E., Parsons, D. R., Leyland, J., Aalto, R., Nicholas, A. P., & Best, J. L. (2018). The influence of flow discharge variations on the morphodynamics of a diffluence-confluence unit on a large river: Impacts of discharge variation on a diffluence-confluence unit. Earth surface processes and landforms : the journal of the British Geomorphological Research Group, 43(2), 349-362. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4204

© 2017 The Authors. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Bifurcations are key geomorphological nodes in anabranching and braided fluvial channels, controlling local bed morphology, the routing of sediment and wa... Read More about The influence of flow discharge variations on the morphodynamics of a diffluence-confluence unit on a large river: Impacts of discharge variation on a diffluence-confluence unit.

Sustainable rice cultivation in the deep flooded zones of the Vietnamese Mekong Delta (2017)
Journal Article
Chapman, A., Darby, S., Tompkins, E., Hackney, C., Leyland, J., Van, P. D. T., Pham, T. V., Parsons, D., Aalto, R., & Nicholas, A. (2017). Sustainable rice cultivation in the deep flooded zones of the Vietnamese Mekong Delta. Vietnam Journal of Science, Technology and Engineering, 59(2), 34-38. https://doi.org/10.31276/VJSTE.59%282%29.34

This paper explains how the management of the full-dyke system in the deep flooded zones of the Vietnamese Mekong Delta affects rice cultivation, and outlines how alternative dyke management strategies could offer more sustainable adaptations in the... Read More about Sustainable rice cultivation in the deep flooded zones of the Vietnamese Mekong Delta.

Extreme flood-driven fluvial bank erosion and sediment loads: direct process measurements using integrated Mobile Laser Scanning (MLS) and hydro-acoustic techniques: Direct measurement of flood-driven erosion using MLS and MBES (2016)
Journal Article
Leyland, J., Hackney, C. R., Darby, S. E., Parsons, D. R., Best, J. L., Nicholas, A. P., Aalto, R., & Lague, D. (2017). Extreme flood-driven fluvial bank erosion and sediment loads: direct process measurements using integrated Mobile Laser Scanning (MLS) and hydro-acoustic techniques: Direct measurement of flood-driven erosion using MLS and MBES. Earth surface processes and landforms : the journal of the British Geomorphological Research Group, 42(2), 334-346. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4078

Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This methods paper details the first attempt at monitoring bank erosion, flow and suspended sediment at a site during flooding on the Mekong River induced by the passage of tropical cyclones. We deployed int... Read More about Extreme flood-driven fluvial bank erosion and sediment loads: direct process measurements using integrated Mobile Laser Scanning (MLS) and hydro-acoustic techniques: Direct measurement of flood-driven erosion using MLS and MBES.

Fluvial sediment supply to a mega-delta reduced by shifting tropical-cyclone activity (2016)
Journal Article
Darby, S. E., Hackney, C. R., Leyland, J., Kummu, M., Lauri, H., Parsons, D. R., Best, J. L., Nicholas, A. P., & Aalto, R. E. (2016). Fluvial sediment supply to a mega-delta reduced by shifting tropical-cyclone activity. Nature, 539(7628), 276-279. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature19809

© 2016 Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved. The world's rivers deliver 19 billion tonnes of sediment to the coastal zone annually, with a considerable fraction being sequestered in large deltas, home to over 500... Read More about Fluvial sediment supply to a mega-delta reduced by shifting tropical-cyclone activity.

Modulation of outer bank erosion by slump blocks: disentangling the protective and destructive role of failed material on the three-dimensional flow structure (2015)
Journal Article
Hackney, C., Best, J., Leyland, J., Darby, S. E., Parsons, D., Aalto, R., & Nicholas, A. (2015). Modulation of outer bank erosion by slump blocks: disentangling the protective and destructive role of failed material on the three-dimensional flow structure. Geophysical research letters, 42(24), 10663-10670. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL066481

The three-dimensional flow field near the banks of alluvial channels is the primary factor controlling rates of bank erosion. Although submerged slump blocks and associated large-scale bank roughness elements have both previously been proposed to div... Read More about Modulation of outer bank erosion by slump blocks: disentangling the protective and destructive role of failed material on the three-dimensional flow structure.

I'll be dead by the time it happens: Children's Perceptions of Climate Change in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Halstead, F., Parsons, D., Jones, L., & Hackney, C. (2020, May). I'll be dead by the time it happens: Children's Perceptions of Climate Change in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. Paper presented at EGU General Assembly 2020 (European Geosciences Union), Sharing Geoscience Online

The Mekong Delta in Southern Vietnam is one of the most at risk places globally to the effects of climate change and sea level rise, specifically in terms of flooding. It is predicted to change drastically over the next 100 years, with additional hum... Read More about I'll be dead by the time it happens: Children's Perceptions of Climate Change in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam.