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Andrea Ogston's research program explores how modern sedimentary processes shape coastal environments. As an oceanographer, she focuses on the interactions between geological and physical oceanography in coastal oceans, using observational techniques to study the dispersal of sediment from rivers to the deep sea. Her work emphasizes tidal, seasonal, and interannual variability in sedimentary systems, delving into a range of environments including tidally influenced river channels, intertidal muddy mangrove forests, submarine canyons, and continental slopes where high-concentration, gravity-driven flows episodically race downslope. Her research field sites are located both close to home, such as evaluating marine impacts from dam removal in the Elwha River, Washington, and far afield, like investigating the processes shaping the morphology of large tropical deltas such as the Mekong and Ayeyarwady.
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