Emily Eidam

Adjunct Research Assistant Professor

Coastal & Fluvial Sediments Lab

Education

2017 - PhD, Oceanography, University of Washington
Dissertation: Processes and records of coastal sediment dispersal in contrasting deltaic systems
2013 - MS, Oceanography, University of Washington
2010 - BS, Geological Sciences, University of Alaska Anchorage, magna cum laude
2008 - BS, Civil Engineering, University of Alaska Anchorage, magna cum laude

Research Interests

I study the transfer of sediment through riverine and coastal environment, as well as short-timescale depositional histories (fortnightly to centennial timescales). Much of this work is centered in the Arctic and sub-Arctic, where environmental conditions are rapidly changing, driving changes in how sediments are dispersed through fluvial systems and deposited and reworked on continental shelves.

Research and Activities

My lab conducts field work (often by boat and in remote places) to measure hydrodynamic and sedimentary processes (using common oceanographic instrumentation); conducts lab analyses of physical samples (e.g., grain-size and radiochemical analyses); and performs data analyses of time-series datasets – as well as some sediment transport and morphodynamic modeling.

Selected Publications

Eidam, E.F., Sutherland, D.A., Ralston, D.K., Conroy, T., Dye, B., 2021. Shifting sediment dynamics in the Coos Bay Estuary in response to 150 years of modification. JGR-Oceans. doi.org/10.1029/2020JC016771 Eidam, E.F., Sutherland, D.A., Duncan, D., Kienholz, C., Amundson, J.M., Motyka, R.J. 2020. Morainal bank evolution and controls on terminus dynamics during a tidewater glacier stillstand. JGR-Earth Surface. doi.org/10.1029/2019JF005359 Eidam, E.F., Sutherland, D.A., Ralston, D.K., Dye, B., Conroy, T., Schmitt, J., Ruggiero, P., Wood, J. 2020. Impacts of 150 years of shoreline and bathymetric change in the Coos Estuary, Oregon, USA. Estuaries and Coasts. doi.org/10.1007/s12237-020-00732-1 Eidam, E.F., Nittrouer, C.A., Lundesgaard, Ø., Homolka, K., Smith, C. 2019. Variability of sediment accumulation rates in an Antarctic fjord. Geophysical Research Letters, 46. doi.org/10.1029/2019GL084499 Sutherland, D.A., Jackson, R.H., Kienholz, C., Amundson, J.M., Dryer, W.P., Duncan, D., Eidam, E.F., Motyka, R.J. and Nash, J.D. 2019. Direct observations of submarine melt and subsurface geometry at a tidewater glacier. Science, 365(6451), 369–374. Lundesgaard, Ø., Winsor, P., Truffer, M., Merrifield, M., Powell, B., Statscewich, H., Eidam, E., Smith, C.R. 2019. Hydrography and energetics of a cold subpolar fjord: Andvord Bay, western Antarctic Peninsula. Progress in Oceanography, 181, 102224. Eidam, E.F., Ogston, A.S., Nittrouer, C.A. 2019. Formation and removal of a coastal flood deposit. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124(2), 1045–1062. doi.org/10.1029/2018JC014360 Glover, H.E., Ogston, A.S., Miller, I.M., Eidam, E.F., Rubin, S.P. and Berry, H.D. 2019. Impacts of Suspended Sediment on Nearshore Benthic Light Availability Following Dam Removal in a Small Mountainous River: In Situ Observations and Statistical Modeling. Estuaries and Coasts, 1-17.