Hans Albert Einstein Award Address (2024 - Stanford Gibson)

I won the Hans Albert Einstein award this year, which is the American Society of Civil Engineers' award for contributions to Sediment and Erosion.
This is the "Einstein Lecture" from the EWRI congress (in Milwaukee May 2024) that I presented when I accepted the award.
The list of previous Einstein award winners is here:
www.asce.org/career-growth/aw...
The podcast is here:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
The EWRI congress page is here:
www.ewricongress.org/

[@jwiest]

Congratulations Stan! Great acceptance speech!

[@51toniz]

BRAVO!!!

[@LB7EJ_Bjorn_Otto]

Congratulations!🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@51toniz]

It's so much fun to see a former student! I always wonder what the "kids" are doing with their lives. Congratulations, Stan. Well deserved recognition.

[@edwinkiprotich856]

Congratulations🎉

[@hamedtagizadeh]

Well deserved

[@Nash_W87]

🎉🎉🎉

[@JeffreyDegraff]

Congrats!!! And thank you for the general tip about using "Rules" for gate controls. I just used it in a Debris Model by assuming the bridge will clog when approximately half amount of material passes through the bridge opening.

[@stanfordgibson]

Excellent! Very creative. I have done something very similar. We often make blanket assumptions about bridge clogging (e.g. all bridges will clog 50 or 80% except freeways) in debris flow. But clogging them from the start can mess with arrival times (flooding arrives too early). So using a gate to "clog" a "bridge" is a great way to get the best of both worlds.