RSM Tool: LSTF Fact Sheet

<div>Dredged sediment is a resource useful in beach nourishment, improving coastal resilience, and maintaining growing wetlands. As numerical models expand in capability, datasets must be improved so that the models can be validated. Often, these critical data required to improve the understanding of coastal sediment transportation are deficient. Field data often lacks hydrodynamic conditions and is challenging to track sediment because of</div><div>mixing with native sediment. The Large Sediment Transport Facility (LSTF) is located at the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory in Vicksburg, MS, and is the only basin in the western hemisphere capable of simulating an infinite shoreline. The LSTF can produce large-scale laboratory waves, pump and recirculate longshore current, measure the quantity of sands that moves along the beach, and contains a fully programmable instrumentation bridge and data acquisitions system.</div>