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Odgaard has researched the use of submerged vanes for over structures and will go a long way in assisting hydraulic engineers
25 years. Together with Kennedy and their students, they pursued in the proper use of submerged vanes.
a systematic theoretical and experimental investigation of the role
of submerged vanes on river training and sediment management
at the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research of the University of References
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second reviewer is correct, the interest of a forward-thinking Iowa Bernhardt, E. S., et al. 共2005兲. “Synthesizing U.S. river restoration ef-
Department of Transportation engineer on the new technology forts.” Science, 308, 636–637.
facilitated the first field installation of the submerged vanes at the Johnson, P. A., Tereska, R. L., and Brown, E. R. 共2002兲. “Using technical
East Nishnabotna River in Iowa in 1985. A sketch of the river adaptive management to improve design guidelines for urban instream
section, indicating the submerged vane system layout and the structures.” J. Am. Water Resour. Assoc., 38共4兲, 1143–1152.
bridge crossing is shown in Fig. 1 共from Odgaard and Mosconi Kauffman, J. B., Beschta, R. L., Otting, N., and Lytjen, D. 共1997兲. “An
1987, Fig. 5-2 in the book兲. Though the vanes used there were at ecological perspective of riparian and stream restoration in the west-
the very early design stage in terms of shape, size, material, spac- ern United States.” Fisheries, 22共5兲, 12–24..
ing, and installation procedures, they proved to be very effective O’Neil, J., and Fitch L. 共1992兲. “Performance audit of in-stream habitat
in protecting bank erosion and arresting lateral stream migration structures constructed during the period, 1982–1990, in southwestern
in the vicinity of the bridge crossing. For his work on submerged Alberta.” Abstracts for American Fisheries Society Meeting, 4.
vane research and development, Odgaard received the ASCE Hy- Odgaard, A. J., and Kennedy, J. F. 共1983兲. “River-bend bank protection
by submerged vanes.” J. Hydraul. Eng., 109共8兲, 1161–1173.
draulic Structures Medal in 2001.
Odgaard, A. J., and Mosconi, C. E. 共1987兲. “Streambank protection by
This manual represents a first attempt to create a submerged submerged vanes.” J. Hydraul. Eng., 113共4兲, 520–536..
vanes design guidebook that can be used by practicing hydraulic Potapov, M. V., and Pyshkin, B. A. 共1947兲. “Metod poperechnoy tsirku-
engineers and researchers. The author presents the material in an lyatsii I ego primenenie v gidrotekhnike.” Izd. Ak. Nayk. 1947, SSSR,
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manual is a useful addition to the literature on in-stream flow stream channel restoration.” J. Hydraul. Eng., 133共10兲, 1099–1102.
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