Publications in refereed journals:

N.M. Vriend, J.N. McElwaine, C.J. Keylock, M. Ash, P.V. Brennan, B. Sovilla (2013), "High resolution radar measurements of snow avalanches", in press with Geophysical Research Letters , doi:10.1029/2012GL054080.
N.M. Vriend, M.L. Hunt, R.W. Clayton (2012), "Sedimentary structure of large sand dunes: examples from Dumont and Eureka dunes", Geophysical Journal International , 190, 981-992, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05514.x. Further reproduction or electronic distribution is not permitted.
M.L. Hunt, N.M. Vriend (2010), "Booming Sand Dunes", Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 38, 281-301. Further reproduction or electronic distribution is not permitted.
N.M. Vriend, M.L. Hunt, R.W. Clayton, C.E. Brennen, K.S. Brantley, A. Ruiz-Angulo (2008), "Reply to Comment on Solving the Mystery of Booming Sand Dunes", Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L08307, doi:10.1029/2008GL033202. Further reproduction or electronic distribution is not permitted.
N.M. Vriend, M.L. Hunt, R.W. Clayton, C.E. Brennen, K.S. Brantley, A. Ruiz-Angulo (2007), "Solving the Mystery of Booming Sand Dunes", Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L16306, doi:10.1029/2007GL030276. Further reproduction or electronic distribution is not permitted.

Conference Presentations & Proceedings

N.M. Vriend, A.J. Sederman, M.D. Mantle, J.N. McElwaine and J.M.N.T. Gray, "Granular segregation in a closed-end chute -- MRI experiments and numerical simulations" 2013 2nd IMA Conference on Dense Granular Flows, Cambridge UK, Jul 1-4, 2013.
J.S. Caplan, N.M. Vriend, S.B. Dalziel, "Segregation effects in granular collapses" 2013 2nd IMA Conference on Dense Granular Flows, Cambridge UK, Jul 1-4, 2013.
N.M. Vriend, J.N. McElwaine, "The Second Normal-Stress Difference in Avalanching Granular Flows" 2012 IUTAM symposium on Mobile Particulate Systems, Bangalore India, Jan 23-27, 2012.
N.M. Vriend, J.N. McElwaine, C.J. Keylock, M. Ash, P.V. Brennan, B. Sovilla, "On the internal flow velocity of snow avalanche" 2011 Americal Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco CA USA, Dec 5-9, 2011.
M. Ash, P.V. Brennan, N.M. Vriend, J.N. McElwaine, C.J. Keylock "FMCW Phased Array Radar for Automatically Triggered Measurements of Snow Avalanches" 2011 Proceedings of the 8th European Radar Conference EuRAD, , Manchester, United Kingdom, October 9-14, 2011.
N.M. Vriend and M.L. Hunt, "The waveguide theory for booming sand dunes" 2009 Proceedings of the IUTAM-ISIMM Symposium on Mathematical Modeling and Physical Instances of Granular Flows, Reggio Calabria, Italy, September 14-18, 2009.
N.M. Vriend, M.L. Hunt and R.W. Clayton, "Mapping the Stratigraphy of Booming Sand Dunes" 2008 Americal Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 15-19, 2008.
N.M. Vriend, M.L. Hunt and R.W. Clayton, "Non-linear and Linear Wave Propagation in Booming Sand Dunes" 2008 Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, San Antonio, TX, USA, November 23-25, 2008.
N.M. Vriend, M.L. Hunt, R.W. Clayton and C.E. Brennen, "Booming Sand Dunes" 2008 Gordon Research Conference on Granular & Granular-fluid flow, Colby College, ME, USA, June 22-27, 2008.
N.M. Vriend, M.L. Hunt and R.W. Clayton, "A Mystery Unraveled: Booming Sand Dunes" 2007 Americal Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 10-14, 2007.
N.M. Vriend, M.L. Hunt and R.W. Clayton, "Seismic Evidence for Resonance Layer in Booming Sand Dunes" 2006 Americal Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 11-15, 2006.
N.M. Vriend, M.L. Hunt and C.E. Brennen, "Acoustic emission of booming sand", 15th U.S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Boulder, CO, USA, June 25-30, 2006.

Recent Media attention

"X-ray Yellowstone", Discovery Channel TV , December 24, 2012.
"Setting a speed trap for an avalanche", Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition , July 3 - 8, 2012.
"America's Wild Spaces, Death Valley", National Geographic TV , July 20, 2009.
Ute Kehse, "Die Stimme der Wueste (in German)", Berliner Zeitung , October 13, 2007.
Larry O'Hanlon, "When Sand Dunes Go Boom", Discovery Channel News , September 19, 2007.
Karel Knip, "Bulderzand (in Dutch)", NRC Handelsblad, September 15, 2007.
Sid Perkins, "Sonic Sands, uncovering the secret of the booming dunes", Science News 171, 149 - 150, September 8, 2007.
Philip Ball, "The Dune Chorus", Nature 449, 10 - 11, September 6, 2007, doi:10.1038/449010a.
David Cohen, "The Music of the Dunes", NewScientist, Short Sharp Science, August 24, 2007.
Richard A. Kerr, "Looking Inside a Dune for its Boom", ScienceNow, daily news, June 19, 2007.
Peter Monaghan, "The Dunes that Roar", The Chronicle of Higher Education, notes from academe, November 4, 2005.
Nova ScienceNOW, "Booming Sands", 7-minute broadcast segment from PBS, January 25, 2005.

Dr. Nathalie Maria Vriend
NERC Postdoctoral Fellow in DAMTP at the University of Cambridge
PhD (2010) in Mechanical Engineering and Geophysics at the California Institute of Technology

Granular research page, nmvriend@alumni.caltech.edu

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