Have you ever noticed that extra little leg of gas piping running to your furnace or water heater and wondered what the heck happened? It's called a sediment trap. Sediment traps are intentionally ...

Benjamin Van Mooy (WHOI) deploys a sediment trap aboard R/V Neil Armstrong to collect sinking particles for lipid analysis. This study was a collaboration between WHOI, ETH-Zürich, and the University ...

Global river networks route sediment, nutrients and other material from land to oceans. Despite dams and other infrastructure acting as an inland sediment trap, Feng and colleagues find — by analysing ...