2022 – River Meandering Through Time

Zoltán Sylvester is a research scientist in the field of geology and a world-known sedimentologist, stratigrapher, and modeler. He is a co-PI of the Quantitative Clastics Laboratory (QCL) at the University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Zoltán Sylvester works especially on river meandering over time and how to precisely track how a river – that can sometimes erase its own sedimentary deposits – has moved and changed its path over time. The 3D prints Zoltán Sylvester made so far (with time on the z axis) are from a numerical model, not a specific river. They allow to capture the sedimentary history of the river through time within one object, which is usally very difficult to represent. Source: Anne-Laure Fréant (2022) Interview with geology researcher Zoltán Sylvester: understanding river meandering through time. (archived version) Related: Also see our entry 2004 – Full-Color 3D-Printed Scientific Visualizations.