conferred by British Society for Geomorphology
- 2021
- The winner of this year's Chorley Award is Dr Alvise Finotello (University of Venice, Italy) for his lead-authorship of the paper “Field migration rates of tidal meanders recapitulate fluvial morphodynamics” published in 2018 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Using a combination of field observations and analysis of aerial photography from saltmarshes in Italy, Dr Finotello’s paper challenges the view that tidal channels are stable landscape features and that they are different to the more familiar meandering channels of fluvial systems, erasing the long-prevailing perception that sinuous tidal creeks don't meander. At the time of the nomination, the article has been accessed >4300 times.
Finotello, A., Lanzoni, S., Ghinassi, M., Marani, M., Rinaldo, A., & D’Alpaos, A. Field migration rates of tidal meanders recapitulate fluvial morphodynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(7), 1463-1468
