I. Introduction. - II. Effects of Fine Sediment Resuspension In Estuaries. - III. Interaction of Surface Waves and Cohesive Sediments: Field Observations and Geologic Significance. - IV. The Significance of Aggregate Properties to Transport Processes. - V. Particle Aggregate Breakup by Fluid Shear. - VI. Rheology of Cohesive Suspensions. - VII. Field Settling Velocities of Estuary Muds. - VIII. Settling Behavior of Cohesive Sediment. - IX. Vertical Transport in Fine-Grained Suspension and Newly-Deposited Sediment. - X. The Transition from Sediment Suspension to Settling Bed. - XI. An Electrical Method to Measure In-Situ Sediment Densities. - XII. A Fundamental Framework for Cohesive Sediment Dynamics. - XIII. Influence of Biota on Erodibility of Sediments. - XIV. On the Observation of Cohesive Sediment Behavior for Engineering Purposes. - XV. Characterization of Cohesive Sediment Properties and Transport Processes in Estuaries. - XVI. Estuarial Sediment Bed Model. - XVII. Modeling Bottom Boundary Layer and Cohesive Sediment Dynamics in Estuarine and Coastal Waters. - XVIII. Interaction between Surface Waves and Muddy Bottom Sediments. - XIX. A Review of Mixture and Non-Local Continuum Mechanics with Example Applications to Cohesive Sediments. - XX. Cohesive Sediment Research at the Waterways Experiment Station. - XXI. Summary. Language: English