Title: Locomotion in Granular Media

Author (Invited): Anette Hosoi, MIT

Abstract:

Many biological organisms live in environments that require them to traverse through granular media. These organisms exhibit a variety of digging strategies and span a range of length scales from c. elegans to razor clams to sandfish. In this talk we discuss a number of these digging strategies and present simple physical models associated with transport through granular materials along with biological data.