OS23B:
Nearshore Processes VI Posters

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Hansong Tang, CCNY, New York, NY, United States and Cheryl Ann Blain, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
Primary Conveners:  Julia C Mullarney, Dept. Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Co-conveners:  Alec Torres-Freyermuth, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Institute of Engineering, Sisal, Mexico, Hansong Tang, CCNY, New York, NY, United States and Cheryl Ann Blain, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Hansong Tang, CCNY, New York, NY, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
The Role of Wave Nonlinearity on Sediment Motion and Transport
Diane L Foster, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, James Michael Kaihatu, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States and Donya P Frank, Naval Research Lab Stennis Space Center, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
 
Turbulent Sediment Suspension and Induced Ripple Dynamics Absent Mean Shear
Blair A Johnson and Edwin Cowen, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
 
Time- and space-invariant parameterizations of the wave-bottom boundary layer over mobile rippled beds
Sylvia Rodriguez-abudo, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Center for Applied Ocean Sciences and Engineering, Mayaguez, PR, United States and Diane L Foster, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
 
Near Bed Turbulent Coherent Structures and Sea Bed Evolution Due to Long and Short Waves
Emily Carlson, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States and Diane L Foster, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
 
Surface-Induced Turbulence and Resulting Sand Suspension Beneath Breaking Waves
Joost Brinkkemper, Utrecht University, Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands and Gerben Ruessink, Utrecht University, Physical Geography, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands
 
In-situ Observations of Swash-zone Flow Velocities and Sediment Transport on a Steep Beach
Patricia Chardon-Maldonado, Center for Applied Coastal Research, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, Jack Anthony Puleo, Univ of DE-Civil & Envir Engrg, Newark, DE, United States and Jens Figlus, Texas A & M University at Galveston, Galveston, TX, United States
 
Observations of Seafloor Roughness in a Tidally Modulated Inlet
Thomas Charles Lippmann and Jon Hunt, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
 
Observations of fine scale stratigraphy using a digital imaging system
Edith L Gallagher1, Heidi M Wadman2, Ad Reniers3, Melike Köktąs3 and Jesse McNinch4, (1)Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, United States, (2)USACE-ERDC Information Technology Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS, United States, (3)Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, (4)US Army Corps of Engineers, Field Research Facility, Kitty Hawk, NC, United States
 
Preliminary Model Results of Beach Profile Dynamics with Stratigraphy
Adrianus J Reniers1, Melike Koktas2, Edith L Gallagher3, Heidi M Wadman4, Katherine L Brodie5, Bradley D Johnson4 and Jesse McNinch6, (1)Delft University of Technology, Hydrolic Engineering, Delft, 5612, Netherlands, (2)Delft University of Technology, Hydrolic Engineering, Delft, Netherlands, (3)Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, United States, (4)USACE-ERDC Information Technology Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS, United States, (5)US Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville, FL, United States, (6)US Army Corps of Engineers, Field Research Facility, Kitty Hawk, NC, United States
 
Identifying Preserved Storm Events on Beaches from Trenches and Cores
Heidi M Wadman1, Edith L Gallagher2, Jesse McNinch1, Ad Reniers3 and Melike Koktas3, (1)US Army Corps of Engineers, Field Research Facility, Kitty Hawk, NC, United States, (2)Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, United States, (3)Delft University of Technology, Hydrolic Engineering, Delft, Netherlands
 
Statistical Analysis of Small-Scale Bedforms Formed by Hurricane Sandy Offshore Fire Island, New York
Khushboo Arora1, John A Goff2, Lesli J Wood1 and Roger D Flood3, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)Univ of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (3)Stony Brook Univ, Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook, NY, United States
 
Acoustic measurement of sediment dynamics in the coastal zones using wireless sensor networks
Anbuchelian Sudhakaran II, Anna University, Ramanujan Computing Center, Chennai, India, Arumbu Paramasivam, P.S.V COLLEGE OF ENGINNERING & TECHNOLOGY, ELECTRONIC AND COMMUNICATION, KRISHNAGIRI, India, Srinivasalu Seshachalam, Anna University, Chennai, Department of Geology, Chennai, India and Chandrasekar A, St.Joseph's Engineering college, Department of Computer science and Engineering, Chennai, India
 
Tracing Sediment Fluxes in a Littoral Cell: A Record of 7 Years of Seasonal-Scale Variability at Moss Landing Beach, California
Kayleigh C Kavanagh, Beloit College, Beloit, WI, United States and Ivano W Aiello, California State University Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA, United States; Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA, United States
 
Towards integrated assessment of the northern Adriatic Sea sediment budget using remote sensing
Federico Filipponi1,2, Andrea Taramelli1, Emiliana Valentini1, Francesco Zucca2, Omar Quetzalcoatl Gutierrez3, Luca Liberti1 and Marco Cordella1, (1)Institute for Environmental Protection and the Environmental Research, Rome, Italy, (2)University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, (3)Environmental Hydraulics Institute IH Cantabria, Santander, Spain
 
Particle Size Distribution in the Yellow River Plume before and during Water and Sediment Diversion
Hua Zhang and Tao Zou, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, China
 
Erosion of the beaches of Crete
Vassilios Skanavis1,2, Nikos Kalligeris1,2, Nikos Maravelakis2, Spyros Foteinis2, Giorgos Sartzetakis2, Kostas Papadogiannis2 and Costas Synolakis1,2, (1)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Technical University of Crete, Environmental Engineering, Chania, Greece
 
EROSION PATTERNS IN ELKHORN SLOUGH, CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
Zixin Chen1, Ana Garcia-Garcia2, Geoff Shipton3, Ron Eby4 and Howard Unkeles3, (1)Mission San Jose High School, Fremont, CA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (3)Triton Imaging Inc., Capitola, CA, United States, (4)ESNERR, Watsonville, CA, United States
 
Comparison of Three Techniques to Monitor Bathymetric Evolution in a Spatially Extensive, Rapidly Changing Environment
Jantien Rutten, Utrecht University, Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands and Gerben Ruessink, Utrecht University, Physical Geography, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands
 
Shear Stress, Turbulence Production and Dissipation in Small Tidal Channels Intersecting a Tidal Flat
Aline Pieterse1, Jack Anthony Puleo1 and Thomas E McKenna2, (1)University of Delaware, Center for Applied Coastal Research, Newark, DE, United States, (2)University of Delaware, Delaware Geological Survey, Newark, DE, United States
 
Turbulent Fluxes of Suspended Sediment from Coupled Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers
Maximiliano Sassi1, Ton Hoitink2 and Bart Vermeulen2, (1)Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, 1790, Netherlands, (2)Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
 
The Effect of Low Energy Turbulence in Estuary Margins on Fine Sediment Settling
Rachel M Allen, Lissa Jillian MacVean, Ian Tse, Laura Jin Mazzaro, Mark T Stacey and Evan A Variano, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
The effect of bed forms on the dynamics of the fluid mud transport: preliminary insights from field observations and numerical simulations
Celalettin E Ozdemir, Louisiana State University, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Baton Rouge, LA, United States and Peter Traykovski, Woods Hole Oceanograph Inst, Falmouth, MA, United States
 
Coupled Dynamics of Interfacial Waves and Bedforms in Fluid Muds over Erodible Seabeds in Oscillatory Flows
John H Trowbridge and Peter Traykovski, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States
 
Estimating Surficial Seafloor Sediment Mud Fraction Using Empirical Orthogonal Functions of Acoustic Backscatter Waveform Properties
Joshua Humberston and Thomas Charles Lippmann, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping Joint Hydrographic Center, Durham, NH, United States
 
The role of "pump action" in coastal and estuarine sediment resuspension 
Shaotong Zhang and Yonggang Jia, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
 
Sediment Transport and Infilling of a Borrow Pit on an Energetic Sandy Ebb Tidal Delta Offshore of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Ansley Wren1, Kehui Xu2,3, Yanxia Ma4, Denise Sanger5 and Robert Van Dolah5, (1)Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, United States, (2)Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (3)Coastal Studies Institute, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (4)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (5)South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Marine Resourcecs Research Institution, Charleston, SC, United States
 
Monitoring Sea Water Turbidity by means of the Robust Satellite Technique (RST)
Teodosio Lacava1, Carmine Di Polito2, Emanuele Ciancia2, Irina Coviello2, Mariapia Faruolo1, Rossana Paciello1, Nicola Pergola1, Valeria Satriano2 and Valerio Tramutoli2, (1)CNR Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis, Potenza, Italy, (2)University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy
 
Two-Dimensional Numerical Modeling of Anthropogenic Beach Berm Erosion
Morteza Shakeri Majd1, Jochen Schubert1, Timu Gallien2 and Brett F Sanders1, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
 
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