OS53E:
Munitions in Underwater Environments I

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Session ID#: 35109

Session Description:
It is estimated that nearly 10 million acres spread across over 300 sites of underwater environments in the U.S. and surrounding territories are contaminated with unexploded ordnance (UXO) or munitions. Advanced technologies, detailed observations, and coupled models are required for long-term remediation and management at sites in the U.S and around the world. We seek contributions from a broad range of topics with the common theme of munitions in underwater environments including but not limited to (1) both acoustic and electromagnetic sensor development, testing, validation, and modeling for detection and classification of UXO; (2) observations of munitions mobility and burial; (3) deployment of so-called, smart munitions, containing onboard sensors; (4) modeling of munitions mobility, burial, and the environment from storm event to decadal time scales.
Primary Convener:  Joe Calantoni, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, DC, United States
Conveners:  Jack Anthony Puleo, University of Delaware, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Newark, United States; University of Delaware, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Newark, DE, United States, Brian Todd Hefner, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Shawn F. Johnson, Applied Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, United States
Chairs:  Joe Calantoni, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, DC, United States, Jack Anthony Puleo, University of Delaware, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Newark, United States, Brian Todd Hefner, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Shawn F. Johnson, Applied Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Joe Calantoni, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

4546 Nearshore processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4558 Sediment transport [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4594 Instruments and techniques [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4599 General or miscellaneous [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Observations of Munitions Mobility During a Nor’easter at Wallops Island (291416)
Christy Swann1, Donya P Frank-Gilchrist2, Edward F Braithwaite III3, Robert K Hagg1 and Joe Calantoni4, (1)U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (2)US Naval Research Laboratory, NRC Postdoc at US Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (3)US Naval Research Laboratory, Ocean Sciences Division, Stennis Space Center, United States, (4)U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, DC, United States
Computational Modeling of Hydrodynamics and Scour around Underwater Munitions (260505)
Xiaofeng Liu, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, PA, United States and Yuncheng Xu, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
Advanced Geophysical Classification with the Marine Towed Array (272229)
Daniel Steinhurst1, Glenn Harbaugh1, Dean Keiswetter2, Tom W. Bell3, Grace Massey4 and Dave Wright5, (1)Nova Research, Inc., Alexandria, VA, United States, (2)Acorn Science and Innovation, Inc., Cary, NC, United States, (3)Leidos, Maritime Solutions Division, Arlington, VA, United States, (4)Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, United States, (5)AGCPro, LLC, Estero, FL, United States
Munitions and Explosives of Concern Survey Methodology and In-field Testing for Wind Energy Areas on the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (280753)
Carter DuVal, University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Newark, DE, United States, Geoff Carton, Calibre Systems, Alexandria, VA, United States, Arthur C Trembanis, University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Newark, United States, Margo Edwards, Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States and Jennifer Kay Miller, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Herndon, Herndon, VA, United States
Hydro and morphodynamic simulations for probabilistic estimates of munitions mobility (283322)
Margaret Palmsten and Allison Penko, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
Detection and Classification of UXO Using Unmanned Undersea Electromagnetic Sensing Platforms (286503)
Gregory Schultz1, Joe Keranen1, Jesse McNinch2 and Jonathan Miller1, (1)White River Technologies, Lebanon, NH, United States, (2)Engineer Research and Development Center Kitty Hawk, Kitty Hawk, NC, United States
Munition Burial by Local Scour and Sandwaves: large-scale laboratory experiments (Invited) (213022)
Marcelo H Garcia, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States
Acoustic Scattering from Munitions in the Underwater Environment: Measurements and Modeling (Invited) (231450)
Kevin Williams, Steven G. Kargl and Aubrey Espana, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Acoustics, Seattle, WA, United States

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