PS31A:
Physical Processes Governing the Distribution and Transport of Dispersed Particles in the Ocean I

Session ID#: 92546

Session Description:
The distribution and transport of dispersed particles in the ocean (e.g., plastic debris, oil droplets, gas bubbles, and organic and inorganic aggregates) continues to gather attention amongst scientists and policymakers seeking local and global solutions. Yet, major gaps remain in our basic understanding of the sources, distribution and physical transport of these different types of particles. Such particles span a wide range of shapes, sizes, densities, and materials and they interact with a wide range of fluid motions, including turbulence, waves, windage, and stratification. This session aims to bring together researchers from different backgrounds seeking to understand the complex physical processes governing the distribution and transport of plastic debris, bubbles, drops, and other particles in the ocean. Thus, we invite all submissions related to physical processes affecting dispersed particles across a range of different scales, from the dynamics of individual particles to global observations and models. Field observations, remote sensing, laboratory experiments, numerical modelling, and theoretical contributions are all welcomed.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • CP - Coastal and Estuarine Processes
  • IS - Ocean Observatories, Instrumentation and Sensing Technologies
  • PL - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Larger
Index Terms:

4251 Marine pollution [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4520 Eddies and mesoscale processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4528 Fronts and jets [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4568 Turbulence, diffusion, and mixing processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Primary Chair:  Kara L Lavender Law, Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Co-chairs:  Stefano Aliani, Institute of Marine Sciences CNR, La Spezia, Italy, Tracy Mandel, University of New Hampshire, Mechanical Engineering and Ocean Engineering, Durham, United States and Nimish Pujara, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kara L Lavender Law, Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Moderators:  Kara L Lavender Law, Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Michelle H DiBenedetto, Menlo Park, CA, United States and Nimish Pujara, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Tracy Mandel, University of New Hampshire, Mechanical Engineering and Ocean Engineering, Durham, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

PS31A-01
Floating Debris Accumulation in the North Pacific “Garbage Patch”, Studied with a Suite of Lagrangian Instruments (656674)
Nikolai A Maximenko1, Luca Raffaele Centurioni2, Mary Crowley3, Linsey Haram4, Jan Hafner5, Andrey Shcherbina6, Gregory Ruiz4, James T Carlton7 and Cathryn Murray8, (1)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States, (3)Ocean Voyages Institute, Sausalito, CA, United States, (4)Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, United States, (5)IPRC/SOEST U. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States, (6)Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (7)Williams College, Mystic Seaport Program, Mystic, CT, United States, (8)PICES North Pacific Marine Science Organization, Sidney, BC, United States
PS31A-02
Vertical Distribution of Particles in Upper-Ocean Turbulence: Laboratory Modelling of Plastic Pollution (642908)
Marie Poulain-Zarcos, CNRS, IMFT UMR5502 & IMRCP UMR5623, Toulouse, France, Alexandra ter Halle, Centre National de la recherche scientifique, CNRS, Physical chemistry, Toulouse, France and Matthieu Mercier, CNRS, IMFT UMR5502, Toulouse, France
PS31A-03
Eddy Induced, Cross-Shelf Transport of Drifting Objects or Actively Swimming Organisms (642056)
Lawrence J Pratt, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States, Irina Rypina, WHOI, Woods Hole, United States, Samuel Entner, Wentworth Institution of Technology, United States, Deepak Cherian, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics, Boulder, United States and Amanda Anderson, University of Kansas, United States
PS31A-04
A model investigation of the influence of submesoscale frontal dynamics on dispersal trajectories of near-surface, passive larvae around the Monterey Peninsula (658004)
Anna Burke Lowe, University of California Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States and Christopher A Edwards, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
PS31A-05
Plastic Transport in Coastal Seas: Lagrangian Tracking of Microplastics in the Nearshore and Evaluation of Beaching. (650274)
Cleo Jongedijk1, Jose M Alsina2, Erik van Sebille3 and Maarten Reeuwijk, van1, (1)Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering, London, United Kingdom, (2)Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Laboratory of Maritime Engineering, Barcelona, Spain, (3)Utrecht University, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
PS31A-06
Importance of Vertical Mixing for Modeling the Horizontal Drift of Oil Spills: Simulations with the Open Source Oil Spill Model OpenOil (646085)
Knut-Frode Dagestad, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Bergen, Norway, Johannes Röhrs, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway, Lars Robert Hole, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Division for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology, Bergen, Norway, Tor Nordam, SINTEF Ocean, Trondheim, Norway and Jørgen Skancke, SINTEF Materials and Chemistry, Environmental Technology, Trondheim, Norway
PS31A-07
Numerical Modeling of Particles in the Ocean (657019)
Anusha Lakmali Dissanayake, RPS Ocean Science, Wakefield, RI, United States, Jonas Gros, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Binbin Wang, University of Missouri, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Columbia, MO, United States, Adrian Burd, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States and Poojitha D. Yapa, Clarkson University, Potsdam, United States
PS31A-08
Mean Horizontal Transport of Buoyant Material by Turbulent Jets in the Upper Ocean (651648)
Tobias Kukulka, University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Newark, DE, United States
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