OCEANS 2009Pub Date : 2009-10-01DOI: 10.23919/OCEANS.2009.5422176
F. Jose, G. Stone
{"title":"Wave transformation over Sabine Bank, off the Louisiana-Texas coast: Implications of targeted sand mining for coastal restoration","authors":"F. Jose, G. Stone","doi":"10.23919/OCEANS.2009.5422176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/OCEANS.2009.5422176","url":null,"abstract":"Sabine Bank, a transgressive shoal located 30 km off the Louisiana-Texas border, has been identified as a viable source for restoring the storm-ravaged coasts nearby. Wave-climate for the coast is characterized by a low-energy regime with average SWH less than 1 m and mean wave direction from south-southeast. A fully spectral MIKE 21 wave model has been implemented for the first time for this coast to study the wave transformation over the Sabine Bank. The model was implemented on a high resolution grid to study the modification in bulk wave parameters due to two proposed mining scenarios, and results show minimum impact from restricted dredging of the bank crest. Wave induced sediment re-suspension intensity (RI) was computed and found to be high over the inner shelf and shoal during severe storms. For storm weather conditions, the shallower western portion of the bank dissipates waves significantly, a trend reflected in the computed RI values also. The utilization of material from the bank has a very high potential for use in future restoration projects along the western Louisiana-Texas coast.","PeriodicalId":119977,"journal":{"name":"OCEANS 2009","volume":"199 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116202372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OCEANS 2009Pub Date : 2009-10-01DOI: 10.23919/OCEANS.2009.5422067
S. Willcox, C. Meinig, C. Sabine, N. Lawrence‐Slavas, Tim Richardson, R. Hine, J. Manley
{"title":"An autonomous mobile platform for underway surface carbon measurements in open-ocean and coastal waters","authors":"S. Willcox, C. Meinig, C. Sabine, N. Lawrence‐Slavas, Tim Richardson, R. Hine, J. Manley","doi":"10.23919/OCEANS.2009.5422067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/OCEANS.2009.5422067","url":null,"abstract":"The NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and Liquid Robotics, Inc., are collaborating to address an urgent need for long-term in-situ observation of carbon parameters over broad swathes of the global coastal and open ocean by integrating a suite of state-of-the-art pC02, pH, and CTD sensors onto a Wave Glider wave-propelled autonomous marine vehicle (AMV). The resulting Biogeochemical Wave Glider will be capable both of acting as a long-duration (up to 1 year) \"virtual mooring\" to augment the existing sparse collection of moored carbon science sensors and of conducting autonomous, basin-scale ocean transits to provide new insight into the spatial variability of carbon uptake and associated parameters.","PeriodicalId":119977,"journal":{"name":"OCEANS 2009","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127701002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OCEANS 2009Pub Date : 2009-10-01DOI: 10.23919/oceans.2009.5422437
L. Hotaling
{"title":"SENSE IT — Student enabled network of sensors for the environmental using innovative technology","authors":"L. Hotaling","doi":"10.23919/oceans.2009.5422437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/oceans.2009.5422437","url":null,"abstract":"SENSE IT is a project, sponsored by the National Science Foundation's Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program, which integrates science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills into a robust interdisciplinary curricula and teacher development effort in which high school students and teachers design, build, test, deploy and interpret data generated by their own water quality sensors.","PeriodicalId":119977,"journal":{"name":"OCEANS 2009","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125476686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OCEANS 2009Pub Date : 2009-10-01DOI: 10.23919/OCEANS.2009.5422354
M. Schexnayder, B. Hall, M. Bourgeois
{"title":"Development of a Global Marine Environmental Library","authors":"M. Schexnayder, B. Hall, M. Bourgeois","doi":"10.23919/OCEANS.2009.5422354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/OCEANS.2009.5422354","url":null,"abstract":"The Ocean Projects Department of the Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO) is developing a Global Marine Environmental Library (GMEL) of academic ocean environmental studies. The purpose of GMEL is to provide an easy to use, accessible set of unclassified, academically-validated publications or references to NAVOCEANO users. These published studies have been approved and released for inclusion into GMEL and will include a collection of various public reports, publications, analyses, interpretations, and compilations of academic works across large ocean regions. The importance of such works lies in the academic interpretation of the marine environment and associated dynamic processes. GMEL will be organized primarily by ocean region, and presently, three academic institutes are participating in developing an effective organizational library structure. It is intended for this effort to be a first step toward promoting interest among academic members to join and participate in the Global Marine Environmental Library.","PeriodicalId":119977,"journal":{"name":"OCEANS 2009","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125993216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OCEANS 2009Pub Date : 2009-10-01DOI: 10.23919/OCEANS.2009.5422288
V. Maisonet, J. Wesson, D. Burrage, S. Howden
{"title":"Measuring coastal sea-surface salinity of the Louisiana shelf from aerially observed ocean color","authors":"V. Maisonet, J. Wesson, D. Burrage, S. Howden","doi":"10.23919/OCEANS.2009.5422288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/OCEANS.2009.5422288","url":null,"abstract":"We have demonstrated the ability of airborne radiance and irradiance sensors to detect the persistent salinity gradient of the Atchafalaya plume and corresponding color fronts as observed by in-situ shipboard measurements as well as STARRS. We used an empirical algorithm A<inf>cdom</inf> (412) =3D 0.227}(R<inf>rs</inf>510/R<inf>rs</inf>555)<sup>−2.022</sup> (1) for CDOM from D'Sa et al. 2006. Their study was conducted in the same region (Louisiana Shelf) and time of year (March) as our study and it was performed with similar optical equipment. This study resulted in an Ocean Color Salinity model that can measure with ~88% accuracy the Sea-Surface Salinity of the Louisiana shelf. A multi-linear regression for salinity, based on two of the optical channels, provides an excellent qualitative proxy for large scale coastal salinity in the Atchafalaya plume region (y=−3D0.0082⋆x+0.34, R<sup>2</sup>=3D0.90, n=3D5220). We then developed two algorithms from the May and November data. This was done to create two seasonal equations for salinity.","PeriodicalId":119977,"journal":{"name":"OCEANS 2009","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131391835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OCEANS 2009Pub Date : 2009-10-01DOI: 10.23919/OCEANS.2009.5422115
P. Marshall, L. Goldberg
{"title":"RBI for fixed, mobile, and floating offshore platforms","authors":"P. Marshall, L. Goldberg","doi":"10.23919/OCEANS.2009.5422115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/OCEANS.2009.5422115","url":null,"abstract":"Risk-Based Inspection is an established tool for assessment and life extension for fixed platform jackets, mobile jack-up platforms, and floaters such as tension leg platforms, spars, semisubmersibles, and ship-shaped hulls. The key concept is the detection and elimination of flaws which could progress to structural failure before the next inspection maintenance cycle. This paper will review decades of practical experience and recent developments for these various types of structures — and for various methods of inspection, both topside/interior and underwater. Optimal expenditure of resources requires trade-offs such as cost-risk and cost effectiveness. Performance demonstration initiatives (PDIs) are indispensable in establishing probabilities of detection (POD) and the confidence limits thereon. A proposed new API standard for underwater magnetic particle inspection (MPI) will also be presented.","PeriodicalId":119977,"journal":{"name":"OCEANS 2009","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132208370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OCEANS 2009Pub Date : 2009-10-01DOI: 10.23919/OCEANS.2009.5422143
A. Penko, J. Calantoni, D. Slinn
{"title":"Mixture theory model sensitivity to effective viscosity in simulations of sandy bedform dynamics","authors":"A. Penko, J. Calantoni, D. Slinn","doi":"10.23919/OCEANS.2009.5422143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/OCEANS.2009.5422143","url":null,"abstract":"We perform a sensitivity analysis on a three-dimensional bottom boundary layer model (SedMix3D) that uses mixture theory to simulate the flow and sediment transport over rippled sand beds. SedMix3D treats the fluid-sediment mixture as a single continuum with effective properties that parameterize the fluid-sediment and sediment-sediment interactions using several closures for the sediment phase. The effective viscosity is one such closure that includes three adjustable parameters: the intrinsic viscosity, the maximum viscosity, and the maximum packing concentration of unconsolidated sediment. The sensitivity of suspended sediment concentration predictions by SedMix3D is tested by varying the intrinsic viscosity, which is a proxy for sediment grain shape. We qualitatively and quantitatively analyze the model output of suspended sediment concentration for a range of intrinsic viscosity values typical of quartz sand. Intrinsic viscosity values ranging from 2.5 to 3.5 produce total suspended sediment concentrations that differ less than 11%. However, there is approximately a 16% difference between the suspended sediment concentrations from intrinsic viscosity values of 2.5 to 3.5 and 4.0 to 5.0. Simulations of sediment transport over bedforms performed here were not significantly sensitive to the choice of an intrinsic viscosity value in the range of 2.5 to 3.5. Using a baseline intrinsic viscosity value of 3.0, we subsequently tested two additional effective viscosity formulations. The suspended sediment concentrations predicted by the Eilers and Krieger-Dougherty formulations were very similar, but the Mooney formulation generated much less suspended sediment. We found the model to be more sensitive to variations of effective viscosity in the ripple-fluid interface than in the suspension range.","PeriodicalId":119977,"journal":{"name":"OCEANS 2009","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132501280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OCEANS 2009Pub Date : 2009-10-01DOI: 10.23919/OCEANS.2009.5422249
F. Guerra, P. Casari, M. Zorzi
{"title":"A performance comparison of MAC protocols for underwater networks using a realistic channel simulator","authors":"F. Guerra, P. Casari, M. Zorzi","doi":"10.23919/OCEANS.2009.5422249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/OCEANS.2009.5422249","url":null,"abstract":"Large-sized underwater testbed deployments still pose a number of challenges, first of all the cost of the nodes and of the deploying ships. Therefore, simulation becomes an important tool for the assessment of network performance, and a precious aid to protocol, topology, and deployment design. However, simulations are significant only if the reproduction of acoustic propagation is accurate. To this end, we have joined two well known tools for simulation, namely Bellhop (for acoustic propagation modeling through ray tracing) and ns2-MIRACLE (an event-based network simulator). These tools, together, provide a flexible and customizable environment, fostering more realistic reproduction of propagation, PHY-level behavior, as well as the detailed specification of medium access control, routing, and higher-level protocols. In this paper, we describe our tool, and give an example of its employment in the comparison of three MAC protocols for underwater networks over different kinds of physical layers. The protocols have been specifically chosen to shed some light on the relationship between the complexity of a protocol and the amount of coordination it enables among nodes: in other words, our results show when it is better to rely on plain random access, and when on some form of handshaking (despite the usually greater complexity of handshake-based protocols).","PeriodicalId":119977,"journal":{"name":"OCEANS 2009","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132533952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OCEANS 2009Pub Date : 2009-10-01DOI: 10.23919/OCEANS.2009.5422424
Shelby Walker, T. Cowles
{"title":"The ocean observatories initiative: Scientific investigation in a changing ocean from anywhere on Earth","authors":"Shelby Walker, T. Cowles","doi":"10.23919/OCEANS.2009.5422424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/OCEANS.2009.5422424","url":null,"abstract":"Sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) (Fig. 1) has the potential to revolutionize ocean science. Its 24/7 telepresence will capture climate, carbon, ecosystem, and geodynamic changes on the time scales on which they occur, rather than when research vessels are able to be in the area. Data streams from the air-sea interface through the water column to the seafloor will be openly available to educators and researchers in any discipline, making oceanography available to citizens and scholars who might never go to sea. The unique, sustained, time-series data sets provided by the OOI will enable researchers to study complex, interlinked physical, chemical, biological, and geological processes operating throughout the global ocean. The science drivers motivating the OOI include the ocean carbon cycle and its response to global change, ocean acidification, the impact of climate variability on ocean circulation, coastal ocean dynamics and ecosystem response, and the impact of tectonically driven fluid flow on the carbon cycle, deep ocean ecosystems and earthquakes. The magnitude and mechanisms of air-sea exchange, the fundamental processes that control turbulent ocean mixing on all scales and the biophysical consequences thereof, and the impact of plate tectonics on the sea floor and society underpin these topics.","PeriodicalId":119977,"journal":{"name":"OCEANS 2009","volume":"545 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134273639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OCEANS 2009Pub Date : 2009-10-01DOI: 10.23919/OCEANS.2009.5422400
C. Steed, T. Jankun-Kelly, J. E. Swan
{"title":"Illustrative visualization techniques for hurricane advisory information","authors":"C. Steed, T. Jankun-Kelly, J. E. Swan","doi":"10.23919/OCEANS.2009.5422400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/OCEANS.2009.5422400","url":null,"abstract":"We have developed new illustrative visualization techniques inspired by artistic brush strokes for graphically representing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Hurricane Center's (NHC) hurricane advisory statements. To address the complexity of the advisory information and the limitations of traditional map displays, our techniques offer enhanced representations that map advisory data attributes to the visual features in brush strokes. By condensing the information into a single, comprehensible image, our new representations avoid many perceptual issues that affect the perception and cognition of the current NHC graphical products. In the current work, we describe the motivation and algorithmic details of two variants of our approach: the small brush stroke and long brush stroke methods. We also present the results of applying our techniques to the representation of hurricane advisories from the 2005 season, which include those of the infamous Hurricane Katrina. The results highlight the promise of our illustrative visualization methods as an effective approach for the dispensation of this vital information.","PeriodicalId":119977,"journal":{"name":"OCEANS 2009","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134162734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}