CACR Seminars
CACR Seminars
Spring 2020 Seminars
Monday, March 9, 2020 – Michele Strazzella
Ph.D. Candidate, Center for Applied Coastal Research, University of Delaware
Seminar Title: Analysis and Prediction of Storm Water Levels in Delaware Inland Bays
Previous Seminars
Fall 2019 Seminars
Tuesday, September 10, 2019 – Dr. Nathan Paldor
Professor of Dynamical Meteorology and Physical Oceanography
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Seminar Title: Evaporation from the Ocean: A new Lagrangian model and its application to observations
Tuesday, October 29, 2019 – Dr. Luc Keike
Assistant Professor, Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University
Seminar Title: The Role of Breaking Waves in Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction, Gas Transfer and Spray Generation
Friday, November 1, 2019 – Saeideh Banihashemi, Dissertation Defense
PhD Student, Center for Applied Coastal Research, University of Delaware
Location/Time: 106 CCM, 2:00 p.m.
Seminar Title: Waves and Strongly-Sheared Currents: Extensions to Coastal Ocean Models
Spring 2018 Seminars
February 13, 2018 – Dr. Nobuhisa Kobayashi
Professor
Center for Applied Coastal Research
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Seminar Title: Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria in 2017
February 20, 2018 – Z. Tugce Yuksel
Visiting Scholar
Seminar Title: Determination of Cross-section of Gravity Type Quay Walls under Seismic Loading
March 13, 2018 – Dr. Leiping Ye
Postdoc Researcher
Center for Applied Coastal Research
Seminar Title: The Role of Bio-physical Cohesion in Mediating Sediment Transport Processes
April 10, 2018- Sravani Mallavarapu
Graduate Student
Center for Applied Coastal Research
Seminar Title: Effect of Net Cross-Shore Sand Transport on Beach Profiles
April 24, 2018- Dr. Sarah E. Rennie
Oceanic, Atmospheric, and Remote Sensing Science Group
Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory
Seminar Title: Underwater Munitions Expert System for Remediation Guidance
Fall 2017 Seminars
October 10, 2017- Saeideh Banihashemi
Ph.D. Student
Center for Applied Coastal Research
Seminar Title: Approximation of Wave Action Conservation in Vertically Sheared Mean Flows
October 10, 2017- India Woodruff
MCE Student
Center for Applied Coastal Research
Seminar Title: Simulating the June 13, 2013 East Coast Meteotsunami: Model configuration and sensitivity to storm conditions
October 17, 2017- Dr. Fengyan Shi
Associate Professor
Center for Applied Coastal Research
Seminar Title: A Sub-grid Model for Prediction Salt Marsh Evolution
October 30, 2017- Ryan S. Mieras
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
Seminar Title: Sheet Flow and Suspended Sediment Transport Processes on a Surf Zone Sandbar
November 07, 2017- Dr. Stephanie M. Smallegan
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil, Coastal and Environmental Engineering
University of South Alabama
Seminar Title: Impacts of Bay-Side Hydrodynamics on Barrier Island Morphological Change During a Hurricane
November 14, 2017- Susan Guiteras
Supervisory Wildlife Biologist
Coastal Delaware WR Complex
Smyrna, Delaware
Seminar Title: Large-scale Tidal Marsh Restoration in Former Freshwater Impoundments at Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware
November 16, 2017- Dr. Philip Vitale
Director, Ocean Engineering for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command
Seminar Title: Navy Ocean Energy Research and Development
Spring 2017 Seminars
February 14, 2017- Tingting Zhu
Center for Applied Coastal Research
Seminar Title: Bay Flooding through Tidal Inlet and by Wave Overtopping of Barrier Beach
February 21, 2017- Hyun Dong Kim
Center for Applied Coastal Research
Seminar Title: Rock Seawall in Swash Zone to Reduce Wave Overtopping and Overwash of Sand Beach
April 11, 2017- Dr. Matt Malej
Coastal & Hydraulics Laboratory
U.S. Army Engineer Research & Development Ctr.
Seminar Title: U.S. Army’s Operational Nearshore Wave Modeling – Bridging the Gap between Deep-Water and High-Fidelity Numerical Models
Fall 2016 Seminars
September 27, 2016- Anna Wargula
MIT/WHOI Joint Program Ph.D. Candidate
Seminar Title: Wave and Wind Effects on Circulation At New River Inlet, NC
October 25, 2016- Nicholas V. Scott
Riverside Research
Dayton Research Center
Seminar Title: Onshore-Offshore Human Transport in Coastal Regions Using a Fuzzy Logic/Dempster-Shafer Based Formulism and Reinforcement Learning
Summer 2016 Seminars
July 19, 2016- Dr. Andrew Manning
Principal Scientist
Coasts & Estuaries Group
HR Wallingford, UK
Seminar Title: On the Depositional Characteristics of Natural Cohesive & Mixed Sediments: “Floccin’ Across the USA!”
Spring 2016 Seminars
February 16, 2016- Dr. Erika Johnson
Postdoctoral Scholar
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Seminar Title: Remote Determination of Currents and Volumnetric Discharge in a Tidal Inlet
March 8, 2016- Dr. Donya Frank
Naval Research Laboratory
Seminar Title: Incipient Motion within the Wave Bottom Layer
April 19, 2016- Dr. Blair Johnson
Cornell University
Seminar Title: The Interaction of Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence with Solid and Sediment Boundaries: An experimental investigation
May 10, 2016- Dr. Julian Chauchat
Visiting Scholar, Center for Applied Coastal Research
Associate Professor, LEGI, Grenoble, France
Seminar Title: Toward Modeling Mud-Flow Interactions in the Two-Phase Flow Framework
Fall 2015 Seminars
September 15, 2015- Dr. Nobu Kobayashi
Professor
Center for Applied Coastal Research
Seminar Title: Gravel and Stone Transport on Beaches and Structures
November 03, 2015- Raphael Maurin
LEGI, Grenoble Institut National Polytechnique
Seminar Title: Investigation of granular behavior in bedload transport using an Eulerian-Lagrangian model
November 17, 2015- Xavier Chavez Cardenas
Ph.D. Student
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Seminar Title: Coastal Storm Damage Process and Prediction
December 01, 2015- Dr. Tian-Jian Hsu
Associate Professor
Center for Applied Coastal Research
Seminar Title: On Mechanisms Driving Large Sediment Transport under Breaking Waves in Shallow Water
December 18, 2015- Aline Pieterse
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
Seminar Title: Near-Bed Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport in Tidal Channels and on Tidal Flats
Spring 2015 Seminars
February 24, 2015- Wei-Cheng Wu
Ph.D. Candidate
Coastal & Ocean Program
Oregon State University
Seminar Title: Effects of Wave Nonlinearity and Lateral Obstruction on Wave Attenuation by Vegetation
March 03, 2015- Robert A. Dalrymple
William and Lillian Hackerman Professor
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
The Johns Hopkins University
Seminar Title: A History of Modeling Water Waves with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics that Ends with Tsunamis Hitting Bridges
March 10, 2015- Dr. Ali Abdolali
Post-Doctoral Research Scholar
Center for Applied Coastal Research
Seminar Title: Hydro-acoustic Wave Detection for Tsunami Early Warning System (TEWS)
April 14, 2015- Babak Tehranirad
Center for Applied Coastal Research
Seminar Title: A General Overview of the Tsunami Hazard on the East Coast of the United States
Fall 2014 Seminars
September 02, 2014- Dr. Nobuhisa Kobayashi
Director
Center for Applied Coastal Research
Seminar Title: Wave Overtopping of Dikes and Dike Erosion by Wave Action
October 21, 2014- Dr. Nicolas Scott
Research Physical Scientist
Dayton Research Center
Seminar Title: Characterization of Marine Imagery & DNS Data using Matrix Factorizations & Machine Learning Techniques
December 12, 2014- Dr. Julien Chauchat
Associate Professor
Laboratoire des Ecoulements Geophysiques et Industriels
Seminar Title: Investigation of Turbulent Sheet Flows under Unidirectional Flow Forcing
Summer 2014 Seminars
July 07, 2014- Mohammad Keshtpoor
Ph.D. Candidate
Seminar Title: Modeling Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport in an Inlet-Beach System
Spring 2014 Seminars
January 21, 2014- Alec Torres-Freyermuth
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Seminar Title: Modeling Swash-zone Processes
March 12, 2014- Dr. Tae-Hwa Jung
Associate Professor
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Hanbat National University, Korea
Seminar Title: Analytical Solution for Wave Propagating on Axi-Symmetric Topographies
April 22, 2014- Rolando Garcia
Center for Applied Coastal Research
Seminar Title: Damage Variations on Trunk and Head of Low-Crested Breakwaters
May 06, 2014- Taisuk Kim
Center for Applied Coastal Research
Seminar Title: Plunging Solitary Waves – A 3D Numerical Investigation
May 13, 2014- Rebecca Quan
Center for Applied Coastal Research
Seminar Title: Pile Fence to Enhance Dune Resiliency
May 14, 2014- Thijs Lanckriet
Dissertation Defense
Seminar Title: Near-bed Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport in the Swash Zone
May 20, 2014- Ryan S. Mieras
Center for Applied Coastal Research
Seminar Title: A High-Resolution Numerical Model Investigation into the Response of a Channelized Salt Marsh to a Storm Surge Event
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