Sarah Jenkins Field Deployment Report: ADCP Velocity Profiling on the Republican River, Nebraska Deployment Notes: Republican River Basin, May 2023 We hit the banks of the Republican River just as the morning mist was lifting off the Great Plains. The air felt heavy, smelling of damp earth and ea... ADCP Hydrography Dec 10, 2024
Sarah Jenkins Hydrographic Study of the Valentia Island Coastal System and Kerry Atlantic Currents The Rugged Hydrography of County Kerry: Valentia’s Atlantic Interface Valentia Island sits at the extreme southwestern edge of Ireland, roughly at 51.9°N, 10.3°W. It is a geographic sentinel. The coas... ADCP Hydrography Dec 10, 2024
Dr. Alistair Vance Taming the Kitombe Salt Wedge: Why Standard Current Mapping Fails The Kitombe Chaos If you have never spent a week on a survey vessel off the coast of Kitombe, you probably think current mapping is a solved problem. You plug in an ADCP, set your bins, and wait for t... ADCP Hydrography Dec 10, 2024
Capt. Marcus Thorne Field Deployment Report: Current Profiling at Pramuka Port, Thousand Islands Deployment Notes: Pramuka Port, Jakarta Bay, November 2023 The humidity hit us like a wall the moment we stepped off the boat at Pramuka. It was barely 0600, but the heat was already oppressive, and t... ADCP Hydrography Dec 10, 2024
Capt. Marcus Thorne Analyzing Monsoon-Driven Current Vector Shifts and Tidal Asymmetry in the Teknaf Coastal Corridor Tidal Amplification and Monsoon Forcing in the Bay of Bengal's Eastern Fringe The coastal waters off Teknaf operate under a brutal regime of semi-diurnal tidal oscillations and extreme seasonal wind f... ADCP Oceangraphy Dec 10, 2024
Capt. Marcus Thorne Taming the Vortex: The Reality of Flow Monitoring in Batsfjord The Batsfjord Meat-Grinder If you've spent any time in the Barents Sea, you know that the charts are often just polite suggestions. Batsfjord is the poster child for this. We aren't dealing with a sta... ADCP Hydrography Dec 9, 2024
Dr. Alistair Vance Wrestling with the Bjerkvik Sills: Why Standard Flow Models Fail in the Nordland Fjords The Chaos of the Bjerkvik Bottleneck Bjerkvik isn't just another Norwegian fjord; it is a hydraulic nightmare. If you look at the bathymetry around 67.5°N, you see the problem immediately. We are deal... ADCP Hydrography Dec 9, 2024
Dr. Alistair Vance Taming the Bouregreg: The Brutal Reality of Rabat's Salt Wedge The Chaos of the Bouregreg Mouth If you've never spent a week on a research vessel off the coast of Rabat, you probably think estuarine flow is a simple matter of freshwater meeting saltwater. Then yo... ADCP Hydrography Dec 9, 2024
Dr. Kenji Sato Mitigating Acoustic Signal Scattering in the High-Turbidity Estuarine Waters of Le Havre Port Tidal Asymmetry and Sediment Flux in the Seine Estuary The Seine estuary at Le Havre exhibits a complex hydrodynamic regime where the interaction between the English Channel's macrotidal influence and... ADCP Hydrography Dec 9, 2024
Sarah Jenkins Field Deployment Report: Bottom-Mounted ADCP Profiling in Cirebon Port Deployment Notes: Cirebon Port, West Java, October 2023 The humidity hit us the moment we stepped off the boat at Cirebon Port. It was barely 5:00 AM, but the air felt like a warm, wet blanket. We wer... ADCP Hydrography Dec 9, 2024
Dr. Kenji Sato Field Deployment Report: Bottom-Mounted ADCP Profiling in the Al Hudaydah Port Basin Deployment Notes: Al Hudaydah Coastal Shelf, October 2023 The heat hit us the moment we stepped off the vessel at the Al Hudaydah docks. It was barely 6:00 AM, but the humidity was already thick, smel... ADCP Oceangraphy Dec 9, 2024
Dr. Alistair Vance Hydrographic Study of the Snohomish River Estuary and Marysville Coastal Interface The Geomorphic Complexity of the Marysville-Puget Sound Confluence The waters off Marysville, Washington, situated roughly around 48.1° N, 122.1° W, represent one of the most volatile hydrographic int... ADCP Hydrography Dec 9, 2024