Facilities

Ocean and Coastal Engineering Laboratory

Ocean and Coastal Engineering Laboratory

The OCEL is a full-scale, field research facility that encompasses a wide variety of capabilities and research programs. These include: Wetland habitat investigations; Long-term coastal erosion monitoring; Shoreline evolution prediction, Engineering structure placement evaluation; Plume transport and circulation analysis; Nearshore wave field and current measurements; Forensic investigation of accident sites; Remote measurement of ocean surface processes on both freshwater and saltwater bodies utilizing: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Shore based HF Radar, Digital Automated Radar Tracking System (DARTS); Acoustic current sensing; Precision Nearshore Hydrographic Surveys; Automated Lagrangian Water Quality Assessment System (ALWAS); Oceanographic and Meteorological Environmental Monitoring and modeling; Directional Wave Spectra measurement.

The OCEL also operates the coastal survey vessel S/V Blue Traveler as a highly mobile research platform.

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