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NA&ME Ocean Engineering Laboratory
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Laboratory Director: Guy A. Meadows
The Ocean Engineering Laboratory (OEL) is equipped
with an extensive array of field data aquisition devices ranging from
conventional survey equipment, wave and current monitoring instrumentation,
to a new state-of-the-art underwater remote-operated vehicle for education
and research (M-ROVER).
The OEL also houses an array of dive gear, including Self-Contained Underwater
Breathing Apparatus (SCUBA), surface supply, and tether equipment. In
addition, the laboratory possesses small coastal survey vessels and a
field, vehicle for housing sensitive instrumentation on-site.
Current research activities include the following:
- the establishment of a long-term coastal erosion monitoring program
- design of a computational model to predict shoreline changes as
a result of waves, currents, and the emplacement of engineering structures
and the transport of pollutants placed in the coastal environment
- the measurement of nearshore wave characteristics for the understanding
of wave transformation in shallow water
- the remote measurement of ocean surface processes utilizing Synthetic
Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery from aircraft and spacecraft platforms
- the development of remote sensing instrumentation, including the
Digital Automated Radar Tracking System (DARTS)
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