Category: Oceanography and Ocean Engineering
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Advanced Nontoxic Anti-Fouling Coatings Research, Test Site Facility Geoffrey Swain
Advanced Nontoxic Anti-Fouling Coatings Research, Test Site Facility
The ultimate test for new and prototype antifouling formulations is to subject them to biofouling in the marine environment. This research is funded by the Office of Naval Research to maintain a static immersion test site with specialized testing capabilities that provides a better understanding of the mechanisms by which non-stick and fouling-release surfaces function.
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Chukchi Seas Offshore Monitoring in Drilling Area (COMIDA) John Trefry
Chukchi Seas Offshore Monitoring in Drilling Area (COMIDA)
The Chukchi Seas Offshore Monitoring in Drilling Area (COMIDA) Project was designed to obtain biological and chemical data that will better define the benthic environment of the northeastern Chukchi Sea. The work has been undertaken in advance of offshore drilling in the Chukchi Sea starting in 2012. One challenge of the research is to develop the ability to distinguish among changes in the Alaskan Arctic that are due to regional human activities (e.g., oil drilling) and global climate change.
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Dynamic Testing of Anti-fouling Coatings Geoffrey Swain
Dynamic Testing of Anti-fouling Coatings
Dynamic test facilities have been developed to better understand the performance of ship hull coatings and instrumentation while underway.
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Hanna Shoal (Chukchi Sea, Alaskan Arctic) Ecosystem Study John Trefry
Hanna Shoal (Chukchi Sea, Alaskan Arctic) Ecosystem Study
The Hanna Shoal Ecosystem Project was designed to expand the COMIDA-CAB Project to describe the ecosystem processes that contribute to the apparent high biological importance of the Hanna Shoal region. Hanna Shoal has been identified as an area of significant biological importance.
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Large Scale Seawater Facility for Development of Hullbug Geoffrey Swain
Large Scale Seawater Facility for Development of Hullbug
The purpose of this research is to test, evaluate and optimize a fully autonomous underwater vehicle (HullBUG) that has been designed by SeaRobotics for maintaining the underwater portions of a ship hull in a smooth and fouling free condition.
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Pacific Marine Arctic Regional Synthesis of the Northern Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort Seas John Trefry
Pacific Marine Arctic Regional Synthesis of the Northern Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort Seas
Large-scale effort to synthesize biological, physical and chemical data, and knowledge about the Pacific Marine Arctic including the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. Our FIT group is spearheading a synthesis of contaminants in the Pacific Marine Arctic with a focus on mercury (including methylmercury), cadmium, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and polychlorinated biphenyls in sediment and biota.
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Quantifying the Stable Boundary Layer Structure and Evolution during T-REX George Maul
Quantifying the Stable Boundary Layer Structure and Evolution during T-REX
Quantifying uncertainty in predictive models in the Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL) is the main theme of this research. Planetary boundary layers are complex flow regimes, but critically important in aviation meteorology and for wind energy production. Such turbulent flows are best forecast through parametric studies. This project seeks to determine the best parameters based on the Terrain-Induced Rotor Experiment (T-REX) in Owens Valley, California. The PI of this project is Dr. Sen Chiao at San Jose State University; Dr. George Maul of Florida Tech is the grant administrator.
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Shell Offshore Drilling in the Arctic John Trefry
Shell Offshore Drilling in the Arctic
Large reserves of oil and gas have been estimated for offshore of the Alaskan Arctic. During 2012, Shell Oil began drilling for oil at one site in the Chukchi Sea and one site in the Beaufort Sea. Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) was approached by Shell Oil to help carry out environmental monitoring before, during and after drilling operations because of its long-standing research activities in the Alaskan Arctic.