Advanced optical technologies for monitoring estuaries and coastal environments

Sediment Transport Dynamics in Ports, Estuaries and Other Coastal Environments

Coastal Zone and Estuaries

1. The Coastal Zone 1.1. Climate Change 1.2. Sea Level and Sea Ice Fluctuations 1.3. Coastal Processes 1.4. Sediment Delivery 1.5. Beaches 1.6. Tidal Flats and Marshes 1.7. Mangroves 1.8. Coral Reefs, Coral Cays, Sea Grasses, and Seaweeds 1.9. Eutrophication and Pollution 1.10. Coastal Evolution 2. Estuarine Environments 2.1. Estuaries 2.2. Coastal Lagoons 2.3. Deltas 2.4. Estuarine Evolution 3...

Advanced Optical Technologies for Space Exploration (Invited)

NASA Langley Research Center is involved in the development of photonic devices and systems for space exploration missions. Photonic technologies of particular interest are those that can be utilized for in-space communication, remote sensing, guidance navigation and control, lunar descent and landing, and rendezvous and docking. NASA Langley has recently established a class-100 clean-room whic...

Development of a GNSS Buoy for Monitoring Water Surface Elevations in Estuaries and Coastal Areas

In this work, a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) buoy that utilizes a Virtual Base Station (VBS) combined with the Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) positioning technology was developed to monitor water surface elevations in estuaries and coastal areas. The GNSS buoy includes a buoy hull, a RTK GNSS receiver, data-transmission devices, a data logger, and General Purpose Radio Service (GPRS) mo...

Optical Proxies for Terrestrial Dissolved Organic Matter in Estuaries and Coastal Waters

1 Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA, 2 Marine Biogeochemistry, United States Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA, 3 Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA, 4 Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, USA, 5 In...