Water-Wave Sound as a Comfort Factor in Coastal Environment

Phthalates as Emerging Pollutants in Water Environment: Control & Treatment Strategies

Wave Induced Mine Burial and Sediment Transport in Coastal Environment: Wave and Sediment Transport Modeling Studies

The long-term goal of this work is to develop numerical simulation techniques for predicting waveinduced sediment transport and bed evolution in the coastal zone (order 10 meter depth outside the surf zone), at horizontal scales of tens of meters or less, and the scouring/burial around objects/obstacles (mine-like), partially buried in the bottom. This research was initially motivated by the Na...

“Hidden” Momentum in a Sound Wave

The gas molecules appear to have zero average velocity in the rest frame of the pressure vessel, so it appears that they have zero average momentum in this frame. Of course, the gas molecules exert a force F = AP on a portion of area A of the wall of the pressure vessel, and since force equals the time rate of change of momentum, we can say that the gas can transmit momentum without possessing ...

Interacting Coastal Based Ecosystem Services: Recreation and Water Quality in Puget Sound, WA

Coastal recreation and water quality are major contributors to human well-being in coastal regions. They can also interact, creating opportunities for ecosystem based management, ecological restoration, and water quality improvement that can positively affect people and the environment. Yet the effect of environmental quality on human behavior is often poorly quantified, but commonly assumed in...

Dispersion of produced water in a coastal environment and its biological implications

Produced water, a pollutant associated with offshore oil production, has been shown to have adverse effects on marine organisms. We conducted a study of the dispersion of a produced water plume from an outfall in the Santa Barbara Channel near Carpinteria, CA. Biological effects were studied previously in a series of experiments which examined the toxicity of ocean waters near the outfall. To d...