The point of departure this essay is that seaside resort towns and hotels function as in-between, liminal spaces for visitors, while the unknown, boundless, mysterious sea often acquires a metaphorical meaning symbol monsters, madness, death, desire, unconscious. Thus, space serves an appropriate setting facilitates self-realization. three novels selected study here are set in British 1960s-197...

The Three Gorges Reservoir Area is one of the most severe soil erosion in China. Serious erosion has degraded the soil productivity, deteriorated the ecological environment, and influenced the service life of Three Gorges Reservoir. The natural and social-economic factors which influence the soil erosion in Three Gorges Reservoir Area include topography, geological situation, vegetation, rainfa...

This paper seeks to enhance the mission and motion-planning capabilities of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) operating in constrained environments in the littoral zone. The proposed approach automatically plans low-cost, collision-free, and dynamically-feasible motions that enable an AUV to carry out missions expressed as formulas in temporal logic. The key aspect of the proposed approach ...

[1] Sediment resuspension in lake littoral zones (nearshore region) is strongly related to the properties of the surface wavefield. The occurrence and characteristics of surface waves, near‐bottom current velocities, and related suspended sediment concentrations and properties were measured simultaneously in Lake Constance over 1 year. Wind and ship waves are distinguished on the basis of their...

My long-term research goals are: (1) The characterization, understanding, and prediction of the statistics (mean, variance and coherence) of low-frequency acoustic signals and ambient noise in the littoral zone. The signal statistics are primarily influenced by the ocean variability and bottom properties. The noise statistics are influenced by atmospheric forcing and shipping in addition to the...