The Japanese Guyots, Wake Guyots, and Mid?-•cific Mountains are part of a broad area of Cretaceous volcanism in the western Pacific termed the "Darwin Rise." Based on Seabeam bathymetric data we classify these drowned volcanic islands as: type "A," those that advanced to the atoll rage before f'mal submergence; type "B," those that drowned at the barrier eef stage; and type "V," those with litt...

A long-term goal of our sediment transport and deposition investigations is to link sediment-transport processes to the formation and preservation of event beds in sediment deposits. The general aim of this project is to investigate how forcing processes affect the sediment-transport dynamics that act to effect the delivery and retention of fine-grained sediment through tidal rivers and in shal...

Experiments were conducted in a laboratory facility under with a fixed bathymetric profile containing a single bar. A hybrid data set was collected consisting of remotely sensed wave data combined with modelgenerated wave amplitude profiles. The data is used to test the improvements in depth retrieval through the use of a nonlinear composite dispersion that is applicable in arbitrary water dept...

The ability to accurately and efficiently model the sound field in the water column when there exists significant acoustic interaction with the seafloor is critical in a variety of ocean-acoustic applications. Simulation methods with detailed fundamental treatments of the effect of acoustic energy on an elastic solid are often insufficiently robust when the environment is complicated or when lo...

Owing to the shallowness of waters, vast areas, and spatial complexity, reefscape mapping requires Digital Depth Models (DDM) at a fine scale but over large areas. Outperforming waterborne surveys limited by shallow water depths and costly airborne campaigns, recently launched satellite sensors, endowed with high spectral and very high spatial capabilities, can adequately address the raised iss...