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Student Defenses
MS Plan A Defense: An in-situ autonomous sampler system for vertical benthic biogeochemical fluxes detection
POST 723 1680 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI, United StatesJomphol Lamoonkit Master’s Student Department of Ocean and Resources Engineering University of Hawai’i at Mānoa **This defense will be held both in person (POST 723) and over Zoom** Meeting ID: 958 6184 4769 Passcode: JomMS https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/95861844769 Benthic environments in the coastal ocean, such as seagrass meadows, have gained attention for their capacity to store organic carbon in their tissues. Nevertheless, there is still room to study their influence on vertical biogeochemical fluxes between pore water beneath the sediment layer and the overlying seawater. The ability to monitor the vertical biogeochemical fluxes of seawater in the vegetated sedimentary environment could improve
MS Plan B Defense: Feasibility of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Piles for Marine Fender Systems at Coast Guard Base Kodiak, Alaska
POST 723 1680 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI, United StatesBethany Stafford Master’s Student Department of Ocean and Resources Engineering University of Hawai’i at Mānoa **This defense will be held both in person (POST 723) and over Zoom** Meeting ID: 940 4010 1446 Passcode: BethMS https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/94040101446 Coast Guard Civil Engineering Unit Juneau contracts a project approximately biennially to replace damaged fender piles at Base Kodiak’s waterfront. Traditionally, this has been a replace-in-kind project that replaces damaged fender piles with the same type of marine-grade Douglas fir as originally installed. This project evaluates the feasibility of using Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) piles, which have a higher material cost, but more favorable
MS Plan B Defense: Performance Assessment of Wave Models for Cold Front Events in Hawai’i
POST 723 1680 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI, United StatesLiz (Elizabeth) Hauschild Master’s Student Department of Ocean and Resources Engineering University of Hawai’i at Mānoa **This defense will be held both in person (POST 723) and over Zoom** Meeting ID: 969 2180 7582 Passcode: LizMS https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/96921807582 The University of Hawai’i actively supports the United States’ first Wave Energy Test Site (WETS), situated on the east side of Oahu. The site’s location is exposed to a diverse array of wave energy resulting from persistent trade winds, seasonal extratropical storms, and subtropical and tropical systems. If not well understood, the activity and complexity of the wave climate may pose challenges for