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PhD Defense. Of RATs and Men: Underwater passive acoustic localization investigations using relative arrival times and blind channel estimation
HIG 110 2525 Correa Road, HonoluluBrendan P. Rideout PhD Candidate Department of Ocean and Resources Engineering University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Location Information **This defense is hybrid** In person in HIG 110 Zoom meeting ID: 935 1677 2350, Passcode: ORE https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/93516772350 Please join us afterwards (~12:30 pm) in the HIG courtyard to congratulate Brendan Understanding the ecology of any organism requires an understanding of all its life stages. Underwater acoustics provides the ability to observe the submerged lives of marine mammals in ways not possible through visual means. The complexities of underwater acoustic propagation yield both challenges and opportunities to extract information from recorded data,
MS Plan B Defense: Estimating marine atmospheric boundary layer stratification with synthetic aperture radar data
Jonathan B. Chapman, PE Department of Ocean & Resources Engineering University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Location Information **This defense will be held both in person (Kuykendall Hall 101) and over Zoom** Meeting ID: 914 1679 5922 Passcode: 808795 https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/91416795922 Uncertainties in the lower atmosphere’s stratification, which is the balance between buoyancy and shear, lead to large uncertainties when determining air-sea fluxes. Previous works show that synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sea surface roughness images show atmospheric phenomena that are known to be related to stratification. In this project, we hypothesize that physics-guided neural networks (PGNNs) can be used to estimate
MS Plan B Defense: A wave-flume study of the dispersion of tsunami-induced debris: Freight containers on a moored container ship
Holmes Hall 247 2540 Dole St, HonoluluJohn Melve Master’s Student Department of Ocean and Resources Engineering University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Holmes Hall 247 Having a substantial understanding of the hazards from tsunamis is very crucial to minimize the casualties and losses in coastal communities. The impacts of tsunamis on the pacific island nations can cause a huge devastating impact on road infrastructure, ports and harbor facilities, airports, and hotels close to the ocean. This will reciprocate to the tourism industry as a source of economic revenue for the islands. This experimental study specifically focused on the dispersion of the freight containers that are on a