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Seminar
Seminar: The Hadal Water Column Profiler
Holmes 247 2540 Dole Street, Honolulu, HI, United StatesDr. Glenn Carter Associate Professor Department of Oceanography University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Location Information: **this seminar will be held both in person (Holmes Hall 247) and over Zoom** Meeting ID: 960 4654 5799 Passcode: OREseminar https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/96046545799 The deep ocean trenches, or hadal zone, are amongst the most poorly studied regions on the planet. This is particularly true of the hadal water column, as most of the hadal research to date focused on the geology, biology, and ecology of the seafloor. Existing observations suggest that rather than being quiescent and isolated from the ocean above, the hadal zone is ventilated
Seminar: The Resilient and Sustainable Engineering (RiSE) Team at Oceanit and Combatting Hawai’i Shoreline Erosion
Holmes 247 2540 Dole Street, Honolulu, HI, United StatesDr. Michael Foley Senior Coastal Engineer, Principal Investigator, & Project Manager Resilient and Sustainable Engineering Team Oceanit Location Information: **this seminar will be held both in person (Holmes Hall 247) and over Zoom** Meeting ID: 960 4654 5799 Passcode: OREseminar https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/96046545799 Dr. Michael Foley is a senior coastal engineer, principal investigator, and project manager for the Resilient and Sustainable Engineering (RiSE) team at Oceanit. He has worked on a diverse range of projects including beach restoration, artificial reefs, shoreline erosion, harbor protection, flood risk evaluation/mitigation, and repair of coastal structures, drainage systems and reservoirs/dams. His practice aims to design and
Seminar: Science Communication: Student Practice Presentations
Holmes 247 2540 Dole Street, Honolulu, HI, United StatesJonathan Chapman, Lauren Heslop, Tyler Inkley & John Melve Graduate Students Department of Ocean and Resources Engineering University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Location Information: **this seminar will be held both in person (Holmes Hall 247) and over Zoom** Meeting ID: 960 4654 5799 Passcode: OREseminar https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/96046545799 Student presenters previously attended a workshop on effective science communication where they learned why, where and how to communicate with broad audiences about a field of study, with a particular focus on considering the perspective and priorities of a target audience, which is key to successfully and meaningfully communicating. After learning tools and guidelines to
Seminar: Makai Ocean Engineering’s Subsea Technology Expertise
Holmes 247 2540 Dole Street, Honolulu, HI, United StatesHermann Kugeler Vice President of Business Development Makai Ocean Engineering Location Information: **this seminar will be held both in person (Holmes Hall 247) and over Zoom** Meeting ID: 960 4654 5799 Passcode: OREseminar https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/96046545799 Makai Ocean Engineering is a local high tech company, based in Waimanalo, HI for nearly 50 years, that has been a global pioneer for several technologies. In this lecture Makai will present on its work within the submarine cable, ocean renewable energy, and subsea research and development industries. Makai will also share its recent work on the development of an offshore seaweed farm design, and involvement
Seminar: Sounds, Signals, Spectra: Splash to Buzz
Holmes 247 2540 Dole Street, Honolulu, HI, United StatesDr. John S. Allen Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Location Information: **this seminar will be held both in person (Holmes Hall 247) and over Zoom** Meeting ID: 960 4654 5799 Passcode: OREseminar https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/96046545799 Acoustics is an extensive inter-disciplinary research area that encompasses topics in diverse fields such as music, science and engineering. The areas of acoustic share a common core with respect to the governing equations for wave propagation in gaseous (air), liquid (water) or solid materials. Bubbles play an important role in sound generation in the ocean as well physical and biomedical acoustic
Seminar: Decision Making for Marine Robotics
Holmes 247 2540 Dole Street, Honolulu, HI, United StatesDr. Geoff Hollinger Associate Professor Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CoRIS) Institute Oregon State University Location Information: **this seminar will be held both in person (Holmes Hall 247) and over Zoom** Meeting ID: 960 4654 5799 Passcode: OREseminar https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/96046545799 Underwater gliders, propeller-driven submersibles, and other marine robots are increasingly being tasked with gathering information (e.g., in environmental monitoring, offshore inspection, and coastal surveillance scenarios). However, in most existing scenarios, human operators must carefully plan the mission to ensure completion of the task. Strict human oversight not only makes such deployments expensive and time consuming but also makes some tasks impossible due to the requirement for heavy cognitive
Seminar: Eigen-Function Matching Method for Surface-Gravity Wave Interactions with Thin-Walled Structures
Holmes 247 2540 Dole Street, Honolulu, HI, United StatesIan Robertson Environmental Data Analyst Applied Research Laboratory University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Location Information: **this seminar will be held both in person (Holmes Hall 247) and over Zoom** Meeting ID: 960 4654 5799 Passcode: OREseminar https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/96046545799 Regions with high-energy wave environments, such as the Hawaiian Islands, can experience wave-induced erosion that impacts coastal infrastructure. Structures such as pile breakwaters and other slotted/perforated structures have been proposed to dissipate the wave energy. The thickness of these structures is very small compared with the wavelength so they can be regarded as thin-walled structures. In this talk, I will present some preliminary
Seminar: Towards an Operational Dispersive Nearshore Wave Model for Assessment of Coastal Flooding
Holmes 247 2540 Dole Street, Honolulu, HI, United StatesFatima-Zahra Mihami & Dr. Volker Roeber PhD Student, E2S Chair HPC-Waves Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France Location Information: **this seminar will be held both in person (Holmes Hall 247) and over Zoom** Meeting ID: 960 4654 5799 Passcode: OREseminar https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/96046545799 This will be a joint seminar between ORE and CIMAR. Quantitative assessments of wave-driven run-up and inundation scenarios have been of high interest for coastal residents, engineers, emergency managers, and scientists. Computational approaches of coastal flooding from waves only have been widely based on empirical formulations but nowadays make increasingly use of numerical models. Due to
Seminar: An Update on the SMART Cables Initiative for Observing the Ocean and Earth
Holmes Hall 243 2540 Dole Street, Honolulu, HI, United StatesDr. Bruce Howe Research Professor, Ocean and Resources Engineering University of Hawaii at Mānoa Location Information **this seminar will be held both in person (Holmes Hall 243) and over Zoom** Meeting ID: 961 6222 2366 Passcode: OREseminar https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/96162222366 The Joint Task Force for Science Monitoring And Reliable Telecommunications (SMART) Subsea Cables is working to integrate environmental sensors (temperature, pressure, seismic acceleration) into submarine telecommunications cables. This will support climate and ocean observation, sea level monitoring, observations of Earth structure, tsunami and earthquake early warning and disaster risk reduction. We present an overview of the initiative and a description of ongoing
Seminar: Rapid Resilient Reefs for Coastal Defense (R3D)
Watanabe 112 2505 Correa Rd, Honolulu, HI, United StatesDr. Ben Jones Director of Ocean Science and Technology Applied Research Laboratory (ARL), University of Hawai‘i Location Information **this seminar will be held both in person (Watanabe Hall 112) and over Zoom** Meeting ID: 961 6222 2366 Passcode: OREseminar https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/96162222366 In June of 2022, five laboratories at the University of Hawai‘i (UH) began an ambitious effort to engineer a living coral reef designed to protect coastlines from storms and sea-level rise. Led by the Applied Research Laboratory, Rapid Resilient Reefs for coastal Defense (R3D) is a collaboration between UH, the University of California San Diego, Florida Atlantic University and Makai
Seminar: Motion Simulation and Risk Assessment of Dropped Objects in Offshore Operations
Watanabe 112 2505 Correa Rd, Honolulu, HI, United StatesDr. “Vincent” Xiaochuan Yu Associate Professor Boysie Bollinger School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering University of New Orleans Location Information **this seminar will be held both in person (Watanabe Hall 112) and over Zoom** Meeting ID: 961 6222 2366 Passcode: OREseminar https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/96162222366 Objects may accidentally fall from offshore platforms during lifting operations and may cause potential personnel and property damage in the offshore oil and gas industry. In this presentation, the author will briefly introduce an online database of potential and actual dropped object incidents - DORIS (Dropped Object Register of Incidents and Statistics) at first. Then the author
Seminar: Recent, current, and near future underwater construction projects undertaken by the Fleet Naval Construction Force in the Pacific Ocean area
Watanabe 112 2505 Correa Rd, Honolulu, HI, United StatesZach Niezgodski, PE Lieutenant, US Navy & member of the Navy’s Civil Engineer Corps (Seabees) MS Student, Department of Ocean & Resources Engineering University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Location Information **This seminar will be held both in person (Watanabe Hall 112) and over Zoom** Meeting ID: 961 6222 2366 Passcode: OREseminar https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/96162222366 The Fleet Naval Construction Force is an essential enabler of Fleet maneuver, sea control, and sea denial from the littorals. The mission of the Fleet Naval Construction Force is to translate Fleet Commander’s requirements into engineering tasks and to execute them successfully. This presentation will focus on