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MS Plan A Defense: The Relationship Between Hydrodynamic and Morphologic Changes at Sunset Beach
Zoom Meeting ID: 970 3827 6831Merritt Shepherd Master’s Student Department of Ocean and Resources Engineering University of Hawai’i at Mānoa **This defense will be held over Zoom** Meeting ID: 970 3827 6831 Passcode: MerrittMS https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/97038276831 In recent years, Sunset Beach on O'ahu’s North Shore has experienced multiple erosion events. Consequently, the US Army Crops of Engineers has collected datasets describing Sunset Beach through aerial photographic surveys and beach cameras to resolve the coastline variability from 2020-2021. The aerial and coastline imagery were processed to determine beach area and volume time series. The constructed beach time series indicates large seasonal variations and year-to-year variations, driven by
MS Plan A Defense: Morphodynamic changes due to calm-moderate wave forcing: A case study of Waikiki Beach
Zoom Meeting ID______ 999 8388 9554 Passcode: OREJulianne Kalksma Graduate Student Department of Ocean and Resources Engineering University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Sea level rise, erosion, and the wave climate influence Waikiki Beach on the South Shore of Oahu which is a popular beach in metropolitan Honolulu. In response to recent erosion events and ongoing beach nourishments, weekly surveys have been collected for the past 3 years, from April 2018 through December 2020, to better understand coastal morphology. Local studies found detailed two-dimensional morphological structures; however, no direct relationships between the offshore driving ocean conditions and Waikiki Beach have been established. Other previous works relate the wave