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Fall 2017 Seminars
- Ian Hardy, Yaprak Onat, Ronald Uglow – ORE 783B Coastal Engineering Presentation Capstone Design Project: Pokai Bay Shoreline Improvements (12/06) PDF
- Huihui Sun, Guojun Wu, Yanhui Wang – Understanding the Oceans, Sustaining the Future Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (QNLM) | Research and Development of Marine observation equipment Joint Laboratory for Ocean and Detection (11/29) PDF
- Suvabrata Das – Hydrodynamic and Structural Analysis of Ships and Offshore Platforms (11/20) PDF
- Justin Stopa – Ocean waves observed from space: Applications in wave-ice interaction, climate, and engineering (10/30) PDF
- Scott James – Recent advances in ocean renewable energy modeling: Currents and waves (10/23) PDF
- Jonas Sjolte and Even Hjetland – Wave energy as power supply to offshore systems (10/18) PDF
Spring 2017 Seminars
- Dan Greeson – Engineering Opportunities at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard (4/26) PDF
- Vincent Varamo – Reliable Acoustic Path Tomography at the ALOHA Cabled Observatory (4/19) PDF
- Kevin Hardy – Current Trends in Low Cost Lander Design and Operation (3/20) PDF
- Suk Wang Yoon – Acoustic Roles of Bubbles in the Ocean (2/15) PDF
- Philomene Verlaan – Deep-Sea Mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone: Recent Developments (2/1) PDF
- Fadli Syamsudin – Toward Establishment of Regional Ocean and Climate Observing System (ROCOS) in the Indonesian Maritime Continent (1/11) PDF
Fall 2016 Seminars
- Kakani Katija – DeepPIV: Measuring Small-Scale Fluid Motion in the Deep Sea (12/7) PDF
- ORE 783 Capstone Design Project – Kuhio Beach Park Shoreline Improvement (12/5) PDF
- Justin S. Rogers – Physical Oceanography in High Roughness Environments (11/30) PDF
- David A. Smith – Use of Concrete Armor Units for Shore Protection in Hawaii and the Pacific (11/16) PDF
- João Tasso de Figueiredo Borges de Sousa – Networked Vehicle Systems for Ocean Observation: from Concepts to Operations (10/5) PDF
- Volker Roeber – Tsunami-Like Bores Generated from Storm Waves (9/14) PDF
- Cheng-Hsien Lee – Modeling of Granular Flows with Application to Collapse of a Granular Column (8/31) PDF
- Rafael Aránguiz – Earthquakes and Tsunamis in Chile, and Other Natural Hazards (8/24) PDF
Spring 2016 Seminars
- Hubert Pelletier – Optimized Seismic Operations with True Real Time OBC Positioning (5/11) PDF
- Ryan N. Smith – Towards Long-Term Autonomy: Priors and Persistence in Ocean Observation with Autonomous Robots (5/4) PDF
- Blake J. Landry – Insights into Littoral Sand Bed Morphodynamics through Laboratory Experiments (4/27) PDF
- Myra Waddell – UHM Library Services for Ocean and Resources Engineering (3/9) PDF
- Margo Edwards – The UH Applied Research Lab (2/24) PDF
- Philomene Verlaan – Deep-sea Mining: An Emerging Marine Industry (2/3) PDF
- Yi Chao – Autonomous Underwater Vehicles and Sensors Powered by Ocean Thermal Energy (1/22) PDF
Fall 2015 Seminars
- Courtney Rocha and Andreia Queima – Capstone Design Project: Beachfront Highway Overtopping Solution at Hilo Bay (12/9) PDF
- Troy Heitmann, Linyan Li, Brendan Rideout and Conghao Xu – Research Outline from ORE Ph.D. Candidates (12/9) PDF
- Professor Zhenhua Huang . – Multi-Scale Modeling of Dilute Two-Phase Flows with an Application to Turbulent Suspension of Sediment in an Open Channel Flow (12/2) PDF
- Professor Oceana Puananilei Francis . – Using the IPCC and NOAA Based Frameworks in Assessing and Adapting to Sea Level Rise (11/25) PDF
- Lora Van Uffelen . – Acoustic Seagliders: Technology and Applications (10/28) PDF
- Patrick Cross . – A presentation of the U.S. Navy’s Wave Energy Test Site (WETS) (10/14) PDF
- Brandon A. Yoza . – The analysis of macroalgae biomass found around Hawaii for bioethanol production (9/30) PDF
- Professor Bruce Howe and Students . – Operating and Maintaining the ALOHA Cabled Observatory (9/23) PDF
Spring 2015 Seminars
- Yoshihiro Okumura . – After the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (4/29) PDF
- Shalanda Baker . – Postcard from the Future: The Energy Transformation in Hawaii (4/1) PDF
- Joseph Boivin, Jr. – The Use of Natural Gas in Hawaii (3/11) PDF
- Stéphan Grilli. – Recent Improvements in State-of-the-art Models for Tsunami Hazard Assessment: Applications to Both Large Historical and Future Case Studies (2/18) PDF
- Alexander Babanin – Third Generation Wave Models Based on Observation Physics (1/9) PDF
Fall 2014 Seminars
- ORE 783 Capstone Design Projects – Assessing the Erosion Concerns at Haleiwa Beach Park and Evaluating the Power Output of an OTEC Pilot Plant off Southwest Oahu (12/10) PDF
- Scott Sullivan – Recent Hawaii Beach Nourishment Projects (11/12) PDF
- Duke Hartman – Makai Engineering Inc.’s Recent OTEC Activities at NELHA (10/15) PDF
- Dr. Stephen Masutani – Subsea Application of Dispersant in Deep Oil Spills: Lessons Learned from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Blowout (10/8) PDF
- Professor Ron Riggs – Water-Driven Impact Forces on Structures: Experimental and Analytical Program (9/18) PDF
Spring 2014 Seminars
- Betsy Seiffert – Experimental Investigation of the Role of Entrapped Air on Solitary Wave Forces on a Coastal Bridge Deck (5/7) PDF
- Dr. Yanhu Chen – Effort on Developing Cabled Ocean Observatories in China (4/23) PDF
- Dr. Philomène Verlaan – Research on Ocean Resources, Marine Geo-Engineering and Climate Change – New Regulations: Implications for Ocean Engineers (3/5) PDF
- Dr. Daniel P. Zitterbart – Remote Sensing of Whales Using Thermal and Visual Imaging (2/26) PDF
- Dr. Erick Mas – Recent Advances on Agent Based Tsunami Evacuation Simulation: Case Studies at Indonesia, Thailand, Japan and Peru (2/24) PDF
- Professor Patricia Fryer – The Deepsea Challenger Submersible Expedition of James Cameron and the Future of Hadal Research(1/29) PDF
Fall 2013 Seminars
- Professor William C. Webster – The Evolution of Large-Amplitude Gravity Waves in Deep Water – A Second Look(12/9) PDF
- Dr. BinBin Zhao and Professor Wenyang Duan – GN Wave theory and TEBEM for Wave-Body Interaction(12/9) PDF
- Kara Silver – A Cold Water Pipe for an OTEC Pilot Plant – Design Considerations(12/6) PDF
- Charlie Field and Zensho Heshiki – Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics as a Hydrodynamic Design Tool for Lifting Bodies and other Innovative Designs(11/13) PDF
- Lora Van Uffelen – Subsurface Glider Localization Using Broadband Acoustic Sources(11/6) PDF
- Gene Massion – Development of a Profiling Float for Coastal Applications and Technology Development in a Cross-Cultural Environment(10/31) PDF
- Professor Hajime Mase – Recemt tsunami research in DPRI, Kyoto University, learned from tsunami disasters by the Tohoku Earthquake(10/16) PDF
- Douglas McClaflin – Transition of Old Hawaii to the Modern Era and our Energy Demands through Renewable Development(9/25) PDF
- Bruno Garnier – Sea Water Air Conditioning: a simple idea that results in a complex design process(9/11) PDF
Spring 2013 Seminars
- Justin E. Stopa – Microbarom Sources from Tropical and Extra-tropical Cyclones (05/01) PDF
- Neil Frazer, Tiffany Anderson, Ayesha Genz, Brad Romine & Charles Fletcher – Shoreline prediction: the nightmare of sparse noisy data, non-stationary nonlinear processes and brain-dead models(04/03) PDF
- Ben Reineman – Airborne oceanography: using manned and unmanned aircraft for air-sea interaction and coastal processes research(03/04) PDF
- Zhenhua Huang – Wave breaking and setup over fringing reefs(02/27) PDF
- Falk Fedderson – Surfzone eddies in strong alongshore currents: Forced or Instabilities?(02/20) PDF
- Kevin D. Heaney – Optimal Glider Sample Strategies for Uncertainty Reduction(01/24) PDF