Publications:Newsletters/Oct2016
__NOTITLE__ CIRP October 2016 eNewsletter
Recent Advances in Coastal Inlet Navigation and Adjacent Beach Research
Issue 38, Fall 2016
Dear Colleagues,
This message transmits the Coastal Inlets Research Program (CIRP) biannual email newsletter. The CIRP is a HQ Navigation and Operations Branch R&D Program with the mission of providing information and technology to reduce the cost of operation and maintenance of Federal coastal inlets, while treating the navigation project and adjacent beaches and estuary as a sediment-sharing system. This eNewsletter contains single paragraphs describing selected recent activities in the CIRP.
For feedback and suggestions on the newsletter, or for contributing a paragraph, please contact me.
For the CIRP investigators,
Julie Rosati
Julie.D.Rosati@usace.army.mil
CIRP Program Manager
In this Newsletter:
District Proponents will Champion FY17 Statements of Need
Happy New Fiscal Year from CIRP! CIRP researchers have planned our FY17 research to address existing and new Statements of Need (SoN) as submitted by District engineers and scientists. In FY17, we will be asking District proponents to help us define the research needed to address each SoN, evaluate our advancements through the research over a 2-3 year period, and help define delivery of the final research guidance in the form of engineering manuals, other documentation, and technology transfer. If you are interested in serving on a Product Delivery Team (PDT) for any of the CIRP research, please contact the researchers or myself directly. We envision needing your expertise on the order of 1-2 hours per quarter, to discuss progress and plans with you and get your input. CIRP research topics planned for FY17 are listed below. We look forward to working with you!
- Developing mixed-sized sediment transport numerical libraries
- Long-term morphology change of coastal inlets, bays, and adjacent beaches
- Verification & Validation of CMS in the Coastal Model Test Bed with data from the Field Research Facility
- Advancing surf and swash zone process calculations in nearshore models
- Tools for eulerian sediment mapping in the Coastal Modeling System (CMS)
- Planning and engineering tools to calculate coastal inlet breaching, evolution, and closure
- Integration of the Corps Shoaling Analysis Tool (CSAT) with Channel Portfolio Tool (CPT)
- Advancements of the Automated Information System Analysis Package (AISAP)
- Guidance and tools for nearshore berm design & placement
- Advancements in the regional shoreline and inlet sand-sharing model, GenCade
- Resilience of coastal foredunes
- Engineering tools for vessel wake estimation and associated bank erosion
- Refinement and technology transfer of Meteorological Oceanographic (MetOcean) tools, WaveNet and TideNet
- Advancing wave models to include engineering design calculations for rubblemound navigation structures
POC: (ERDC) Julie Rosati, Julie.D.Rosati@usace.army.mil
Training with CIRP Products
If you are interested in training with CIRP products, there are several mechanisms. First, check the CIRP website for guidance documents and pre-recorded training segments. Next, consider submitting a Dredging Operations and Technical Support (DOTS) request for training on one or more CIRP and other Navigation-related tools and models here: https://dots.el.erdc.dren.mil/ . DOTS support is limited to cover approximately 2-weeks of an ERDC researcher’s time. If your training needs are more extensive, please contact CIRP researchers or Julie Rosati to discuss how we can leverage our planned technology transfer to support your work. In FY16, CIRP conducted 17 workshops and webinars, including five webinars and two in-person workshops. Below is highlighted one of the CIRP webinar series conducted during the last half of FY16. For questions about training opportunities, please contact Julie Rosati.
POC: (ERDC) Julie Rosati, Julie.D.Rosati@usace.army.mil
WaveNet and TideNet Webinars, April 2016
Two web-based tools developed by the Coastal Inlets Research Program (CIRP) were demonstrated by Drs. Zeki Demirbilek and Lihwa Lin in a series of four webinars on 19-22 April 2016. WaveNet and TideNet are the first two modules of the MetOcnDat (Meteorological and Oceanographic Data or Metocean data) management and analysis system. These tools help USACE users to access, analyze, and visualize metocean data for application to coastal navigation and storm damage reduction projects. Wave and wind data from six data sources can be accessed by WaveNet. These include data from the National Data Buoy Center, Wave Information Studies, Coastal Data Information Program, Great Lakes Observing System, Great Lakes Coastal Forecasting System, and WaveWatch III. TideNet provides water level data from four sources, including ADCIRC Tidal database, Le Provost Global Tidal database, National Ocean Service Tides and Currents, and Oregon State University TOPEX/Poseidon Global Model Ocean Tides. The WaveNet and TideNet tools can be accessed via the CIRP website http://cirp.usace.army.mil/products/wavenet.php. Attendees from 12 Districts and two ERDC labs participated in the webinar series. Future research needs, and additional data display, plot and analyses capabilities were identified. Archives of the webinars are available for viewing at any time from the CIRP website: http://cirp.usace.army.mil/techtransfer/webinars/2016-19Apr-webinar.php.
POC: (ERDC) Zeki Demirbilek, zeki.demirbilek@usace.army.mil
POC: (ERDC) Lihwa Lin, lihwa.lin@usace.army.mil
