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New Pubs: Paniagua-Arroyave Et Al., Continental Shelf Research x2!

Our group’s most recent graduate, Dr. Juan Felipe Paniagua-Arroyave published two papers in the latest issue of Continental Shelf Research.  This work was done in collaboration with our colleagues in the research group of Dr. Arnoldo Valle-Levinson, in UF Coastal Engineering.  The first of these papers examines tidal motions and infragravity waves interacting with the complex […]

“Coastal Storms” Workshop in St. Pete

Last week members of the UF Geomorph group attended the U. S. Coastal Research Program’s (USCRP) “Coastal Storms” workshop in St. Pete, Florida.  We were treated to a tour of the Florida Institute of Oceanography’s (FIO) research vessel the R/V Weatherbird II and attended many excellent presentations on storm effects in the coastal environment.  The […]

Tidal Inlet Demonstration at “CYDI?”

On Saturday March 17th the UF Geomorph group participated in the 12th annual Department of Geological Sciences outreach event “Can You Dig It?” held at the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH).  Our “tide tank” is 4′ x 4′ x 1′ basin equipped with a recirculating pump, a barrier island, a tidal inlet, and wind-generated […]

Congratulations Dr. Paniagua!

On Friday, February 9, 2018, Juan Felipe Paniagua Arroyave successfully defended his PhD Dissertation “Hydrodynamic Processes Associated with the Evolution of Cape-Related Shoals”. Pani has been a star within the UF Geomorphology group for the last 5 years and will be greatly missed, but we are happy to report that he will be moving on to a […]

New Pub: Adams, Geomorphology

This month, our group has offered a hypothesis about the geomorphic origin of the Merritt Island-Cape Canaveral Sedimentary Complex (MICCSC) and the possibility of St. Johns River reversal some time in the Holocene. The work was published online Jan. 11th in and will be formally released in the April 2018 issue of Geomorphology. The .pdf […]

New Pub: Woo et al., G^3

Aiden Woo, who completed his M.S. degree at UF with Dr. Mark Panning, has published the results of his work investigating the flexural isostasy of the Florida platform in Geochemistry, Geophysics, and Geosystems (G^3).  Aiden has joined the UF Geomorphology Group to pursue his PhD.

Welcome Matt Conlin, new PhD student

We are happy to welcome Matt Conlin to the UF Geomorph group. Matt comes to us after completing his B.S. at Oregon State University, where he worked with our colleague Peter Ruggiero on various coastal geomorph projects in the Pacific Northwest, including Structure from Motion (SfM) mapping. Matt already has a diverse skill set which […]

Welcome Aiden Woo, new PhD student

We’re glad to welcome Han Byul “Aiden” Woo to the UF Geomorph group. Aiden is not stranger to UF, having completed an MS degree under the mentorship of Dr. Mark Panning (now at JPL). Aiden published the results of his MS in G^3 recently and will be expanding his knowledge base as he pursues a […]

Congratulations Master Provancha!

On Friday, June 17, 2016, Christian Provancha successfully presented his MS thesis “Linking Latitudinal Variability of Western Atlantic Wave Climate to the North Atlantic Oscillation” to a full house in Room 265 of Williamson Hall.  Christian did an outstanding job during the course of his M.S. degree and will certainly be missed.

New Pub: Adams Et Al., 2016, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

A recent publication by our research group highlights the influence of an ebb-tidal delta on nearby beach behavior on the North Florida Atlantic coast.  This project emerged as a collaborative effort from a combination of field surveys, led by Katherine Malone Keough during 2009-2010, and numerical modeling contributed by our colleague from UF Coastal Engineering, Maitane Olabarrieta.

SlingFest: Sediment from Mountains to Seas

On October 24th, 2015, Pete Adams attended “SlingFest: Sediment from Mountains to Seas – A Celebration of Research and Service in Honour of Rudy L. Slingerland” at Penn State University.  Adams’s talk compared UF Geomorphology’s recent work on Matanzas Inlet in Florida to a study by Slingerland (1983) in which he quantified correlations of inlet […]

SERC Workshop: Teaching Geosciences with MATLAB

During Oct. 18-20, Pete Adams attended a NAGT workshop organized by SERC (Science Education Resource Center) at Carleton College, which brought together approximately 20 faculty members from a range of universities (and representatives from Mathworks) to discuss how we implement MATLAB in our undergraduate and graduate programs.  The workshop assembled numerous valuable resources and stimulated some […]

NASA Assesses Impact of Present and Future Sea-level Rise

In a recent news feature — “Sea-level Rise Hits Home at NASA” — NASA addresses the sustainability of their coastal facilities with the ever increasing threat from sea-level rise. Several storms in the last decade near Cape Canaveral, FL have already caused $100 million worth of damage to Kennedy Space Center. Research by Drs. Peter […]

New Pub: Wilson Et Al., 2015, Coastal Engineering

Recent M.S. graduate, Kat Wilson was the lead author on a study resulting from her M.S. work at the UF Geomorph lab, in collaboration with our colleagues at the USGS in St. Pete.  In the paper, we present an updated Baysian model that incorporates the frequency and magnitude of natural and anthropogenic processes to successfully hindcast shoreline change and […]

Tide Tank at “Can You Dig It?” Event

On March 14, 2015, the UF Geomorph group participated in the UF Geological Sciences Department’s outreach event “Can You Dig It?” held at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville.  Our display showed the processes operating at tidal inlets and how water and sediment are exchanged between the open ocean and the back barrier […]

KSC Follow-Up Survey

Approximately 6 months after completing a 5-year, monthly study of beach morphologic change at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, our group conducted a follow up survey to examine notable changes in the 2nd half of 2014.  Participants included MS student Christian Provancha, PhD student Juan Paniagua, and PI Pete Adams.  A YouTube movie of our GPS […]

Tampa Bay Times Article on KSC Research

An article by Craig Pittman about our research at Kennedy Space Center ran on the front page of the Tampa Bay Times today.  The story explains the work our lab group has conducted at KSC and the steps that NASA is taking to protect the threatened launch infrastructure.  Read the article here: http://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/globalwarming/as-rising-sea-level-chomps-at-cape-canaveral-nasa-uses-nature-friendly/2211835  

Sediment Experimentalist European Workshop

On November 2-7, 2014, PhD student Juan Felipe Paniagua participated in the Sediment Experimentalist European Workshop, held at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. The workshop was focused on discussing recent advances in experimental work, with an emphasis on data management and sharing. Particularly interesting was the community experiment in which participants used the Eurotank to reproduce two Gilbert-type […]

Summer Institute in Earth-surface Dynamics 2014

From August 12 to 21 PhD student Juan Felipe Paniagua Arroyave participated in the Summer Institute in Earth-surface Dynamics at the NSF-funded National Center of Earth-surface Dynamics. The topic for this year’s institute was ‘Complexity and predictability in depositional systems’, and consisted of a series of lectures, hands-on demonstrations and a community experiment in one of the delta tanks […]

Congratulations Master Wilson!

On Friday, June 20, 2014, Kat Wilson successfully presented her MS thesis “Probablistic Forecasting of Morphodynamic Response to High-Wave Events At Fire Island, New York” to a standing-room-only Room 265.  We’ll miss you Kat and best of luck in your new job with the USGS in St. Pete.

New Pub: Kline et al., 2014, Geomorphology

Some of our latest work on sea cliff retreat modeling has been published in the journal Geomorphology: The unsteady nature of sea cliff retreat due to mechanical abrasion, failure and comminution feedbacks Shaun W. Kline, Peter N. Adams, Patrick W. Limber Link to the Publisher Site: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X14001718 DOI: doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.03.037 Received date: 31 July 2013; Revised date: […]

New Pub: Limber et al., 2014, JGR-Earth Surface

Post-Doc, Pat Limber, has gotten some more of his research on cross-shore relief of rocky coasts published in JGR-Earth Surface: Unraveling the dynamics that scale cross-shore headland relief on rocky coastlines: Part 1. Model development Patrick W. Limber, A. Brad Murray, Peter N. Adams and Evan B. Goldstein Link to the Publisher Site: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013JF002950/abstract Article first published […]

ADCP Testing at UF Coastal Lab

Today, our group conducted a series of tests at the UF Coastal Engineering Lab on SW 6th St. in Gainesville.  With the help of the Lab Manager, we ran the newly refurbished wave tank (which may be the oldest in the country) for approximately 90 minutes, during which we generated waves, of periods 4 seconds […]

Giovanni Coco Gives UF Geo. Dept. Seminar

On Sept. 5, 2013, we were fortunate to host Giovanni Coco (Faculty Member at the Environmental Hydraulics Institute at the University of Cantabria, Spain) for our department seminar series.  The announcement is found below: The Fall 2013 Geological Sciences Seminar Series presents a talk by Dr. Giovanni Coco, researcher at the Environmental Hydraulics Institute “IH […]

Congratulations, Dr. Kline!

On Friday, May 24 2013, Shaun Kline successfully defended his PhD dissertation making the 2nd successful dissertation defense from our lab, within the past 3 months.  Here is the announcement of his PhD defense: You are invited to the dissertation defense of PhD candidate Shaun Kline.  Shaun will defend his dissertation entitled “Influence of Wave Energy Dissipation […]

Adams presents to SEGS-FAPG

On Friday, April 19th, Pete Adams gave a talk entitled “Florida’s Rising? Not so Fast!” to the joint meeting of the Southeastern Geological Society and Florida Association of Professional Geologists (SEGS-FAPG) at Davenport, Florida.  The meeting was followed by a Saturday field trip to tour the CEMEX Davenport sand mine and to look for fulgurites […]

Nathaniel Plant Gives UF Geo Dept. Seminar

On Apr. 4th, 2013, we were fortunate to host Nathaniel Plant (Research Oceanographer, USGS-St. Pete) this week for our department seminar series.  The announcement is found below:This afternoon’s seminar is a presentation by Dr. Nathaniel G. Plant, Oceanographer with the United States Geological Survey in St. Petersburg, Florida.  Dr. Plant will present“Probabilistic Prediction of Barrier Island Evolution […]

CpCnv dGPS survey #65 in the books

UF’s monthly differential GPS survey #65 of NASA-KSC intertidal beach was completed without incident.  Participants were Kyle Sexton and Pete Adams.  We even built a ramp down the ~4 ft. high scarped beach to successfully bring the mule and GPS trailer down from the dune line to the shore face.  See the video here.

“Can You Dig It?”

On Saturday, March 16, 2013, the UF Geomorph Group participated in the UF Dept. of Geological Sciences annual outreach activity, “Can You Dig It?”, held at the Florida Museum of Natural History.  Our display demonstrated how tidal currents that flow through inlets at barrier islands can build substantial sedimentary features (ebb shoals and flood shoals). […]

Congratulations Dr. Lovering!

On Friday, March 15, Jessica Lovering successfully defended her PhD dissertation.  The announcement of her defense is found below:You are invited to the dissertation defense of PhD candidate Jessica L. Lovering.  Jessica will defend her dissertation entitled “The Role of Marsh Platform Morphology in the Geomorphic Response of Tidal Inlet Systems to Sea Level Rise” […]

Welcome New Faces

At the beginning of January 2013, the UF Geomorphology group welcomed a new post-doc, Patrick Limber, and new MS student, Kathleen Wilson.  Pat comes to us after recently completing his PhD at Duke under the mentorship of Brad Murray, and will be working on an NSF-funded project to explore the coastal geomorphic consequences of wave […]

Fall 2012 AGU Meeting

The UF Geomorph group presented 2 posters at this Fall’s AGU meeting in San Francisco during the week of Dec. 3-7. In addition, Pete Adams helped convene the (now annually-occurring) “Coastal Geomorphology and Morphodynamics” oral sessions, which have been growing in participation (see plot below).

Cheryl Hapke Gives UF Geo Dept. Seminar

On Oct. 18, 2012, we were fortunate to host Cheryl Hapke (Research Physical Scientist, USGS-St. Pete) this week for our department seminar series.  The announcement is found below: You are invited to this week’s Fall 2012 Geological Sciences Seminar Series.  This week’s seminar will be presented by Dr. Cheryl Hapke, Research Physical Scientist at the St. Petersburg Coastal and […]

New PNAS Paper Published

On June 25, 2012 the following paper was published online:  Silliman, B. R., J. van de Koppel, M. W. McCoy, J. Diller, G. Kasozi, K. Earl, P. N. Adams, Andrew R. Zimmerman, 2012, Degradation and resilience in Louisiana salt marshes after the BP–Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 109, […]

ADCP Deployment

Last Wednesday (Feb. 15, 2012), our group deployed 3 ADCP units on the sea floor of the inner shelf adjacent to our Cape Canaveral/Kennedy Space Center field site.  Shaun Kline accompanied divers and boat crew from the UF Coastal Engineering Lab (http://www.coastal.ufl.edu/laboratory.html) and IHA (http://www.ihamedical.com/environmental-services.html) to complete the installation.  These instruments will measure wave fields […]

Two New Publications in Climatic Change

The UF Geomorphology group had two papers published in the December 2011 supplemental issue of the journal Climatic Change, entitled “Special Issue: California Second Assessment: New Climate Change Impact Studies and Implications for Adaptation”. One paper (Adams, Inman, and Lovering, 2011) examines the effect of wave direction change on longshore sediment transport within the southern […]

Fall AGU Meeting – Dec. 2011

The UF Geomorph group will be presenting several posters and talks at the Fall AGU meeting in San Francisco next week.  Look for us on Wednesday afternoon in poster sessions EP33A and OS33A, and Friday morning in the Coastal Geomorphology oral session (EP51D).  Click on the screen-shot below to view the complete listing of presentations […]

2011 Argus Workshop

Last week, Shaun Kline and Pete Adams visited COAS at Oregon State in Corvallis to attend the 2011 Argus Workshop organized by Rob Holman and his colleagues.  We presented work related to the imagery data we’ve been collecting at Kennedy Space Center with Nathaniel Plant and USGS colleagues.  An excellent meeting which included discussions with […]

Mark Dickson Gives UF Geo. Dept. Seminar

On Mar. 24, 2011, we were fortunate to host Mark Dickson (Faculty Member at the University of Auckland, New Zealand), who has been visiting UF for two months, for our department seminar series.  The announcement is found below:Please join us for this week’s seminar presentation tomorrow afternoon (Thursday March 24, 2011) by Dr. Mark Dickson, […]

Peter Ruggiero Gives UF Geo. Dept. Seminar

On Nov. 4, 2010, we were fortunate to host Peter Ruggiero (Associate Professor, Oregon State) for our department seminar series.  The announcement is found below:Please join us for the seminar presentation this afternoon (Thursday, November 4th, 2010) by Dr. Peter Ruggiero, Assistant Professor and Senior Researcher in Coastal Geomorphology, Coastal Hazards, and Nearshore Processes in […]

Press on Karst-Driven Isostatic Uplift

Here is a link to the UF press release on the story of karst-driven isostatic uplift of the Florida carbonate platform, presented in this month’s issue of Geology (Adams et al., 2010): http://news.ufl.edu/2010/06/01/florida-rise/. And the link to the UF News video release on the subject: http://news.ufl.edu/2010/06/01/florida-rising/ And the link to the short article published in Discovery News: http://news.discovery.com/earth/global-warming/florida-limestone-swiss-cheese.htm

Abby Sallenger Gives UF Geo Dept. Seminar

On Oct. 1, 2009, we were fortunate to host Abby Sallenger (Oceanographer, USGS-St. Pete) this week for our department seminar series.  The announcement is found below: REMINDER:  USGS Oceanographer Dr. Asbury Sallenger will be speaking today at 4 p.m. in 202 Williamson Hall.  The title of his presentation is “Barrier-island failure modes triggered by Hurricane […]