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 […]
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 […]
We’re happy to welcome Juan Felipe Paniagua Arroyave to the UF Geomorph group. Pani comes to us from Medellin, Columbia as a Fulbright scholar after recently completing his MS degree at EAFIT. Pani’s initial work here at UF will involve direct measurement of waves and currents at the Cape Canaveral shoals in a collaborative effort […]
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This week, Matt Willis arrived in Gainesville to begin work on a PhD with our group. Matt originates from Morehead City, NC, but has spent the past decade in Southern California, where he familiarized himself with the Pacific Ocean and earned an MS degree from Cal Poly Pomona. Welcome to UF Matt!
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 […]
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 […]
This Wednesday, (Apr. 17, 2013) from 11:45am-12:30pm, Pete Adams will present a talk at the Water, Wetlands, and Watersheds Seminar series in Room 100 of the Phelps Lab at the Howard T. Odum Center for Wetlands. Anyone interested is welcome. (http://www.cfw.ufl.edu/seminar_schedule_sp13.shtml)
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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 […]
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.
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). […]
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” […]
UF’s monthly differential GPS survey #64 of NASA-KSC intertidal beach was completed without incident. Participants were Kyle Sexton and Pete Adams. Photo shows how the washover fan has crossed the railroad tracks between LC-39A and LC-39B.
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 […]