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 (heights, periods, and directions) and vertical profiles of currents for the next 100 to 120 days. Data will be used to establish the oceanic forcing of beach morphologic change, documented with differential GPS surveys, and wave breaking patterns (inferred bar positions) visible in Argus imagery.
