– Swash Driven by Oblique Incident Waves (funded by NSF)

Taking a break while the basin fills	Happy to be standing after 2 hours of wave gauge calibration	Computer set up	Alexandra, Kelsey, and Rafiu
10-degree wave trial	The team	Teamwork! while Ben fishes for PIV particles	Took some time to run on Wolfe Island. Medaled!

 

 

– Munitions Mobility in the Surf and Swash Zones (funded by SERDP)

Shaping the beach

Manoj on the crane installing lidars

Surveying munitions

Small breaking solitary wave

 

 

– Living Shoreline Response to Ship Wake (funded by Delaware Sea Grant)

Install team on boat ride over to Pea Patch	Temi in ponder mode	Coir log installation	Finished installation
Install team on boat ride over to Pea Patch	Temi in ponder mode	Coir log installation	Finished installation

 

 

– Physics of Dune Erosion during Extreme Surge and Wave Events – DUNE3 (funded by NSF)

Preparing to remove the greenhouse	Beach profile installation	Sensor installation – Yashar (aka Chuck): always smiling	OBS near vegetation
Adjusting sensors	Wave collision with the dune	Collecting data	The team

 

– Intra-storm Beach and Dune Erosion on Natural and Engineered Beaches (funded by Delaware Sea Grant and USCRP)

Running fire hose across the beach. New, easy method of pipe jetting	Cross-shore array insatllation	Sensors at a station/td>	Stan proud of his efforts
Happy team even after a hard day of working in the rain	Big waves. Cool measurements, Sensor destruction	Post-storm measurements	Early morning assessment – serching for the lost current meter

 

– Wallops Island Munitions Mobility Study – WIMMXII (funded by SERDP)

Everyone happy before greenheads got us	Frame install	Fence install	A friendly visitor
Array of surrogates and inert munitions	finding buried inert munitions	calm before the storm	Storm destruction; note the bent Vectrino profiler

 

– Pea Patch Island Ship Wake Study (funded by the University of Delaware)

Boat ride to Pea Patch	Installing sensors at Mike’s site	Cross-shore array at Mike’s site	Installing sensors at Rachel’s site
Cross-shore array at Rachel’s site	Container ship	Ship wake	Just hanging around

 

– Wallops Island Munitions Mobility Study – WIMMX (funded by SERDP)

The sensor frame installed at Wallops Island	Testing self-logging and commercial sensors we pieced together	The storm was brutal	Yep, brutal
Rocket in shallow swash	Buried 155 after several tidal cycles	81 mm: now you see me	81 mm: now you don’t. It remained in a scour hole for at least 20 minutes then buried after a few backwashes during falling tide
Partially buried BLU after several tidal cycles	81 mm during strong storm swash events	Brittany found the one that tried to get away	Matt deploying a surrogate
155 getting hit by uprush	Survey vehicle fun	Captain Wenglor	NASA support saving our backs during frame removal

 

– SUXO Munitions Mobility Study II (funded by SERDP)

The wave flume at ATC	Wave breaking through instrument frame. Surrogate munition can be seen to the left	Rooster tails off surrogates in the backwash before bore arrival	81 mm and BLU-61 surrogates just seaward of the still water line
Searching for surrogates in cold water and a Brittany fashion statement	Offshore survey by “Coastal Jesus”	Surveying when sunny is fun	Surveying when cold and rainy: not so much
Happy Demetra	Everyone loves lunch	Especially cinder block sandwiches	The team

 

– SUXO Munitions Mobility Study I (funded by SERDP)

The SUXO team	Instrument frame set up	CCP deploy	“Shy” Brittany and “Kung Fu” Nancy setting up field trailer
Large surrogate construction	Small surrogate construction	A bunch of surrogates before deploying	Large surrogate in the swash zone
Small surrogates in the swash zone	Wave crashing on offshore sensors	Brittany and Patricia get a break from the trailer	Nappy time for “Kung Fu” Nancy

 

– Large wave flume at Oregon State University (funded by NSF)

The BARSED team	A bunch of us in the sediment pit before placing the sand	Digging trenches for cables	Sensors deployed in the OSU large-scale flume
Breaking waves in the flume	Have you ever tried to sweep sand underwater?	Ryan Mieras doing his best seal impression in 45 deg F water	If your job is not enjoyable, you shoudln’t be doing it
Oregon coast: photo during a weekend hike	Douglas Krafft in deep thought	Douglas Krafft testing his Indiana Jones skills	Post experiment dinner

 

NCSAL in Sisal, Yucatan, Mexico (funded by ONR and CONACYT)

Puleo lining up researchers driving scaffolding pipes for sensor deployment	Scaffolding nearly completed with some sensors installed	Close-up view of current meters, and optical backscatter sensors	Submerged electromagnetic current meter and vectrinos about to be inundated by swash
Quadcopter aerial view of field deployment. There were three scaffold rigs and multiple offshore sensors	Dr. Alec Torres-Freyermuth staring out to sea during a Norte wind event	Graduate students having fund arranging computers in the field trailer	Researchers trying to collect sediment samples using streamer traps

 

 

– Ridge Runnel at South Bethany Beach, DE (funded by NSF)

Installing scaffold pipes for the ridge runnel experiment	Picture of field site showing imaging tower and field trailer.	Conditions during the winter experiment were brutal with ice on the sensors and frame	Nick DiCosmo displaying displeasure with the ice
Plunging wave reaching sensors in the swash zone	Patricia Chardon-Maldonado happy for a sunny day	Students taking a break during a lull in the action	Ryan Mieras surveying the beach

 

 

UDitch in Lewes, DE (funded by Delaware Sea Grant)

Elevated boardwalk across marsh field site. Gotta have more boardwalk	Constructing shed on an elevated platform. The shed contains power and computers for sensor control and data acquisition	View looking landward showing the shed and imaging tower	Aline Pieterse inside the shed checking on computers
Dimitris Belivanis collected water smaples	Sensors deployed in one of the man-made channels that cuts across the marsh	Jose Carlos Pintado-Patino helping deploy sensors during experiment	Getting to the field site was not easy. We had to hack for over 100m through dense 3-4 m tall Phragmites

 

 

Marsh Madness II near Frederica/South Bowers, DE (funded by Delaware Sea Grant)

A muddy Dr. Tom McKenna dragging rescue sleds away from marsh	Veronica Citerone messing around	Aline Pieterse getting ready for water sampling on what looks like an ominous day	Undergrads in the field trailer “collecting data” and apparently coloring
Field tripod deployed on the mudflat	Muddy researchers taking a break after a long day on the mudflat	Mobile 18 m imaging tower and field trailer used for imager control/acquisition and data collection	Survey of the mudflat (dense blue), mudflat edges (red), upland areas (red), marsh platform (black). The “artwork” portion of the survey is by Dr. Tom McKenna and yes, those are real survey points.

 

GWK swash experiment in the large flume in Hanover, Germany

View looking down the massive flume of Leibniz Universitat in Hanover Germany

Puleo and Dr. Chris Blenkinsopp standing next to the wave flume paddle

Plunging breaker near sensors about to initiate swash

Researchers (Dr. Chris Blenkinsopp, Dan Howe, Puleo and Dr. Ian Turner

 

 

BARDEX – Large-scale laboratory study of barrier dynamics in the DeltaFlume, The Netherlands (funded by Hydralab and US Fulbright Commission)

Sensors deployed in the swash zone	Too many researchers packed into a small area near fragile equipment	Butts! Folks hanging over wall to look waves and swash	Bank of laptops for recording data. More were located on the other side of this trailer and in 2 additional trailers
Testing a in situ bed camera	Graduate student Thijs Lanckriet taking sensor elevation measurements	An advisor runs over his graduate student	The BARDEX crew

 

BeST – Beach Sediment Transport Study at Perranporth, United Kingdom (funded by ESPRC/NERC and US Fulbright Commission)

Sensors being inundated by swash

Sometimes things get silly when collecting data at 0300

Thijs Lanckriet adjusting a camera used during the study. BeST scaffolding rig in the background

Well-deserved pint after a successful experiment

 

Marsh Madness I – St. Jones Reserve, DE (funded by EPSCoR)

Sensors deployed in a small tidal channel	Temporary ground control targets for image registration	Imagers deployed on a tower to image flow in the channels	Not the best case scenario, but sometimes we have to collect data while in the elements
Guest that periodically visited us during the experiment	Muddy surveying	More surveying	School group visiting the field site

 

Wolf River PIV study near Biloxi, MS (funded by ONR)

Surveying in Wolf River using the “unicycle”	Setting up imagers for riverine surface currents study	Students setting up imaging targets. Image taken just before snaked jumped out and scared them	Setting up temperature probes at different depths
Sampling surface currents using a moving platform	Standard protocol is to write haiku during field experiments	Large snake slithering through our field area	The snake went under the car and did not come out. Puleo slid across roof and climbed in to move vehicle