Technical Program

Wed Mar 12 | Thu Mar 13 | Fri Mar 14 | Sat Mar 15

Wednesday, March 12, 2003

6:30 - 8:30 pm – Icebreaker (Mission Bay Ballroom - cash bar)
7:00 - 9:00 pm – Registration Desk Open (Foyer outside Mission Bay Ballroom)

Thursday, March 13, 2003

7:30 am Continental Breakfast (Mission Bay Ballroom)
7:30 until 5 pm Exhibitor’s Area Open Daily (Mission Bay Ballroom)
7:00 am - 5 pm Registration Desk Open (Extra Meal /Banquet tickets available at this time)

8:00 Welcome and Introduction to Sessions by Technical Chair, Sandy Williams
8:20 Introduction and Manufacturer’s Welcome, Peter Spain
8:30 Technology Retrospective, Bill Woodward
8:40 Technology Overview, Gene Terray

SESSION 1. CURRENT AND TRANSPORT: RIVERS, ESTUARIES, AND DAMS
Chair: Sicco Kamminga

9:00 Horizontal Doppler current profiler instrument development and applications, Neil Trenaman and Randy Marsden

9:20 Systems conveyance and operations program (SCOP) for determination of an alternative wastewater effluent discharge site in Lake Mead, Doug Karafa, Ira Rackley, Michael Metcalf

9:40 Acoustic Doppler velocity measurements collected near a municipal water intake, Lake Mead, Nevada-Arizona, Tracy Vermeyen

10:00 - 10:20 am Break

10:20 Complete velocity distribution in river cross-sections measured by acoustic instruments, Ralph T. Cheng, and Jeffrey W. Gartner

10:40 Yangtze River ADCP discharge measurement using multiple external sensor inputs, Randy Marsden, Chen Shongshen, Ye Dexun, Wei Jinchun, Hening Huang

11:00 Field evaluation of boat-mounted acoustic Doppler instruments used to measure streamflow, David S. Mueller

11:20 Flow measurements using an upward-looking Argonaut-SW Doppler current meter, Craig Huhta, and Chris Ward

11:40 Field evaluation of ADCP refinements for profiling shallower waters, Peter Spain, Paul Devine, Steve Maier, and Mark Vogt

12:00 - 1:00 pm Lunch – Exhibitor’s Area Open

1:00 Initial river test of a monostatic RiverSonde streamflow measurement system, Calvin C. Teague, Donald E. Barrick, Peter Lilleboe, and Ralph T. Cheng

1:20 Real time flow information system, Sicco D. Kamminga, and Han G. J. Wensink

SESSION 2. SPATIAL MAPPING OF SURFACE CURRENTS AND WIND
Chair: Gene Terray

1:40 Profiling river surface velocities and volume flow estimation with bistatic UHF River- Sonde radar, Don Barrick, Cal Teague, Pete Lilleboe, Ralph Cheng, and Jeff Gartner

2:00 Surface currents measured from a sequence of airborne camera images, John Dugan and Cindy Piotrowski

2:20 Development of a cheap, GPS-based radio-tracked, surface drifter for closed shallow-water bays, John C. Perez, James Bonner, F. J. Kelly, and Chris Fuller

2:40 A comparison of near-surface current measurements by ADCP and HF-radar on the West Florida Shelf, F. J. Kelly, J. S. Bonner, J. C. Perez, D. Trujillo, R. H. Weisberg, R. He, and M. E. Luther

3:00 - 3:20 Beverage Break

3:20 Intercomparison of an ADCP, ADP, standard and long-range HF RADAR: Influence of
horizontal and vertical shear, Hugh Roarty, Josh Kohut, and Scott Glenn

3:40 Constructing surface current maps from HF radars with different operating frequencies, John F. Vesecky, Jessica Drake, Kenneth Laws, Calvin Teague, Dan Fernandez, and Jeff Paduan

4:00 High frequency radar measurements of friction velocity in the marine boundary layer, Lorelle A. Meadows, Stanley J. Jacobs, and John F. Vesecky

4:20 Vector wind field measurements using multifrequency HF radar, Jessica Drake, John Vesecky, Kenneth Laws, Calvin Teague, Frank Ludwig, and Jeff Paduan

4:40 Adjourn for the Day – Exhibitor’s Social hosted by the Marine Technology Society (Mission Ballroom)

Friday, March 14, 2003

7:30 - Noon Registration Desk Open
7:30 am Continental Breakfast (Mission Bay Ballroom)

SESSION 3. REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES
Chair: Steven Anderson

8:00 Uncertainties in SeaSonde current velocities, Belinda Lipa

8:20 Fitting normal modes to HF radial and total surface current vector data over enclosed bays and estuaries, Hector Aguilar Jr., Rosa Fitzgerald, Don Barrick, James Bonner, and John Perez,

8:40 Marrying quantitative and graphic tidal analysis tools with HF radar current map outputs, Don Barrick, David James, and Jimmy Isaacson

9:00 Simplified calculation of constituent tidal currents and height from HF radar profiles across the mouth of bays and sounds, Rosa Fitzgerald, Don Barrick, and T. Grandville Sewell

9:20 Refraction and shoaling of surface waves by currents and topography as observed by HF Radars, Brian K. Haus, Rafael Ramos, Hans C. Graber, Lynn K. Shay

9:40 The application of the Doppler shifted dispersion relationship to hurricane wave data from an ADCP directional wave gauge and co-located pressure sensor, B. Strong, B. Brumley, Gregory W. Stone, and Xiongping Zhang

10:00 - 10:20 am Break

SESSION 4. – MEASURING AND MAPPING SURFACE WAVES
Chair: Gwyn Griffiths

10:20 Deep water directional wave measurements from pressure wave velocities, and a three-axis accelerometer, Hany Elwany, and Ray Mahr, Jr.

10:40 MWAVES - Software for calculating the directional spectra and statistical properties of the wave field from MAVS-3 triplet measurements, A. Todd Morrison III

11:00 Non-uniform sampling issues arising in shallow angle wave profiling LIDAR, M. R. Belmont, J. Michael K. Horwood, and R. W. F. Thurley

11:20 Can wave direction be measured from an AUV? B. Brumley, B. Strong, and E. Terray

11:40 Sea trials of the new Datawell GPS Directional Waverider, Gus Jeans, Ian Bellamy,
Jitze Jan de Vries, and Paul van Weert also: A comparison between directional wave measurements from the RDI Workhorse with waves and the Datawell Directional Waverider, Gus Jeans, Cathryn Primrose, Nathalie Descusse, Brandon Strong, and Paul van Weert

12:00 - 1:00 p m Lunch – Exhibitor’s Area Open

SESSION 5. MOORED CURRENT MEASUREMENTS
Chair: Marinna Martini

1:00 Mooring motion bias of Point-Doppler current meter measurements, Paul Freitag, Michael McPaden, Chris Meinig, and Patricia Plimpton

1:20 Nortek Aquadopp current meter diagnostics quantify mooring motion, Lee Gordon

1:40 Compliant mooring technology to separate buoy motion from in-line current observations, James D. Irish, and David W. Frederiksson

2:00 Deep ocean experience with acoustic current meters, Nelson Hogg, and Dan Frye

2:20 Comparison of five current meters in a tidally dominated flow, A. J. Plueddemann, S. J. Lentz, and E. A. Terray

2:40 Comparison of Aanderaa RCM-9 & MAVS3 Current Meters measuring surface currents in the Gulf of Maine, James D. Irish, and A. J. Williams 3rd

3:00 - 3:20 Beverage Break

SESSION 6. ADCP TECHNIQUES
Chair: Rob Pinkel

3:20 A comparison of simultaneous measurements from shipboard VM-150 and OS-75 acoustic Doppler current profilers, N. P. Holliday, Raymond T. Pollard, and Gwyn Griffiths,

3:40 On the accuracy of acoustic Doppler current profilers for in-situ measurements. A proposed approach and estimations for measurements in tidal channels, S. Jimenez-Gonzales, R. Mayerle, and J. J. Egozcue

4:00 The effects of mobile scatterers on the quality of ADCP data in differing marine environments, Andrew N. Moore, and Douglas L. Stewart

4:20 Effectiveness of acoustical backscatter measurements from acoustical profilers for estimation of suspended sediment concentration, Poerbando, and R. Mayerle

4:40 Optimizing acoustic Doppler current profiler settings for noise reduction, Peter Hendricks

5:00 Current and wave measurements using an ADV equipped with automatic velocity range setting, Todd Mudge, Vadim Polonichko, and Joel Edelman

5:20 ADCP estimates of Reynolds and bottom stress, Michael John Howarth

5:40 Adjourn for the Day

6:30 CMTC Banquet will be held on the beach, weather permitting, or on William D. Evans

Saturday, March 15, 2003

7:30 am Continental Breakfast (Mission Bay Ballroom)

SESSION 7. DEEP WATER MEASUREMENTS: ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES
Chair: Sandy Williams

8:00 An integrated method of obtaining absolute ocean velocity from a profiling free vehicle, Ellyn T. Montgomery, and Kurt L. Polzin

8:20 Structural design considerations of a profiling free vehicle used to measure ocean turbulence, Fred Thwaites, and Kurt Polzin

8:40 The hydrographic Doppler sonar system on the Roger Revelle, R. Pinkel, L. Rainville, E. Slater, M. Goldin, L. Green, M. Bui, and T. Aga

9:00 Long-range acoustic Doppler array measurements of surface velocities, Jerome Smith, and Rob Pinkel

9:20 Turbulence measurements using 3-axis electromagnet turbulent velocity probes and airfoil shear probes, Vadim Paka, Nikolay N. Golenko, David Lai, and Donald P. Delisi

9:40 The application of ADCP to the measurement of current system at the hydrothermal active areas, Kyohiko Mitsuzawa

10:00 – 10:20 am Break

SESSION 8. PLATFORMS AND REAL-TIME SYSTEMS
Chair: A. Todd Morrison III

10:20 A novel platform for data gathering, Hugh W. Young, and Stephen J. Phillips

10:40 Observatory measurements of waves and current, Albert J. Williams 3rd, Janet Fredericks, Ed Hobart, Matt Carson, Colin Tierney, and Andrew Waterbury

11:00 Wave and current measurements in the Chesapeake Bay, H. H. Shih, M. Bushnell, K. Tronvig, and T. Mero

11:20 New developments in the remote measurement of currents and waves at the Scottish Association for Marine Science, David Meldrum, Chris Cromy, Martin Doble, Duncan Mercer, and Oli Peppe

11:40 Eddy net: A measurement program for collecting real-time current profiles from the Gulf of Mexico, Steven P. Anderson, Cortis K. Cooper, David B. Driver, and Jan van Smirren

12:00 Flow-Generated Power for Autonomous Instruments, Diane DiMassa, A.T. Morrison III and Jacob Piskura

12:20 pm Seventh OES/IEEE/CMTC Adjournment – Sandy Williams: Wind-up