: CHSD personnel collect a box-core sediment sample in the Lynnhaven River. Photo by Grace Cartwright.
: Filtering water to collect suspended sediment in Chesapeake Bay. Photo by Grace Cartwright.
: A CHSD relay station for real-time observations of water-column and seabed properties. Photo by Grace Cartwright.
ROSE: The CHSD ROSE profiler about to sample in San Francisco Bay. ROSE stands for Real-time Ocean Sensing Equipment. Photo by Grace Cartwright.
: Subsampling sediment cores in the York River estuary. Photo by Grace Cartwright.
ADCP: Using an acoustic Doppler current profiler catamaran to survey a tidal creek cross-section in a Massachusetts tidal marsh. Photo by Grace Cartwright.
: Measuring Eh profiles of sediment cores from the Potomac River. Photo by Grace Cartwright.
: The CHSD ROSE profiler sampling in the York River estuary. ROSE stands for Real-time Ocean Sensing Equipment. Photo by Grace Cartwright.
: The VIMS data buoy is the first step in a long-term project to provide real-time data for accurate predictions of ecosystem processes in Lower Chesapeake Bay.
Photo by Carl Friedrichs.
Coastal Hydrodynamics & Sediment Dynamics
The Coastal Hydrodynamics & Sediment Dynamics Program (CHSD) at the Virginia Insitute of Marine Science aims to better understand fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics with additional emphasis on processes responsible for sediment resuspension, transport, and deposition.
Ongoing topics of interest include
- controls on particle settling velocity and bed erodibility,
- acoustic properties of suspended sediment and the upper seabed,
- morphologic controls on estuarine physical oceanography,
- wave and tidal boundary layers,
- hydrodynamics and sediment dynamics of tidal flats and marshes
- improving hydrodynamic, sediment transport, and water quality models.
Our technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling, and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems.
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