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Lorraine Heilman Brasseur Ph.D Student Department of Physical Sciences Office: 210 Franklin Hall Email: lbrass@vims.edu Phone: (804) 684-7219

Education Major Advisor Research Interests Publications Presentations Professional Experience Teaching Experience Awards/Fellowships Professional Memberships Observing System Older Projects

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VIMS Observing System

• VECOS (Virginia Estuarine and Coastal Observing System) Website (Get all the latest interactive plots for the ADCP, AWAC, Buoy and Met data here)
• Temporary home page of VIMS Observing system.
• Latest Wind and Current Vectors (Wind is updated every 15 minutes, water currents every hour) A smaller version
• SAR 6 Hour Wind Averages (6 Hour Average Wind Data for CG SAR.) Download a text version here
• Weekly time series of various parameters and Daily time series (These images are updated hourly)
• Dave Forrest's Buoy Data graphics (Dave Forrest has made some very nice integrated pages that use VIMS VECOS data. Dave Forrest's home page
• VIMS Observing System and Real-time Data (Home Page – Work in progress)
• Real Time Values and 24 hour plots including wind (These data are all from the data buoy)
• Wind Speed and Direction, Air Temp, Currents (These data are snapshots of the conditions on Byrd Hall and from the current meter)
• Current and Wind Vector Movie for Oct 20 - 22, 2004 (This is an *.avi movie I made in MATLAB)
• A higher resolution version that also includes water level (This is really big and takes a long time to load)
• A link to some NetCDF Data Files (Data from the buoy and the node in monthly NetCDF format. No ADCP data here yet)
• Some preliminary wave data (These data are not QC'd and the wave processing algorithms are still in beta testing. Not intended for scientific or navigational use. There are nice links here to images of the water currents as well)
• Conditions Now at the Observing System (This table lists the water and air temperature, the winds, the water currents and wave information from the most recent observations)
• Wave information at the Goodwin Island AWAC (This preliminary wave information is from the Nortek AWAC located near the Nomad buoy off Goodwin Island)
• Water Velocity and Temperature at the Goodwin Island Nomad (This preliminary water velocity information is from the Nortek Aquadopp located on the Nomad buoy off Goodwin Island)

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Education:

Ph.D Marine Science, VIMS, College of William and Mary, expected 2007

M.S., Marine Environmental Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1995

B.A., Mathematics, Franklin and Marshall College, PA, 1992

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Major Advisor:

Dr. John Brubaker

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Research Interests:

My current interests lie in understanding the dynamical balance of estuaries of various sizes and energy regimes and in the turbulent energy balance in these estuaries.  I am pursuing these goals through the use of ADCP's, microstructure profilers using temperature probes and other instrumentation.  The use of ADCP's to measure turbulence by the variance method and the use of ADCP's to measure concentrations of suspended solids in the water column are two nontraditional uses of ADCP's that I am studying.

I also am interested in the remote sensing of the atmosphere using various ground based and satellite based instruments and the ground truthing of the MODIS and MISR spectroradiometers aboard the Terra and Aqua satellites through comparison with instruments at the Southern Great Plains Cloud and Radiation Testbed.  These include a Raman LIDAR, several ground based spectroradiometers, and the CIMEL sun photometer.

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Publications:

Brasseur, L.H., A.C. Trembanis, J. M. Brubaker, C.T. Friedrichs, T. Nelson, L.D. Wright, W. Reay, and L.W. Haas (2005) Physical Response of the York River estuary to Hurricane Isabel. Proceedings, Hurricane Isabel in Perspectiv. In Review.

Simpson, J.H., E. Williams, L.H. Brasseur, and J.M. Brubaker, (2005). The impact of tidal straining on the cycle of turbulence in a partially stratified estuary. Continental Shelf Research., Vol 25, p. 51-64.

Ferrare, R.A., E.V. Browell, S. Ismail, S.A. Kooi, L.H. Brasseur, V.G. Brackett, M.B. Clayton, J.D.W. Barrick, G.S. Siskin, J.E.M. Goldsmith, B.M. Lesht, J.R. Podolske, G.W. Sachse, F.J. Schmidlin, D.D. Turner, D.N. Whiteman, D. Tobin, L.M. Miloshevich, H.E. Fevercomb, B.B. Demoz, and P. DiGirolamo, (2004) Characterization of Upper-Troposphere water vapor measurements during AFWEX using LASE. J. Atmos and Ocean. Tech., Vol. 21, No. 12

Friedrichs, C.T., L.H. Brasseur, M.E. Scully, and S.E. Suttles (2003). Use of backscatter from acoustic Doppler current profiler to infer eddy diffusivity of sediment and bottom stress. Proceedings, Coastal Sediments 2003, Sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Turner, D.D., R.A. Ferrare, L.A. Heilman Brasseur, W.F. Feltz, T. Tooman (2002). Automated retrievals of water vapor and aerosol profiles over Oklahoma from an operational Raman lidar. J. Atmos and Ocean. Tech., Vol. 19, No. 1

Ferrare, R.A., D. D. Turner, L.H. Brasseur, W. Feltz, O. Dubovik, and T. Tooman (2001). Raman Lidar measurements of the Aerosol Extinction to-Backscatter Ratio Over the Southern Great Plains. J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 106, p. 20333 – 20348.

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Turner,D.D., R.A. Ferrare, L.H. Brasseur (2001). Average aerosol extinction and water vapor profiles over the southern great plains. Geophys. Research Letters, Vol. 28 , No. 23, p. 4441, 2001.

Heilman, L.A., A. Valle-Levinson, and L.P. Atkinson (1997). Current conditions at the Oceanographic Systems Test and Evaluation Facility (OSTEF): Final Report. CCPO Technical Report 97-02.

Heilman, L.A. (1995). Physical factors affecting larval transport in the lower Hudson River Estuary. Masters thesis. MSRC, SUNY Stony Brook, 1995.

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Presentations:

Brasseur, L.H., J.M. Brubaker, C.T. Friedrichs, L.D. Wright, and L.W. Haas, 2004. VIMS CBOS Observing System Buoy: An Initial Scientific Analysis. AGU Fall Meeting,2004, San Francisco, CA, 13-17 December.

Brasseur, L.H., A.C. Trembanis, J.M. Brubaker, C.T. Friedrichs, T. Nelson, L.D. Wright, M. Scully, W. Reay, J. Shen, and H. Wang, 2004. Physical Response of the York River Estuary to Hurricane Isabel. Hurricane Isabel in Perspective, Annapolis, MD, 15-17, November.

Brasseur, L.H. and J.M. Brubaker, 2004. VIMS CBOS Observing System Buoy: An Initial Scientific Analysis. Mid Atlantic Bight Physical Oceanography and Meteorology meeting, Gloucester Point, VA, 4-5 November.

Brasseur, L.H., C.T. Friedrichs, and S.E. Suttles, 2003. Eddy Diffusivity and Bottom Stress Estimated from Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) Backscatter Measurements. Estuarine Research Federation Meeting 2004, Seattle, WA, 13-19 September.

Brasseur, L.H., J.M. Brubaker, C.T. Friedrichs, and M.E. Scully, 2002. A comparison of Reynolds stresses and turbulent kinetic energy measurements in the York River. Mid-Atlantic Bight Physical Oceanography and Meteorology Meeting, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, 24-25 October.

Brasseur, L.H., C.T. Friedrichs, J.M. Brubaker and L. Sanford, 2002. Turbulent characteristics of tidal flows in the vicinity of the Chesapeake Bay turbidity maximum. AGU 2002 Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, 11-15 February.

Turner, D.D., R.A. Ferrare, L.A. Heilman, T.P. Tooman, 2000. A Two Year Climatology of Water Vapor and Aerosols in the Lower Troposphere Measured by a Raman Lidar. 20th International Laser Radar Conference, Vichy, France, July 10-14.

Ferrare, R.A., D.D. Turner, L.A. Heilman, W.F. Feltz, R.A. Peppler, T. Tooman, and R. Halthore, 2000. Raman Lidar Profiling of Water Vapor and Aerosols over the ARM SGP Site. Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Monitoring, American Meteorological Society, American Meteorological Society, January 9-14.

L.A. Heilman, Valle-Levinson, A., 1998. Spatial Gradients in the Flow over an Estuarine Channel, AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Deigo, CA, February 9-13.

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Professional Experience:

· 9/2004 – Present: Research Assistant, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary.

· 9/2001 – 8/2004: Research Fellowship, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary.

· 07/98 – 12/2002: Programmer/ Analyst, Science Applications International Corporation.

· 01/97 - 07/98: Oceanographic Research Associate, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Old Dominion University.

· 10/96 - 12/96: Research Support Specialist, Marine Sciences Research Center, SUNY Stony Brook.

· 08/96 - 12/96: Associate Assistant Professor, SUNY Maritime Academy.

· 11/95 - 2/96, 08/96: Assistant Scientist, Sea Education Association.

· 09/92 - 07/96: Research Assistant, MSRC - SUNY Stony Brook .

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Teaching Experience:

· Teaching Assistant, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, MS 501L Fundamentals of Marine Science Lab. (8/2004 – 12/2004). Twenty four students, basics of marine chemistry, biology, geology, and physics.

· Teaching Assistant, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, MS 502 Coastal and Estuarine Processes, Issues, and Investigations. (1/2003 – 5/2003). Twenty two students in a field and laboratory problem solving course.

· Adjunct Assistant Professor, SUNY Maritime Academy, Fort Schuyler, NY (August 1996-December 1996).  Taught oceanography for undergraduate majors and associated oceanography laboratory course.  Approx. 18 students.

· Assistant Scientist, Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, MA (1995-1996).  Undergraduate level, approx. 20 students for six week shipboard oceanography field courses.

· Teaching Assistant MAR 555  Mathematics for Marine Scientists, SUNY Stony Brook, NY (1993).  Graduate level approx. 25 students.

· Teaching Assistant CEI 551 Global Change, SUNY Stony Brook, NY (Summer 1993).  Graduate level approx. 35 students.

· Tutor (Calculus) Franklin and Marshall College, PA (1990-1991).  Undergraduate level, 1-4 students in each session.

· Assistant Teacher English Language Courses (1991)  College Leon Gambetta, Paris, France.  High School level, several classes of 25 students.

· Resident Assistant (1991-1992) Franklin and Marshall College. PA.

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Awards/Fellowships:

· PhD Fellowship, VIMS (2001-2004)

· Dana Scholar (1990-1991 and 1991-1992) Given to students who best combine academic merit and community service.

· John Marshall Scholar (1989-1992) Grant given to top undergraduates for the pursuit of original research.

· Deans List (all semesters undergraduate).

· National Merit Scholar (1988).

· Valedictorian, Westhampton Beach High School (1988).

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Professional Memberships:

· American Geophysical Union

· Estuarine Research Federation

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Older Projects

· Sidescan Sonar short course project.  (Course taught by Art Trembanis)

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