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  • The Application of Machine Learning Techniques on Marine Science Models

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    Ellenson, Ashley
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    A variety of stakeholders require information about marine systems. In the open ocean, pilots of marine vessels require knowledge about environmental conditions for safe passage and route planning. On the coastline, communities rely on information about nearshore dynamics to increase safety from coastal hazards such as nearshore pollutants, coastal erosion,...
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    graduate student spectacular and filled with friendship. Thanks to Tuba Özkan-Haller for believing in me

  • From the Shoreface to the Foredunes : Coastal Morphodynamics Across the Land-Sea Interface

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    Cohn, Nicholas T.
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    Coastal flooding and erosion are major concerns for low lying coastal communities -- particularly in light of accelerated sea level rise and climate change. To improve quantitative understanding of the physical drivers of both flooding and coastal landscape change, this dissertation explores coastal morphodynamics bridging the land-sea interface on modally...
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    other members of my committee, Tuba Özkan-Haller, Rob Holman, and Michael Olsen as well. I have been

  • Observations and prediction of intermittent sediment suspension in the surf zone

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    Yoon, Hyun Doug
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    In this dissertation the interactions between hydrodynamics, sediment suspension and transport, and morphological evolution in the surf zone was investigated with a large-scale laboratory experiment data, CROss-Shore Sediment Transport Experiment (CROSSTEX). The data set included comprehensive measurements of water surface elevation, fluid velocity, sediment concentration, and morphology for irregular waves...
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    here in Corvallis. I am thankful to Dr. Solomon Yim, Dr. Tuba Ozkan-Haller, Dr. Peter Ruggiero

  • Dune erosion models and swash zone kinematics from remote video observations

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    Palmsten, Margaret L.
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    The subaerial beach, composed of sand dunes and the foreshore, provides a natural buffer zone between vulnerable land and the dissipation of storm wave energy due to wave breaking. The natural beauty of this region is attractive to people, and as a result, significant investment has been placed in this...
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    . Once I got to Oregon State University, I was fortunate enough to be mentored by Rob and Tuba. You

  • Remote measurements of waves and currents over complex bathymetry

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    Chickadel, Carmine C. (Carmine Christopher)
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    Waves are the primary input of energy in the nearshore region, and together with the currents forced through the transfer of momentum that occurs during the wave breaking process they are the principal mechanism for sediment transport in the nearshore. The basic physics of waves and currents are thought to...
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    committee members, Tuba Ozkan-Haller for her incredible ability to teach even me, Mick Haller for his

  • Ensemble-variational data assimilation for dynamically challenging coastal ocean circulation

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    Pasmans, Ivo
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    Currently, forecasts produced by the Oregon-Washington (OR-WA) Coastal Ocean Forecast System are constrained by assimilation of only surface observations. The 4-dimensional variational (4DVAR) data assimilation (DA) algorithm is utilized to combine the model and the data, with the time-independent forecast ("background'') error covariance B. In this study, two possible improvements...
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    Ozkan-Haller. I am grateful to the college administrative staff for helping out with the neverending

  • Climate Change Impacts to Estuarine Hydrodynamics: Tools, Methodologies, and Predictions

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    Parker, Kai A.
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    Coastal communities in the U.S. Pacific Northwest (PNW) are rapidly engaging with the idea that hazards and environmental pressures are changing and may be characteristically different in the near future. This has led to a need for scientific knowledge and tools that can help coastal communities prepare and build resilience...
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    development as a researcher. To my other committee members, Tuba Ozkan-Haller, Sarah Emerson, and Emily

  • Predicting the longshore-variable coastal response to hurricanes

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    Stockdon, Hilary F.
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    The longshore variability of the coastal response to hurricanes may be examined within the framework of a storm-impact scaling model that compares spatially-variable beach morphology and fluid forcing. The relative elevations of dune height and storm-induced water levels are used to define three impact regimes (swash, collision, and overwash), within...
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    Dr. Tuba Ozkan-Haller, an exceptional scientist and role model, for asking the hard questions

  • Development of 2D models to estimate nearshore bathymetry and sediment transport

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    Splinter, Kristen D.
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    We examine the interactions and feedbacks between bathymetry, waves, currents, and sediment transport. The first two pro jects focus on the use of remote sensing techniques to expand our knowledge of the nearshore. Due to the plethora of snap-shot data that is available from satellites and their distribution via Google...
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    understand the science. The challenge has been daunting, but rewarding nonetheless. Tuba, in case I never

  • Hydrodynamic and Morphologic Controls on Extreme Coastal Total Water Levels Across Regional and Local Scales

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    Serafin, Katherine A.
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    Coastal and estuarine flooding and erosion events are usually driven by the cumulative effect of multiple individual processes like waves, streamflow, storm surge, and/or tides. This dissertation focuses on separating the influence of the regional and local-scale geomorphologic and hydrodynamic processes driving variability in the magnitude and impacts of extreme...
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    things coastal. To my committee members Dr. Hilary Stockdon, Dr. Phil Mote, Dr. Tuba Özkan-Haller, and