Ocean governance in Bangladesh: Necessities to implement structure, policy guidelines, and actions for ocean and coastal management

Coastal and Ocean Engineering

This course introduces maritime engineering, encompassing coastal and ocean engineering. It concentrates on providing an understanding of the many processes at work when the tides, storms and waves interact with the natural and human environments. The course will be a mixture of description and theory – it is hoped that by understanding the theory that the practice will be made all the easier. ...

Ocean currents and competitive strength interact to cluster benthic species range boundaries in the coastal ocean

Dispersal of many coastal marine species is mediated by flows with strong directionality; bathymetric and topographic effects lead to strong alongshore variability in this transport. Using a simple model of the population dynamics of competing benthic species in a coastal ocean, we found that alongshore variability in dispersal can lead to clustering of species range boundaries for species whos...

Trends and Future Challenges for U.S. National Ocean and Coastal Policy

Coastal Ocean Forecasting: system integration and evaluation

Coastal Ocean Forecasting: system integration and evaluation V.H. Kourafalou, P. De Mey, M. Le Hénaff, G. Charria, C.A. Edwards, R. He, M. Herzfeld, A. Pascual, E.V. Stanev, J. Tintoré, N. Usui, A.J. van der Westhuysen, J. Wilkin & X. Zhu a University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Miami, FL, USA b LEGOS, Laboratoire d'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spat...

Ocean Monitoring, Coastal Studies and Remote Sensing

LONG-TERM GOALS The long-term goal of this research is to develop and test predictive models for nearshore and coastal processes. Initial development and testing of models is to be accomplished through monitoring over a broad range of spatial and temporal scales. Model development is to be accomplished within the framework of the nearshore as a hierarchical complex system, wherein, at discretel...