Our main goal is to assess the hydrodynamics of turbidity currents and mudflows and their ability to produce morphological features such as ripples, dunes, antidunes and gullies along their paths. Of particular interest is to elucidate the role played by turbidity currents on the inception of submarine channels and canyons. To this end, understanding the mechanics of sediment erosion, including...

An experimental study was carried out to investigate seabed-pipeline interactions with regard soil liquefaction. For a high proportion (30 60%) of fine sediment, four groups tests were configured reproduce liquefaction around pipelines for different initial pipe depths, densities and wave conditions (wave height period). The focused on verifying the theoretically computed areas failure by analy...

Soil microbial properties are known to exhibit high spatial and temporal variability, which can hinder our understanding of the effects of agricultural management on soil microbial activities, populations and communities. However, if this variability is explicitly considered in soil sampling schemes, experimental results can help us better understand soil microbial properties. In this initial a...

Single-beam acoustic seabed classification continues to be a popular method for mapping seabeds and their sediments, which are important components of benthic habitat. Modern methods can generate maps of acoustic classes that are useful and reasonably accurate. Research toward improved methods continues. A continuing impediment to this research is ranking the accuracy of maps produced by new me...

The broadband scattering characteristics of a target may be used to distinguish echos from a target of interest from those of clutter. This type of classification is of interest in many sonar applications: ASW, torpedo, surface mines, and diver detection. In a shallow water situation the original sonar pulse and the echo from the target will consist of a sequence of pulses corresponding to the ...

This paper considers the application of numerical techniques to modelling large 3D Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) electromagnetic problems in the time and frequency domains. The environment model consists of three material layers: air, sea and seabed. To represent a coastal region, the sea region is shallow with a variable depth and includes a sloping seabed. The electromagnetic source is a harm...

Several multibeam sonar systems are now capable of collecting and recording data samples covering the full-watercolumn, not just the seabed. Such systems, while still facing hardware challenges such as limited dynamic range and bandwidth, collect vast quantities of data, generally an order of magnitude more than conventional hydrographic multibeam or scientific single beam sonar systems. In thi...