Current and Recent Projects
1. Remote Anthropogenic Sensing Program (RASP), ongoing:
The aim of RASP is to detect submerged stratified turbulence disturbances by analyzing sea surface signatures using multi-spectral satellite images from "IKONOS" and "QuickBird" satellites over the Sand Island Wastewater outfall in Mamala Bay, Hawaii. A team of Russian scientists lead by Academician V. Bondur analyzes satellite and helicopter images to identify sea surface signatures created by the submerged turbulence source (outfall). Concurrently, measurements of microstructure turbulence are carried out by Rockland Oceanographic, its partner ISW Wassermesstechnic, and UCSD to identify hydrographic signatures of the buoyant waste water plume, and to gain information about possible mechanisms for the generation of detectable surface wave anomalies of the plume as identified by remote sensing methods.
Contact us to uptain digital copies of the following reports:
2003 Report on Microstructure Data Processing
2002 Report on Microstructure Data Processing
2002 Interpretative Report of Microstructure Measurements
2. Tow Body Measurements, Shell Oil, Gulf of Mexico, August 2003:
Study of the characteristics of turbulent flow around a spar-buoy drilling platform. The experiment was carried out in August 2003 in the Gulf of Mexico. To characterize the flow conditions and their effect on the motion of the drilling platform, RGL Consulting and Rockland O/S carried out tow body measurements near the drilling site using the Towed Ocean Microstructure Instrument (
TOMI). TOMI is a special vehicle developed for the measurement of velocity and temperature fluctuations in the 0.03 to 100 cycle per meter (cpm) range of wavenumbers. The instrument carries four velocity shear probes and two thermistors to resolve turbulent signatures. To resolve the low wavenumber part of the velocity spectrum (below 0.2 cpm) TOMI carries a special four-beam Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP).
