ENGINEERING INFRASTRUCTURE
THE INTEGRATIVE OCEANOGRAPHY DIVISION
Hydraulics Laboratory Engineering and Field Support
This group designs and builds equipment for long term time-series
data acquisition and control of underwater devices including video
and digital cameras in support of field programs using a variety
of self-contained and real-time sensing instrumentation. Experience
includes the deployments of sub-surface and surface ocean arrays,
bottom mounted instrumentation and free vehicles in near-shore,
shelf and deep ocean environments measuring physical, biological
and chemical processes, along with the deployment of meteorological
arrays at sea and on land. Projects have been staged in the US and
abroad for principal investigators from various SIO departments,
other institutions, universities, and governmental agencies.
Members of the Hydraulics Laboratory staff also oversee the Scripps Technical
Forum (STF) which is a grassroots effort
to make technical expertise and resources more widely available within
the UCSD/Scripps community. The STF mission is four-fold:
1) Enhance communications between technical staff and researchers;
2) Develop and enhance opportunities for interdepartmental collaboration,
technology transfer, and industry interactions;
3) Explore, monitor, and disseminate trends in new technologies as innovative solutions
to emerging earth science challenges and applications;
4) Aid in personnel retention and enhanced job satisfaction with
continuing education, and opportunities for job growth.
Please
visit the Hydraulics
Laboratory website
and the Technology
Application Group website for more information.
Hydraulics Laboratory Engineering Staff
IOD Nearshore and Beach Processes Engineering Group
Bill Boyd,
Brian Woodward,
Kimball Millikan,
Dennis Darnell,
Kent Smith,
Ian Nagy,
Jerry Wanetick
This group designs, builds, calibrates, deploys, maintains, and recovers
instrumentation used to study nearshore processes. The systems are
often multidisciplinary in nature and involve mechanical engineering,
electrical engineering, and systems programming. Design examples
include mechanical platforms located in the surfzone, underwater
housings, bathymetry mapping waverunners, sonic altimeters, GPS surfzone
drifters, data acquisition systems, coherent pressure arrays, current
meters, and recently a water-sampling waverunner to map rhodamine and
chlorophyll in the nearshore. Experienced in the use of acoustic, EM
and optical sensors, GPS, RF telemetry, analog, digital, imbedded
controllers, CPLDs, customed realtime data acquisition and display
software. Past mechanical engineering applications include theoretical
fluid, mass, pressure and inertial loading as well as vibration
mitigation and material selection for pumping systems, instrumentation
frames and underwater housing designs.
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