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Chris Chickadel
Principal Oceanographer Affiliate Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering |
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- Air-Sea Exchange—gas and heat, biogeochemical cycling, rainfall
- Coastal—rivers, tidal flats, nearshore
- Ocean/Atmosphere—climate change, ocean circulation, atmospheric rolls, hurricanes
- Sensors—microwave, infrared, laser, hydrophone, dissolved gas
- Waves—wave breaking, internal waves
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Our remote sensing tools span a wide range of scales from satellite remote sensing, to field experiments using surface and airborne platforms, and to laboratory experiments in wave tanks. Remote sensing instruments used include electro-optical sensors (microwave, infrared, and laser) and acoustic sensors (sonars and hydrophones).
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Energy Harvested from a River in Alaska |
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Mapping Underwater Turbulence with Sound |
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Riding Waves to Generate Electricity |
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A recently published paper details the flow conditions around a full-scale hydrokinetic river turbine.
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microSWIFTs: Tiny Oceanographic Floats Measure Extreme Coastal Conditions
Jim Thomson, EJ Rainville, Jacob Davis, Madison Smith
19 April 2022
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Using a Wave Energy Converter for UUV Recharge
Curtis Rusch, Morteza Derakhti, Brian Polagye, Dana Manalang, Jim Thomson
11 April 2022
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Hurricane Coastal Impacts
Jim Thomson, Alex de Klerk
14 December 2021
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Overcoming the challenges of ocean data uncertainty
EOS Science News by AGU
12 January 2022
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U.S. icebreaker gap with Russia a growing concern as Arctic 'cold war' heats up
Washington Times
Mike Glenn
23 September 2021
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Spiraling Crisis: The Alarming Convergence of Climate Change and Pandemics
ThinkTech Hawaii
16 August 2021
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Seasonality of the mesoscale inverse cascade as inferred from global scale-dependent eddy energy observations
Steinberg, J.M., S.T. Cole, K. Drushka, and R.P. Abernathy
6 May 2022
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Serendipitous internal wave signals in Deep Argo data
Johnson, G.C., C.B. Whalen, S.G. Purkey, and N. Zilberman
16 April 2022
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Laboratory heat flux estimates of seawater foam for low wind speeds
Chickadel, C.C., R. Branch, W.E. Asher, and A.T. Jessup
15 April 2022
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