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.
