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Coastal Sediments 07 Short Courses

Four technical short courses are planned for Sunday, May 13, 2007 from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Registration for the short courses will begin in the Fall of 2006. For more information on the short courses please contact Julie Rosati at Julie.D.Rosati@erdc.usace.army.mil


II. Storm Processes
Organizers: Tom Campbell, Coastal Planning and Engineering; Luke LeBas, Louisiana Department of Natural Resources

1. Theory
Longshore and Cross-shore sediment transport

2. Storms on the Louisiana Coast
Cold fronts and hurricanes; Building of the Chenier Plain; Storm effects: mud slides, wetland degradation, bay and gulf erosion

3. Applications
Beach nourishment considerations; 2-D storm modeling; Longshore transport modeling; Examples


III. Inlets and Entrances
Organizers: Duncan FitzGerald, Boston University; William Seabergh, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Ty Wamsley, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

1. Morphodynamics
Definition; associated barrier islands; tidal deltas, sedimentologic regime, formation; channel geometry; backbarrier setting and hypsometry

2. Inlet Hydraulics
Time-velocity asymmetry; Predictive Inlet relationships; Ebb and flood tidal dominance; Wave-current interaction; Determining hydraulic regime using various analyses (Mota Oliviera; Boon; Aubrey & Spear); Keulegan equation; Hydrodynamic modeling

3. Sediment Transport Processes
General sand transport patterns; Bedform distribution; Suspended load versus bedload; Inlet sediment bypassing; Wave-current interaction; Bar migrational processes; Dredging aspects; Scour along inlet structures; Inner bank erosion

4. Tidal Inlet Modeling
Analysis methods and toolbox; Reservoir Model; Breaching Model; Channel Infilling Models; Structural problems and solutions; Applications