Advancing Marine Spatial Planning through Passive Acoustic Monitoring

Room: 3-370 Speaker Name: Prof. Tomonari Akamatsu Affiliation: Professor, Research Organization for Nano & Life Innovation, Waseda University Abstract: Underwater sound recordings have been collected globally in recent years using both stationary and mobile acoustic receiving systems, which are now commercially available and widely deployed in coastal and offshore waters. However, identifying sound sources remains…

T. F. Ogilvie Lecture: Accelerating at-scale energy transition: examples from biofuels exploitation and life extension of wind farms

Room: 5-314 Speaker Name: Dr Amr Elbanhawy | LinkedIn Affiliation: Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering | PI, Energy Technology and Climate Change Laboratory | Ain Shams University | Cairo | Egypt Fulbright Visiting Scholar | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Abstract: The accelerated energy transition will necessitate the deployment of a multitude of resources…

Student Seminar: The impact of internal variability on benchmarking deep learning climate emulators

Room: 5-314 Speaker Name: Björn Lütjens Affiliation: Website Link Abstract: Full-complexity Earth system models (ESMs) are computationally very expensive, limiting their use in exploring the climate outcomes of multiple emission pathways. More efficient emulators that approximate ESMs can directly map emissions onto climate outcomes, and benchmarks are being used to evaluate their accuracy on standardized…

Student Seminar: Quantifying the Impacts of Artificial Reef Structures on Breaking Waves Using Cross-Shore Imagery and Machine Learning.

Room: 5-314 Speaker Name: Ian Robertson Affiliation: LinkedIn Link Abstract: Understanding the breaking characteristics of waves is important in several nearshore applications such as assessing impacts of engineered structures on wave breaking or computing surf zone energy budgets. Past studies have used images collected by remote sensing to estimate characteristics such as breaking wave height,…

Student Seminar: Considerations for Nuclear Ships

Room: 3-434 Speaker Name: Anthony Valiaveedu Affiliation: SandLab Abstract: The International Maritime Organization has been encouraging ship builders to adopt net-zero emissions through alternative fuel technologies, as part of its 2030 strategy. Aside from ammonia, nuclear systems have been proposed as a potential solution to reducing such emissions. However, there exists very little in regulations…

Student Seminar: Elucidating dominant mechanisms for bubble populations in air-entraining free-surface turbulent flows

Room: 5-314 Speaker Name: Declan Gaylo Affiliation: Website Link Abstract: Air entrainment at a free surface is important to a variety of applications including air-sea gas exchange and vessel acoustics. In these applications, a quantity of interest is the size distribution of bubbles, which is driven by, in addition to entrainment, mechanisms including fragmentation and…