Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
1457 University of Houston (143345)
Principal Investigator: Yang,Di
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 22,000
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): No
Start and End Dates: 1/25/23 - 11/15/23
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: Mechanical Engineering
Department, Center, School, or Institute: Mechanical Engineering
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY OF SHIP CHANNEL AND SHALLOW BAY INTERACTIONS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON SEDIMENT TRANSPORT, MIXING, AND WATER QUALITY IN CORPUS CHRISTI BAY
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley
CFDA: 21.015
Program Title: n/a
Note:
To better understand the influence of physical mixing related processes in and around ship channels on multiple environmental stressors, this project will develop new tools to observe exchange dynamics in ship channels and use them in Corpus Christi Bay to demonstrate the value of real-time data for informed socio-economic management of the Corpus Christi Ship Channel, Port and Bay system. The observations collected during this study will serve as a baseline for mixing processes as they occur in the present ship channel geometry. Future deepening of the ship channel is likely to alter these mixing processes and in so doing alter exchange between the bay and the Gulf of Mexico. This study will provide insight into how future models and simulations of mixing processes in Texas bays may better account for hydrodynamic mixing processes accentuated by shipping channels and how these processes influence nutrient loading, estuarine salinity and the residence times of constituents in general within the bay. SAMs 1.1.1
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