Scientific Program
All meeting locations, unless otherwise noted, are in the Center for Health & Healing (CHH), rooms 1A and 1B (third floor).
Monday, September 28th
08:00-09:00 Registration and coffee
09:00-09:05 Welcome
09:05-09:50 Keynote Lecture: David Ham: Automating the creation of ocean and atmosphere models with Firedrake
09:50-10:40 Discussion
10:40-11:10 Break
11:10-12:30 Session 1: New methods and approaches
- 11:10 - Oliver Fringer, et al: Are unstructured grids needed? Comparison of the accuracy of finite-volume unstructured to curvilinear and Cartesian grid ocean models
- 11:30 - Vincent Legat, et al: Efficient spatial and time discretizations for environmental fluid mechanics
- 11:50 - Stephan Kramer, et al: The optimisation of tidal turbine farms represented as a turbine density function
- 12:10 - Phillip Wolfram, et al: Lagrangian In-situ Global High-performance particle Tracking (LIGHT) for the measure of diffusivity in an eddying ocean model
12:30-14:30 Lunch at Deschutes Brewery - 210 NW 11th Ave., Portland
14:30-17:00 Field trip: Brewcycle Pub Pedal - 1425 NW Flanders St, Portland
(pre-registration is required, contact imum2015-inquiries@stccmop.org)
Tuesday, September 29th
08:30-09:00 Coffee
09:00-09:45 Keynote Lecture: Florent Lyard, et al: An internal wave modeling exercise: the COMODO test case
09:45-10:40 Discussion
10:40-11:10 Break
11:10-12:10 Session 2: Coupled models and tracer application
- 11:10 - Juan Restrepo, et al: Modeling the Fate of Oil in Shallow Waters
- 11:30 - Jesse López, António Baptista: Sediment model derived estimates of light attenuation in estuarine environments
- 11:50 - Clara Llebot, et al: Unstructured-grid modeling of the biogeochemistry of a complex estuary
12:10-13:20 Lunch
13:20-14:40 Session 3: Storm surge and wave applications
- 13:20 - Kendra Dresback, et al: The Influence of Riverine Discharges on Total Water Level Predictions During Tropical and Extratropical Storms
- 13:40 - Samuel Bush, et al: A Comparison of Methods for Total Water Level Prediction Using ADCIRC
- 14:00 - SeungWon Suh, et al: Coastal inundation hazards simulation incorporating wave overtopping based on probabilistic synthesized typhoon tracks
- 14:20 - Alexandros Adam, et al: An adaptive finite element spectral wave model
14:40-15:10 Break
15:10-16:10 Poster session
- Adam Candy, et al: A multiscale analysis of the stability of Caribbean coastal ecosystems through the biogeomorphic modelling of its complex bays and inlets
- Olivier Gourgue, et al: Pre- and post-processing unstructured grids with the PUG Matlab toolbox
- Olga Kleptsova, Julie Pietrzak: High resolution tidal model of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and Baffin Bay
- Katherine Morrice, et al: Sensitivity of shelf and estuary circulation simulations to atmospheric forcing and ocean boundary conditions
- Mojgan Rostaminia, et al: Salmon habitat response to the sea level rise and a large-magnitude subduction earthquake
- Charles Seaton, et al: The Virtual Columbia River: operational infrastructure for daily forecasting, retrospective analysis, and predictions of change in a complex estuary
- Christine Szpilka, et al: Towards an Updated Tidal Database for the Eastern North Pacific Ocean
- Valentin Vallaeys, et al: Three-dimensional, finite-element, baroclinic model of the Congo River plume
- Yongsheng Wu, et al: Representing kelp forests in a regional circulation model
16:10-17:10 Session 4: Mesh and bathymetry
- 16:10 - Philippe Delandmeter, et al: Influence of the vertical discretization of SLIM 3D on a river plume modelling
- 16:30 - Alexandros Avdis, et al: The effect of shoreline and bathymetry simplification on simulation predictive accuracy
- 16:50 - Isabella Scroccaro, Giorgio Mattassi: Modeling Study of the Marano and Grado Lagoon (Italy) to Support the RegionalWater Protection Plan
Wednesday, September 30th
08:30-09:00 Coffee
09:00-09:45 Keynote Lecture: Mark Petersen, et al: The Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS-Ocean): A variable-resolution global ocean model for climate studies
09:45-10:40 Discussion
10:40-11:10 Break
11:10-12:10 Session 5: Model development
- 11:10 - Yun Zhang, Oliver Fringer: Subgrid bathymetry for hydrodynamics and sediment transport in SUNTANS
- 11:30 - Tuomas Kärnä, António Baptista - Modeling density-driven coastal ocean flows with Firedrake
- 11:50 - David Lee, et al: A Conservative High-Order Characteristic Discontinuous Galerkin Advection Scheme for MPAS-Ocean
12:10-13:20 Lunch
13:20-14:40 Session 6: Circulation and transport studies
- 13:20 - David Greenberg, Charles Hannah: The pathways of long period and steady state barotropic flows through the Arctic Archipelago
- 13:40 - Sebastian Grashorn, et al: Unstructured Grid Model Simulations in the North and Baltic Seas
- 14:00 - Lumas Helaire, et al: Development of a Historic Hydrodynamic Model of the Lower Columbia
- 14:20 - Brandy Cervantes, et al: Modeling Study of the Formation and Retention of a Mesodinium Bloom in the Columbia River Estuary
14:40 Closing remarks
