Research
Funded Research Projects
PI Tidal Boundary Conditions for Coastal Water Models: Phase II
Production of tidal velocities and residuals. Funded by South Florida Water Management District. 2007 to 2008
PI High performance computing for simulation training systems
Funded by RDECOM-STC through the UCF Institute for Simulation & Training. 2007 to 2008
PI Development of a high-resolution ADCIRC model for astronomic and storm tide modeling in the NWFWMD region, Phase I: An Astronomic Tidal Model for Franklin and Wakulla Counties
Integrate the major in-bank coastal, riverine and estuarine waters of the NWFWMD region of Franklin and Wakulla Counties into a pre-existing version of the WNAT model domain in order to simulate astronomic tides and verify those simulations. Funded by Northwest Florida Water Management District. 2007
PI Simulation of tidal hydrodynamics on the continental shelf and within the multiple inlet/barrier island coastline of northeast Florida
Investigation of the effect of tidal storage on the residual flows occurring through the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway and entering/exiting the St. Johns River. Funded by St. Johns River Water Management District. 2007 to 2008
PI Model Simulations of Tidal Boundary Conditions for Coastal Water Models of the SFWMD
Preliminary production of tidal velocities and residuals. Funded by South Florida Water Management District. 2007
PI Lake Pontchartrain Hurricane Forecast System: Mesh Generation
Funded by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers through U. of Miami. 2007
PI Brevard County Hurricane Vulnerability Study
Funded by Environmental Consulting & Technology, Inc. . 2006
PI Simulation of tidal currents in the Lower St. Johns River and on the adjacent continental shelf
Preliminary production of tidal velocities and residuals. Funded by the St. Johns River Water Management District. . 2006
Co-PI UCF STEP Pathways to STEM: From Promise to Prominence
NSF award to increase the number of students at UCF that are graduating with STEM degrees. . 2006 to 2011
PI I2 Lab Supplemental Funding
Code porting and optimization on the I2 Lab cluster. . 2006
PI Morphos 3D, High Resolution Water Level Field Specification
Enhancement of an existing finite element model mesh(es) to create adequate resolution and topographic definition in land-falling regions of Hurricanes Charlie, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne for local-scale application. Funded by Woolpert, Inc. 2005 to 2006
PI Tides and Waves for the National Weather Service River Forecast System
Three main goals will be addressed over a three-year period with an emphasis on real-time forecasting: 1) To develop a modeling domain that incorporates the entire East Coast of the United States, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, while zeroing in on the St. Johns River area. 2) To employ output from a wind-driven short wave model with a long wave finite element model and produce a uni-directional coupling of the two models. 3) To fully couple the short wave model with the long wave finite element model. Funded by NOAA through the NWS Office of Hydrologic Development. 2004 to 2008
PI Design Hurricane Storm Surge Pilot Study
Examination of the effects of inlet characteristics on storm tide hydrographs. Funded by the Florida Department of Transportation through the University of Florida . 2004 to 2005
PI The SURA Coastal Ocean Observation and Prediction Program (SCOOP).
Hindcasting of storm tides with coupled models. Sub-contract to the University of Miami . 2004 to 2005
Co-PI Loxahatchee River Three Dimensional Integrated Surface and Groundwater Model
A saltwater intrusion study including data collection and modeling. Funded in equal parts by the South Florida Water Management District & Florida Department of Environmental Protection. 1998 to 2005
PI Sub-contract to the University of Miami (Miami, Florida)
Member of
National Oceanographic Partnership Program team (see
hurricanewaves.org) to conduct a five-year effort to produce a real-time wind, waves, and storm surge model for the Western North Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico . 2001 to 2007
Overall project team has an approximately five million dollar budget and includes
University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (Hans C. Graber, Mark A. Donelan, and Michael G. Brown),
University of Florida (Donald N. Slinn),
The John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (Donald R. Thompson),
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Robert E. Jensen),
NOAA/AOML Hurricane Research Division (Peter G. Black and Mark Powell),
National Weather Service (John L. Guiney),
Oceanweather, Inc. (Vincent J. Cardone and Andrew T. Cox),
NASA (Francis J. Merceret),
National Hurricane Center (Ed Rappaport).
PI Demonstration and Implementation of a Real-Time Tide and Storm Surge Forecasting Model
Tide and storm surge modeling for the National Weather Service Southeast River Forecast Center on the east coast of South Carolina. Funding provided by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research/Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training . 1998 to 2005
PI Tidal Constituent Database
Development of a tidal constituent database for the St. Johns River Water Management District. Completed, Dec. 2002
PI Water Usage Analysis
Collection and processing of water pumpage data from utilities for the St. Johns River Water Management District . Completed, Dec. 2001
PI Interdisciplinary Environmental Education Project
Project team included UCF School of Communication (Denise E. DeLorme), UCF Biology Department (I. Jack Stout), and Florida Department of Environmental Protection (Barbara Bess).
Production of a brochure, Internet web site and workshop series to educate homeowners in the Econlockhatchee River Drainage Basin on local water quantity and quality issues. Funding provided by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission . Completed, Dec. 2001
PI Stormwater Modeling Research
Development of a stormwater runoff model for the Big Wekiva River Basin and a stormwater quality model for the Western Hillsboro Basin. Funding provided by Dyer, Riddle, Mills & Precourt Consulting . Completed, June 2001
PI Interdisciplinary Environmental Education Project
Project team included: UCF School of Communication (Denise E. DeLorme and George M. Bagley), UCF Biology Department (I. Jack Stout), UCF Civil and Environmental Engineering (Clarence M. Head), and the Florida Audubon Society (Sandra Bogan, Kristi Rocca, Paul Gray, and Laura Spencer).
Production of a video and Internet web site to educate the public on the benefits of controlled burns. Funding provided by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission . Completed, Dec. 2000
PI Grid Generation Algorithm
In-house grant funding provided by the University of Central Florida Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies . Completed, Dec. 1999
PI Coastal Flood Elevations Research
Project team included: UCF Institute For Simulation & Training (J. Peter Kincaid).
Preliminary study to produce detailed flood elevations for Florida coast. In-house grant funding provided by the University of Central Florida Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies . Completed, Dec. 1998
Co-PI Wetlands Research
Project team included: UCF Civil and Environmental Engineering (John D. Dietz) and UCF Biology Department (I. Jack Stout).
Review of wastewater discharge to wetlands for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection . Completed, Dec. 1998