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X-WR-CALNAME:Special Seminar - Elisabeth Boles's PhD Dissertation Defense:"
 Turbulent Tales from a Rough Coral Reef: Effects of nonuniform roughness o
 n waves\, turbulence\, and scalar fluxes over shallow reefs"
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DESCRIPTION:Coral reefs around the world are at risk due to compounding glo
 bal and local stressors such as overfishing\,pollution\, thermal bleaching
  and ocean acidification. Hydrodynamics play a key role in regulating cora
 l health\, facilitating intake and removal of metabolic compounds\, contro
 lling thermal variability and dispersing coral larvae\,for example. Simult
 aneously\, corals also have influence over their environments. A defining 
 feature of reefs is their remarkably large\, spatially variable and multi-
 scaled roughness. Coral roughness produces frictional effects strong enoug
 h to balance both wave and tidal forcing\, as well as to dissipate incomin
 g wave energy\, which provides crucial storm protection to coastal communi
 ties.\n\nThis dissertation presents results from three years of fieldwork 
 on two adjacent reefs in Palau\, where we sought to understand how corals 
 modify their environments both dynamically and chemically. We first examin
 e how turbulence generated by corals mixes momentum and chemicals througho
 ut the water column. The goal of this work is to improve and expand applic
 ation of non-invasive methods for measuring community production and calci
 fication rates\, which are important indicators of reef health. Next\, we 
 combine modeling and in-situ observations to explore how larger-scale roug
 hness features known as “spurs and grooves” modify wave properties\, e
 nergy dissipation and circulation dynamics\, and discuss the positive feed
 backs that these morphologic features provide for coral resilience. \n\nBo
 b and Norma Street Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory\, Committee: S
 tephen Monismith (advisor)\, Robert Dunbar\, Jeffrey\nKoseff\, Oliver Frin
 ger\, Sanjiva Lele (chair)
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LOCATION:Spilker\, 232
SUMMARY:Special Seminar - Elisabeth Boles's PhD Dissertation Defense:"Turbu
 lent Tales from a Rough Coral Reef: Effects of nonuniform roughness on wav
 es\, turbulence\, and scalar fluxes over shallow reefs"
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/special-seminar-elisabeth-b
 oless-phd-dissertation-defenseturbulent-tales-from-a-rough-coral-reef-effe
 cts-of-nonuniform-roughness-on-waves-turbulence-and-scalar-fluxes-over-sha
 llow-reefs
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Presentation/Talk
CATEGORIES:PhD Defense
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