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Glossary of Coastal Engineering Terms

The following definitions are based on entries from the USACE's comprehensive Glossary of Coastal Terminology.

Index:   A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H   I   J   K   L   M   N   O   P   R   S   T   U   V   W  


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ACCELEROMETER
A device used in wave buoys for measuring acceleration and buoy movement.

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER (ADCP)
A current measuring instrument employing the transmission of high frequency acoustic signals in the water. The current is determined by a Doppler shift in the backscatter echo from plankton, suspended sediment, and bubbles, all assumed to be moving with the mean speed of the water. Time gating circuitry is employed which uses differences in acoustic travel time to divide the water column into range intervals, called bins. The bin determinations allow development of a profile of current speed and direction over the entire water column. The ADCP can be deployed from a moving vessel, tow, buoy, or bottom platform. In the latter configuration, it is nonobtrusive in the water column and thus can be deployed in shipping channels.

AMPLITUDE, WAVE
The magnitude of the displacement of a wave from a mean value. An ocean wave has an amplitude equal to the vertical distance from still-water level to wave crest. For a sinusoidal wave, the amplitude is one-half the wave height.

ASTRONOMICAL TIDE
The tidal levels and character which would result from gravitational effects, e.g. of the Earth, Sun and Moon, without any atmospheric influences.

ATTENUATION
(1) A lessening of the amplitude of a wave with distance from the origin. (2) The decrease of water-particle motion with increasing depth. Particle motion resulting from surface oscillatory waves attenuates rapidly with depth, and practically disappears at a depth equal to a surface wavelength.


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BAR
A submerged or emerged embankment of sand, gravel, or other unconsolidated material built on the sea floor in shallow water by waves and currents.

BASIN, BOAT
A naturally or artificially enclosed or nearly enclosed harbor area for small craft.

BASIN SURGE, ENERGY BASIN
SURGE that occurs within a partially enclosed area such as a man-made harbour or marina.

BATHYMETRY
The measurement of depths of water in oceans, seas, and lakes; also information derived from such measurements.

BIGHT
A bend in a coastline forming an open bay. A bay formed by such a bend.

BOUNDARY CURRENT
A deep ocean current, especially along the western part of the oceans, characterized by sudden changes in temperature and salinity.

BUOY
A float; especially a floating object moored to the bottom. CDIP's buoys are equipped with sensors so that, in addition to floating, they can measure climatological variables such as wave height, swell direction and water temperature.


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CAPILLARY WAVE
A wave whose velocity of propagation is controlled primarily by the surface tension of the liquid in which the wave is traveling. Water waves of length less than about 2.5 cm are considered capillary waves. Waves longer than 2.5 cm and shorter than 5 cm are in an indeterminate zone between capillary and gravity waves.

CHOP
The short-crested waves that may spring up quickly in a moderate breeze, and which break easily at the crest. Also known as WIND CHOP.

CONDUCTIVITY
A measure of the amount of salts dissolved in water.

CREST OF WAVE
(1) the highest part of a wave. (2) That part of the wave above still-water level.

CURRENT, LONGSHORE
The littoral current in the breaker zone moving essentially parallel to the shore, usually generated by waves breaking at an angle to the shoreline.

CURRENT METER
Instrument for measuring the velocity of a current.


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DECAY OF WAVES
The change waves undergo after they leave a generating area (FETCH) and pass through a calm, or region of lighter winds. In the process of decay, the significant wave height decreases and the significant wavelength increases.

DEEP WATER
Water so deep that surface waves are little affected by the ocean bottom. Generally, water deeper than one-half the surface wavelength is considered deep water. Compare SHALLOW WATER.

DEEP WATER WAVES
A wave in water the depth of which is greater than one-half the WAVELENGTH.

DEPTH
The vertical distance from a specified datum to the sea floor.

DIFFRACTION OF WAVES
The phenomenon by which energy is transmitted laterally along a wave crest. When a part of a train of waves is interrupted by a barrier, such as a breakwater, the effect of diffraction is manifested by propagation of waves into the sheltered region within the barrier's geometric shadow.

DIURNAL TIDE
When there is only one high water (flood) and one low water (ebb) in each tidal day.

DOWNWELLING
Downward movement of surface water caused by onshore Ekman transport, converging currents, or when a water mass becomes more dense than the surrounding water.

DP
See PEAK DIRECTION.

DREDGING
Practice of excavating or displacing bottom sediment from one location to another in order to maintain water depth, or aid in beach restoration, construction, flood management and erosion control.


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ECHO SOUNDER
Electronic instrument used to determine the water depth by measuring the time interval between the emission of a sonic or ultrasonic signal and the return of its echo from the bottom.

EKMAN TRANSPORT
Resultant flow at right angles to and to the right of the wind direction (in the northern hemisphere) referred to as UPWELLING and DOWNWELLING.

EL NINO
Warm equatorial water which flows southward along the coast of Peru and Ecuador during February and March of certain years. It is caused by poleward motions of air and unusual water temperature patterns in the Pacific Ocean, which cause coastal downwelling, leading to the reversal in the normal north-flowing cold coastal currents. During many El Nino years, storms, rainfall, and other meteorological phenomena in the Western Hemisphere are measurably different than during non-El Nino years.

ESTUARY
Region near a river mouth in which the fresh water of the river mixes with the salt water of the sea, and which receives both fluvial and littoral sediment influx.

EULARIAN MEASUREMENT
Observation of a current with a device fixed relative to the flow.


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FATHOMETER
Copyrighted trademark for a type of ECHO SOUNDER.

FETCH
The area in which SEAS are generated by a wind having a fairly constant direction and speed.

FOAM LINE
(1) The front of a wave as it advances shoreward, after it has broken. (2) Lines of foam such as those which move around the head of a rip current.

FORECASTING OF WAVES
The theoretical determination of future wave characteristics, usually from observed or predicted meteorological phenomena.

FULLY-DEVELOPED SEA
The waves that form when wind blows for a sufficient period of time across the open ocean. The waves of a fully developed sea have the maximum height possible for a given wind speed, FETCH and duration of wind.


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GAUGE (GAGE)
Instrument for measuring the water level relative to a datum.

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS)
Database of information which is geographically referenced, usually with an associated visualization system.

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM (GPS)
A navigational and positioning system developed by the U.S. Department of Defense, by which the location of a position on or above the Earth can be determined by a special receiver at that point interpreting signals received simultaneously from several of a constellation of special satellites.

GRAVITY WAVE
A wave whose velocity of propagation is controlled primarily by gravity. Water waves more than 5 cm long are considered gravity waves. Waves longer than 2.5 cm and shorter than 5 cm are in an indeterminate zone between CAPILLARY and GRAVITY WAVES.


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HARBOR OSCILLATION (HARBOR SURGING)
The nontidal vertical water movement in a harbor or bay. Usually the vertical motions are low; but when oscillations are excited by a tsunami or storm surge, they may be quite large. Variable winds, air oscillations, or SURF BEAT also may cause oscillations. See SEICHE.

HEAVE
(1) The vertical rise or fall of the waves or the sea. (2) The translational movement of a craft parallel to its vertical axis. (3) The net transport of a floating body resulting from wave action.

HIGH TIDE, HIGH WATER (HW)
Maximum height reached by a rising tide. The height may be solely due to the periodic tidal forces or it may have superimposed upon it the effects of prevailing meteorological conditions. Nontechnically, also called the HIGH TIDE.

HINDCASTING
In wave prediction, the retrospective forecasting of waves using measured wind information.

HS
See SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT.

HYDROGRAPHY
The description and study of seas, lakes, rivers and other waters and the description of the physical properties of those waters; also the science of locating aids and dangers to navigation.


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INCIDENT WAVE
Wave moving landward.

INCLINATION, MAGNETIC
The angle that the geomagnetic field is tilted with respect to the surface of the earth. Magnetic inclination varies from 90 degrees (perpendicular to the surface) at the magnetic poles to 0 (parallel to the surface) at the magnetic equator.

INFRAGRAVITY WAVE, LONG WAVES
Long waves with periods of 30 seconds to several minutes.

IRREGULAR WAVES
Waves with random wave periods (and in practice, also heights), which are typical for natural wind-induced waves.


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JETTY
On open seacoasts, a structure extending into a body of water, which is designed to prevent shoaling of a chanel by littoral materials and to direct and confine the stream or tidal flow. Jetties are built at the mouths of rivers or tidal inlets to help deepen and stabilize a chanel.


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KURTOSIS
The quality, state or condition of peakedness or flatness of the graphic representation of a statistical distribution; or the measure of the peakedness of a frequency distribution.


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LAGRANGIAN MEASUREMENT
Observation of a current with a device flowing with the current.

LONGSHORE
Parallel to and near the shoreline.

LONGSHORE BAR
A sand ridge or ridges, runing roughly parallel to the shoreline and extending along the shore outside the trough, that may be exposed at low tide or may occur below the water level in the offshore.

LOW TIDE (LOW WATER, LW)
The minimum elevation reached by each falling tide. See TIDE.


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MEAN LOWER LOW WATER (MLLW)
The average height of the lower low waters over a 19-year period. For shorter periods of observations, corrections are applied to eliminate known variations and reduce the results to the equivalent of a mean 19-year value. Frequently abbreviated to LOWER LOW WATER.

MEAN SEA LEVEL
The average height of the surface of the sea for all stages of the tide over a 19-year period, usually determined from hourly height readings.

MEAN WAVE HEIGHT
The mean of all individual waves in an observation interval of approximately half an hour. In case of a Rayleigh-distribution 63% of the SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT.

MONOCHROMATIC WAVES
A series of waves generated in a laboratory, each of which has the same length and period.


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NAUTICAL MILE
The length of a minute of arc, 1/21,600 of an average great circle of the Earth. Generally one minute of latitude is considered equal to one nautical mile. The accepted United States value as of 1 July 1959 is 1,852 meters (6,076.115 feet), approximately 1.15 times as long as the U.S. statute mile of 5,280 feet.

NEARSHORE
(1) In beach terminology an indefinite zone extending seaward from the shoreline well beyond the breaker or surf zone. (2) The zone which extends from the SWASH zone to the position marking the start of the offshore zone, typically at water depths of the order of 20 m.


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OCEANOGRAPHY
The study of the sea, embracing and indicating all knowledge pertaining to the sea's physical boundaries, the chemistry and physics of seawater, marine biology, and marine geology.


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PEAK DIRECTION
The WAVE DIRECTION at the frequency at which a wave energy spectrum (WAVE SPECTRUM) reaches its maximum.

PEAK PERIOD
The WAVE PERIOD determined by the inverse of the frequency at which a wave energy spectrum (WAVE SPECTRUM) reaches its maximum.

PIER
A structure, usually of open construction, extending out into the water from the shore, to serve as a landing place, recreational facility, etc., rather than to afford coastal protection. In the Great Lakes, a term sometimes improperly applied to jetties.

PROPAGATION OF WAVES
The transmission of waves through water.


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RANDOM WAVES
The laboratory simulation of irregular sea states that occur in nature.

REFLECTED WAVE
That part of an incident wave that is returned seaward when a wave impinges on a steep beach, barrier, or other reflecting surface.

REFLECTION
The process by which the energy of the wave is returned seaward.

REFRACTION OF WAVES
(1) The process by which the direction of a wave moving in shallow water at an angle to the contours is changed: the part of the wave advancing in shallower water moves more slowly than that part still advancing in deeper water, causing the wave crest to bend toward alinement with the underwater contours. (2) The bending of wave crests by currents.

REGULAR WAVES
Waves with a single height, period, and direction.


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SALINITY
Number of grams of salt per thousand grams of sea water, usually expressed in parts per thousand. Ocean water averages 35 parts per thousand.

SEA, SEAS
Waves caused by wind at the place and time of observation. Seas refer to waves that are actively growing.

SEA STATE
Description of the sea surface with regard to wave action.

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE
The temperature of water at or near the surface of the sea.

SECCHI DISK
Visibilty disk used to measure the transparency of the water.

SEICHE
(1) A standing wave oscillation of an enclosed waterbody that continues, pendulum fashion, after the cessation of the originating force, which may have been either seismic or atmospheric. (2) An oscillation of a fluid body in response to a disturbing force having the same frequency as the natural frequency of the fluid system. Tides are now considered to be seiches induced primarily by the periodic forces caused by the Sun and Moon. (3) In the Great Lakes area, any sudden rise in the water of a harbor or a lake whether or not it is oscillatory (although inaccurate in a strict sense, this usage is well established in the Great Lakes area).

SEMIDIURNAL TIDE
Tidal current is said to be semidiurnal when there are two flood (high water) and two ebb (low water) periods in each tidal day, with each high/low cycle lasting approximately 12.4 hours. This is the predominant type of tide found throughout the world.

SETUP, WAVE
Superelevation of the water surface over normal surge elevation due to onshore mass transport of the water by wave action alone.

SHALLOW WATER
(1) Commonly, water of such a depth that surface waves are noticeably affected by bottom topography. It is customary to consider water of depths less than one-half the surface wavelength as shallow water. (2) More strictly, in hydrodynamics with regard to progressive gravity waves, water in which the depth is less than 1/25 the wavelength.

SHORE NORMAL
A line at right-angles to the bottom contours in the surf zone.

SIGNIFICANT WAVE
A statistical term relating to the one-third highest waves of a given wave group and defined by the average of their heights and periods. Experience indicates that a careful observer who attempts to establish the character of the waves will record values which approximately fit the definition of the significant wave.

SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT
The average height of the one-third highest waves of a given wave group or sample. In spectral analyses (like those applied by CDIP), significant wave height is often estimated as Hmo, 4 times the square root of the total energy ( Hm0 = 4(m0)^.5 ).

SKEWNESS
The quality, state, or condition of being distorted or lacking symmetry; the quality or state of asymmetry shown by a frequency distribution that is bunched on one side of the average and tails out on the other side. It results from lack of coincidence of the mode, median, and arithmetic mean of the distribution.

Also a measure of asymmetry of a frequency distribution; specifically the quotient of the difference between the arithmetic mean and the mode divided by the standard deviation. Positive skewness is defined for the longer slope of the plotted distribution in the direction of increasing variate values (mean greater than mode, or coarser particles exceed finer particles in a particle-size distribution); negative skewness is defined for the longer slope of the plotted distribution in the direction of decreasing variate values (mode greater than mean, or finer particles exceed coarser particles in a particle-size distribution).

SONAR
Acronym for sound navigation and ranging, a method used in oceanography to study the ocean floor.

SST
See SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE.

STORM SURGE
A rise above normal water level on the open coast due to the action of wind stress on the water surface. Storm surge resulting from a hurricane also includes that rise in level due to atmospheric pressure reduction as well as that due to wind stress.

SURF
(1) Breaking waves near the shore. (2) The wave activity in the area between the shoreline and the outermost limit of breakers.

SURF BEAT
Irregular oscillations of the nearshore water level with periods on the order of several minutes.

SURF ZONE
The zone of wave action extending from the water line (which varies with tide, surge, etc.) out to the most seaward point of the zone (breaker zone) at which waves approaching the coastline commence breaking, typically in water depths of between 5 to 10 meters.

SURFACE GRAVITY WAVE (PROGRESSIVE)
(1) The term which applies to the WIND WAVES and SWELL of lakes and oceans, also called a SURFACE WATER WAVE, SURFACE WAVE or DEEP WATER WAVE. (2) A progressive GRAVITY WAVE in which the disturbance is confined to the upper limits of a body of water. Strictly speaking this term applies to those progressive GRAVITY WAVES whose velocity depends only upon the wavelength.

SURGE
(1) The name applied to wave motion with a period intermediate between that of the ordinary wind wave and that of the tide, say from 2 to 60 min. It is low height, usually less than 0.9 m (3 ft). See also SEICHE. (2) see STORM SURGE.

SWASH
The rush of water up onto the beach face following the breaking of a wave.

SWELL
Wind-generated waves that are propagating away or are outside their generating area. Swell characteristically exhibits a more regular and longer period and has flatter crests than waves within their fetch (SEAS).


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THERMOCLINE
A layer in which the temperature decreases significantly (relative to the layers above and below) with depth. The principal ones are designated diurnal, seasonal, and main thermocline.

TIDE
The periodic rising and falling of the water that results from gravitational attraction of the Moon and Sun and other astronomical bodies acting upon the rotating Earth. Although the accompanying horizontal movement of the water resulting from the same cause is also sometimes called the tide, it is preferable to designate the latter as TIDAL CURRENT, reserving the name TIDE for the vertical movement.

TP
See PEAK PERIOD.

TRANSECT
A sample area, cross section, or line chosen as the basis for studying one or more characteristics of a particular assemblage.

TROUGH OF WAVE
The lowest part of a waveform between successive crests. Also, that part of a wave below still-water level.

TSUNAMI
A long-period wave caused by an underwater disturbance such as a volcanic eruption or earthquake. Also SEISMIC SEA WAVE. Commonly miscalled "tidal wave."

TURBIDITY
A condition of a liquid due to fine visible material in suspension which may not be of sufficient size to be seen as individual particles by the naked eye but which prevents the passage of light through the liquid; also the measure of fine suspended matter in liquids.

TURBULENCE
The irregular, random velocity fluctuations within a flowing liquid.


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UPWELLING
The process by which water rises from a deeper to a shallower depth, usually as a result of offshore surface water flow. It is most prominent where persistent wind blows parallel to a coastline so that the resultant Ekman transport moves surface water away from the coast.


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VELOCITY OF WAVES
The speed at which an individual wave advances.


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WATER DEPTH
Distance between the seabed and the still water level.

WAVE
A ridge, deformation, or undulation of the surface of a liquid.

WAVE CLIMATE
The seasonal and anual distribution of wave height, period and direction.

WAVE DIRECTION
The direction from which a wave approaches.

WAVE FREQUENCY
The inverse of wave period.

WAVE HEIGHT
The vertical distance between a crest and the preceding trough. See also SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT.

WAVE PERIOD
The time for a wave crest to traverse a distance equal to one wavelength. The time for two successive wave crests to pass a fixed point.

WAVE ROSE
Diagram showing the long-term distribution of wave height and direction.

WAVE SPECTRUM
In ocean wave studies, a graph, table, or mathematical equation showing the distribution of wave energy as a function of wave frequency. The spectrum may be based on observations or theoretical considerations. Several forms of graphical display are widely used.

WAVE STEEPNESS
The ratio or wave height to wavelength also known as sea steepness.

WAVE TRAIN
A series of waves from the same direction.

WAVELENGTH
The horizontal distance between similar points on two successive waves measured perpendicular to the crest.

WIND ROSE
Diagram showing the long-term distribution of wind speed and direction.

WIND SEA
Wave conditions directly attributable to recent winds, as opposed to swell.

WIND WAVES
(1) Waves being locally formed and built up by the wind; SEAS. (2) Loosely, any wave generated by wind.

Frequently Asked Questions: General Queries



What do Hs values represent?
The wave height (Hs) represents a 30-minute average of the 1/3 highest waves at a sensor. The height is the distance between the trough and the crest of the wave. Statistically, the highest wave during the measurement period is likely to be approximately twice the reported wave height (1.8*Hs).
What are Tp and Dp? Why are there different values given in different products?
The period of waves is the time it takes two consecutive crests to pass a single spot, and the direction is the compass angle (0-360 degrees clockwise from true North) that the waves are coming from. In the ocean, however, no two waves are perfectly identical - they are constantly coming from different directions at different frequencies.

Since there is never just a single direction or period for ocean waves, we can only measure the peak period (Tp) and peak direction (Dp). The peak period is the most common period between consecutive waves, while the peak direction is the most common direction. To come up with these values, all of the wave energy for a station over a specified period of time - approximately 30 minutes, in most cases - is grouped into different bands. For instance, in CDIP's 9-band products, all waves with periods from 6 to 8 seconds go into the 7-second band, those from 8 to 10 secs go into the 9-second band, etc. After all of the wave energy has been divided into these bands, the band with the most energy is selected as the peak band.

The cutoffs between bands, however, are arbitrary, and changing the cutoffs and/or number of bands affects the resulting Tp and Dp values. At CDIP we use two formats for analysis, 9-band and parameter. In the the 9-band products, all of the wave energy is divided into 9 broad bands. In the parameter products, the energy is split into 64 (or 128) narrow bands. As a result, the 9-band Tp and Dp give more general, broad values, while the parameter Tp and Dp identify finer, subtler peaks.

So which Tp/Dp values are better? It depends what you're looking for. For instance, the broad bands of the 9-band values are better for addressing general questions about the sea state (e.g. which is currently predominant - local seas or ground swell?). To pick up more subtle features - like the arrival of long-period swell from a distant storm - the parameters values may be more helpful.

Are your sea temperatures correct? At the beach the lifeguards are reporting 63F, but the buoy says 70F!
There are often big differences between inshore and offshore temperatures due to various phenomena. In the surfzone, for instance, mixing may result in temperatures much colder than in calm surface waters offshore. Our buoys are all located offshore and measure sea surface temperature using a sensor located about 18 inches directly below the buoy.
What causes wave sets?
Very often waves from different parts of a distant storm arrive here at the same time. Their period (or lengths) can be nearly the same size. For a while the crests of the two wave trains begin to coincide. The two trains adding together result in waves that grow bigger. Later, the troughs of one begins to coincide with the crests of the other. The combination wave grows smaller. We see this as a "set" of large waves, followed by an interval of smaller waves. See figure below.
Why are wave heights sometimes underestimated on windy days?
Local winds generate very short-period, high frequency waves, and not all of CDIP's instruments can measure these waves effectively. This is especially true of pressure sensors postioned deep underwater. At Kings Bay, for example, the sensors are mounted at a depth of 55 feet. Due to attenuation, these sensors do not feel high frequency waves, and so on windy days the high frequency energy will not be reflected in the reported Hs.
Why are the times on your buoy data often an hour or more old? Can't the data be more up-to-date?
To determine the wave conditions, you can't simply look at the ocean for a few seconds. Instead, you need to sample data over a long period. For most of CDIP's wave calculations, a data sample of approximately 30 minutes is used. And unlike the NDBC and other data providers who use sample end times on their spectra, CDIP uses sample start times. This means that when we update our site based on a data sample that ended just a few minutes ago, the time assigned to the data - the start time - will already be more than 30 minutes old. For Datawell buoys, at the end of a 30-minute sampling period, the sensor calculates a wave spectrum and starts to transmit it; it's repeatedly sent in 4-minute blocks over the next half-hour. This means that the when a CDIP station updates, the new spectrum will have a time that is at least 35 or 40 minutes old (30 min sample + 4 min transmission + a few minutes to process). But sometimes newly-updated data may have a start time that is up to 1 hour and 10 minutes old; it simply depends on which point in the half-hour cycle the buoy is contacted. (I.e. CDIP only grabs the data from stations once each half-hour, and it may happen that we're grabbing the spectrum near the end of its transmission cycle.)

For a more in depth discussion of wave measurements and standards, we recommend the Coastal Engineering Manual (CEM), published by the United States Army Corps of Engineers' Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory.

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2023-08-04 USCG VADM Gautier visited CDIP and met with James Behrens
2023-08-01 USCG RADM Sugimoto visited CDIP and met with James Behrens
2023-07-20 Ross Timmerman attended a NOAA PORTS (for CA) presentation
2023-06-29 Randy Bucciarelli presented and attended at the Marine Exchange of Southern California centennial celebration
2023-06-20 James Behrens co-presented at NOAA West Watch Webinar with SCCOOS
2023-05-31 James Behrens and Ross Timmerman attended the Louisiana State of the Coast Conference
2023-04-04 Ross Timmerman attended The Ocean Visions Biennial Summit at Georgia Aquarium, Atlanta, GA
2023-03-28 James Behrens presented at the California OSPR Technology Workshop in Tiburon, CA
2023-03-09 CDIP hosted Senator Catherine Blakespear for a lab tour and program briefing
2023-02-14 James Behrens attended Oceanology Intenational Americas in San Diego, CA
2022-11-30 Ross Timmerman attended the San Diego Harbor Safety Committee meeting
2022-11-07 Ross Timmerman attended IOOS Fall meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico
2022-11-04 John Lodise presented at the SIO AOS seminar
2022-11-01 James Behrens presented and Ross Timmerman attended the NOAA West Watch Webinar
2022-10-17 Darren Wright attended DjangoCon 2022, San Diego, CA
2022-09-20 Ross Timmerman and Les Hanson attended the MTS Buoy Workshop in Wilmington, NC. James Behrens presented virtually.
2022-08-15 Grant Cameron, Darren Wright and Rakesh Packonayil John attended UC Tech Conference
2022-08-09 Ross Timmerman attended UCSD CA Climate Initiative presentation
2022-08-01 Darren Wright attended the San Diego Super Computer (SDSC) High Performance Computing (HPC) and Data Science meeting
2022-05-31 COL Bedell from USMC visits CDIP
2022-03-03 John Lodise presented at Ocean Sciences Meeting
2021-11-16 Ross Timmerman virtually attended NOAA Coastal Ocean Modeling seminar
2021-10-22 Grant Cameron, Darren Wright and Rakesh Packonayil John virtually attended DjancoCon US
2021-10-20 Ross Timmerman virtually attended NOAA Precision Navigation Workshop
2021-10-20 Grant Cameron, Darren Wright and Rakesh Packonayil John virtually attended Cybersecurity for Research
2021-10-07 Darren Wright virtually attended Web-Based Research Collaboration and Data Management Platforms
2021-05-01 James Behrens presented at Ocean Visions Coastal Flood Modeling, Prediction, and Observation for US West Coast
2020-08-31 James Behrens made a presentation on CDIP to Jason Golumbfskie-Jones, Fleet Environmental Coordinator for Navy Region Southwest
2020-04-29 James Behrens presented at USACE brownbag seminar, Coastal Data Information Program (CDIP): Measuring Waves for USACE
2019-11-18 Ross Timmerman presented to the Consul General of Mexico regarding Scripps research related to cross-border pollution issues at the Tijuana river estuary
2019-11-11 James Behrens and Sophia Merrifield presented results at the 2nd International Workshop on Waves, Storm Surges, and Coastal Hazards / 16th International Workshop on Wave Hindcasting and Forecasting in Melbourne, Australia:
2019-11-14 Hosted RDML Michael Johnston, USCG for a lab tour and program briefing
2019-11-07 Hosted Rear Admiral Peter Gautier, USCG District 11 Commander, for a lab tour and program briefing
2019-10-16 James Behrens participated in NREL steering committee meeting
2019-10-10 James Behrens participated in filming a BBC documentary that highlighted CDIP
2019-10-07 The Planning and Implementing Resilient Solutions in Coastal California was attended by Ross Timmerman
2019-10-04 CDIP Hosted Captain Mark Nieswiadomy, USN Commanding Officer, Naval Base San Diego, for a lab tour and program briefing.
2019-09-20 Ross Timmerman attends IOOS Fall Meeting in Honolulu, HI
2019-09-16 Ross Timmerman attends Ocean Obs'19 in Honolulu, HI
2019-07-02 Chip Young from PacIOOS visited CDIP to learn more about our wave buoys and operations
2019-06-26 Grant Cameron, Rakesh Packonayil John and Darren Wright attended campus LISA which connects IT staff for a full day of hands on learning, workshops and presentations
2019-06-18 Grant Cameron and Rakesh Packonayil John attended UC Davis cyber security conference in Davis, CA
2019-06-14 Senator Toni Atkins, representative of district 39, visited SIO and made a stop at our CDIP lab
2019-06-12 Victor Aguilar traveled to Nome, Alaska to assist with deploying CDIP buoy stn 241 - a collaborative with Alaska Observing System (AOOS)
2019-05-06 Grant Cameron, Darren Wright and Rakesh Packonayil John attended Google IO annual developer conference in Mountain View, CA
2019-03-11 James Behrens attended the IEEE/OES Twelfth Currents, Waves, Turbulence Measurement and Applications Workshop, and presented “CDIP: Maintaining a Robust and Reliable Ocean Observing Buoy Network”
2019-02-25 CDIP hosted a booth at the Oceanology International Americas conference in San Diego, and James Behrens gave a presentation on CDIP
2019-02-19 US Rep Mike Levin (CA-49) visited CDIP to learn about our wave monitoring and forecasting efforts
2019-02-05 US Army Corps of Engineers and CDIP meeting at SIO
2019-01-31 Julie Thomas retires after 40+ years as program manager from CDIP. Julie will be staying on as a volunteer with CDIP and also serving on the NOAA Advisory Hydrographic Research Panel
2018-11-02 The Hokulea Crew from Hawaii visited SIO to learn about some of the programs that provide real time ocean observations
2018-10-14 CDIP Programmers Grant Cameron, Darren Wright, Rakesh Packonayil John and Sarah Heim attended Djangocon San Diego, CA
2018-08-27 Julie Thomas attending Hydrographic Survey Research Panel meeting in Juneau, AK
2018-08-23 CDIP hosted a visit by Lauren Freeman and Robert Hopkins form the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport, RI
2018-08-10 Julie Thomas met with Henry Ruhl, CeNCOOS Executive Director
2018-08-01 Julie Thomas interviews with Channel 8, CBS regarding warm water temperatures in Southern California
2018-07-16 CDIP hosted Saildrone participants
2018-07-12 Sarah Heim acknowledged for her efforts in sustainability with UCSD. https://sustainucsd.org/profiles/
2018-06-27 Grant Cameron, Darren Wright, Rakesh Packonayil John and Sarah Heim attend Campus LISA
2018-06-05 Alexander Tardy and Matthhew Moreland from National Weather Service come to SIO to discuss future collaborative efforts
2018-05-15 James Behrens presented on CDIP at the monthly meeting of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Southwest Section
2018-05-08 Rakesh Packonayil John attends Google I/O Conference at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, CA
2018-04-09 James Behrens attends the 12TH MTS Buoy Workshop in Ann Arbor, MI
2018-03-13 James Behrens presented as a panelist at the California Offshore Wind Industry Summit in Sacramento
2017-12-14 Darren Wright and Randy Bucciarelli flew with the San Diego Coast Guard helicopter to photograph storm damage along the shoreline from the Mexican Border to Dana Point.
2017-09-10 Jim Behrens attends Waves Workshop in Liverpool, UK
2017-08-13 Darren Wright and Sarah Heim attend the Djangocon workshop in Seattle, WA
2017-06-06 Grant Cameron, Darren Wright attended the High Performance GPU Programming and Introduction to Deep Learning Workshop
2017-02-08 Kimball Millikan from University of Hawaii visited
2016-12-12 James Behrens attends American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
2016-09-19 James Behrens, research/development engineer, joins the CDIP team
2016-09-19 Julie Thomas attends Oceans 2016 MTS/IEEE in Monterey, CA
2016-06-27 Rakesh Packonayil John, Information System Analyst, joins the CDIP team
2016-06-02 Darren Wright attended DMAC conference in Silversprings, MD
2016-04-19 Andrew Gray and Victor Aguilar attend the Marine Technology Society Buoy Workshop in Falmouth, MA
2016-04-07 Grant Cameron and Darren Wright attend AWSome Day in Orange County, CA
2016-03-01 Les Hanson attends USACE meeting in Gulfport, MS
2015-08-10 Darren Wright attends the SDSC High-Performance Computing workshop
2015-07-29 Julie Thomas and Eric Terrill host USCG Commandant, Admiral Paul Zukunft
2015-07-20 Darren Wright and Sarah Heim attend Unidata workshop in Colorado
2015-05-26 Darren Wright attends IOOS DMAC at Silversprings, MD
2015-05-15 Coastal Sediments Conference Field trip visit to CDIP
2015-05-12 CDIP hosts Robert Jensen from US Army Corps of Engineers
2015-02-26 CDIP visit from TTI/Vanguard Advance Technology conference executives
2014-10-01 CDIP's first Youtube video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR8yd0_pYYA&feature=youtu.be
2014-09-04 Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Foundation Inc. visit CDIP for tour
2014-08-28 US Navy tours CDIP
2014-08-21 Now you can follow CDIP on facebook for recent news and updates: CDIP's Facebook
2014-07-30 Julie Thomas meets with LA Port vistors at CDIP
2014-06-20 Tobias Ferreira from Brazilian Navy meets with Corey Olfe at CDIP
2014-04-25 Grant Cameron Microsoft Azure Cloud Workshop at SDSC
2014-03-03 Fabio Nascimento from PETROBAS tours CDIP
2014-02-19 Zhiguo He - Visitor from Zhejiang University of China toured CDIP
2013-11-25 Grant Cameron and Sarah Heim attended BigData@ucsd.edu
2013-11-19 Darren Wright attends West Coast Data Network Meeting
2013-10-29 Uggo Ferreira de Pinh from PETROBAS, presentation on Brazilian oceanographic activities at CDIP
2013-10-22 Grace Chang and Craig Jones from Sea Engineering at Santa Cruz visits CDIP September 27, 2013 Mark Bushnell from NOAA visits CDIP
2013-09-27 CDIP visit from Harry Pannekeet and Eric Stoker from Datawell
2013-09-25 Julie Thomas presents at the Oceans'13 MTS/IEEE conference in San Diego, CA
2013-09-23 Ellyn Montgomery from USGS visits CDIP
2013-07-23 Dr. Grant Cameron and Darren Wright attended THREDDS Workshop in Boulder, CO
2013-07-22 Sarah Heim attended COM.GEO(GIS)conference
2013-05-28 Darren Wright attended H20 conference
2013-05-27 Sarah Heim attended O'Reilly Fluent conference
2013-05-16 Darren attended Google IO virtually
2013-03-18 Corey Olfe and Randy Bucciarelli host CDIP lab tour for Vice Admiral Copeman's visit to Scripps
2013-03-04 Julie Thomas and Chris Cohen in Washington DC for congressional visits
2013-01-09 Julie Thomas attended Port of Long Beach meeting regarding wave data expansion
2012-12-03 Julie Thomas attended American Geophysical Union Fall 2012
2012-09-26 Julie Thomas attended Harbor Safety Committee Meeting
2012-09-20 Kathleen Ritzman and Julie Thomas met with Office of Management and Budget, Energy and Water.
2012-09-20 Julie Thomas and the National Federation Regional Association Executive Committee met with Dr. Jane Luchenko, Director of NOAA.
2012-09-18 Julie Thomas attended the Ocean Observing Initiative Operations and Maintenance meeting, Washington DC.
2012-09-05 Julie Thomas attended the Interagency Ocean Observing Committee Data Management Steering Team meeting, Washington DC.
2012-08-30 Roberto Garcia from Pt Mugu Naval Weather Station visited CDIP.
2012-08-22 Julie Thomas and Danielle Williams (SCCOOS) visited Ocean Institute to discuss further collaboration, Dana Point, CA.
2012-08-02 Randy Bucciarelli hosted Birch Aquarium Summer camp for tour of facilities.
2012-07-30 CDIP/SCCOOS hosted Dr. Rober Staffin, the Director for Basic Research in the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Laboratories and Basic Sciences, for tour of facilities.
2012-07-19 Randy Bucciarelli hosted Birch Aquarium Summer camp for a tour of facilities.
2012-07-17 Grant Cameron attended the CyberNexus Network Security Lab at SAIC.
2012-06-27 Darren Wright attended the Google IO conference (and brought home some great swag!).
2012-06-26 Grant Cameron attended UCSD Network I certification class.
2012-06-22 CDIP/SCCOOS hosted staff of State Assembly Representative Nathan Fletcher for a tour of facilities.
2012-03-15 Grant Cameron attended National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC) ISO metadata standards webinar.
2012-03-13 Julie Thomas attended Scripps Safety Meeeting.
2012-03-01 Grant Cameron attended National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC) ISO metadata standards webinar.
2012-02-27 Julie Thomas and Chris Cohen attended the IOOS meeting in DC. Many Hill visits and a meeting at OMB were also included.
2012-02-20 Julie Thomas attended 2012 Ocean Sciences meeting in Salt Lake City.
2012-01-28 CDIP/SCCOOS hosted Jenifer Rhodes from the IOOS Program Office.
2012-01-27 CDIP Programming team met with Norm Hall from NODC.
2012-01-25 CDIP hosted meeting with USACE Program Managers, Bill Birkemeier and Bob Jensen.
2012-01-16 Julie Thomas attended IOOS/CDIP meeting in DC.
2012-01-10 Julie Thomas attended Scripps Safety Meeting.
2011-12-07 Corey Olfe presented on wave measurement and surf forecasting at Qualcomm to members of their surfing listserv.
2011-11-09 CDIP hosted Captain Monroe and Commander Hinz.
2011-09-09 Julie Thomas met with Leslie Rosenfeld in San Diego.
2011-08-31 Julie Thomas presented to Weatherbug.
2011-08-29 Julie Thomas met with Zdenka Willis in San Diego.
2011-08-19 CDIP hosted visit by Toni Atkins, State Assembly in California's 76th District.
2011-08-10 Julie Thomas attended Scripps Diving Control Board Meeting.
2011-08-04 CDIP hosted a visit by Michael Huber, DOD. Focused on Coastal Marines Spatial Planning.
2011-07-21 Julie Thomas and Randy Bucciarelli attend Scripps Lifeguard Tower Opening.
2011-07-16 Darren Wright and Grant Cameron attend SANS web application security class.
2011-07-11 Julie Thomas met with University of Hawaii, Mark Merrifield and team.
2011-06-16 CDIP hosted a meeting with Alex Tardy, from the NWS, San Diego
2011-06-07 CDIP hosted a meeting with BakerAECOM & Ocean Weather Inc.
2011-05-26 CDIP hosted a meeting with Jennifer Austin from Google.
2011-05-25 Julie Thomas attended the H2O conference in San Diego.
2011-05-24 Julie Thomas participated in the USC Sea Grant Federal Review panel.
2011-05-06 Corey presented CDIP to the UCSD Alumni.
2011-04-29 Julie Thomas, Kathleen Ritzman and Bill O'Reilly presented to the USACE Institute of Water Resources at Ft Belvoir .
2011-04-25 Julie Thomas attended multiple meetings regarding the maritime industry in Washington DC. Among those attended were the American Pilots Association, Commercial shipping, Coast Guard, Marine Transportation System and Public Port Authorities.
2011-04-13 Julie Thomas met with Kathy Weldon from the City of Encinitas.
2011-04-12 Julie Thomas attended the SIO Safety Meeting.
2011-04-07 Julie Thomas and David Castel met with Senator Murray's office, and Rep Beutler's offic.
2011-04-06 Julie Thomas attended multiple meetings with the Portland NWS, Astoria Coast Guard and the Columbia River Bar Pilots.
2011-03-24 CDIP hosted a visit from Rodney Riley from NDBC.
2011-03-23 Julie Thomas presented at the San Diego Harbor Safety meeting.
2011-03-18 Julie Thomas attended a workshop at Ocean Institute in Dana Point.
2011-03-02 Julie Thomas met with Jim Eckman and fellow co-workers at the Sea Grant office.
2011-02-22 Julie Thomas attended the Alliance for Coastal Technologies workshop in St Petersburg, FL.
2011-02-16 Julie Thomas and Amanda hosted Dale Keifer from USC.
2011-02-07 Julie Thomas attended CDIP and SCCOOS advocacy meetings in Washington DC.
2011-02-03 Julie Thomas and David presented to Clean Seas and other interested parties at their Carpenteria Office.
2011-01-28 Corey Olfe hosted students from North Island Weather Office at CDIP.
2011-01-26 Julie Thomas participated in the Scripps Safety Meeting.
2011-01-20 Julie Thomas presented at the CMANC meeting held at Marine Del Rey.
2010-12-13 CDIP participated in NDBC's Director Helmut Portmann's visit to Scripps.
2010-12-07 Julie Thomas and Amanda Dillon visited USC Sea Grant to discuss further collaboration.
2010-12-03 Brian Aldrich from the San Francisco Aids to Navigation visited CDIP. In the afternoon, Julie Thomas participated in an event for Sally Yozell, Chief of Staff for Jane Lubchenko. Sally Yozell presented NOAA's Ocean Policy.
2010-11-15 Julie Thomas attended the NFRA/IOOS meeting in Washington DC.
2010-11-09 Julie Thomas participated in a meeting at Sausalito, hosted by Robin Blanchfield with the Coastal Commission. Purpose was to discuss observations with the California Coastal waters.
2010-11-03 Julie Thomas participated in a visit to Camp Pendleton, hosted by General Jackson.
2010-10-27 Julie Thomas and Lisa Hazard participated in the Climate meeting at USC.
2010-10-23 CDIP participated in Bob Guza's outreach and education day of hosting students from the Ocean Institute at Scripps. October 18, 2010 Julie Thomas and Darren Wright met with Debbie Zmarzly at the Scripps Aquarium to discuss a future ocean energy exhibit.
2010-10-14 Julie Thomas and Heather Kerkering attended the San Francisco Harbor Safety Committee meeting in Hercules. After the meeting, they participated in a luncheon for Dave Kennedy, Director of NOS.
2010-10-13 Julie Thomas attended the Scripps Diving Control Board meeting.
2010-10-07 Julie Thomas attended the SANDAG meeting in San Diego.
2010-09-16 Roberto Garcia from Pt Mugu visited CDIP.
2010-09-09 Julie Thomas participated in the visit from Raytheon at Scripps.
2010-09-07 Julie Thomas attended the California World Ocean 2010 Conference in San Francisco.
2010-09-03 Bill O'Reilly, Michele Okihiro, Corey Olfe and Julie Thomas met with AECOM/FEMA to discuss upcoming proposed projects.
2010-09-01 Julie Thomas attended the NWS Marine Users Group Workshop in San Francisco.
2010-09-01 Julie Thomas and David Castel met with USACE Michael Dillabough and Ken Danielson at the Sausalito Facility.
2010-08-30 Julie Thomas met with Jim Haussener, the Director of CMANC.
2010-08-26 Julie Thomas met with USACE personnel, Susie Ming, Mo Chang, and Scott John to discuss customizing CDIP products for the Corps.
2010-08-17 Julie Thomas was highlighed in a Podcast for the Ocean Observing System. http://sccoos.org/news.html#October2010
2010-08-11 Julie Thomas and Heather Kerkering from CeNCOOS attended the US Coast Guard ceremony at Treasure Island for the new Commander of the San Francisco District.
2010-08-03 Julie Thomas met with Molly McCammon and Carl Schoch from AOOS regarding the deployment of a wave buoy in the Cook Inlet.
2010-07-29 Amanda Dillon and Julie Thomas met with Monique Myers from Sea Grant, Dan Cayan and Sam Iacobellis to discuss further collaboration.
2010-07-26 Randy Bucciarelli and Julie Thomas hosted Kathy Weldon and the City of Enginitas GIS coordinator and intern Sean O'Grady.
2010-07-22 Julie Thomas attended the Harmful Algae Bloom Workshop at the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project (SCCWRP).
2010-07-19 Chris Cohen attended the Marine Protected Area Workshop in Santa Barbara, CA.
2010-07-15 Army Corps Program Review, Scripps.
2010-07-14 Julie Thomas and Randy Bucciarelli hosted Major General Jackson's visit to CDIP.
2010-07-13 Julie Thomas , Dick Seymour, Michele Okihiro and Bob Guza attended the Army Corps/NOAA Waves and Water Level Meeting held at Scripps.
2010-07-09 Julie Thomas performed a pre-site survey for the proposed CDIP buoy deployment in the Cook Inlet, Alaska.
2010-07-07 Julie Thomas attended an Ocean Observing System Data Management meeting in Alaska.
2010-06-29 Julie Thomas attended the Transportation Research Board in Irvine, CA.
2010-06-22 Julie Thomas attended SCCOOS and CDIP meetings in Washington DC, including meeting with the US Coast Guard.
2010-06-11 Julie Thomas attended briefing from Marcia McNutt,USGS on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill at Scripps.
2010-06-09 Julie Thomas attended the SCCOOS Joint Strategic Advisory Committee meeting in Dana Point, CA.
2010-06-03 Julie Thomas and Michele Okihiro attended the SANDAG meeting.
2010-05-27 Chris Cohen and Julie Thomas met with Brian Miller from Representative Gallegly's office at Pt Mugu.
2010-05-26 CDIP/SCCOOS hosted Leslie Rosenfeld to discuss product development.
2010-05-25 Julie Thomas participated in the Industry and IOOS Workshop held at Scripps.
2010-05-07 Chris Cohen and Julie Thomas met with Liz Whiteman in Los Angeles to discuss further collaboration with the Marine Protected Areas.
2010-05-03 CDIP hosted John Hoyt and his co-workers from David Taylor Modeling.
2010-04-29 Julie Thomas attended the OPC-SCOOP meeting in Moss Landing to discuss furthering the visibility of the Ocean Observing Systems within the State of California.
2010-04-01 Julie Thomas attended the SCCOOS Joint Science Committee meeting in Santa Barbara, CA.
2010-03-29 Julie Thomas and David Castel attended the USACE LIDAR meeting in Duck, North Carolina.
2010-03-25 Julie Thomas met with NOAA PORTS in Silver Springs, MD.
2010-03-22 Julie Thomas and Lisa Hazard attended the IOOS Regional Data Management Workshop in Silver Springs, MD.
2010-03-08 Along with Heidi and Rod Moritz, visited General McMahon in Portland, Oregon. Topic of discussion was wave climate in the Northwest.
2010-03-04 Julie Thomas attended the San Diego Area Committee and SCCOOS USCG web training seminar.
2010-02-23 Julie Thomas attended the Ocean Sciences meeting in Portland. With NDBC Richard Bouchard, visited the Portland NWS office.
2010-02-16 Julie Thomas and Chris Cohen attended the NFRA Board meeting in DC. Also met with USACE Jeff and Linda Lillycrop, NOAA IOOS office to discuss metrics and NOAA PORTS.
2010-02-04 Julie Thomas attended the SANDAG meeting
2010-02-01 Darren Wright, Andre Doria, Julie Thomas flew with the San Diego Coast Guard helicopter to photograph storm damage along the shoreline from the Mexican Border to Dana Point.
2010-01-14 Julie Thomas met with Ralph Rayner, Consortium of Ocean Leadership to discuss the upcoming Small Sea Changes Workshop in June to be held at Scripps.
2010-01-12 Dick Seymour and Julie Thomas attended the USACE/PacIOOS meeting in San Francisco to discuss waves and water level observations in the Pacific Ocean.
2010-01-09 Julie Thomas presented to visitors from China who were interested in wave buoy deployments.
2010-01-05 Bill O'Reilly, Michele Okihiro and Julie Thomas attend a meeting at the Los Angeles Army Corps to discuss collaboration on future projects in 2010 and 2011.
2009-12-15 Julie Thomas and Darren Wright met with Captain Goben from the Hornblower to present the newly released San Diego Harbor site.
2009-12-10 CDIP and SCCOOS hosted Middle Schools students from Long Beach who were interested in Habitat Monitoring.
2009-12-04 Julie Thomas attended Thomas Muschamp's promotion to Chief Warrant Officer 3 at Miramar Air Stations. Congratulations Thomas!
2009-12-03 Michele Okihiro and Julie Thomas attended a local SANDAG meeting.
2009-12-01 Julie Thomas, Chris Cohen and Kathleen Ritzman met with Brian Baird of the California Natural Resources Agency for an update on future projects and funding.
2009-11-30 Julie Thomas attended the California Ocean Protection Council (OPC) meeting and OPC Science Advisory Team meeting at Scripps.
2009-11-06 CDIP hosted a tour by the Navy North Island Weather Service.
2009-11-05 Julie Thomas attended the IOOS/USACE meeting in Pacifica.
2009-11-01 CDIP hosted visit by Harry Pannekeet and Annette from Datawell.
2009-10-17 Julie Thomas attended Ocean '09 MTS/IEEE in Biloxi. Presentations were given on behalf of SCCOOS on maritime transportation and water quality alongshore transport.
2009-10-23 Norm Hall from NODC visited CDIP to discuss future archiving of data.
2009-10-21 Robert Weir from NDBC visited CDIP.
2009-10-20 Julie Thomas attended the Joint Strategic Advisory Meeting in Oakland for SCCOOS.
2009-10-14 Julie Thomas met with General Temple and Charlie Chesnutt from the USACE.
2009-10-13 Julie Thomas represented SCCOOS on a Strategic Planning and Government Relations trip to DC.
2009-10-09 Bill O'Reilly presented to SCCWRP on the HB06 data and surfzone currents.
2009-10-06 Julie Thomas participated in the West Coast Governors Agreement meeting focusing on ocean energy and marine spatial planning.
2009-10-02 Julie Thomas and Darren presented at the San Diego County Marine Safety Group to discuss the newly released CDIP themes "Lifeguard" website.
2009-09-30 Julie Thomas attended a meeting that included representatives from the Army Corps of Engineers, the Ocean Protection Council, CeNCOOS and the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission to discuss future collaboration.
2009-09-29 Julie Thomas and Amanda Dillon attended the California Water Quality Monitoring Council meeting at SCCWRP in Orange County, CA.
2009-09-24 After the Mouth of the Columbia River buoy deployment, Brett Pickering and Julie Thomas met with numerous stakeholders in the Oregon and Washington area.
2009-09-23 Julie Thomas presented at the San Diego Harbor Safety Committee Meeting.
2009-09-17 Bill O'Reilly and Julie Thomas met with Phil Roberts from Chapel Hill, NC to discuss pathogens in the surfzone.
2009-09-17 Chris Cohen attended the Ocean Protection Council meeting in San Francisco.
2009-09-17 Chris Cohen attended the West Coast Governors Ocean Policy meeting in San Francisco.
2009-09-15 Julie Thomas, Eric Terrill, Chris Cohen and Kathleen Ritzman met with Steve Gallagher from NOAA to discuss IOOS.
2009-09-10 Julie Thomas attended the Harbor Safety Committee meeting in Oakland, CA.
2009-09-10 Julie Thomas attended a meeting at the Exploratorium in San Francisco to discuss real-time exhibits.
2009-09-08 Randy Bucciarelli and Julie Thomas attended a meeting at the City of Solana Beach to discuss available survey products.
2009-08-31 Julie Thomas attended a meeting at the Port of Portland office to discuss purchase of a MCR outer buoy.
2009-08-27 Julie Thomas attended the NFRA meeting in Seattle
2009-08-24 Julie Thomas met with Brad Colman from the Seattle NWS.
2009-08-24 Julie Thomas met with Christian Mening at PMEL, Seattle to discuss their newly purchased Datawell Buoy.
2009-08-24 Grant Cameron attended a SCCOOS organized workshop to install the NDBC SOS server.
2009-08-21 Randy Bucciarelli hosted Dan Reinman from Congressmen Farr's office at CDIP.
2009-08-20 Julie Thomas attended a meeting at NOAA PORTS in Silver Spring to discuss displaying CDIP wave data on the PORTS site.
2009-08-18 Julie Thomas attended a 2 day workshop at the IOOS Program Office in Silver Spring, MD to help plan for the future of DMAC.
2009-08-04 Chris Cohen, Libe Washburn and Julie Thomas attended a half day seminar at the Los Angeles/Oxnard NWS.
2009-08-04 Randy Bucciarelli hosted Birch Aquarium Summer Camp for a tour of CDIP facilities and research activities.
2009-07-28 Julie Thomas accompanied Kathleen Ritzman to DC. They made numerous visits to Senate, House and OMB.
2009-07-22 Julie Thomas attended the NOAA Science Advisory meeting in Long Beach , CA. She was invited as a panel speaker for Maritime Transportation.
2009-07-15 Bill O'Reilly and Julie Thomas attended the National Weather Service sponsored meeting in Encinitas regarding the Southern California Rip Current Research Project for Beach Safety.
2009-07-07 Randy Bucciarelli hosted Birch Aquarium Summer Camp for a tour of CDIP facilities and research activities.
2009-07-01 Richard Seymour spoke with the media concerning strong offshore currents that were noted by divers at the La Jolla Canyon.
2009-06-29 Doug Ramsayer, Robert Lawson and Jim Kear from SAIC visited CDIP and SCCOOS.
2009-06-24 David Castel, Adam Young and Julie Thomas presented at the California Shoreline and Beach Perservation Association in Pacifica, CA.
2009-06-18 Julie Thomas and David Castel attended the Mouth of the Columbia River Buoy System meeting in Ilwaco, WA.
2009-06-16 David Castel and Julie Thomas attended the JALCBTX Bathymetric LIDAR Meeting in Portland, OR.
2009-06-09 Julie Thomas, Darren Wright and Joseph Sirard (NWS) met with Tom Rutter of the Calalina Express in San Pedro.
2009-06-05 CDIP hosted a one-day site review with the USACE at Scripps.
2009-06-04 Michele Okihiro attended the SANDAG meeting in San Diego.
2009-06-03 Dick Seymour and Julie Thomas attended the USACE CERB meeting in San Diego.
2009-06-02 CDIP and SCCOOS hosted Zdenka Willis, IOOS Program Director at Scripps.
2009-05-27 Darren Wright attended the Google I/O Developer Conference in San Francisco.
2009-05-27 Julie Thomas attended the SCCOOS Executive Steering Committee Meeting.
2009-05-22 Bill O'Reilly and Julie Thomas attended a meeting at Coastwatch in Dana Pt.
2009-05-22 Bill O'Reilly and Julie Thomas attended a meeting with George Robertson at the Orange County Sanitation Department.
2009-05-14 Lisa Hazard and Julie Thomas attended a meeting at the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project to discuss the SCCOOS HABS website and data management.
2009-05-11 Bill O'Reilly and Julie Thomas attended the JCOMM Inter Buoy Measurement Meeting at Scripps.
2009-05-06 Bill O'Reilly, Steve Ramp, Heather Kerkering, Troy Nicolini and Julie Thomas attended a meeting at the Monterey National Weather Service office, hosted by Dave Reynolds. Meeting was held to discuss O'Reilly's models predicting breaking waves on the San Francisco Bar.
2009-04-23 Darren Wright and Randy Bucciarelli participated in the Google workshop held at Scripps.
2009-04-21 Julie Thomas attended the Joint Institute of Marine Observations (JIMO) meeting held at Scripps.
2009-04-20 Benjamin Pister from the National Park Service visited CDIP to discuss how CDIP beach survey data can best help with their data needs.
2009-04-15 Julie Thomas attended an Army Corps of Engineers meeting in Washington, DC.
2009-04-14 Julie Thomas attended the Integrated Ocean Observing System "Small Sea Changes" Workshop in Silver Spring, MD.
2009-04-02 Julie Thomas and Michele Okihiro attended the SANDAG meeting in San Diego, CA.
2009-03-04 Julie Thomas participated in sessions of both the House and Senate, educating legislators about IOOS and CDIP.
2009-03-03 Julie Thomas attended the IOOS NFRA meeting in Washington, DC.
2009-01-29 Julie Thomas presented on the "Role of Ocean Observing Systems for Climate Change Studies" at the Climate Change, Natural Resources and Coastal Management Workshop in San Francisco.
2009-01-15 Julie Thomas and Heather Kerkering from CeNCOOS attended the San Francisco PORTS meeting in Hercules, CA.
2008-12-19 Julie Thomas hosted a visit by Dr. Taerim Kim from South Korea.
2008-12-18 Julie Thomas, David Castel and Randy Bucciarelli attended the Ocean Protection Council meeting in Oakland concerning development of a request for proposal for a statewide LIDAR survey.
2008-12-15 Bob Guza, Bill O'Reilly, Julie Thomas and Marrisa Yates attended the USGS Coastal Hazards meeting in San Francisco, hosted by Patrick Barnard.
2008-12-12 Richard Seymour and Julie Thomas met with Claudio Fassardi from Halcrow to discuss beach processes.
2008-12-08 An oceanography class from the North Island Weather Station toured CDIP with Randy Bucciarelli as their guide.
2008-12-02 Julie Thomas attended the NOAA/IOOS meeting in Baltimore, MD.
2008-12-01 Julie Thomas visited the NOAA Ports Office in Silver Springs, MD along with USACE's Bob Jensen and Bill Birkmeier.
2008-11-21 Julie Thomas presented at the California Ocean Protection Council's public meeting in San Pedro, CA.
2008-11-06 Julie Thomas presented at the Port Hueneme Harbor Safety Committee Meeting and met with the Ventura Harbor Master, Scott Miller.
2008-10-28 Julie Thomas and Darren Wright attended the Headlands to Oceans Conference in Long Beach, CA.
2008-10-26 Michele Okihiro attended the USGS Winter Storms Workshop in Pasadena, CA.
2008-10-16 Julie Thomas and Bill O'Reilly met with Bill Toman of Pacific Gas & Electric and Paul Siri from the California Coastal Conservancy to discuss a future wave energy platform.
2008-09-26 University of California President Mark Yudof visited CDIP.
2008-09-23 Dick Seymour and Julie Thomas attended the US Army Corps of Engineers Civil Engineering Research Board meeting in Portland, OR.
2008-09-12 Marissa Yates has been selected to receive the 2008 American Shore & Beach Preservation Association (ASBPA) Educational Award for her paper "Overview of Seasonal Sand Level Changes on Southern California Beaches" co-authored by Bob Guza, Bill O'Reilly, and Richard Seymour. She will be honored October 16th during ASBPA's national coastal conference in Chicago.
2008-08-16 Randy Bucciarelli presented a Wave Science Interpretation at the Birch Aquarium.
2008-08-15 Julie Thomas met with Mark Jackson of the Oxnard NWS.
2008-08-13 Marty Wilson, a member of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Advisory Council, toured CDIP.
2008-07-28 Julie Thomas presented at the Hydrographic Survey Research Panel in San Francisco.
2008-07-24 Julie Thomas presented to visitors from Google, followed by their brief tour and discussion of CDIP.
2008-07-20 Grant Cameron attended the UC Computing Services Conference at UC Santa Barbara.
2008-07-18 Julie Thomas presented to Steve Juarez of UCOP.
2008-07-01 CDIP welcomed a visit by Representative Duncan Hunter's Legislative Director, Lorissa Bounds.
2008-06-30 Bob Guza presented "Beach Safety" at the SDGE Construction Services Department "Safety Stand Down".
2008-06-18 David Castel and Julie Thomas attended the Q20 Workshop at Woods Hole.
2008-06-17 David Castel and Julie Thomas met with Professor Doug Vandemark at the University of New Hampshire.
2008-06-05 Julie Thomas presented CDIP's inundation study at the San Diego Focus 2050 Stakeholder Workshop sponsored by the San Diego Foundation.
2008-06-05 Michele Okihiro attended the SANDAG presentation in Encinitas addressing beach nourishment projects on local beaches.
2008-05-29 CDIP hosted a visit by Moffat & Nicols and SANDAG to discuss San Diego shoreline studies.
2008-04-23 Senator Dianne Feinstein's staff visited CDIP.
2008-04-17 Julie Thomas presented at the Area Committee Meeting in Long Beach.
2008-04-03 Michele Okihiro and Julie Thomas attended the SANDAG meeting in San Diego, CA.
2008-04-01 Ray Tsuneyoshi and Kim Sterrett from the California Department of Boating and Waterways visited CDIP.
2008-04-01 Adam Young, a post-doctoral researcher at SIO using LIDAR and other methods to detect and predict changes in coastal bluffs in San Diego County and beyond, gave a guided tour of the Scripps Bluffs.
2008-03-21 Denise Olaguer from the City of Solana Beach and Les Reed of Geotechnical Exploration, Inc. visited CDIP.
2008-03-17 Julie Thomas attended and presented at the IEEE Current Measurement Technology Conference.
2008-03-14 Julie Thomas presented a poster at the American Academy of Underwater Sciences Symposium, San Diego, CA.
2008-02-26 Julie Thomas attended and presented at the IOOS/OGC workshop in Stennis, MS.
2008-02-06 Julie Thomas attended and presented at the IOOS Grantee Workshop in Charleston, SC.
2008-02-04 Bill O'Reilly and Julie Thomas attended a discussion group at the California Coastal Conservancy in Oakland, CA. Subject discussed was IOOS' collaboration with PORTS.
2008-02-04 Julie Thomas presented at NOAA/PORTS in Silver Spring, MD and discussed future collaboration for display of CDIP wave data on NOAA PORTS site.
2008-02-01 Julie Thomas met with Captain Tom Jacobsen from Jacobsen Pilots in Long Beach, CA to discuss development of integrated currents and waves website. IOOS' involement in the HSRP was also discussed.
2008-01-23 Bill O'Reilly attended and presented at the Ocean Observing Initiative (OOI) meeting held at Scripps.
2008-01-18 Julie Thomas and Heather Kerkerling (CENCOOS) met with George Domurat, Peter Mull and Steve Chesser at the USACE San Francisco office to discuss operations of the San Francisco Bar Buoy, and how the USACE can best make use of the buoy's data.
2008-01-17 Bill O'Reilly attended the Oil Spill Response Meeting at the State Coastal Conservancy in Oakland, CA.
2008-01-16 Bill O'Reilly and Julie Thomas met with Matt Arrott from CALIT2 regarding the role of modeling in future technology development.
2008-01-16 A meeting took place at SIO with Kim Sterret, Ron Flick, Bob Guza, Bill O'Reilly and Julie Thomas to discuss the future expansion of CDIP/SCBPS, including additional available products.
2008-01-09 Chad Lauffer, Lab Director of the Amphibious Vehicle Test Branch at Camp Pendleton, visited CDIP to discuss calibration and future data integration of their Datawell Buoys.
2007-12-13 Bob Guza, Bill O'Reilly and Julie Thomas met with representatives from the USGS in San Francisco to discuss future collaboration on work concerning coastal hazards for Southern California.
2007-12-07 A representative of Congresswoman Susan Davis' office visited CDIP.
2007-12-05 Julie Thomas and Darren Wright attended the Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor safety Committe Meeting in Long Beach, CA. Afterwards they met with Vic Schisler from Jacobsen Pilot Service to discuss their Pilot operations and how to best integrate CDIP wave/SCCOOS current data.
2007-11-13 Visit to CDIP by Navy Strike Group Oceanography Team. Bill O'Reilly and Lisa Hazard spoke about CDIP and SCCOOS.
2007-11-09 Julie Thomas, Bill O'Reilly, and Bob Guza met with Coastal Conservancy staff in Oakland to discuss ongoing and future projects.
2007-11-08 Randy Bucciarrelli hosted Navy from North Island Weather Office here at Scripps.
2007-10-22 Julie Thomas attend IOOS/NFRA meeting in St. Petersburg, FL.
2007-10-17 Bob Guza presented "The future of California Beaches" at the California Council on Science and Technology Board meeting in Irvine, Ca.
2007-10-02 Bob Guza and Julie Thomas met with Admiral Gove (Oceanographer of the Navy) to discuss the Navy's use of CDIP products.
2007-09-28 Julie Thomas attended luncheon with Dr. Geraldine Knatz, Director of the Port of Los Angeles here at Scripps.
2007-09-24 Julie Thomas attended the IOOS Marine Domain Awareness Summitt in Washington DC.
2007-09-20 Gerry Wheaton, NOAA Survey, visited CDIP to discuss future integration of CDIP wave data with the Ports and Harbors.
2007-09-14 CDIP and SCCOOS met with representatives from the Coast Guard, NOAA, Pilot and Ferry Operators at the Marine Exchange to discuss combining web products for the LA/LB harbor.
2007-09-13 Bill O'Reilly and Julie Thomas attended the Harbor Safety Committee Meeting in Oakland, CA.
2007-09-11 Julie Thomas attended the 4th Annual California Climate Change Research Conference.
2007-08-08 CDIP/USACE meetings took place to discuss present and future CDIP/SCBPS/PILOT projects.
2007-08-07 Bob Guza, Julie Thomas, Dick Seymour, Bill Birkemeier (USACE), Jack Davis (USACE) and Bob Jensen (USACE) met with Kathleen Ritzman and Chris Cohen to discuss future Federal funding.
2007-08-06 Bob Guza and Julie Thomas attended the CEOA Role of Industry symposium in La Jolla, CA.
2007-08-05 Julie Thomas attended the CEOA reception at the SIO Aquarium.
2007-08-04 Julie Thomas accompanied Scripps, National Fisheries and Congressional Representatives on the David Starr of Jordan as part of the CEOA event.
2007-07-23 Julie Thomas attended the Coastal Zone meeting in Portland, OR to discuss future inundation and sea level rise projects. NOAA/CSC, USGS and the Coastal Conservancywere represented at the meeting.
2007-07-17 Bill O'Reilly attended a planning meeting in Stennis, MS for the USACE/NOAA Wave Plan.
2007-07-12 Julie Thomas attended the SANDAG meeting in San Diego, CA.
2007-07-12 Andrew Gale represented CDIP at the Climate Change workshop for the city of San Diego.
2007-07-03 Bob Guza and Julie Thomas attended a meeting at SIO with the Coastal Conservancy to discuss future applications of climate change for Coastal Managers.
2007-06-25 Bill O'Reilly, David Castel and Julie Thomas attended a multi-agency meeting in San Francisco to discuss the location and logistics for the proposed San Francisco Bar Buoy.
2007-06-12 Julie Thomas attended the SCCOOS Senior Advisory Committee Meeting and the Board of Govenors Meeting.
2007-06-06 CDIP and the Los Angeles district USACE met to discuss upcoming projects in southern California.
2007-06-05 La Jolla Elementary School visited CDIP to learn more about waves and beaches.
2007-05-23 Dr. Richard Seymour spoke on KBPS radio about sand replenishment at Imperial Beach.
2007-05-03 Julie Thomas attended the quarterly San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) meeting.
2007-04-25 Bill O'Reilly, Dick Seymour and Julie Thomas attended the California Shoreline Beach and Preservation Association Workshop in Pacifica, CA. Workshop focus was on marine data and retrieval.
2007-04-16 Bob Guza attended the Ocean Protection Council meeting in Monterey, Ca.
2007-04-12 Julie Thomas attended the PISCO Workshop in Monterey. The workshop focused on numerical model development and physical oceanographic indices at ecologically relevant scales.
2007-03-30 Thanks to the Coast Guard Air Station, San Diego, Marissa Yates and Darren Wright participated in a flight from La Jolla to Dana Point. During the flight, both still and video pictures were obtained.
2007-03-26 CDIP visit by Brad Guay, Branch Chief of USACE Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Field Data Collection and Analysis Branch, Vicksburg, Mississippi.
2007-03-08 Mission Bay buoy drifts offsite and is recovered with assistance from Vessel Assist San Diego.
2007-03-07 Bill O'Reilly and Julie Thomas attended the NOAA sponsored Alliance for Coastal Technologies (ACT) Workshop in St. Petersburg, Fl.
2007-02-19 Julie Thomas met with Kathryn Schubel from the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach. The Aquarium will open an exhibit on waves, beach, surf and surfing in May, 2007. They will display one of the CDIP buoys and also display select web pages from the CDIP website.
2007-02-14 Julie Thomas and David Castel attended the USGS National LIDAR Initiative meeting in Reston, VA.
2007-02-08 Julie Thomas met with Zdenga Willis, the new Program Director for the NOAA IOOS office. Several issues were discussed concerning multi-agency collaboration.
2007-01-27 Julie Thomas hosted the National Ocean Science Bowl high school students at CDIP.
2007-01-25 Julie Thomas attended a meeting with President Dynes, hosted by Robi Garcia at the Geophysics Branch of the Pt. Mugu Naval Air Systems Command center. Libe Washburn on behalf of SCCOOS, Surfline and the Ventura Sanitation Department also attended the meeting. Meeting focus was centered upon discussions of UC interaction with the military and private enterprise.
2007-01-17 Dr. Reinhard Flick and Julie Thomas gave a presentation and tour of the CDIP facility to students from Construction Tech Academy in Kearny Mesa. The session focused on how trigometric functions are used in developing CDIP's wave models.
2006-12-08 Bob Guza & Julie Thomas described CDIP work in waves, beach erosion, and nearshore circulation to UC President Dynes and UC Regents Blum and Schilling.
2006-12-07 Bill O'Reilly presented his lagoon-subcell hypothesis to SANDAG. In this conceptual model, the Oceanside (and other Southern California) littoral cells are divided into subcells by lagoons that interupt alongshore sand transport.
2006-11-25 Julie Thomas and David Castel visited the Datawell Production Plant in Holland. Discussions centered around the new CDIP calibration facility.
2006-11-17 To help manage a large sewage diversion in Santa Monica Bay planned for late November, CDIP scientists developed a webpage with nowcasts of surfzone alongshore currents. http://cdip.ucsd.edu/models/lac/LAoutfall.html
2006-11-05 Julie Thomas attended the NFRA and COTS Workshop in Chicago. Much discussion occurred about how to improve interaction between the IOOS Regional Associations and the Federal Agencies.
2006-10-30 Dr. Richard Seymour, a member of the Ocean Research and Resources Advisory Panel, which provides advice to the White House's Interagency Committee on Ocean Science and Resource Management Integration, to attend a meeting of the panel in Washington, DC.
2006-10-26 Bob Guza gave the Applied Ocean Sciences Seminar at SIO and described the CDIP/SCBPS programs.
2006-10-25 Bob Guza described the CDIP/SCBPS programs to a group of UCSD freshman learning about research at SIO.
2006-10-21 Bob Guza described the CDIP/SCBPS program to a meeting of rocky intertidal biologists ( MARINe Taxonomic Workshop, held at SIO).
2006-10-21 Costa Haramis and Grant Cameron represented CDIP/SCCOOS at the UC Open House. They even managed to exhibit one of the CDIP buoys!
2006-10-17 Roger Torstenson from NODC, Kimberly Kirwan from Booz Allen Hamilton, Karen Baker from SIO and Jerry Wanetick from SIO visited CDIP to discuss future possibilities of NODC archiving.
2006-10-17 UCSD Chancellor Fox and Vice Chancellor Ellis visited CDIP.
2006-10-16 Julie Thomas and Grant Cameron attended the Data Buoy Collection Panel held at Scripps.
2006-10-11 Dr. Richard Seymour, a civilian member of the Coastal Engineering Research Board, which provides advice to the Chief of the US Army Corps of Engineers, attended a meeting of the board at Long Branch, New Jersey.
2006-10-07 Julie Thomas attended the SANDAG meeting. The primary focus of the meeting was a discussion of beach nourishment.
2006-10-07 Julie Thomas attended the San Diego Science and Technology Council dinner at Scripps. Congressman Ken Calvert attended as a guest speaker. Since Pendleton, San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano are in Congressman Calvert's district, there is much interest in our lidar surveys covering those areas.
2006-10-04 Bob Guza and Julie Thomas met with Drew Bohan, the new Executive Director of the Ocean Protection Council. Amber Mace from the OPC was in attendance also. Dr. Guza gave a presentation on CALTM.
2006-09-22 Bob Guza met with US Congressman Dana Rohrbacher to discuss CDIP related work in HB06. The Congressman, a long time Orange County resident and surfer, is very concerned with beach water quality.
2006-09-21 Bob Guza met with Leslie Ewing (Sr. Coastal Engineer, California Coastal Commission) and staff from the USACE LA District to discuss waves and CDIP research in HB06 (http://cdip.ucsd.edu/hb06/).
2006-09-17 Bob Guza, Bill O'Reilly and Julie Thomas attended the California World Oceans Conference in Long Beach, CA.
2006-08-17 Bob Guza met with Congressman Brian Bilbray representatives to discuss CDIP/SCBPS programs.
2006-08-15 Aquarium Outreach Visit - school children visit CDIP.
2006-08-14 CDIP staff attendes Ocean Institute development meeting/cruise.
2006-08-02 Bob Guza & Julie Thomas met with US Congresswoman Susan Davis and her staff and described the CDIP/SCBPS programs.
2006-07-27 Bob Guza discussed the CDIP/SCBPS programs with representatives of the Port of San Diego.
2006-06-21 David Castel and Julie Thomas attended the QARTOD (Quality Control of Real-Time Data) Workshop at Woods Hole, MA. This was the fourth meeting, specifically addressing quality control and quality assurance of wave data. The last day focused on identifing necessary metadata necessary for wave data analysis.
2006-06-07 Bob Guza presented a talk describing CDIP and SCBPS to the local chapter of the American Meteorological Society.
2006-05-03 Randy Bucciarelli attended the NOAA Coastal Services Center Shoreline Mapping Workshop. A poster was presented on the SCBPS.
2006-05-03 Julie Thomas joined a group at SIO/MPL who met with Rear Admiral Byus. A CDIP presentation was given focusing on collaborative stations between the USACE/CDBW and the Navy.
2006-04-27 Bob Guza described the Huntington Beach 2006 experiment to the Orange County Coastal Coalition. The focus was on CDIP's role in studying nearshore waves and surfzone currents.
2006-04-25 Dick Seymour attended the USACE CERB (Coastal Engineering Research Board) meeting in Atlanta, GA. Dick was recently appointed as a member of the Board. The CERB functions as an advisory board to the Chief of Engineers.
2006-04-25 Bob Guza discussed CDIP and SCBPS with Stephen Bonk, from the staff of US Congressman Dana Rohrbacher.
2006-04-24 Julie Thomas attended the Third Southern California Marine Monitoring Conference. This even was co-hosted by SCCOOS, the Aquarium of the Pacific, USC Wrigley Institute and the Catalina Conservancy Divers.
2006-04-13 Bob Guza and Rudy Murillo met Senator Denise Ducheny and her husband Al for lunch. Discussion topics included the new CDIP buoy near the Coronado Islands, and SCBPS overflights of the border area (including the wetlands of the Tijuana National Estuarine Reserve). Senator Ducheny's support of Scripps (and CDIP/SCBPS) is much appreciated.
2006-04-10 Thanks to the Coast Guard Air Station, San Diego, Marissa Yates and Julie Thomas participated in a flight from La Jolla to Dana Point. During the flight, both still and video pictures were obtained.
2006-04-06 Bob Guza presents SIO Staff Seminar. Dr. Guza studies waves, surfzone currents, and beach erosion along the Southern California coast. He is Co-Director of the Integrative Oceanography Division at SIO, and is part of the CDIP team, which provides real-time wave height information to surfers and other users around the region.
2006-04-01 The Ocean Institute in Dana Point is housing a month long CDIP wave buoy and web display in support of their educational outreach program. Website display accessed at http://cdip.ucsd.edu/custom_pages/dana/; photos of display available here.
2006-03-24 University of Texas LIDAR flight from the Mexican Border to Long Beach. Survey in support of SCBPS.
2006-03-22 Thanks to our SCCOOS partners in Mexico, the Coastal Data Information Program (CDIP) installed a wave buoy SW of the Coronado Islands. This buoy is a great asset to the CDIP program as it will be an excellent indicator of south swell, resulting in improved nowcast/forecast models. The data from this buoy are accessible at http://cdip.ucsd.edu.
2006-03-16 Bob Guza, Randy Bucciarelli, Julie Thomas met wit the Tijuana Estuary folks to discuss future LIDAR collaboration. Tour of the Estuary by Jeff Crooks and Kevin Cody.
2006-03-07 USACE/Pac-IOOS/University of Hawaii visited CDIP.
2006-03-06 USACE visted CDIP/SCBPS.
2006-03-03 USACE, Los Angeles District (Tony Risko, Susie Ming, Art Shak and Heather Schlosser) visited CDIP/SCBPS.
2006-02-20 Julie Thomas & Bob Guza attended Ocean Sciences Conference in Honolulu.
2006-02-19 Julie Thomas attended Pacific IOOS meeting in Honolulu. Meeting centered on discussions as to how best bring together the Pacific Ocean Observing Systems for cohesive collection and dissemination of data and modeling products.
2006-02-17 National Geographic filmed CDIP/SCBPS activities. Session led by Bob Guza.
2006-02-15 Visit to Scripps by 6th Grade Class, Hidden Valley School, Escondido. Four outstanding girls learned about CDIP operations, Hydrolab projects and Diving Locker experiences.
2006-01-26 Presentation and CDIP/SCBPS tour for Spencer Young, Legislative Assistant from Susan Davis's office.
2006-01-17 CDIP/SCBPS presentation and tour to University of California Office of Federal Governmental Relations Director, Katie Whelan.
2006-01-14 Julie Thomas gave a CDIP/SCBPS presentation during a General Atomics luncheon at the Scripps Aquarium.
2006-01-13 Richard Seymour was interviewed by Channel 8 concerning the CDIP storm forecast and the anticipated beach erosion on San Diego County beaches.
2006-01-11 Julie Thomas and Mark Otero attended NOAA's Coastal Storm Workshop discussing the proposed Hazard Locator Tool. This Workshop was attended by National Weather Service and Emergency Management personnel with San Diego County.
2006-01-05 Richard Seymour was interviewed by Channel 49 concerning beach erosion on San Diego County beaches.
2006-01-04 KSWB interviewed Bob Guza for a television documentary on coastal erosion.
2005-12-17 Bob Guza and Julie Thomas hosted the National Ocean Bowl Science High School students by providing tours and presentation of the CDIP/SCBPS lab. The NOSB students have competed in top national team challenges on the marine sciences.
2005-12-14 Julie Thomas and Paul Reuter attended the National Weather Service Winter Workshop, held in San Diego. This workshop is geared for emergency managers and planners and law enforcement personnel. The NWS presented the ALERT system which consists of 95-100 inundation sensors. Data from ALERT is disseminated at weather.gov/sandiego. Other projects were discussed such as the StormReady and TsunamiReady programs, emphasizing community preparation for natural disasters.
2005-12-12 Dick Seymour attended the Strategic Planning Workshop for California Marine Habitat Mapping at Cal State University Monterey Bay. The objective was to develop a prioritized strategic plan for statewide seafloor mapping in California state waters, in consultation with relevant stakeholders, including academic institutions, management agencies, and other mapping data customers.
2005-12-08 Julie Thomas attended the Oceanside Beach and Harbors Advisory Committee meeting. Presentation included SCCOOS instrumentation location and types, and CDIP/SCBPS projects that affect Oceanside mariners and coastal zone management. As one of CDIP's wave monitoring buoys is located 4 miles west of Oceanside, the wave data is critical to local boating operations. The SCBPS project has collected nine LIDAR surveys over the past 5 years, covering the Oceanside littoral cell. All the wave and LIDAR data are available at http://cdip.ucsd.edu. The Advisory Committee, headed by Don Hadley, Oceanside Harbor Master, is very supportive of future SCCOOS efforts. They are looking forward to housing a SCCOOS shore station and CODAR site.
2005-12-01 San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG), Shoreline Preservation Working Group, San Diego, CA.
2005-11-29 Visit to CDIP/SCBPS lab by John Hamilton, Assistant Director of UC Office of Federal Relations.
2005-11-02 Quality Assurance of Real-Time Ocean Data Workshop, Scripps. CDIP contributing to sponsorship.
2005-11-01 National Waves Technical Workshop, sponsored by CDIP, held at Scripps.
2005-10-28 Jack Dale from SANDAG visit to CDIP.
2005-10-26 Headwaters to Ocean Conference, Huntington Beach, CA. Randy Bucciarelli & Julie Thomas presenting "Southern California Beach Process Study".
2005-10-28 Participant at the California Sediment Management Working Group meeting, Huntington Beach, CA.
2005-10-13 Congressman Randy Cunningham's office visit to CDIP.
2005-10-12 Participant at the California Sediment Management Working Group meeting, San Francisco, CA.
2005-10-10 American Shoreline Beach & Preservation Society, San Francisco, CA. Attended by David Castel & Julie Thomas.
2005-09-08 California Sediment Management Working Group, San Francisco, CA. SCBPS presentation.
2005-09-01 San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG), Shoreline Preservation Working Group, San Diego, CA. SCBPS presentation.
2005-08-24 23 California State employees visited Scripps Institution of Oceanography. These visitors were primarily from the California Department of Boating and Waterways (CDBW) and the California Resource Agency. The visit was hosted by Dr. Reinhard Flick, SIO's Oceanographer for CDBW. Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System presentations were given to the group at the VizCenter by David Pierce and Dr. Robert Guza. A tour to the Coastal Data Information Program's facility followed the presentations. The visit ended with a wonderful buffet luncheon on the Scripps Pier.

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