This program will focus on understanding nearshore currents, storm surges, seiches and edge waves and Great Lakes hydrology.

And it will provide lidar images of Madeline Island. 

Speakers:  Dr. Chin Wu and Sarah Peterson, WI Sea Grant Coastal Engineering

Dr. Wu’s research interests:

• Coastal processes, engineering, resilience, and sustainability

• Environmental & ecological fluid mechanics/hydraulics

• Restoration and rehabilitation of aquatic systems (river/stream, lake, and wetland)

• Green Infrastructure, low impact development, and sustainable urban planning and development

• Risk assessment and resilience for extreme events (floods, storm waves, meteotsunamis, rip/dangerous currents)

• Hydrologic/hydraulic modeling for flood risk assessment

• Adaptive management for watershed restoration and protection

• Cyberinfrastructure for environmental monitoring

• Risk assessment and sustainable remediation of contaminated sediments

• Surface wave dynamics and Air-sea interactions

• Groundwater and surface water interactions

See blog It Takes a Family to Deal with Dangerous Currents to learn about some of Dr. Wu’s work on the South Shore.

Sarah Peterson, is a Ph.D. student at UW-Madison

She worked with Dr. Wu on the yearlong project by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Wisconsin Sea Grant, with advice from the National Park Service and the Wisconsin Coastal Management Program, to research and build the SeaCavesWatch.org website, a new website that offers real-time wave condition information for the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in Lake Superior.