Welcome! The University Of South
Florida Coastal Research Lab conducts research on the
coastal processes of the Gulf of Mexico and other areas. The USF
Coastal Research Lab is investigating the impact of
multiple hurricanes in 2004 and 2005 along the NW Florida panhandle area and the
recovery of the beaches and coastal zones. This
research project started one day before Hurricane Ivan made
landfall and is currently on going.
Coastal Research Lab
CRL
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Storm
Impact ResearchLarge-scale
Laboratory Study
Tidal
Flat Study
Much of the work being undertaken at the Coastal Research
Lab (CRL) is focused on three key areas of coastal geology:
the process-response systems of beaches, inlets, and tidal
sand bodies; coastal sediment transport processes and
prediction; and the Holocene history and development of
various coastal environments including barrier-island, tidal
flat, and deltaic systems.
Our research includes both field- and laboratory-oriented
efforts. Field research projects are primarily concentrated
on the west coast of Florida, with some projects
encompassing areas of Florida's east coast, the Florida
panhandle, the Florida Keys, the southwest Florida shallow
shelf, and Puerto Rico. Internationally, Dr. Davis is
conducting research in the North Sea, the German and Danish
Wadden Seas, Spain, Australia, and New Zealand. Dr. Wang is
conducting collaborative research in the Yangtze delta and
the Yellow River delta (China). The focus of the deltaic
study in China includes 1) processes and preservation of
tidal flat sedimentation, and 2) erosion along the delta
coasts induced by intensive human activities.
Our laboratory-oriented research is conducted in
collaboration with the U.S Army Engineering Research and
Development Center (ERDC) in Vicksburg, Mississippi. This
research utilizes the recently established Large-scale
Sediment Transport Facility
housed at ERDC. Through the collection and analysis of
detailed data in a well-controlled laboratory environment at
a near proto-type scale, this research is aimed at 1)
improving our understand of nearshore sediment transport
processes, 2) refining our methods on the prediction of
nearshore sand transport rate, and 3) quantifying the
evolution of nearshore morphology.
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