From Chin Wu UWM research interests webpage
Free and open to the public!
Location: Madeline Island Museum
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
Co-led by Chin Wu, SeaCavesWatch.org is a real-time wave observation system designed to prevent kayaking tragedies. Credit: Matt Jones.
Chin H. Wu, Ph.D., College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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, a Ph.D. student at UW-Madison, holds one of the spotter sensors deployed in the Apostle Islands for the WISC-Watch Program. Image credit Chin Wu.
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.
