Tag Archives: Casey Dietrich
Celebration for Rosemary Cyriac
Members of the NCSU coastal engineering team celebrating the successful PhD defense by Rosemary Cyriac.
Seminar: Coffee & Viz
N Tull, JC Dietrich+, TE Langan, H Mitasova, CA Rucker, BO Blanton, JG Fleming, RA Luettich. “Enhancing Visualization of Storm Surge Guidance.” Coffee & Viz, NCSU Libraries, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 19 October 2018.
Casey Dietrich presenting at Coffee & Viz. Photo courtesy Julie Dixon.
This seminar was part of the NCSU Libraries’ Coffee & Viz event series, and it was held in the Teaching and Visualization Lab. This lab has 10 overhead projectors and can display graphics on three walls — the entire front and both full sides of the room. More photos are included below.
Seminar: Geospatial Forum
N Tull, JC Dietrich+, TE Langan, H Mitasova, CA Rucker, BO Blanton, JG Fleming, RA Luettich. “Downscaling and Extrapolation of Coastal Flooding Forecasts for Decision Support.” Geospatial Forum, Center for Geospatial Analytics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 18 October 2018.
News: Post-Florence Field Observations
2018/10/10 – NCSU Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
CCEE Researchers respond rapidly to Hurricane Florence
CCEE Researchers respond rapidly to Hurricane Florence
Much of the North Carolina coast is lined with sandy beaches and dunes, which can erode during storms, allowing sand onto major roadways and floodwaters into communities. To develop predictions for this erosion and its effects on infrastructure, it was critical to collect observations shortly after the storm. A multi-disciplinary team led by Dr. Elizabeth Sciaudone traveled to Dare County to collect time-sensitive data at Kitty Hawk, Nags Head, Pea Island, and Hatteras Island. Working in conjunction with the Institute for Transportation Research and Education (ITRE), the Center for Geospatial Analytics in the College of Natural Resources, and industry partner SenseFly, researchers surveyed beach and dune changes. Real-Time Kinematic GPS equipment was used to survey select cross-shore beach and dune profiles and document the extent of dune erosion and overwash (inland sand deposits), such as when NC Highway 12 becomes covered after large storms.
Presentation: NC Sea Grant Site Review
Coupling of Inlet-Scale Erosion and Region-Scale Flooding Predictions
The goals of this project are to better understand the storm-induced erosion of barrier islands, and to develop ways to represent that erosion in predictive models on large domains. The critical objectives will be: (1) Develop a high-resolution hindcast of inlet creation in a barrier island system, (2) Explore the sensitivity of erosion predictions to the quality of input data, and (3) Implement a two-way coupling of small-scale erosion to larger-scale flooding. As a study area, we will consider the erosion of Hatteras Island during Hurricane Isabel (2003) and the creation of the so-called Isabel Inlet. The model will be validated with aerial surveys of island topography, collected immediately before and after the storm. We will quantify the model’s ability to predict the inlet creation given coarse inputs, and identify the necessary resolution to include this process in larger-domain models. The evolving ground surface will be used to update topography in a region-scale flooding model, to examine how flow through the Isabel Inlet affected the back side of the island.
JC Dietrich. “Coupling of Inlet-Scale Erosion and Region-Scale Flooding Predictions.” U.S. Coastal Research Program, Storm Processes and Impacts Workshop, Technology Challenge, 2018/09/23 to 2019/09/22, $59,950 (Dietrich: $59,950).