18 – 21 June 2018, Giddings attended and presented at the NSF sponsored Workshop on the future of coastal and estuarine modeling. Presentations ranged from numerical discretization schemes, to nonhydrostatic versus hydrostatic code, to the state of the art in wave model-hydrodynamic model coupling. It was a very interesting several days discussing where we are in coastal and estuarine modeling … Read More
Border 2020 stakeholder kickoff meeting
13 June 2018 – The EPA hosted a kickoff meeting for two new Border 2020 funded projects aiming to reduce coastal water pollution along the US/Mexico Pacific border. Falk Feddersen and Sarah Giddings presented an introduction to their recently funded Border 2020 Border Environment Cooperation Commission (BECC) project entitled: “Evaluating the 2017 Tijuana River Estuary cross-border wastewater spill sources and … Read More
MAS in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation Annual Capstone Symposium
12 June 2018, Students completing the Master of Advanced Studies in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation presented their capstone projects at the Annual Capstone Symposium. Kelsey Miller, who Giddings has been working with over the Winter and Spring quarters 2018, presented her project: Tribal Intertidal Digital Ecological Survey (TIDES) Project: A Conservation Technology Partnership with Coastal Indigenous Nations Advisors: Dr. Jennifer E. Smith (Chair), Scripps … Read More
lab get-together
Forgot to take pictures, but we all went out to lunch as a lab to welcome Alma Castillo Trujillo for a short visit who will be joining the lab in September 2018 as a postdoc. Great to have such a wonderful group of people!!
Oyster biosensors!!
For their senior design course in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (MAE126b) a group of undergraduates decided to work with Dr. Jeff Crooks (Tijuana National Estuarine Research Reserve Research Coordinator) and Dr. Sarah Giddings to design biosensors for oysters. During just one quarter, team members Adrian Urrea, Hsing-Han (Hans) Chung, Emma Schoenthal, Claudio Coleman, and Marika Hale successfully built a prototype that can measure the shell gape … Read More
Tijuana Estuary Tidal Restoration Program meeting
16 May 2018 – Tijuana Estuary Tidal Restoration Program (TETRP) meeting. TETRP is a multi-phased restoration for the Tijuana River aimed at restoring habitat through projects such as those aimed to increased tidal flushing. TETRP has already completed two major restorations and Giddings is a science advisor for the most recent phase of the program.
LPL very-buried P sensor recovery
9-23 April 2018 – Nearly 2 m of sand accreted over our pressure sensor buried in the mouth of Los Peñasquitos Lagoon, making it 3 m beneath ground level. After recovering the sensor in the surfzone and attempting to recover the lagoon mouth sensor, we had to resort to heavy machinery. Since the lagoon mouth was in the process of … Read More
Newport Bay recovery
04 April 2018 – Kristen Davis from UC Irvine is leading a big study of Newport Bay and the exchange with the coastal ocean. After a far too exciting day in the field (fear of lost instruments), all moorings were successfully recovered!
SDSU CSRC visit
23 March 2018 – Giddings was invited to give a talk at the SDSU Computational Science Research Center (CSRC). Meetings with faculty and students during the visit highlighted the amazing work they are doing there and some potentials for future collaboration!
Marshes on the Margins
21 March 2018 – Harvey and Giddings participated in a workshop that was part of the Marshes on the Margins project. Marshes on the Margins is investigating how heavily altered Southern California estuaries will be impacted by sea level rise, particularly thinking towards restoration strategies. The workshop was focused on Los Peñasquitos Lagoon as a case study location. Harvey presented … Read More