PS008
Physical processes governing the distribution and transport of dispersed particles in the ocean
Session ID#: 85884
Session Description:
The distribution and transport of dispersed particles in the ocean (e.g., plastic debris, oil droplets, gas bubbles, and organic and inorganic aggregates) continues to gather attention amongst scientists and policymakers seeking local and global solutions. Yet, major gaps remain in our basic understanding of the sources, distribution and physical transport of these different types of particles. Such particles span a wide range of shapes, sizes, densities, and materials and they interact with a wide range of fluid motions, including turbulence, waves, windage, and stratification. This session aims to bring together researchers from different backgrounds seeking to understand the complex physical processes governing the distribution and transport of plastic debris, bubbles, drops, and other particles in the ocean. Thus, we invite all submissions related to physical processes affecting dispersed particles across a range of different scales, from the dynamics of individual particles to global observations and models. Field observations, remote sensing, laboratory experiments, numerical modelling, and theoretical contributions are all welcomed.
Index Terms:
4251 Marine pollution [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4520 Eddies and mesoscale processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4524 Fine structure and microstructure [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4528 Fronts and jets [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4546 Nearshore processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4568 Turbulence, diffusion, and mixing processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4572 Upper ocean and mixed layer processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4572 Upper ocean and mixed layer processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Primary Chair: Kara L Lavender Law, Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Co-chairs: Stefano Aliani, Institute of Marine Sciences CNR, La Spezia, Italy, Tracy Mandel, University of New Hampshire, Mechanical Engineering, Durham, CA, United States and Nimish Pujara, University of Wisconsin Madison, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Madison, NY, United States
Primary Liaison: Kara L Lavender Law, Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Zooplankton distribution patterns and vertical patchiness as they vary between stratified to deeply mixed ocean conditions. (511156)
Yoav Lindemann1, Jules S Jaffe2, Paul L Roberts3 and Amatzia Genin1, (1)The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Inter-university Institute for Marine Sciences, Eilat, Israel, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Settling of randomly formed marine aggregates (637942)
Eunji Yoo, University of California Merced, Applied Mathematics, Merced, CA, United States, Francois Blanchette, University of California Merced, Applied Mathematics, Merced, United States and Shilpa Khatri, University of California Merced, Applied Math, Merced, United States
Eddy Induced, Cross-Shelf Transport of Drifting Objects or Actively Swimming Organisms (642056)
Lawrence J Pratt, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Irina Rypina, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Samuel Entner, Wentworth Institution of Technology, United States, Deepak Cherian, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Earth, Atmosphere and Planetary Sciences, Boulder, MA, United States and Amanda Anderson, University of Kansas, United States
Vertical Distribution of Particles in Upper-Ocean Turbulence: Laboratory Modelling of Plastic Pollution (642908)
Marie Poulain-Zarcos, CNRS, IMFT UMR5502 & IMRCP UMR5623, Toulouse, France, Alexandra ter Halle, Centre National de la recherche scientifique, CNRS, Physical chemistry, Toulouse, France and Matthieu Mercier, CNRS, IMFT UMR5502, Toulouse, France
Numerical Modelling of Jellyfish Movements in an Irish Fjord (643851)
Md Ashkar Bin Sayeed1, Fearghal O'Donncha2, Tom Doyle3, Reduan Atan1, Michael Hartnett4 and Stephen Nash4, (1)National University of Ireland, Discipline of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering and Informatics; MaREI; Ryan Institute, Galway, Ireland, (2)IBM Research - Ireland, Cognitive IoT, Dublin, Ireland, (3)University College Cork, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Cork, Ireland, (4)National University of Ireland Galway, College of Science and Engineering, Ryan Institute, Galway, Ireland
Using Atomic Force Microscopy to Study the Surface Degradation of Microplastics in Natural Waters (645319)
Stephen Burrows, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, Kevin Thomas, The University of Queensland, Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences, Brisbane, QLD, Australia and Tamara Galloway, University of Exeter, Department of Biosciences, Geoffrey Pope Building, Exeter, EX4 4QD, United Kingdom
Importance of Vertical Mixing for Modeling the Horizontal Drift of Oil Spills: Simulations with the Open Source Oil Spill Model OpenOil (646085)
Knut-Frode Dagestad1, Johannes Röhrs2, Lars Robert Hole1, Tor Nordam3 and Jørgen Skancke4, (1)Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Bergen, Norway, (2)Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway, (3)SINTEF Ocean, Trondheim, Norway, (4)SINTEF Materials and Chemistry, Environmental Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Where does the litter go? Surface drifters reveal pathways of floating marine debris in tidally influenced areas of the North Sea (646321)
Thomas H. Badewien, University of Oldenburg, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Wilhelmshaven, Germany, Jens Meyerjürgens, University of Oldenburg, ICBM, Oldenburg, Germany, Emil V. Stanev, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Institute of Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany and Oliver Zielinski, University of Oldenburg, Marine Sensor Systems Group, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Oldenburg, Germany
A study of dissolved and particulate material exchanges among different waterbodies and between shallow water and deep channel (646502)
Jilian Xiong, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, Gloucester Point, VA, United States, Jian Shen, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, United States, Yu Chen, State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research (East China Normal University), China and Jiabi Du, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, United States
Hindcast of eddy field in the Southeastern Baltic Sea and rotation of synthetic floating particles in submesoscale cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies (648062)
Germo Väli1, Victor Zhurbas2, Natalia Kuzmina2, Olga Lavrova3 and Andrey Kostianoy2, (1)Tallinn University of Technology, Department of Marine Systems, Tallinn, Estonia, (2)Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, Russia, (3)Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia
Oil spill scenarios in the western gulf of Mexico (648930)
Paula Perez-Brunius1, Julio Sheinbaum2, Maria Josefina Olascoaga3, Francisco J Beron-Vera3, Philippe Miron4, Konstantinos Kotzakoulakis2, Julio Antonio Lara5, Javier Rodriguez Outerelo1, Paula García-Carrillo1, Jorge Zavala-Hidalgo6, Sheila Natali Estrada-Allis7, Joao Marcos Azevedo Correia de Souza8, Julien Jouanno9 and Aljaz Maslo1, (1)Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada, Physical Oceanography, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico, (2)CICESE, Physical Oceanography, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico, (3)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (4)RSMAS/U. of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (5)UNAM National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, DF, Mexico, (6)Univ Nacional Autonoma Mexico, Mexico City, EM, Mexico, (7)Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada (CICESE), Ensenada, BJ, Mexico, (8)New Zealand Meteorological Service (MetService), MetOcean Division, Raglan, New Zealand, (9)Observatory Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse, France
SOILED model results of Salish Sea oil spill fate by oil type, location, sea state, and ocean properties. (649535)
Rachael Mueller1, Shihan Li2, Vicky Do3, Ashutosh Bhudia4, Krista Forysinski4, Doug Latornell5, Ben Moore-Maley3, Susan Elizabeth Allen6, Stephanie Chang4 and Haibo Niu7, (1)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)Dalhousie University, NS, Canada, (3)University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (4)University of British Columbia, BC, Canada, (5)UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (6)Univ British Columbia, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (7)Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Exploring the Slope Sea as the Potential Major Spawning Ground for Atlantic Bluefin Tuna (649763)
Michael Dotzel1, Irina Rypina1, Lawrence J Pratt1, Christina Hernandez2 and Joel Llopiz2, (1)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Global Plastic Waste Input into the Ocean between 1990-2015 (650156)
Charlotte Laufkotter1, Kevin Lang2, Victor Onink3 and Meike Vogt2,4, (1)Bern University, Bern, Switzerland, (2)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)University of Bern, Climate and Environmental Sciences, Bern, Switzerland, (4)ETH Zurich, Environmental Systems Science, Zurich, Switzerland
Plastic Transport in Coastal Seas: Lagrangian Tracking of Microplastics in the Nearshore and Evaluation of Beaching. (650274)
Cleo Jongedijk1, Jose M Alsina2, Erik van Sebille3 and Maarten Reeuwijk, van1, (1)Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering, London, United Kingdom, (2)Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Laboratory of Maritime Engineering, Barcelona, Spain, (3)Universiteit Utrecht, Marine & Atmospheric Research, Utrecht, Netherlands
The increased Stokes drift of inertial, finite-size floating plastic (650725)
Ross Calvert1, Colin Whittaker2, Alison Raby3, Alistair G. L. Borthwick4, Mark L McAllister1 and Ton van den Bremer5, (1)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (2)University of Auckland, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Auckland, New Zealand, (3)Plymouth University, School of Engineering (Faculty of Science and Engineering), Plymouth, United Kingdom, (4)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (5)University of Edinburgh, School of Engineering, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Modeling and Forecasting Sargassum Movement in the Caribbean Sea (651633)
Julio Sheinbaum1, Homar Verdugo2, Francisco J Beron-Vera3, Maria Josefina Olascoaga3 and Julien Jouanno4, (1)Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico, (2)Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada, Physical Oceanography, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico, (3)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (4)Observatory Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse, France
Oil Particle Aggregation Model for the Gulf of Mexico Continental Shelf: Scenario Testing (652229)
Courtney Kay Harris, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Physical Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States, Linlin Cui, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States and Dmitry S Dukhovskoy, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Transport of Microparticles and Microplastics in San Francisco Bay and Adjacent National Marine Sanctuaries (652627)
Rusty Holleman1, Meg Sedlak2, Rebecca Sutton2 and Chelsea M Rochman3, (1)University of California Davis, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Davis, United States, (2)San Francisco Estuary Institute, United States, (3)University of Toronto, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Toronto, ON, Canada
Retention of oil droplets rising in a stratified fluid (652781)
Tracy Mandel1, De Zhen Zhou2, Lindsay Waldrop3, Maxime Theillard4, Dustin Kleckner5 and Shilpa Khatri4, (1)University of New Hampshire, Mechanical Engineering, Durham, CA, United States, (2)University of California Merced, Physics & Applied Math, Merced, United States, (3)Chapman University, Biological Sciences, Orange, United States, (4)University of California Merced, Applied Math, Merced, United States, (5)University of California Merced, Physics, Merced, United States
Impacts of the Coriolis force on Lagrangian mean flows induced by surface wave groups (653104)
Christopher John Higgins, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Ton van den Bremer, University of Oxford, Department of Engineering Science, Oxford, United Kingdom and Jacques Vanneste, University of Edinburgh, Mathematics, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Modeling Weakly Buoyant Particles in a Regional Ocean (655617)
Weiyuan DONG1, Junhong Liang1, Changming Dong2, Dubravko Justic3, Daniel Holstein4, Robert D Hetland5 and Daijiro Kobashi5, (1)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (2)University of California, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (3)Louisiana State University, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (4)Duke Marine Laboratory, Marine Science and Conservation Division, Beaufort, NC, United States, (5)Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States
Floating Debris Accumulation in the North Pacific “Garbage Patch”, Studied with a Suite of Lagrangian Instruments (656674)
Nikolai A Maximenko, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, Luca Raffaele Centurioni, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Mary Crowley, Ocean Voyages Institute, United States, Linsey Haram, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, United States, Jan Hafner, IPRC/SOEST U. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States, Andrey Shcherbina, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Kenmore, WA, United States, Gregory Ruiz, Smithsonian, SERC, Edgewater, MD, United States, James T Carlton, Williams College, Mystic Seaport Program, United States and Cathryn Murray, PICES North Pacific Marine Science Organization, Sidney, BC, United States
Wave effects on the dispersal of buoyant particles (656851)
Michelle DiBenedetto1, Jeffrey R Koseff2 and Nicholas T Ouellette2, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, United States, (2)Stanford University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States
Numerical Modeling of Particles in the Ocean (657019)
Anusha Lakmali Dissanayake, RPS Ocean Science, Wakefield, RI, United States, Jonas Gros, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Binbin Wang, University of Missouri, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Columbia, MO, United States, Adrian Burd, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States and Poojitha D. Yapa, Clarkson University, Potsdam, United States
Advances in modeling ultra deep-sea oil spills (657135)
Claire B Paris1, Natalie Perlin1, Ana Carolina Vaz1, Simeon Pesch2, Robin Faillettaz1, Michael Schlüter and Zachary M. Aman4, (1)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (2)Hamburg University of Technology, Institute of Multiphase Flows, Hamburg, Germany, (3)University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Observation and quantification of inertial effects on the drift of floating objects at the ocean surface (657382)
Maria Josefina Olascoaga1, Francisco J Beron-Vera1, Gustavo Jorge Goni2, Rick Lumkin3, Philippe Miron4, Nathan F Putman5 and Joaquin A Trinanes6, (1)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (2)NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL, United States, (3)NOAA, AOML, Miami, FL, United States, (4)RSMAS/U. of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (5)LGL Ecological Research Associates, Inc., Bryan, TX, United States, (6)NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, FL, United States
A model investigation of the influence of submesoscale frontal dynamics on dispersal trajectories of near-surface, passive larvae around the Monterey Peninsula (658004)
Anna Burke Lowe, University of California Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Christopher A Edwards, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
