4th Radio Oceanography Workshop (updated 15.04.2004)

21--23 April 2004

Magnetic Island Tropical Resort

Technical Sessions

Application Session

• Luke Stearns: Surface Currents off the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
• Bruce Lipphardt: Comparison of HF radar currents with Observations and Models from AOSNII Experiment (August 2003).
• Denny Kirwan: Surface Transport in Monterey Bay.
• Arnstein Prytz: Steering of Waves by Surface Current Shears: A case Study at Port Phillip Heads.
• Simon Keogh: WAVENET and the use of HF radar for Nearshore Wave Monitoring Around the UK.
• Pierre Broche: Surface Wave Radar Applications at the University of Toulon.

Monitoring and Surveillance Session

• Miro Gacic: Evolution of Surface Circulation Monitoring Offshore of the Venetian Lagoon Using three HF Radars.
• Brian Emery: Do Oil and Gas Platforms Off California Affect the fate of Recruiting Bocaccio? An Analysis Based on HF Radar Derived Surface Trajectories.
• Thomas Helzel: New Directions for WERA.
• Stuart Anderson: Deployment of the SECAR HF Surface Wave Radar in Northern Australia.
• Hugh Roarty: The Use of HF Radar in NJSOS for Ship Detection and Tracking
• Mal Heron: Proposed HF Radar Monitoring in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.
• Jeff Paduan: The US Surface Current Mapping Initiative (SCMI).
• Jeff Paduan: Report and Open Forum on US Homeland Security Issues for HF Radar.

Special Applications Session --- Public Lecture

• Scott Glenn and Oscar Schofield: The R. U. COOL Story.

Algorithms and Development Session 1: Oceanographic Emphasis

• Josh Kohut: Currents in NJSOS and NEOS.
• Jonathan Bathgate: Swell Waves from HF Ocean Radar.
• Liebe Washburn: Update and Overview on Using HF Radar in Coastal Oceanographic and Ecological Studies in South Central California.
• Mal Heron: Why Didn’t HF Radar Find the Bi-Modal Direction Pattern for Wind-Waves?
• Lucy Wyatt: Pisces HF radar measurements of waves, winds and currents in the Celtic Sea.
• Hans Graber: Results on Shoaling Waves with HF Radar. [Brian Haus, Rafael Ramos].

Algorithms and Development Session 2: Radar Systems Emphasis

• Klaus Werner Gurgel: New Developments – WERA.
• Dennis Trizna: Multi-Frequency HF Radar for Dual Use Applications.
• Mike Cook: Web-based Near Real Time Surface Current Analysis in Monterey Bay from HF Radars.
• Donald Barrick: What You Don't See: A Peek at Software that Keeps 120 Permanent Real Time SeaSonde Stations Running Continuously 365 Days/Year.
• Andrew Middletich: A Filter Method for the Removal of Current Modulation from HF Radar Signals.
• Stuart Anderson: Noise Rejection in HF Surface Wave Radar Systems.
• Eric Gill: On the Development of a Second-Order Bistatic Cross Section of the Ocean Surface: A High Frequency Result for a Finite Scattering Path.
• Yukihari Hisaki: Development of the wave spectrum estimation by HF radar.
• Cal Teague: Results from the CODAR UHF RiverSonde System.
• John Veseckey: To be advised.

ROW5 Business Meeting

• Hans Graber: Where? When? Who?