Predicted wave heights across the Gulf of Mexico caused by a fictional storm with the same track as Hurricane Ike but with the wind speeds doubled. Simulation and animation from the Delft3D model. Work supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences through the Texas A&M Superfund Center.
Links
Semi-Professional Social Media
Media Appearances
- Remotely-delivered seminar to the Bureau of Economic Geology at University of Texas.
- Brief video interview conducted by Coastal Bend Innovation Center during their Infrastructure Summit.
- Interview with DesignSafe Radio on tsunami experiments and experiences with natural disasters.
- News article on our tsunami experiments in EOS, the newsletter from the American Geophysical Union.
- A brief appearance in a promotional video for the Texas A&M Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering.
- Seminar on waves and surge research, as part of the “Disasters and Donuts” series hosted by the Center for Robot Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR).
Online Databases
- Google Scholar
- ResearchGate
- ORCID
- ResearcherID
- Academia.edu
- My Erdős number is four. This number is shared by Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac, and Erwin Schrödinger.
Coastal Engineering
- Coastal & Hydraulics Laboratory, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- National Geophysical Data Center Bathymetry Database
- National Data Buoy Center
- National Oceanographic Data Center
- USACE Field Research Facility
- Coastal Data Information Program
- Delft3D Open Source Community Page
- The SWAN Home Page at Delft University of Technology.
- Ocean Waves on Wikipedia.
Hurricane Information
- The National Hurricane Center.
- The Tropical Weather Page at Weather Underground.
- Emergency Response Imagery Index from the National Geodetic Survey, NOAA.
Computer Resources
- Cygwin.
- andLinux.
- LaTeX.
- vim.
- gcc and gfortran for Mac.
- Homebrew – a package installer for Mac.
- Handbrake – a video transcoder for Mac.
- TeXworks – a useful front end for LaTeX.
- LyX – a WYSIWYG-style editor for LaTeX, should you need one.
- MacTeX – a TeX and LaTeX distribution package which contains all necessary binaries to run LaTeX on Mac OS-X. This needs to be installed in order for front ends and WYSIWYG editors to work.
- Spyder is the Python IDE I presently use. I am a Python newbie and started with Thonny, a good stripped down IDE for those like me who debug code by peppering it with “print (‘here’)” statements.
Miscellaneous Fun Stuff
- My page on Reverb Nation.
- My page on Bandmix.
- PhD Comics.
- Reverb.com – a great marketplace for used and new music gear.
- Guitar chord database.
- JHS Pedals YouTube Channel.
- Wampler Pedals YouTube Channel.
- The Pedal Bored YouTube Channel.
- CS Guitars.
- Psionic Audio.
- D-Lab.
Bands
Professorz. Left to right: James Kaihatu (guitar, vocals), Jason Sylvan (drums), Shereece Fields (vocals), Les Morey (bass, vocals), and Steve DiMarco (guitar, vocals) . YouTube playlist of live appearances.
Big Dog. Left to right: Mick Deutz (bass, vocals), Wes Osburn (drums), John Thaden (harp, guitar, vocals), and James Kaihatu (guitar, vocals). YouTube playlist of live appearances.