Dr. Louis Goodman (Full CV) 
WELCOME The Marine Turbulence Laboratory is dedicated to understanding the nature of ocean turbulence and its relationship to the mixing of physical, chemical, and biological constituents. Emphasis is on the coastal waters where turbulence often is a critical factor in determining overall water mass circulation through its frictional effects, particularly in the surface and bottom boundary layers. The programs of the Marine Turbulence Laboratory are very diverse and are aimed at both breaking new scientific ground on understanding the fundamental nature of turbulence and its relationship to larger scale flow fields as well as in developing new tools and techniques of measuring turbulence. We also are heavily involved in interdisciplinary programs understanding the role of turbulence in small scale biology.
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About the Turbulence REMUSResearch Projects:
AUV Turbulence Measurements in the LOCO Field Experiments
MerMADE: Merrimack River Mixing and Divergence Experiment
Recent Manuscripts:
Goodman, L., Levine, E., Lueck, R., (2006) On measuring the terms of the turbulent kinetic energy budget from an AUV, J. Atoms. Ocean. Tech. 23, 977-990.
Levine, E.R., Goodman, L., O'Donnell, J.,Turbulence in coastal fronts near the mouth of Long Island Sound,invited J. Mar.Syst., Spec. Iss., Processes in Ocean Fronts, in press (February 2008)
MacDonald, D. G., L. Goodman, and R. D. Hetland (2007), Turbulent dissipation in a near-field river plume: A comparison of control volume and microstructure observations with a numerical model, J. Geophys. Res., 112.
Goodman, L., Robinson, A.R.,;On the Theory of the Effects on Biological Dynamics in the Sea, III: The Role of Turbulence in Biological Physical Interactions, Proc Royal Soc., Proceedings A 464 (2091), Mar 08, 2008.
Goodman, L. and Wang, Z, Turbulence Observations from a Small AUV, (in review October, 2007) Journal Marine Systems
Basic and Applied Research at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center
Presented by: Richard Phillips, NUWC Research Manager
SMAST DEOS Spring Seminar Series: February 28, 2008
This presentation includes a brief introduction to the Naval Undersea Warfare Center including opportunities for student and faculty researchers. Ongoing basic and applied research projects are discussed. Topics touched upon include: marine mammal passive tracking, boundary layer hydrodynamics on long towed arrays, undersea distributed network systems, electrochemical systems for UUVs, UUV autonomy, and the prediction of fracture in single crystal transduction material.
 Second generation SMAST turbulence AUV, pictured underway. |
LABORATORY INTERESTS
Our principal investigation is quantification of realistic turbulence regimes through the use of the SMAST Turbulence Remote Environmental Measuring Unit (REMUS). Acquired from Hydroid Inc. and retrofitted with a suite of microstructure and finestructure sensors, this Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) is capable of a wide variety of missions.
The suite of sensors integrated within the AUV allow a synoptic map of fine and microstructure quantities to be obtained and can be used to close the Turbulent Kinetic Energy Budget (On Closing the Turbulent Kinetic Energy Budget from an AUV, Goodman, Levine, and Lueck, submitted Dec 2004 to Journal of Ocean and Atmospheric Technology) one of the areas of interest for the Turbulence Lab.
Currently the AUV is being used in the Layered Organization in the Costal Ocean (LOCO) Field experiments, funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), to be conducted in Monetary Bay, CA, this summer. This five year, multi-disciplinary effort involves the collaboration of numerous universities and research laboratories from around the country. Its main goal is to understand the properties of densely concentrated, thin layers of planktonic biota that can occur in coastal ocean environments, and the interacting physical, chemical, biological and optical processes responsible for establishment, maintenance and breakdown of layers. (See About the Turbulence REMUS)
Please send your comments to:
Chris Jakubiak at cjakubiak@umassd.edu