Nortek User Story Featuring CZMU Wave Monitoring Programme

Diver tends ADCP current profiler mounted on sea floor

The oceanographic equipment company Nortek has featured the work done by the CZMU on its website as a user story. You can read the story via the link below:

Nortek CZMU User Story

Tags:

oceanography

wave

risk

monitoring

engineering

Glossary of Terms

Conservation

The management of a natural resource for the protection, maintenance, rehabilitation, restoration, and/or enhancement of populations and ecosystems.

Precautionary approach

The essence of the approach is expressed in Principle 15 of the Rio Declaration that states "Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason to postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation." The approach is concerned with avoiding risk that has not been assessed, i.e. uncertainty.

Armouring

The placement of fixed engineering structures, typically rock or concrete, on or along the shoreline to reduce coastal erosion. Armoring structures include seawalls, revetments, bulkheads, and rip rap (loose boulders).

Dredging

The practice of excavating or displacing the bottom or shoreline of a water body.

Foredune

The front dune immediately behind the backshore.

Wave Propagation

The transmission of waves through water.

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Nortek User Story Featuring CZMU Wave Monitoring Programme