U.S-Netherlands Cooperative Research on the Response of Large Aggregates to Storms in the North Sea

该奖项支持约翰·T。威尔斯和理查德 海洋科学研究所的Luettich 北卡罗来纳州大学合作 在物理海洋学方面与Doeke Alumina合作， 荷兰海洋研究所 Research. 他们研究的目的是 增加对大型企业行为的了解 近岸浅水区颗粒团聚体 在自然条件下。 威尔斯博士和他的 目前，该研究小组正在研究 在北卡罗来纳州的海岸附近 资金 这一奖项将使他们能够扩大这一 第二组观测场的观测计划 在北海的一些地点， 由荷兰研究人员根据 方向Doeke Alberma。 两项实地工作 将受益于 在彼此的实验室里独立进行。 了解粒子的行为 浅水水体中的聚集体是一个非常 一个几乎没有任何东西 知道的 这也是一个非常重要的问题， 基本的和直接适用的 影响 基本科学 兴趣在于了解地质学 海洋系统中的过程（侵蚀， 沉积等）实用价值是 对理解运输的影响 和海洋污染物的命运，这是已知的 附着在细小颗粒上， 形成大的聚集体。

This award supports John T. Wells and Richard Luettich of the Institute of Marine Sciences of the University of North Carolina to collaborate in physical oceanography with Doeke Eisma and others of the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research. The objective of their research is to increase understanding of the behavior of large particle aggregates in the shallow coastal areas under natural conditions. Dr. Wells and his group are currently carrying out research on this off the coast of North Carolina. Funding from this award will enable them to extend this observational program to a second set of field sites in the North Sea where similar studies are being carried out by Dutch researchers under the direction of Doeke Eisma. Both field efforts will benefit from techniques developed independently in each other's laboratories. Understanding the behavior of particle aggregates in shallow water bodies is a very difficult problem about which almost nothing is known. It is also a very important problem, with both fundamental and immediately applicable implications. The fundamental scientific interest is in understanding geological processes in marine systems (erosion, deposition, etc.) while the practical value is the implications for understanding the transport and fate of marine pollutants, which are known to become attached to fine particles that often form large aggregates.