River survey boat

河流调查船

• 批准号: 358823-2008
• 负责人: Hicks, Faye
• 金额: $ 7.1万
• 依托单位: University of Alberta
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2007-01-01 至 2008-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=364809
• 关键词: River; survey; boat

The four members of our Water Resources Engineering group who specialize in hydraulics, all work in surface water (river and lake) engineering. Dr. Hicks studies river ice, Drs. Zhu and Loewen both specialize in environmental fluid mechanics, and Dr. Steffler specializes in computational modeling, with a particular focus on eco-hydraulics.  All members of the group work collaboratively, combining their respective skills in field, lab, and numerical research.  A common thread in many of these collaborations (and the mainstream focus of Dr. Hicks's research in particular) is field experiments.  Some of these field studies are fundamental in nature, such as Dr. Hicks's investigations of the physics of river ice jam formation and release (Athabasca and Hay Rivers), and Drs. Hicks's and Loewen's investigations of the Shallow Water Ice Profiler for measuring frazil ice concentrations (Athabasca River).  Others are applied research, such as Drs. Hicks's and Steffler's study of the effects of climate change and industrial water use on winter water supply and physical fish habitat (Lower Athabasca River), and Dr. Zhu's study of the effects of pulp mill effluents on river water quality (Athabasca River near Athabasca).  We have many instruments which we use to measure rivers, including sophisticated acoustic depth sounders and velocity sensors, as well as surveying equipment such as Global Positioning Systems and Lidar to measure detailed channel geometry.  We also operate sophisticated remote monitoring stations employing radar, lasers, cameras and weather sensors.  All instruments require one essential piece of equipment to deploy - a boat.  However, our 30+ year old dingy is just too small to handle all the modern, sophisticated (and heavy) gear.  It is also underpowered to access remote sites on big rivers, such as the Athabasca.  The motor (brand new in 2001) is breaking down repeatedly and, even with recent servicing, died on the Lower Athabasca stranding our field team 20 km from Fort McMurray in Oct 2007.  We urgently need a new, larger, river survey boat to do our studies effectively and safely.

我们水资源工程团队的四名成员都是专门从事水力学的，他们都从事地表水（河流和湖泊）工程。Hicks博士研究河冰，Zhu博士和Loewen博士都专注于环境流体力学，Steffler博士专注于计算建模，特别关注生态水力学。小组的所有成员合作工作，结合他们各自在现场，实验室，和数值研究。这些合作中的一个共同点是（特别是希克斯博士研究的主流焦点）是实地实验。这些实地研究中有一些是基础性的，比如希克斯博士对河冰形成和释放的物理学的研究（Athabasca and Hay Rivers）希克斯博士和洛温博士对浅水冰剖面仪的研究，其他的是应用研究，如希克斯博士和斯特夫勒博士关于气候变化和工业用水对冬季供水和鱼类自然栖息地的影响的研究（下阿萨巴斯卡河），以及朱博士有关纸浆厂废水对河流水质影响的研究（阿萨巴斯卡附近的阿萨巴斯卡河）。我们有许多测量河流的仪器，包括先进的声学测深仪和流速传感器，以及测量设备，如全球定位系统和激光雷达，以测量详细的水道几何形状。我们还运营先进的远程监测站，采用雷达，激光，相机和天气传感器。所有的仪器都需要一个必不可少的设备来部署-一艘船。然而，我们30多年的老船太小了，无法处理所有的现代，复杂（和重型）齿轮。它也是动力不足，以访问偏远地区的大河，如阿萨巴斯卡。电机（2001年全新）是反复打破，即使最近的维修，死亡的下阿萨巴斯卡搁浅我们的实地小组20公里，从麦克默里堡在2007年10月。我们迫切需要一个新的，更大的，河流调查船有效和安全地进行研究。