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Submissions from 2026

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The state of knowledge for engineering with nature: Vegetation as wave buffer, Xifen Chen, Zhan Hu, Tori Tomiczek, Che-Wei Chang, Dan Cox, Maria Maza, Nobuhito Mori, Siddharth Narayan, Sungwon Shin, and Tomohiro Suzuki

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Estimation of Sea State Parameters from Measured Ship Motions with a Neural Network Trained on Experimentally Validated Model Simulations, Jason M. Dahl, Annette R. Grilli, Stephanie C. Steele, and Stephan T. Grilli

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Predicting the long-term evolution of a barrier spit in a changing climate: A case study in Rhode Island, Napatree Point, Alexa Leone, Annette Grilli, Bryan Oakley, Bas Huisman, Ap Van Dongeren, Johan Reyns, and Dano Roelvink

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Investigation of Wave Attenuation by Rhizophora apiculata Mangroves: Coupled Laboratory Experiments and Boussinesq Modeling, Yu‐Lin Tsai, Che‐Wei Chang, and Nobuhito Mori

Submissions from 2025

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Uncertainty-Guided Prediction Limits of Phase-Resolved OceanWave Forecasting under Data Sparsity: Experimental andNumerical Evaluation, Yukel Alkarem, Kimberly Huguenard, Richard Kimball, and Stephan Grilli

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Uncertainty-Guided Prediction Horizon of Phase-Resolved Ocean Wave Forecasting Under Data Sparsity: Experimental and Numerical Evaluation, Yuksel Rudy Alkarem, Kimberly Huguenard, Richard W. Kimball, and Stephan T. Grilli

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Design, Optimization, and Control of Floating Offshore Wind Farms for Optimal Energy Production (Final report), Stephan Grilli, Jason Dahl, Annette Grilli, Reza Hashemi, Stephanie Steele, Richard Kimball, kimberly Huguenard, and Babak Hejrati

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Past and Future Storm-Driven Changes to a Dynamic Sandy Barrier System: Outer Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Daniel J. Harrington, John P. Walsh, Annette R. Grilli, Isaac Ginis, Deborah Crowley, Stephan T. Grilli, Christopher Damon, Roland Duhaime, Peter Stempel, and Pam Rubinoff

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Field experiment study to assess critical wave conditions leading to failure of mangrove Rhizophora stylosa, Nobuhito Mori, Che-Wei Chang, Kenji Ono, Hironori Noguchi, Shigeyuki Baba, Hideaki Yanagisawa, Toyohiko Miyagi, Naoki Tsuruta, Kojiro Suzuki, Shiro Yamagata, Yusuke Hasegawa, Yu-Lin Tsai, Takuya Miyashita, Tomoya Shimura, and Che-Wei Chang

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SPH simulations to investigate the influence of realistic mangroves in reducing breaking wave forces on coastal structures, Shengzhe Wang and Che-Wei Chang

Submissions from 2024

Investigating the impact of mangroves on wave attenuation through physical and numerical modeling, Che-Wei Chang

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Fatigue Analysis of a Jacket-Supported Offshore Wind Turbine at Block Island Wind Farm, Nasim Partovi-Mehr, John DeFrancisci, Mohsen Minaeijavid, Babak Moaveni, Daniel Kuchma, Christopher D. P. Baxter, Eric M. Hines, and Aaron S. Bradshaw

Submissions from 2023

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Probabilistic landslide tsunami modeling of the 2018 Palu Bay event, Claudia Cecioni, Verdiana Iorio, Giorgio Bellotti, and Stephan T. Grilli

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Unified depth-limited wave breaking detection and dissipation in fully nonlinear potential flow models, Sunil Mohanlal, Jeffrey C. Harris, Marissa L. Yates, and Stephan T. Grilli

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3D Morphodynamic Visualizations of Storm Impacts for Decision Support, Peter Stempel, Ellie Nasr-Azadani, Annette Grilli, Stephan Grilli, Elin Shuh, Felix Groetsch, Isaac Ginis, Deborah Crowley, J P. Walsh, Isabel Whaling, Christopher Damon, Roland Duhaime, Pam Rubinoff, and Catherine Schmitt

Submissions from 2022

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Block-structured, equal-workload, multi-grid-nesting interface for the Boussinesq wave model FUNWAVE-TVD (Total Variation Diminishing), Young-Kwang Choi, Fengyan Shi, Matt Malej, Jane M. Smith, James T. Kirby, and Stephan Grilli

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Application and Validation of Flood Damage Curves for Wastewater Treatment Facilities (WWTF), Case Examples in Rhode Island, Tyler Donahue, Peter Krekorian, Luke Swift, Malcolm L. Spaulding, Chris Baxter, and Craig Swanson

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Tsunami coastal hazard along the US East Coast from coseismic sources in the Açores convergence zone and the Caribbean arc areas, Stéphan T. Grilli, Maryam Mohammadpour, Lauren Schambach, and Annette R. Grilli

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Nonlinear time-domain wave-structure interaction: A parallel fast integral equation approach, Jeffrey C. Harris, Emmanuel Dombre, Michel Benoit, Stephan T. Grilli, and Konstantin I. Kuznetsov

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Validation and inter-comparison of models for landslide tsunami generation, James T. Kirby, Stephan T. Grilli, Juan Horrillo, Philip L.F. Liu, Dmitry Nicolsky, Stephane Abadie, Behzad Ataie-Ashtiani, Manuel J. Castro, Lucie Clous, Cipriano Escalante, Isaac Fine, José Manuel González-Vida, Finn Løvholt, Patrick Lynett, Gangfeng Ma, Jorge Macías, Sergio Ortega, Fengyan Shi, Saeedeh Yavari-Ramshe, and Cheng Zhang

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Hybrid Lattice-Boltzmann-Potential Flow Simulations of Turbulent Flow around Submerged Structures, Christopher M. O'Reilly, Stephan Grilli, Christian F. Janßen, Jason M. Dahl, and Jeffrey C. Harris

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Understanding and reducing the disaster risk of landslide-induced tsunamis: a short summary of the panel discussion in the World Tsunami Awareness Day Special Event of the Fifth World Landslide Forum, Shinji Sassa, Stephan T. Grilli, David R. Tappin, Kyoji Sassa, Dwikorita Karnawati, Viacheslav K. Gusiakov, and Finn Løvholt

Submissions from 2021

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Potential geo-hazards to floating offshore wind farms in the us pacific, Tayebeh Tajalli Bakhsh, Kent Simpson, Tony LaPierre, Mahmud Monim, Jason Dahl, Malcolm Spaulding, Jill Rowe, Jennifer Miller, and Daniel O'Connell

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Assessing seaglider model-based position accuracy on an acoustic tracking range, James S. Bennett, Frederick R. Stahr, Charles C. Eriksen, Martin C. Renken, Wendy E. Snyder, and Lora J. Van Uffelen

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Transdimensional Geoacoustic Inversion Using Prior Information on Range-Dependent Seabed Layering, Julien Bonnel, Stan E. Dosso, John A. Goff, Ying Tsong Lin, James H. Miller, Gopu R. Potty, Preston S. Wilson, and David P. Knobles

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Nonstationary response statistics of fractional oscillators to evolutionary stochastic excitation, Qianying Cao, Sau-Lon James Hu, and Huajun Li

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A novel fish sampling system for ROVs, Nicholas Chaloux, Brennan T. Phillips, David F. Gruber, Robert C. Schelly, and John S. Sparks

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General Boundary Identification Through Surface Pressure Measurements on a 2-D Foil, Jack H. Clark and Jason M. Dahl

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Oil fate and mass balance for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Deborah P. French-McCay, Katherine Jayko, Zhengkai Li, Malcolm Spaulding, Deborah Crowley, Daniel Mendelsohn, Matthew Horn, Tatsusaburo Isaji, Yong Hong Kim, Jeremy Fontenault, and Jill J. Rowe

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Validation of Oil Trajectory and Fate Modeling of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Deborah P. French-McCay, Malcolm Spaulding, Deborah Crowley, Daniel Mendelsohn, Jeremy Fontenault, and Matthew Horn

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Modeling of the Dec. 22nd 2018 Anak Krakatau volcano lateral collapse and tsunami based on recent field surveys: Comparison with observed tsunami impact, S. T. Grilli, C. Zhang, J. T. Kirby, A. R. Grilli, D. R. Tappin, S. F.L. Watt, J. E. Hunt, A. Novellino, S. Engwell, M. E.M. Nurshal, M. Abdurrachman, M. Cassidy, A. L. Madden-Nadeau, and S. Day

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Assessment of hurricane generated loads on offshore wind farms; a closer look at most extreme historical hurricanes in New England, M. Reza Hashemi, Boma Kresning, Javad Hashemi, and Isaac Ginis

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Submarine landslide megablocks show half of Anak Krakatau island failed on December 22nd, 2018, J. E. Hunt, D. R. Tappin, S. F.L. Watt, S. Susilohadi, A. Novellino, S. K. Ebmeier, M. Cassidy, S. L. Engwell, S. T. Grilli, M. Hanif, W. S. Priyanto, M. A. Clare, M. Abdurrachman, and U. Udrekh

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Finite element model updating of piezoceramic thin-walled tube transducers, Sau-Lon James Hu, Liang Su, and Shuai Cong

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The Fiber Optic Reel System: A Compact Deployment Solution for Tethered Live-Telemetry Deep-Sea Robots and Sensors, Brennan T. Phillips, Nicholas Chaloux, Russell Shomberg, Adrjana Muñoz-Soto, and Jim Owens

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New High-Resolution Modeling of the 2018 Palu Tsunami, Based on Supershear Earthquake Mechanisms and Mapped Coastal Landslides, Supports a Dual Source, Lauren Schambach, Stephan Grilli, and David R. Tappin

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Response to: Comment on “New simulations and understanding of the 1908 Messina tsunami for a dual seismic and deep submarine mass failure source” by L. Schambach, S.T. Grilli, D.R. Tappin, M.D. Gangemi, G. Barbaro [Marine Geology 421 (2020) 106093], L. Schambach, S. T. Grilli, D. R. Tappin, M. D. Gangemi, and G. Barbaro

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Development and Application of STORMTOOLS Design Load (SDL) Maps, Isabella Silverman, Blaze Engelman, Alexa Leone, Michael Rothenbucher, Allison Munch, Joseph Sorrentino, Brandon Markiewicz, Chris Pearson, Christopher Baxter, Craig Swanson, George Tiastas, and Malcolm Spaulding

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A new definition of the kinematic breaking onset criterion validated with solitary and quasi-regular waves in shallow water, Audrey Varing, Jean Francois Filipot, Stéphan Grilli, Rui Duarte, Volker Roeber, and Marissa Yates

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A two-layer non-hydrostatic landslide model for tsunami generation on irregular bathymetry. 1. Theoretical basis, Cheng Zhang, James T. Kirby, Fengyan Shi, Gangfeng Ma, and Stéphan T. Grilli

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A two-layer non-hydrostatic landslide model for tsunami generation on irregular bathymetry. 2. Numerical discretization and model validation, Cheng Zhang, James T. Kirby, Fengyan Shi, Gangfeng Ma, and Stéphan T. Grilli

Submissions from 2020

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Characterization of impact pile driving signals during installation of offshore wind turbine foundations, Jennifer L. Amaral, James H. Miller, Gopu R. Potty, Kathleen J. Vigness-Raposa, Adam S. Frankel, Ying Tsong Lin, Arthur E. Newhall, Daniel R. Wilkes, and Alexander N. Gavrilov

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Tsunami intensity scale based on wave amplitude and current applied to the French Riviera: the case study of local seismicity, Laurie Boschetti, Mansour Ioualalen, Fatemeh Nemati, Stéphan Grilli, Jean Xavier Dessa, and Christophe Larroque

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A Novel Approach for Evaluating Nonstationary Response of Dynamic Systems to Stochastic Excitation, Qianying Cao, Sau-Lon James Hu, and Hewenxuan Li

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Evaluating response of simple oscillators to a particular kind of time–frequency non-separable evolutionary stochastic processes, Qian Ying Cao, Sau-Lon James Hu, and Hua Jun Li

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Global Maximum Response of Linear Systems with Uncertain Damping to Irregular Excitation, Qian Ying Cao, Sau-Lon James Hu, and Hua Jun Li

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The polygenetic Kahouanne Seamounts in the northern Lesser Antilles island arc: Evidence for large-scale volcanic island subsidence, S. Carey, R. S.J. Sparks, M. E. Tucker, T. Li, L. Robinson, S. F.L. Watt, M. Gee, A. Hastie, D. N. Barfod, A. Stinton, M. Leng, N. Raineault, and R. D. Ballard

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Inverse modeling of damping and soil–structure interface for monopiled offshore wind turbines, Shuai Cong, Sau-Lon James Hu, and Hua Jun Li

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A Unified Breaking Onset Criterion for Surface Gravity Water Waves in Arbitrary Depth, Morteza Derakhti, James T. Kirby, Michael L. Banner, Stéphan T. Grilli, and Jim Thomson

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Experimental and numerical assessment of deterministic nonlinear ocean waves prediction algorithms using non-uniformly sampled wave gauges, N. Desmars, F. Bonnefoy, S. T. Grilli, G. Ducrozet, Y. Perignon, C. A. Guérin, and P. Ferrant

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Assessing coastal hazard from extreme storms with a phase resolving wave model: Case study of Narragansett, RI, USA, Annette R. Grilli, Gregory Westcott, Stéphan Grilli, Malcolm L. Spaulding, Fengyan Shi, and James T. Kirby

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Energy-minimal target retrieval for quadrotor UAVs: Trajectory generation and tracking, H. C. Henninger, K. D. Von Ellenrieder, and S. C. Licht

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A NUMERICAL MODEL FOR THE EFFICIENT SIMULATION OF MULTIPLE LANDSLIDE-TSUNAMI SCENARIOS, Verdiana Iorio, Giorgio Bellotti, Claudia Cecioni, and Stephan Grilli

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Flood Risk in Past and Future: A Case Study for the Pawtuxet River's Record-breaking March 2010 Flood Event, Soroush Kouhi, Mohammad Hashemi, Rozita Kian, Malcolm Spaulding, Matthew Lewis, and Isaac Ginis

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Simulation of Hurricane Loading for Proposed Offshore Windfarms off the US Northeast Coast, Boma Kresning, Mohammad Hashemi, and Clara Gallucci

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A Lattice-Boltzmann-based perturbation method, Christopher M. O'Reilly, Christian F. Janßen, and Stéphan T. Grilli

New techniques in applying additive manufacturing to deep-sea ocean exploration, Brennan Phillips

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Additive manufacturing aboard a moving vessel at sea using passively stabilized stereolithography (SLA) 3D printing, Brennan T. Phillips, Josh Allder, Grady Bolan, R. Sean Nagle, Allison Redington, Tess Hellebrekers, John Borden, Nikolai Pawlenko, and Stephen Licht

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Effect of shear on modal arrival times, Gopu R. Potty and James H. Miller

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Characterization of seismic noise at two shallow water sites in the United States East Coast, Gopu R. Potty, James H. Miller, Ying Tsong Lin, Arthur E. Newhall, and Kathleen Vigness-Raposa

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New simulations and understanding of the 1908 Messina tsunami for a dual seismic and deep submarine mass failure source, L. Schambach, S. T. Grilli, D. R. Tappin, M. D. Gangemi, and G. Barbaro

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Stormtools Design Elevation (SDE) Maps: Including Impact of Sea Level Rise, Malcolm Spaulding, Annette Grilli, Chris Damon, Reza Hashemi, Soroush Kouhi, and Grover Fugate

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Application of STORMTOOLS Coastal Environmental Risk Index (CERI) to Inform State and Local Planning and Decision Making along the Southern RI Shoreline, Malcolm L. Spaulding, Annette Grilli, Chris Damon, Teresa Crean, and Grover Fugate

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Synthesis of Acoustic Propagation Loss Measurements on Coral Reefs, Kayla Thilges, Gopu Potty, T. Aran Mooney, and Lora Van Uffelen

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Towards the Development of the Multipurpose Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, Raymond Turrisi, Jordan Beason, and Mingxi Zhou

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Dynamic modelling and control of a portable USV for bathymetric survey, Karl D. Von Ellenrieder, Helen C. Henninger, and Stephen Licht

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The Design and Development of an Affordable Unmanned Surface Vehicle for Estuary Research and STEM Education, Mingxi Zhou and Jianguang Shi

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Towards the Development of an Online Coverage Path Planner for UUV-based Seafloor Survey using an Interferometric Sonar, Mingxi Zhou, Jianguang Shi, and Lin Zhao

Submissions from 2019

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Foreword to the special issue on nonlinear waves over variable bathymetry, G. A. Athanassoulis, M. Benoit, D. Clamond, and S. T. Grilli

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Towards auto-tuning of kalman filters for underwater gliders based on consistency metrics, Levi Cai, Burak Boyacioglu, Sarah E. Webster, Lora Van Uffelen, and Kristi Morgansen

Vibration analysis of monopiled offshore wind turbines with uncertain modal damping, Qian Ying Cao, Shuai Cong, Sau-Lon James Hu, and Hua Jun Li

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Underwater acoustic energy fluctuations during strong internal wave activity using a three-dimensional parabolic equation model, Georges A. Dossot, Kevin B. Smith, Mohsen Badiey, James H. Miller, and Gopu R. Potty

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Incorporating a machine learning technique to improve open-channel flow computations, Hamed Farhadi, Abdolreza Zahiri, M. Reza Hashemi, and Kazem Esmaili

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Preliminary results for glider localization in the Beaufort Duct using broadband acoustic sources at long range, Cristian E. Graupe, Lora J. Van Uffelen, Sarah E. Webster, Peter F. Worcester, and Matthew A. Dzieciuch

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Modelling of the tsunami from the December 22, 2018 lateral collapse of Anak Krakatau volcano in the Sunda Straits, Indonesia, Stephan T. Grilli, David R. Tappin, Steven Carey, Sebastian F.L. Watt, Steve N. Ward, Annette R. Grilli, Samantha L. Engwell, Cheng Zhang, James T. Kirby, Lauren Schambach, and Muslim Muin

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Bioluminescent flashes drive nighttime schooling behavior and synchronized swimming dynamics in flashlight fish, David F. Gruber, Brennan Phillips, Rory O'Brien, Vivek Boominathan, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Ganesh Vasan, Peter O'Brien, Vincent A. Pieribone, and John S. Sparks

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An improved Lagrangian model for the time evolution of nonlinear surface waves, Charles Antoine Guérin, Nicolas Desmars, Stéphan T. Grilli, Guillaume Ducrozet, Yves Perignon, and Pierre Ferrant

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Guest Editorial Underwater Acoustic Propagation Physics and Signal Processing Techniques for Shallow Water Acoustic Communications, Ananya Sen Gupta and Gopu R. Potty

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Laplace domain method for evaluating mean-square response of simple oscillators to nonstationary excitation, Sau-Lon James Hu, Qianying Cao, and Hua Jun Li

Finite element model updating of piezoelectric transducers, Sau-Lon James Hu, Liang Su, Shuai Cong, and Hua Jun Li

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Preliminary Results in Current Profile Estimation and Doppler-aided Navigation for Autonomous Underwater Gliders, Jonathan Jonker, Andrey Shcherbina, Richard Krishfield, Lora Van Uffelen, Aleksandr Aravkin, and Sarah E. Webster

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The impacts of tidal energy development and sea-level rise in the Gulf of Maine, Boma Kresning, M. Reza Hashemi, Simon P. Neill, J. A. Mattias Green, and Huijie Xue

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A three-dimensional underwater sound propagation model for offshore wind farm noise prediction, Ying-Tsong Lin, Arthur E. Newhall, James H. Miller, Gopu R. Potty, and Kathleen J. Vigness-Raposa

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Localization of a geophone array in the new england mud patch, James H. Miller and Gopu R. Potty

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High-resolution coastal hazard assessment along the French Riviera from co-seismic tsunamis generated in the Ligurian fault system, Fatemeh Nemati, Stéphan T. Grilli, Mansour Ioualalen, Laurie Boschetti, Christophe Larroque, and Jenny Trevisan

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DEEPi: A miniaturized, robust, and economical camera and computer system for deep-sea exploration: A miniaturized deep-sea camera system, Brennan T. Phillips, Stephen Licht, Karla S. Haiat, Jake Bonney, Josh Allder, Nicholas Chaloux, Russell Shomberg, and Tim J. Noyes

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Shear wave inversion using the horizontal to vertical ratio of Scholte wave particle velocity, Gopu R. Potty and James H. Miller

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Estimation of Geophone Orientation Using Source of Opportunity, Gopu R. Potty, James H. Miller, Ying Tsong Lin, Arthur E. Newhall, and Kathleen Vigness-Raposa

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The Global High Frequency Radar Network, Hugh Roarty, Thomas Cook, Lisa Hazard, Doug George, Jack Harlan, Simone Cosoli, Lucy Wyatt, Enrique Alvarez Fanjul, Eric Terrill, Mark Otero, John Largier, Scott Glenn, Naoto Ebuchi, Brian Whitehouse, Kevin Bartlett, Julien Mader, Anna Rubio, Lorenzo Corgnati, Carlo Mantovani, Annalisa Griffa, Emma Reyes, Pablo Lorente, Xavier Flores-Vidal, Kelly Johanna Saavedra-Matta, Peter Rogowski, Siriluk Prukpitikul, Sang-Ho Lee, Jian-Wu Lai, Charles-Antoine Guerin, Jorge Sanchez, Birgit Hansen, and Stephan Grilli

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The wire flyer towed profiling system, Chris Roman, David S. Ullman, Dave Hebert, and Stephen Licht

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Landslide Tsunami Hazard Along the Upper US East Coast: Effects of Slide Deformation, Bottom Friction, and Frequency Dispersion, Lauren Schambach, Stéphan T. Grilli, James T. Kirby, and Fengyan Shi

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Corrigendum to “State of the art review and future directions in oil spill modeling” [Mar. Pollut. Bull. 115 (1–2) (2017) 7–19](S0025326X17300012)(10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.01.001), Malcolm L. Spaulding

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Role of hurricane wind models in accurate simulation of storm surge and waves, Marissa J. Torres, M. Reza Hashemi, Scott Hayward, Malcolm Spaulding, Isaac Ginis, and Stéphan T. Grilli

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Mapping the underside of an iceberg with a modified underwater glider, Mingxi Zhou, Ralf Bachmayer, and Brad deYoung

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Working towards adaptive sensing for terrain-aided navigation, Mingxi Zhou, Ralf Bachmayer, and Brad Deyoung

Submissions from 2018

Experimental force database from controlled in-line and cross flow cylinder motion, Erdem Aktosun and Jason M. Dahl

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Geoacoustic inversion on the New England Mud Patch using warping and dispersion curves of high-order modes, Julien Bonnel, Ying Tsong Lin, Dimitrios Eleftherakis, John A. Goff, Stan Dosso, Ross Chapman, James H. Miller, and Gopu R. Potty

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A new system identification method operated in the pole domain, Qianying Cao, Bin Gao, Huajun Li, and Sau-Lon James Hu

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Phase-resolved reconstruction algorithm and deterministic prediction of nonlinear ocean waves from spatiooral optical measurements, Nicolas Desmars, Yves Perignon, Guillaume Ducrozet, Charles Antoine Guerin, Stéphan T. Grilli, and Pierre Ferrant

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Modeling Distribution, Fate, and Concentrations of Deepwater Horizon Oil in Subsurface Waters of the Gulf of Mexico, Deborah P. French-McCay, Matthew Horn, Zhengkai Li, Katherine Jayko, Malcolm L. Spaulding, Deborah Crowley, and Daniel Mendelsohn