On the 20th of september 2020 (local time in Ensenada), Amaia Ruiz de Alegría participated in the Coast2Coast zoominar series presenting beach morphodynamic results on the sediment exchange between the subaerial and subtidal beaches along the NW Baja California coast in Mexico. Check out her talk her: https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=q9ju1sOOlGU
]]>On the 11th of September 2020, Amaia Ruiz de Alegría gave a seminar for the Mexican Institute of Water Technology (IMTA; Instituto Mexicano de Tecnología del Agua) on sandy beach morphodynamics. Her talk focused on beach recovery capalities and the beach safety related to the presence of rip-currents. Rip-currents are poorly studied in Mexico and the general population has very little knowledge on their existence. You can access to her talk via fbk: https://www.facebook.com/imtamexico/videos/?ref=page_internal
]]>On the 4th of September 2020 David Gracia Barrera successfully defended his MSc thesis (Honors!) on rip-current dynamics. David did an excellent job addressing the understanding of the presence of rip-currents in such a complex beach, using in-situ morphological data and drone imagery. You can access a copy of his thesis here: DavidGracia_TesisMaestría.pdf. Congratulations David and good luck on your PhD!
]]>On the 3rd of July 2020, Amaia Ruiz de Alegría gave a seminar on the understanding of beach recovery capabilities on natural beaches for the Mexican Geophysical Union webinar series (UGM; Unión Geofísica Mexicana). You can access to the talk via fbk (in Spanish): https://www.facebook.com/union.g.mexicana/videos/313368396349065
]]>J. Adrián Vidal Ruiz successfully defended his PhD thesis (Honors!) on the 7th of February 2020. He published two excellent papers and provided new insights into the understanding of onshore sandbar migration processes. You can access to his thesis (in Spanish) here: Tesis_DOC_J.Adrian_Vidal_Feb20.pdf Congratulations Adrián!
]]>On the 31st of January 2020 Martín F. Vizcarra defended his MSc thesis on the morphodynamics of rip currents on a highly dynamic beach. Congratulations Martín and good luck on your future plans!
]]>La Mision beach, located 30 km north from Ensenada, in Baja California, presents intermittent breaching during high rainfall events. The beach breached this week associated with erosive subaerial beach conditions and high rainfall. The new inlet allows the Guadalupe river to flow into the Pacific Ocean. This evidence was captured with UAV imagery by David Gracia, MSc student from University of Baja California.
]]>The beach of Ensenada (Playa Hermosa), located within Todos Santos Bay in the NW Baja California peninsula, has recovered its subaerial volume since the incidence of El Niño winter energetic waves in 2015-2016. The actual (September 2018) amount of sand is similar to the measured in September 2014. While its recovery capability was reported at 65% in August 2017 (Ruiz de Alegria-Arzaburu & Vidal-Ruiz, 2018), the beach has been able to recover 100% of its sand over the 2018 summer. This interesting output results from the intensive and continuous high-quality work carried out by the whole MORDICS team!
]]>A collaborative effort of researchers, technicians and students from the University of Baja California together with the support of volunteers from CICESE and UNAM enabled undertaking intensive hydrodynamic and hydrographic measurements over 80 hours at the inlet mouths of Port Aransas (PAI) and South Padre (SPI), in Texas. The measurements were taken simultaneously at both sites, using acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs) and conductivity, temperature and depth (CTDs) sensors. These measurements comprise part of the CIGOM (https://cigom.org/) project, with the aim of characterizing nearshore currents in the Perdido region. These data will allow the validation of numerical models needed to better understand the effect of meso-scale events (i.e. Northern wind fronts, hurricanes and intensive sea-breezes) on nearshore circulation patterns along the southern Texas and northern Tamaulipas coast. The support of the PAI and SPI teams is much appreciated!
]]>Dr. Amaia Ruiz de Alegría-Arzaburu and PhD students Angélica Romero and Adrián Vidal participated in the 2018 Ocean Science Meeting hold 11-16 February in Portland, Oregon (https://osm.agu.org/2018/). Amaia gave an oral presentation (CD42A-04) Spatio-temporal variability of rip currents on a mesotidal and intermediate beach in NW Baja California, Adrián gave an oral presentation (CD31A-07) Seasonal sandbar migration on a single-barred embayed beach in the Mexican Pacific Coast, and Angélica presented a poster (AI24B-1611) Effects of Santa Ana winds on the profile of nearshore currents in Todos Santos Bay, Baja California. We had a great time at the OSM and enjoyed the city of Portland very much! We thank the support provided by the projects ST/FH/583/2014-SENER-CONACyT #201441 and CB-J4- CONACyT #238765.
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