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St. Petersburg Field Center Hosts Visit from Japanese Land-Management Team
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Fuminori Kato, Koji Yamamoto, Steve Obrochta, Greg Brooks, and Bekka Larsen (left to right)
gather at Fort De Soto Park for a field trip to undeveloped beaches.
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Fuminori Kato and Koji Yamamoto from the National Institute for Land and Infrastructure
Management in Japan visited the USGS' Center for Coastal and Regional Marine Studies (CCRMS)
in St. Petersburg, FL, on March 25 and 26. They were here to attend the Association of State Flood
Plain Managers meeting in Tampa and had a few extra days. Jack Medlin (USGS, International
Programs, Reston, VA) arranged a tour of our facility. Mr. Kato and Mr. Yamamoto were especially
interested in how the USGS deals with coastal-erosion issues on a populated beach. We took
them on a field trip to visit developed and undeveloped beaches along Pinellas County.
Thanks
to Bob Halley, Bob Morton, John Brock, Terry Edgar, Abby Sallenger, and Russ Peterson from the
USGS, Steve Obrochta from the University of South Florida, and Greg Brooks
and Bekka Larsen
from Eckerd College for helping introduce them to our facilities.
Koji Yamamoto and Fuminori Kato wade into the lagoon between Fort De Soto and Hook Island
to do fieldwork at Fort De Soto. |
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Steve Obrochta and Koji Yamamoto look at grain sizes at a Fort De Soto Park beach. |
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Russ Peterson demonstrates use of the All Terrain Vehicle for beach mapping to Fuminori Kato. |
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Some of the visitors' publications are:
Kato, Fuminori, Sato, Shinji, and Yeh, Harry, 2000, Large-scale experiment on dynamic response of sand bed around a cylinder due to tsunami, in Edge, Billy L., ed., Coastal Engineering 2000, Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Sydney, Australia, July 16-21, 2000: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), p. 1848-1859.
Kato, Fuminori, Sato, Shinji, and Torii, Ken-Ichi, in preparation, Interaction between coastal vegetation and beach topography change: manuscript, 18 p.
Uda, Takaaki, and Yamamoto, Koji, 1992, Beach changes around a sand spit—the example of Mihono-Matsubara: Coastal Engineering in Japan, v. 35, no. 1, p. 111-128.
Uda, Takaaki, and Yamamoto, Koji, 1994, Beach changes caused by obstruction of longshore sand transport; an example of the Hidaka Coast in Hokkaido: Coastal Engineering in Japan, v. 37, no. 1, p. 87-106.
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April 2002
in this issue:
cover story:
Gas-Hydrate Research Wells Completed
Moloka'i Coral Reef Sediment
Role of Parasites in Ecosystems
Public Art Project
Prairie Restoration
Marine Science Day
Marine Environmental Careers Symposium
Students Visit Woods Hole
Congressional Briefing on Wetlands
Woods Hole Science Fairs
Talks—DOE and College of William and Mary
Netherlands Sediment-Transport Collaboration
Sediment-Transport Modeling
Tampa Bay Estuary Tour
Monterey Bay Research Award
Japanese Land-Management Team Visits St. Pete
Western Region Retirements
Woods Hole Visitor
April Publications List
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