Equipment	Publications
Acoustic Doppler Profiler	Baker, Grant	Ra, Jang
Hydraulic Research Flume	Davis, Don	Schnabel, Bill
Directional Spectral Wave Measurement and Analysis	Lang, Robert	Smith, Orson
	Liu, He	Woolard, Craig
	Quimby, Bart	Yang, Zhaohui
		Zubeck, Hannele

Projects

Socio-Economic Effects of Studded Tire Use in Alaska Hannele Zubeck, Lynn Aleshire, Susan Harvey, Stan Porhola, Eric Larson April 2004    

The University of Alaska Anchorage conducted a study on the socio-economic effects of studded tire use on Alaska. The Alaska Legislature funded the study in Spring 2002. The objective was to investigate usage of studded tires, different tire and stud technologies, and effects of stud use on traffic safety, air quality, and pavement wear. The economic impact of these factors in Alaska was evaluated. This paper summarizes the findings of the final report.  Read More  

Strong-Motion Instrumentation Design of the Port Access Bridge, Anchorage, Alaska Zhaohui (Joey) Yang, Helen Liu, Toshi Kono February 2004    

The Port of Anchorage serves 80% of Alaska's populated area, impacting the region from Homer to the North Slope by means of rail, road and air cargo connections. The Port Access bridge connects Anchorage proper to the Port of Anchorage and Elmendorf Air Force Base. However, this important bridge is located on a site where extensive ground failure occurred in the 1964 Alaska earthquake. Most of the bridge site is underlain by a layer of sediments (Bootlegger Cove Formation) that has long been recognized as an engineering-soils unit likely to cause ground-stability problems when subjected to strong seismic-loading conditions.  Read More

Management Systems Simulation Model of the Mission Management Workflow James R. Hemsath, P.E., PMP, Cheryl Malloy, and Amanda Mitskevich Summer 2003    

The Mission Management Office (MMO) is a key element in the Launch Services and Expendable Launch Vehicle Program. The responsibility of this group is to assure proper integration of spacecraft/payload activities to the Launch Services provider (launch vehicle) and all ground support activities (launch support and global telemetry needs). The office was consolidated at Kennedy Space Center from a number of different NASA centers and at this time is reviewing its work processes and workflow. A Management System simulation model was developed for work being performed by the Mission Integration Managers (MIM) to determine the workforce requirements for core activities. A dynamic model was developed to allow for variations and uncertainty in the resource expenditures required for each activity and to allow for potential what-if analyses for future workloads. The model while only an early revision predicted workforce requirements that were consistent with a previous static model. Future activities and modeling approaches are identified.  Read More

Beach Stability Measurements & Analysis at Nikiski, Alaska Orson P. Smith, Alexander Khokhlov, Steven J. Buchanan, and William J. Lee June 6, 2003    

Geomega (Boulder, CO), in collaboration with Chevron Environmental Management Company (San Ramon, CA), in June 2002 requested the School of Engineering, University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) to measure parameters of beach stability in the vicinity of a sheetpile seawall owned by ChevronTexaco at Nikiski, Alaska and to present an interpretation of these data with regard to historical change and prospects for future beach erosion or accretion. Read More

Tidal Current Measurements and Analysis,Tongass Narrows at Ketchikan, Alaska Orson P. Smith, PE, Ph.D. and William J. Lee November 20, 2002    

HDR, Inc., requested the School of Engineering, University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) to measure tidal currents in the vicinity of a proposed new bridge across Tongass Narrows, from Ketchikan to Gravina Island. UAA was also asked to present an interpretation of these data in the context of current velocity changes that might be induced by constrictions from proposed fill for bridge abutments on the margins of the present channel. Field measurements were made by UAA on 23 and 24 July 2002. The following report summarizes data measured and presents an interpretation with a view toward potential impacts of the proposed bridge abutment construction.  Read More

Alaska Sea Ice Atlas (http://holmes-iv.engr.uaa.alaska.edu) William Lee, Joshua Rogers, Orson Smith, Cherie Northon, Thom Eley, Kenrick Mock, Terry Tucker, Dwight Pollard, Andrey Proshutinsky, Tatiana Proshutinsky August 2002     

The Alaska Sea Ice Atlas is intended to aid mariners, regulatory agencies, engineers, and disaster response planners in the assessment of sea ice impacts on current and future logistical operations and construction works. A predecessor printed publication, long out of print, titled the “Marine Ice Atlas of Alaska” (LaBelle et al 1983) was compiled from short records of sparse ice information available from the early years of offshore development in Alaska. Precision and comprehensive coverage of reported ice conditions has increased during subsequent years through use of satellite imagery and an expanding network of aerial, shipboard, and coastal observations. The US National Ice Center (NIC) has recently compiled weekly summary ice reports from 1972 to the present (NIC 2002). The US National Weather Service has also archived periodic ice reports at different scales (NWS 2002). Furthermore, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and computer database software improvements make archival, analysis, and portrayal of geospatial information, such as the NIC and NWS ice reports, much more practical to distribute as digital products via electronic media, especially the Internet. The Alaska Sea Ice Atlas applies these new resources to improve the service offered by the earlier work.  Read More