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Coastal Processes is designed to help graduate students in surficial processes better understand the physical processes that take place along the coast. Topics covered include tides, sea level changes, waves, and sediment transport by waves. Although this class also takes a fairly strong engineering bent, concepts are stressed over mathematics, and no use of calculus is required.
Like the other classes in this series (Hydrology and Fluvial Sediment Transport), this class stresses outside labwork. During the first four weeks of the semester, we use nearby Lake Erie as a natural lab to measure the coastal profile of a sandy beach, to measure wave climates and currents, and to estimate sediment transport.
Coastal Processes is taught in the fall, in odd years. It will next be taught in Fall 2007.