The goal of the WHOI sediment transport program at LEO-15 is to make detailed observations of sediment transport processes and to analyze these observations in order to better understand the complex relations between the sediment tranport processes and the relevant physical forcing mechanisms. To meet this goal in 1993 WHOI scientists Jim Lynch , Jim Irish , and graduate student Peter Traykovski began a series of bottom moored tripod deployments at the LEO-15 site. In this document we will describe some of the instrumentation systems that were deployed and display some of the results from these deployments.
Bright colors are surfaces facing towards the sonar.
A vertical slice of sonar imagery showing the bedform profile along a line and puffs of suspended sediment. Six tropical storm passed to the east of the site in this deployment providing a very interesting data set. Instruments deployed on the 1995 LEO-15 Tripod. Overview of the 1995 deployment Acoustic Backscattering time series with wave and current forcing. The Sector Scanning Sonar data is best viewed as a movie so you can see the evolution of the ripple patterns in response to wave forcing.