COASTAL DATA ACQUISITION

Applied Marine Sciences, Inc. (AMS) provides coastal data acquisition services and maintains an extensive inventory of state-of-the-art instrumentation, including Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP), electromagnetic and direct reading current meters, optical backscatter sensors, and conductivity-temperature-depth meters.

AMS has extensive experience in the planning, execution and analysis of all types of coastal data acquisition programs. Our staff is also experienced with measurements of suspended sediment concentrations and particle size distributions using in situ sensors. In-house capabilities include:

• ADCP surveys
• Directional & non-directional wave measurements
• Tide and water level measurements
• Suspended sediment and turbidity measurements
• Temperature and salinity measurements
• Current measurements and vertical profiling

Typical oceanographic services applications:

• Hydrodynamic modeling
• Sediment transport modeling
• Plume tracking
• Mixing zone assessment
• Discharge permitting and monitoring
• Dredge material disposal monitoring