The ever increasing human impact on vulnerable marine and coastal areas and especially the increase in risks associated with potential oil pollution, calls for novel methods for mitigating the impact of such risks.
(Left) Dr. Ian Church, Asst. Professor in the Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering, UNB Fredericton and (Right) Dr. Tarmo Soomere, Head of the Wave Engineering Laboratory in the Institute of Cybernetics and the President of the Estonian Academy of Sciences
During a guest lecture at Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering UNB Fredericton, Dr. Tarmo Soomere presented an overview of the prototype of a preventive method for environmental management of various potentially dangerous activities. The method relies on the quantification of the potential of different offshore domains in terms of their “ability” to serve as a source of current-driven danger (e.g. oil pollution) to the coastal environment.
A general solution to this problem requires solving an inverse problem of pollution propagation. An approximate solution is obtained by means of statistical analysis of a large number of solutions of the associated direct problem of propagation of single water parcels. The approach binds together a 3D ocean model, calculations of a large set of Lagrangian trajectories of water (or pollution) parcels, statistical analysis of the properties of these trajectories and, finally, a method for construction of the optimal fairway.
The potential of its use is demonstrated in the context of the optimization of ship routes in the Baltic Sea in terms of minimizing the risk of coastal pollution.
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