Joseph van Gaalen
Joseph van Gaalen
Ph.D student
Contact
Laboratory: SCA 522
Phone: 813.974.8387
Email:
jvangaal@mail.usf.edu
Education
M.S., Geological Oceanography, University of South Florida, 2004
B.S.,
Environmental Science, William Paterson University, 2002
Research
Coastal geomorphology, spectral techniques for self-organized coastal systems
Recent Publications
van Gaalen, J.F., Kruse, S.E., Burroughs, S. and Coco, G. (in review),
Spectral methods for characterizing beach cusp patterns in LIDAR data, Nonlinear
Processes in Geophysics, in review.
van Gaalen, J.F., Tebbens, S.F., Murray, A.B., Barton, C.C. and Naar, D.F.
(in review) Longshore sediment transport rates and directions: A Comparison of
deep-water wave predictions with literature compilations, Journal of Coastal
Research, in review.
van Gaalen, J.F., Tebbens, S.F., Murray, A.B., Barton, C.C. and Naar, D.F.
(in press) Longshore sediment transport rates and directions from Tampa Bay, FL
to northern Maine: Literature compilation and interpretation, Journal of Coastal
Research, in press.
Recent Conferences
van Gaalen, J.F., Burroughs, S., Kruse, S.E., Boswell, M.K. (2006), Characterization of
Beach Cusps Along the Shoreline Using Fine-Scaled Beach Slope Variation, EOS
Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H33B-1516, 2006.
Boswell, M. and van Gaalen, J.F. 2006,
Proceedings of
the ASBPA Fall Conference. Oct. 9 – 11, American Shore & Beach
Preservation Assoc., Long Branch, NJ.
Professional Affiliations
American Geophysical Union
Geological Society of America
National
Groundwater Association
The Oceanography Society