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Clint N. Dawson

The University of Texas at Austin

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

210 East 24th Street, W. R. Woolrich Laboratories
1 University Station, C0600
Austin, TX  78712  

clint@ices.utexas.edu

Project List:

Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment II (CARTHE II)

Year 5-7 Consortia Grants (RFP-IV)Role: Co-Principal Investigator, Task Lead

Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment (CARTHE)

Year 2-4 Consortia Grants (RFP-I)Role: Co-Principal Investigator, Task Co-Lead

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 13

2020

Cyriac, R., Dietrich, J. C., Blain, C. A., Dawson, C. N., Dresback, K. M., Fathi, A., et al. (2020). Wind and tide effects on the Choctawhatchee Bay plume and implications for surface transport at Destin Inlet. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 35, 101131.
Sochala, P., Chen, C., Dawson, C., & Iskandarani, M. (2020). A polynomial chaos framework for probabilistic predictions of storm surge events. Comput Geosci, 24(1), 109–128.

2018

Cyriac, R., Dietrich, J. C., Fleming, J. G., Blanton, B. O., Kaiser, C., Dawson, C. N., et al. (2018). Variability in Coastal Flooding predictions due to forecast errors during Hurricane Arthur. Coastal Engineering, 137, 59–78.
Dietrich, J. C., Muhammad, A., Curcic, M., Fathi, A., Dawson, C. N., Chen, S. S., et al. (2018). Sensitivity of Storm Surge Predictions to Atmospheric Forcing during Hurricane Isaac. J. Waterway, Port, Coastal, Ocean Eng., 144(1), 04017035.

2017

Graham, L., Butler, T., Walsh, S., Dawson, C., & Westerink, J. J. (2017). A Measure-Theoretic Algorithm for Estimating Bottom Friction in a Coastal Inlet: Case Study of Bay St. Louis during Hurricane Gustav (2008). Mon. Wea. Rev., 145(3), 929–954.
Siripatana, A., Mayo, T., Sraj, I., Knio, O., Dawson, C., Le Maitre, O., et al. (2017). Assessing an ensemble Kalman filter inference of Manning's n coefficient of an idealized tidal inlet against a polynomial chaos-based MCMC. Ocean Dynamics, 67(8), 1067–1094.

2016

Ozgokmen, T. M., Chassignet, E., Dawson, C., Dukhovskoy, D., Jacobs, G., Ledwell, J., et al. (2016). Over What Area Did the Oil and Gas Spread During the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill? Oceano, 29(3), 96–107.

2014

Mandli, K. T., & Dawson, C. N. (2014). Adaptive mesh refinement for storm surge. Ocean Modelling, 75(1), 36–50.
Mayo, T., Butler, T., Dawson, C., & Hoteit, I. (2014). Data assimilation within the Advanced Circulation (ADCIRC) modeling framework for the estimation of Manning's friction coefficient. Ocean Modelling, 76(1), 43–58.
Restrepo, J. M., Venkataramani, S. C., & Dawson, C. (2014). Nearshore sticky waters. Ocean Modelling, 80, 49–58.
Ã?zgökmen, T. M., Beron-Vera, F. J., Bogucki, D., Chen, S., Dawson, C., Dewar, W., et al. (2014). Research Overview of the Consortium for Advanced Rserach on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Envrionment (CARTHE). Proceedings of the International Oil Spill Conference, 2014(1), 544–560.

2013

Aizinger, V., Proft, J., Dawson, C., Pothina, D., & Negusse, S. (2013). A three-dimensional discontinuous Galerkin model applied to the baroclinic simulation of Corpus Christi Bay. Ocean Dynamics, 63(1), 89–113.

2012

Dietrich, J. C., Trahan, C. J., Howard, M. T., Fleming, J. G., Weaver, R. J., Tanaka, S., et al. (2012). Surface trajectories of oil transport along the Northern Coastline of the Gulf of Mexico. Continental Shelf Research, 41(1), 17–47.

Book Chapter - 1

2013

Dietrich, J. C., Dawson, C. N., Proft, J. M., Howard, M. T., Wells, G., Fleming, J. G., et al. (2013). Real-Time Forecasting and Visualization of Hurricane Waves and Storm Surge using SWAN+ADCIRC and FigureGen. In Computational Challenges in the Geosciences (Vol. 156).

Conference Presentations - 18

2017

Cyriac, R., Fathi, A., Dawson, C. N., Dresback, K. M., Blain, C. A., Bilskie, M., et al. (2017). Towards models for barotropic and baroclinic circulation in the Choctawhatchee Bay and River System. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17.

2016

Cyriac, R., Dietrich, J. C., Fathi, A., Dawson, C. N., Dresback, K. M., Blain, C. A., et al. (2016). Modeling 3D Circulation in the Choctawhatchee Bay and River System. In 14th Estuarine and Coastal Modeling Conference. Kingston, RI : 06/13/16-06/15/16.
Fathi, A., Dietrich, J. C., Dawson, C., & Dresback, K. (2016). Recent enhancements to the 3D baroclinic Advanced Circulation (ADCIRC) model. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2016. Tampa, FL : 02/01/16-02/04/16: Poster.
Fathi, A., Dietrich, J. C., Dawson, C., Dresback, K., Samii, A., & Blain, C. A. (2016). Simulation of surface oil slick transport using the 3D baroclinic ADCIRC on high-resolution unstructured finite element grids. In 15th International Workshop on Multi-scale (Un)-structured Mesh Numerical Modeling for Coastal, Shelf, and Global Ocean Dynamics. Toulouse, France : 09/27/16-09/30/16.

2015

Dawson, C. (2015). Mathematics of the Coastal Ocean. In Joint Mathematics Meeting 2015. San Antonio, TX : 01/10/15-01/13/15.
Dawson, C. (2015). Modeling and evaluation of hurricane storm surge mitigation. In 13th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM13). San Diego, CA : 07/26/15-07/30/15.
Dietrich, J. C., & Dawson, C. N. (2015). Coastal Models of Oil Transport in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2015. Houston, TX : 02/16/15-02/19/15.

2014

Dawson, C. (2014). Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Modeling Short Waves in Shallow Water. In International Conference on Spectral and High Order Methods 2014. Salt Lake City, UT : 06/23/14-06/27/14.
Dawson, C. (2014). Some Successes and Challenges in Coastal Ocean Modeling, Challenges in 21st Century Experimental Mathematical Computation. In Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics, Brown University,. Providence, Rhode Island : 07/21/14 - 07/25/14.
Restrepo, J. M., Venkataramani, S., & Dawson, C. (2014). Nearshore Sticky Waters. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2014. Honolulu, HI : 02/23/14-02/28/14.

2013

Dawson, C. (2013). Finite Element Methods in Coastal Ocean Modeling: Some Successes and Challenges. In The Mathematics of Finite Elements and Applications. Uxbridge, UK, June 11-14, 2013.
Dawson, C. (2013). Some Successes and Challenges in Coatal Ocean Modeling. In SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences. Padova, Italy, June 17-20, 2013.
Dietrich, J. C., Dawson, C. N., Arabshahi, H., & Muhammad, A. (2013). Coastal Models of Oil Transport in the Gulf of Mexico under Normal and Extreme Conditions. In Advances in Computational Mechanics, with special track on Finite Elements in Flow Problems. SAn Diego, CA, February 24-27, 2013.
Dietrich, J. C., Dawson, C. N., Arabshahi, H., & Muhammad, A. (2013). Cruise Report – CARTHE Sediment and Water Column Sampling, DWH Spill Site West to Mississippi Canyon. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013: Poster.
Dietrich, J. C., Dawson, C. N., Arabshahi, H., & Muhammad, A. (2013). Coastal Models of Oil Transport in the Gulf of Mexico under Normal and Extreme Conditions. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013.
Restrepo, J. M., Venkataramani S., Dawson, C., & Arabhashi, H. (2013). A Method for the Identification of Hydrocarbon-Transforming Bacteria in the Sea Surface. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2013. New Orleans, LA: 01/21/2013-01/23/2013.

2012

Dawson, C. (2012). Coastal Ocean Modeling with Applications to Hurricane Storm Surge and Oil Spills. In ALGORTIMY 2012. Slovakia, September 10-14, 2012.
Restrepo, J. M., Dawson, C., Venkaratamani, S., & Mariano, A. (2012). Requirements of a miminal model for mesoscale ocean surface oil slicks. In Ocean Sciences Meeting 2012. Salt Lake City, UT: 02/19/12-02/24/12.