Hi all,

Each year the Beavers, a heavy civil construction group, host a great tour of a really cool construction project. This year it is in Kirkland on the I-405/NE 85th St. interchange project. This is a $234 million project that will create a 3-level interchange with a unique mid-level multimodal hub for bus rapid transit, carpoolers, bike riders, pedestrians, and express lane users. This project is being built by Graham Contracting, who are also building a number of other projects in the area. The mid-level multimodal hub is really a cool concept (you can see it envisioned here). 

What: Tour the I-405/NE 85^th Street interchange project

When: Friday, October 16^th, 2024 from 7:45 a.m. to 1:45 p.m.

Where: Kirkland, WA area

Why go: see a really interesting construction project and hear about it form those who are building it

Sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0C44ACA72DABFB6-51423804-i405ne#/

If you sign up, and later decide you cannot go, PLEASE remove your name so someone else CAN go. 😊

Dear CEE community,

Please join us this Thursday, October 3 at 3:30 in More Hall room 220 for the environment and water program seminar. This week CEE PhD candidate Jacob Davis will talk about how hurricanes drive waves . 

You can find the fall program here: https://depts.washington.edu/watersem/

Air-deployed wave buoys for hurricane forecast improvements

Jacob Davis

UW CEE

Abstract:

Ocean surface waves are a source of drag between the atmosphere and ocean. This is crucial in hurricanes, where wave-dependent drag is a considerable driver of a storm’s intensity and thus contributes to downstream coastal impacts. Our group measures waves in hurricanes using arrays of free-drifting wave buoys which are deployed from airplanes ahead of a storm. Data from buoys deployed in Hurricanes Ian (2022), Fiona (2022), and Idalia (2023) are used to study wave slope, or the ratio of wave height to wavelength, which has been widely used as Continue reading →