ASL Environmental Sciences Consulting
Sediment transport studies
Sediment transport field studies using a custom tripod platform and numerical modeling.
Description
ASL has conducted sediment transport studies since the early 1980s, combining field measurement with numerical modelling.
Key features
- Tripod-based platform combining off-the-shelf and custom elements to measure waves, currents, optical backscatter and sea bottom imaging
- Doppler current profilers, OBS sensors and an Imagenex 881A scanning sonar; other sensors can be added
- ASL-developed IRIS data logging and control module for the scanning sonar
- Numerical modelling to simulate 'what if' scenarios
Applications
Offshore oil and gas exploration and government studies, with projects in the Beaufort Sea, offshore Nova Scotia, the Fraser River delta (Georgia Basin Geohazards Initiative) and the Columbia River.
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- Remote sensing services
- Ice studies
- Biological and hydroacoustic studies
- Physical oceanography, limnology and acoustics
- Numerical modeling
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