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The group's educational/research activities take place in the Geology Lab of the Department of Marine Sciences as well as in the Coastal Morphodynamics and Engineering and Marine Geology and Submarine Applications labs.

Collection of marine field data is carried out using the R/V Amfitriti of the Department of Marine Sciences, coastal inflatable vessels belonging to the group's personnel and hired research vessels.

Equipment description

The research group owns state-of-the-art field equipment for the monitoring of the coastal zone at different spatial and temporal scales, such as:

• Digital side scan sonar C-MAX (CM-2) with Max View Acquisition and SonarWiz processing softwares

• High frequency self-recording wave/current meters: 2 Nortek-Vector Acoustic Doppler Velocimeters-ADVs

• Vertical and horizontal current profilers: 1 vertical Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (1) Nortek ADCP, 1 Nortek -AquaDop and 1 Nortek Continental

• Sea level self recording sensors: 3 Onset Hobo U20 Sensors

• Flow meters for shallow river flows: 3 open stream flow meter Global Water F111 Flow Probe

• Self-recording sensors for high frequency moniroring of suspended sediments: 2 Optical Backscatter Sensors Cambell Scientific OBS-3+)

• Electro-magnetic current-meter 2-D Infinity, JFE Advantech Co.

• Cameras for high frequency coastal monitoring, installed at different island sites: 2 PointGrey Flea2, 5 Vivotek IP8362

• Sensors for high frequency measurement of sediment hydrostatic pressure: 3 Druck sensors

• Meteorological stations installed at different sites: (5) Davis Vantage Pro 2 and Davis Vantage Vu

• AddVANTAGE PRO 6.4 Telemetry stations (2)

• Real Time Kinetic positioning system: Top-Con RTK-DGPS

• Hydrographic Echosounder: Hi-Target HD370

• Side scan sonar for shallow waters: 1 StarFish 450F -Tritech

• Different sediment sampling equipment: Van-veen grabs and gravity corers

• Underwater video camera (100 m water depth): 1 ProFisher

The Group also owns a variety of hand-held equipment for coastal studies, such as GPS systems Simrad και Garmin, a Nikon Laser 1200s distance finder, hand-held echosounders and underwater video cameras (GoPro Hero3), conductivity, temperature and PH sensors (Delta OHM HD 2156.1), as well as various data loggers.

The geological lab equipment consists of standard equipment of sediment analysis (sieves, pipettes, balances, stereoscopic microscopes, etc). In addition, there is access to the other research labs of the Department for specialised geochemical analysis of sediments.

Software

The group has developed/modified 1-D and 2-D research and operational models for the simulation of coastal and hydrodynamics, river hydrology and geochemistry. It has also developed new methods for the high frequency coastal monitoring, through the collection of coastal images. It has also developed software toolboxes for (a) the analysis of high-frequency hydrodynamic and sediment dynamics observations, (b) image processing and analysis of the coastal video images, and (c) the estimation of sea level rise-induced beach retreat using ensemble modelling (in co-operation with UNEP-GRID). The group also has access to a variety of commercial software such as software for processing of marine geophysical data (e.g. SonarWiz Map-Chesapeake Technology).