Carl Friedrichs

Carl T. Friedrichs

Associate Professor of Marine Science

Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Gloucester Point, VA, 23062

tel. 804-684-7303, fax. 804-684-7250, email cfried@vims.edu

http://www.vims.edu/~cfried

Research Interests:

My long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. The major thrusts of my research are bottom boundary layer physics, estuarine physical oceanography, sediment transport and sedimentation, and estuarine and coastal morphodynamics. My technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation

and prediction systems.

Recent Projects:

Sediment dynamics of a microdial partially-mixed estuary. Division of Ocean Sciences, National Science Foundation.

Collaborative Proposal: How do estuarine turbidity maxima entrap particles, retain zooplankton, and promote recruitment of fish? Division of Ocean Sciences, National Science Foundation.

Contributions to the EuroSTRATAFORM Program, Office of Naval Research, Marine Geosciences Program.

Contributions to the Mine Burial Prediction Program, Office of Naval Research, Marine Geosciences Program. 

Trophic cascade and interacting control processes in a detritus-based aquatic ecosystem.