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Mr. Kelley is a Coastal Engineer at Applied Coastal
Research and Engineering, Inc. Since joining Applied Coastal, Mr.
Kelley has been actively involved in a broad range of coastal
engineering and analysis projects, including measurement and modeling of
coastal processes.
Mr. Kelley has provided analysis input in the design of
coastal engineering structures. He has preformed overtopping risk
assessments of an existing coastal dike in Matagorda Bay, TX, and also
specified containment dike stone sizings and dike elevations, based an
extreme hydrologic conditions, for the beneficial use of dredged
sediments in the creation of wetlands in Chesapeake Bay. Mr. Kelley has
also provided design wave conditions for commuter ferry terminals at
several sites on Bermuda, including an analysis of wave transmission
under proposed wave baffles at one of the sites. In addition to hard
coastal structure design, Mr. Kelley has provided input in the design of
soft engineering solutions, such as beach nourishments at Long Beach,
Plymouth, MA; Winthrop Beach, Winthrop, MA; and Cockle Cove Beach in
Chatham, MA.
Mr. Kelley has performed hydrodynamic modeling of
estuaries in several towns in Massachusetts including Orleans, Bourne,
Falmouth, Chatham, Barnstable, Mashpee, and Wareham. These modeling
studies were conducted as part of the Massachusetts Estuary Project, a
state sponsored project (though the MDEP and University of
Massachusetts) to perform comprehensive analyses to determine the
relative health of 89 estuarine systems in southeastern Massachusetts.
His hydrodynamic modeling work in Falmouth, MA included water quality
analyses, using the RMA4 constituent transport model to create a model
for Nitrogen distribution within three coastal salt ponds. Models were
calibrated using salinity and Nitrogen data from the ponds. The
calibrated models were used to evaluate the merit of several possible
scenarios of septic load reduction. His modeling work in Chatham was
part of a Town-wide water quality modeling effort that included all
major estuarine systems within the Town. As part of this project he
also performed water quality modeling for an alternatives analysis for
possible improvements to culverts in the Muddy Creek and Frost Fish
Creek systems.
In addition to his work
in Massachusetts
estuaries, Mr. Kelley has performed hydrodynamic and two-dimensional
sediment transport modeling analyses of Mason Inlet, North Carolina.
The modeling effort included inlet conditions that existed since
completion of the inlet relocation project in 2002, as well as several
possible dredging alternatives. The results of the hydrodynamics
analysis for existing conditions illustrate the mechanisms likely
responsible for the observed shoaling at different locations in the
inlet system. The recommended dredging alternative provided potential
significant cost savings to the project, and was also the most favorable
for system stability and navigation interests within the inlet system.
Mr. Kelley has conducted shoreline change studies where numerical
models, including GENESIS and a shoreline model that he developed, were
used to predict long-term shoreline response to incident wave
processes. For Cockle Cove in Chatham, MA, GENESIS was used together
with wave model results to estimate the effectiveness and expected
design life of several beach fill scenarios. A similar implementation
of GENESIS was performed for Winthrop Beach, in Winthrop, MA. For an
analysis of beach nourishment alternatives at historic Plymouth Long
Beach, Mr. Kelley performed an analysis of long-term shoreline trends
for selected fill designs.
Mr. Kelley also has been involved in offshore sand
borrow site impact studies for sites offshore North Carolina (Outer
Banks), eastern Florida, southern Virginia, northern New Jersey, and
Long Island, New York. He has used the spectral wave model STWAVE to
predict changes in wave propagation along coastlines due to offshore
sand mining for beach nourishment. Wave mode results are used to
compute sediment transport to provide a basis for estimating potential
impacts on a shoreline. Mr. Kelley has additional experience with other
spectral wave transformation models, and has authored a report that
compares the performance of spectral models, including STWAVE, SWAN, and
REF/DIF s. Mr. Kelley provided borrow site wave modeling and sediment
transport potential impact analyses used in the environmental assessment
of a current beach nourishment project in Virginia Beach, VA, which will
use a resource area within the Minerals Management Service (MMS)
jurisdiction, on Sandbridge Shoals offshore of southern Virginia.
In addition to numerical modeling of coastal processes,
Mr. Kelley has performed measurements of inlet dynamics with the use of
an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP). He performed an ADCP
survey of Rudee Inlet, in Virginia Beach, VA, and computed the volume of
the tidal prism based on the current data. He was involved in similar
ADCP surveys for St. Lucie Inlet, FL (Martin County); Hyannis Inner
Harbor, MA; the Thames River, New London, CT; and the Hudson River, NY.
Before joining Applied Coastal, Mr. Kelley was a
research assistant to the head of the Ocean and Coastal Engineering
division of the Civil Engineering department at Texas A&M University.
Through this work, he gained extensive experience with finite element
model simulations of storm surge caused by tropical storms and
hurricanes using the ADCIRC hydrodynamic software developed by the US
Army Corps of Engineers. The focus of his thesis research was the
development of a storm surge forecast system based on the ADCIRC code
and the Unified Planetary Boundary Layer model. Other projects that Mr.
Kelley was involved with at Texas A&M include the evaluation of
revetment designs for ALCOA and BP in Lavaca Bay, TX.
Before attending Texas A&M, Mr. Kelley was employed by
the Electric Boat Corporation, in Groton, Connecticut, as a member of
the Advanced Concepts group. He was responsible for the initial design
of several propulsion plant and nuclear fluid systems, including
component specifications and system arrangements. He also worked with
the hydromechanics analysis group, where his work included performing CFD analyses on several submarine hull and propulsion concepts. |
