Positions

Overview

  • Prof. Foster joined the Mechanical Engineering faculty at UNH Fall 2008. Prior to joining UNH, Prof. Foster was an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Sciences at the Ohio State University in Columbus.

    Prof. Foster teaches OE and ME courses which include Heat Transfer (ME 603), Coastal Engineering Process (OE 757) and Ocean Mechanics (OE 795/895).
  • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title
    2024 Field Observations of Hydrostatic Pressure Deviations in a Nearshore Sediment BedJournal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.  129. 2024
    2022 Surfzone bedform migration and sediment flux implications to large scale morphologic evolutionGeomorphology.  410:108246-108246. 2022
    2022 An ASBPA White Paper: Human and ecosystem health in coastal systemsShore and Beach.  64-91. 2022
    2020 Evaluation of the momentum integral method to determine the wall skin friction in separated flowsExperiments in Fluids: experimental methods and their applications to fluid flow.  61. 2020
    2019 Observations of Bedform Migration and Bedload Sediment Transport in Combined Wave-Current FlowsJournal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.  124:4572-4590. 2019
    2019 Observations of bedform migration and bedload sediment transport in combined wave-current flowsJournal of Geophysical Research.  124. 2019
    2018 Observations of Time-Dependent Bedform Transformation in Combined Wave-Current FlowsJournal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.  123:7581-7598. 2018
    2017 Observations of pockmark flow structure in Belfast Bay, Maine, Part 2: evidence for cavity flowGeo-Marine Letters: an international journal of marine geology.  37:15-22. 2017
    2017 Observations of pockmark flow structure in Belfast Bay, Maine, Part 3: implications for sediment transportGeo-Marine Letters: an international journal of marine geology.  37:23-34. 2017
    2017 Direct estimates of friction factors for a mobile rippled bedJournal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.  122:80-92. 2017
    2016 Boundary layer dynamics in the swash zone under large-scale laboratory conditionsCoastal Engineering.  113:47-61. 2016
    2016 Sediment transport partitioning in the swash zone of a large-scale laboratory beachCoastal Engineering.  113:73-87. 2016
    2015 Field and laboratory observations of bed stress and associated nutrient release in a tidal estuaryEstuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science.  161:11-24. 2015
    2015 Incipient motion of surf zone sedimentsJournal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.  120:5710-5734. 2015
    2015 Lagrangian measurements of incipient motion in oscillatory flowsJournal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.  120:244-256. 2015
    2014 Unsteady stress partitioning and momentum transfer in the wave bottom boundary layer over movable rippled bedsJournal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.  119:8530-8551. 2014
    2014 Field evidence of the viscous sublayer in a tidally forced developing boundary layerGeophysical Research Letters.  41:5084-5090. 2014
    2014 Development and evaluation of an autonomous sensor for the observation of sediment motion (vol 31, pg 1012, 2014)Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology.  31:1675-1675. 2014
    2014 Development and Evaluation of an Autonomous Sensor for the Observation of Sediment MotionJournal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology.  31:1012-1019. 2014
    2013 Spatial variability of the wave bottom boundary layer over movable rippled bedsJournal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.  118:3490-3506. 2013
    2013 Three-dimensional mixture simulations of flow over dynamic rippled bedsJournal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.  118:1543-1555. 2013
    2009 Observations of bed form evolution with field-scale oscillatory hydrodynamic forcingJournal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.  114. 2009
    2009 Observations of bed form evolution with field-scale oscillatory hydrodynamic forcingJournal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.  114. 2009
    2009 The effect of Lake Erie water level variations on sediment resuspensionJournal of Great Lakes Research: devoted to research on large lakes of the world.  35:1-12. 2009
    2008 Modeling of vortex ripple morphodynamicsJournal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.  113. 2008
    2007 Full-scale observations of wave-induced vortex generation over a rippled bedJournal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.  112. 2007
    2007 Three-dimensional flow around a bottom-mounted short cylinderJournal of Hydraulic Engineering.  133:534-544. 2007
    2007 Numerical simulations of the flow and sediment transport regimes surrounding a short cylinderIEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering.  32:249-259. 2007
    2006 Field evidence of pressure gradient induced incipient motionJournal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.  111. 2006
    2006 Turbulence observations of the nearshore wave bottom boundary layerJournal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.  111. 2006
    2005 Modeling of flow around a cylinder over a scoured bedJournal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering.  131:14-24. 2005
    2000 Field observations of the wave bottom boundary layerJournal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.  105:19631-19647. 2000
    1999 An analytic solution to the wave bottom boundary layer governing equation under arbitrary wave forcingOcean Engineering.  26:595-623. 1999
    Multi-Objective Decision-Making for an Island Microgrid in the Gulf of MaineSustainability.  15:13900-13900.
    Sand ripples to beach morphology - how the small scale feeds the largeNature

    Conference Paper

    Year Title
    2017 Wave and current induced ripple formation and migration during a stormProceedings of Coastal Dynamics 2017. 2017
    2014 An In-Situ Motion Measurement System for Underwater Sediments Tracking2014 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (ITHINGS) - 2014 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GREEN COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS (GREENCOM) - 2014 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CYBER-PHYSICAL-SOCIAL COMPUTING (CPS). 360-367. 2014
    2013 Direct Measurements of Sediment Response to Waves with "Smart Sediment Grains"Oceans Conference Record (IEEE). 2013
    2007 The cross-shore sediment transport experiment (crosstex)Proceedings of the Coastal Engineering Conference. 2547-2559. 2007
    2007 The role of turbulent fluctuations on the scour of a short cylinderProceedings of the Coastal Engineering Conference. 2367-2377. 2007
    2004 Measuring wave velocities on highways during congestion using cross spectral analysisITSC 2004: 7TH INTERNATIONAL IEEE CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, PROCEEDINGS. 543-547. 2004
    2003 Modelling of Flow and Scour Around a PipelineCoastal Engineering 2002. 1722-1732. 2003
    2001 Model-data comparisons of velocity and suspended sediment in a wave dominated environmentCOASTAL DYNAMICS '01: PROCEEDINGS. 751-758. 2001
    1999 Vertical length scales of nearshore suspension eventsCOASTAL ENGINEERING 1998, VOLS 1-3. 2587-2588. 1999
    1994 Sediment suspension events and shear instabilities in the bottom boundary layerCOASTAL DYNAMICS '94 - PROCEEDINGS OF AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE ROLE OF THE LARGE SCALE EXPERIMENTS IN COASTAL RESEARCH. 712-726. 1994

    Principal Investigator On

  • Scaling Transport in Near-shor  awarded by US Army Research & Development Center 2023 - 2026
  • Jackson Estuarine Lab Expansio  awarded by US DOC, National Institute of Standards and Technology 2023 - 2026
  • Waterfront Improvement  awarded by US DOC, National Institute of Standards and Technology 2023 - 2025
  • B2S Industry Challenge: Enhanc  awarded by US DOC, Economic Development Administration 2020 - 2024
  • B2S Industry Challenge: Enhancing Economic Opportunity for Isolated Coastal and Island Communities through Resilient Energy-Water Microgrid Systems  awarded by US DOC, Economic Development Administration 2020 - 2023
  • Mobilizing Our Coastal Commun  awarded by National Science Foundation (NSF) 2019 - 2023
  • Back Bay Shellfish Farms  awarded by Rutgers University 2020 - 2022
  • Understanding the Cross-Roads of Human and Ecosystem Health: Back Bay Shellfish Farms as a Model for Studying Coastal Ecosystems Feedbacks Systems  awarded by Rutgers University 2020 - 2022
  • EAGER: Mobilizing Our Coastal Communities: Facilitating Rapid Response Observations  awarded by National Science Foundation (NSF) 2019 - 2022
  • Understanding the Hydrodynamic  awarded by University of Vermont 2020 - 2022
  • Understanding the Hydrodynamic Effect of Oyster Farms in Shallow Water Estuarian Environments  awarded by University of Vermont 2020 - 2022
  • Resolving the Role of the Pressure Gradient in the Burial & Mobility of Underwater Munitions  awarded by US DOD, Army 2017 - 2022
  • Underwater Munitions Pressure  awarded by US DOD, Army 2017 - 2022
  • MRI: Acquisition of Environmental Flows Water Tunnel  awarded by National Science Foundation (NSF) 2016 - 2019
  • NEESR: Tsunami Induced Coherent Structures and their Impact on our Coastal Infrastructure  awarded by National Science Foundation (NSF) 2011 - 2017
  • Smart Sediment Grains and the Motion and Transport of Heterogeneous Sediment in Unsteady Forcing Environments  awarded by National Science Foundation (NSF) 2009 - 2013
  • CAREER: Fluid-Sediment Interactions over Complex Coastal Topography  awarded by National Science Foundation (NSF) 2009 - 2011
  • Coastal Sediment Transport Model: Sub-grid Parameterization of Dissipation and Sediment Transport  awarded by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 2009
  • Teaching Activities

  • Doctoral Research Taught course
  • Doctoral Research Taught course
  • Innovation Scholars I Taught course
  • Innovation Scholars II Taught course
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2024
  • Innovation Scholars I Taught course 2024
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2023
  • Innovation Scholars II Taught course 2023
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2022
  • Innovation Scholars I Taught course 2022
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2022
  • Innovation Scholars Taught course 2022
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2021
  • Innovation Scholars I Taught course 2021
  • Master's Project Taught course 2021
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2021
  • Innovation Scholars Taught course 2021
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2020
  • Innovation Scholars I Taught course 2020
  • Power of the Sea Taught course 2020
  • Coastal Engineering&Processes Taught course 2020
  • Innovation Scholars Taught course 2020
  • Ocean Engineering Seminar Taught course 2020
  • Ocean Seminars II Taught course 2020
  • Power of the Sea Taught course 2019 - 2020
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2019
  • Innovation Scholars I Taught course 2019
  • Ocean Engineering Seminar Taught course 2019
  • Coastal Engineering&Processes Taught course 2019
  • Innovation Scholars Taught course 2019
  • Innovation Scholars I Taught course 2018
  • Ocean Engineering Seminar Taught course 2018
  • Ocean Hydrodynamics Taught course 2018
  • Coastal Engineering&Processes Taught course 2018
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2018
  • Honors Seminar Taught course 2018
  • Master's Project Taught course 2018
  • Ocean Engineering Seminar Taught course 2018
  • Power of the Sea Taught course 2018
  • Coastal Engineering & Process Taught course 2017
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2017
  • Ocean Engineering Seminar Taught course 2017
  • Projects Taught course 2017
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2017
  • Ocean Engineering Seminar Taught course 2017
  • Coastal Engineering & Process Taught course 2016
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2016
  • Ocean Engineering Seminar Taught course 2016
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2016
  • Ocean Engineering Seminar Taught course 2016
  • Ocean Hydrodynamics Taught course 2016
  • Coastal Engineering & Process Taught course 2015
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2015
  • Ocean Engineering Seminar Taught course 2015
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2015
  • Heat Transfer Taught course 2015
  • Heat Transfer Taught course 2015
  • Honors Seminar Taught course 2015
  • Coastal Engineering & Process Taught course 2014
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2014
  • Honors Seminar Taught course 2014
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2014
  • Education And Training

  • B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
  • M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Maine
  • Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Oregon State University
  • Ph.D. Ocean Engineering, Oregon State University
  • Full Name

  • Diane Foster