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Alex Sheremet(picture)

University of Florida
Civil and Coastal Engineering

Alexandru Sheremet

Assistant Professor
Division: Coastal Engineering

Office Phone: (352) 392-9537 x1429
Location: 575 Weil Hall
Email Address: alex@coastal.ufl.edu
Personal Page: www.coastal.ufl.edu/~alex


Education

Ph.D. in Water and Environment, Civil Engineering Technion, Israel 1996
M.Sc. in Water and Environment, Civil Engineering Technion, Israel 1992
B.Sc. in Physics, University of Bucharest, Romania 1982


Years of Service on this Faculty

Appointment Date   August, 2005
Aug 2005-present Assistant Professor


Research Interests

Ocean waves, Nearshore waves, Wave-sediment interaction


Professional Experience

2005 Assistant Professor Civil & Coastal Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville

2001 Assistant Professor Coastal Studies Institute, Oceanography & Coastal Sciences, LSU

1998 Postgraduate Research Center for Coastal Studies, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

1996 Research Engineer Water & Environment, Civil Engineering Technion, Israel.


Principal Publications

Journal Papers

2005 Sheremet, A., A. J. Mehta, B. Liu, and G. W. Stone, Wave-sediment interaction on a muddy inner shelf during Hurricane Claudette, Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 63, 225-233.

2005 Sheremet, A., R.T. Guza, and T. H. C. Herbers, A new estimator for directional fluxes of nearshore waves, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 110, No. C1, C01001, DOI:10.1029/ 2003JC002236, 11pp.

2005 Allison, M., A. Sheremet, M. A. Goni and G. W. Stone, Storm layer deposition on the Mississippi-Atchafalaya subaqueous delta generated by Hurricane Lili in 2002, Continental Shelf Research 25, p. 2213-2232, 2005.

2005 Bentley, S. J., A. Sheremet, , and J.M. Jaeger, Preservation potential of event layers on continental shelves: a model and observations. Continental Shelf Research (In Press)

2003 Sheremet, A., R. T. Guza, S. Elgar, and T. H. C. Herbers, Observations of nearshore infragravity waves. Seaward and shoreward propagating components, Journal of Geophysical Research V107, No. C8, DOI: 10.1029/ 2001JC000970.2003, 10 pp.

2003 Sheremet A. and G. W Stone, Observations of wave dissipation over muddy sea beds, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 108, No. C11, DOI: 10.1029/ 2003JC001885, 11 pp.

2003 Bentley, S. and A. Sheremet, A new model for the emplacement, bioturbation and preservation of fine-scaled sedimentary strata, Geology, v. 31, No. 8, p. 725-728.

1999 Sheremet, A. and R. T. Guza. A weakly dispersive edge wave model. Coastal Engineering 38, p 47-52.

1997 Agnon Y. and A. Sheremet. Stochastic nonlinear shoaling of directional spectra. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 345, p. 79-99.

1996 Agnon Y., E. Pelinovski, and A. Sheremet. Disintegration of cnoidal waves over smooth topography, Studies in Applied Mathematics 101, p. 49-71.

1993 Agnon Y., A. Sheremet, J. Gonsalves, and M. Stiassnie. A unidirectional model for shoaling gravity waves, Coastal Engineering 20, p 29-58.

Recent Conference Papers

2005 Sheremet, A., A. J. Mehta, and J. M. Kaihatu, Wave sediment interaction on a muddy shelf, Proceedings of the 5-th International Symposium on Ocean Wave Measuremet and Analysis, Madrid, Spain.

2005 Sheremet, A. and A. J. Mehta, Nonlinear wave evolution over muddy sea beds, INTERCOH 2005, The 8th International Conference on Cohesive Sediment Transport, Saga, Japan.

2005 Lee, S.-C., A. Sheremet, and A. J. Mehta, Wave Energy Dissipation Mechanisms Revisited, INTERCOH 2005, The 8th International Conference on Cohesive Sediment Transport, Saga, Japan.

2004 Sheremet, A., G. W. Stone, and X. Zhang. Wave-induced sediment resuspension on a muddy inner shelf during Hurricane Claudette, Proceedings of 29th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal, 8 pp. (In press).

2004 Kaihatu, J. M., and A. Sheremet. Dissipation of wave energy by cohesive sediments, Proceedings of 29th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal, 10 pp. (In press).