Zoe Hughes
Postdoctoral Associate
Office: STO B47E
Phone: 617.358.4619
E-mail: zoeh@bu.edu
Zoe’s Homepage
Educational Background
Ph.D. 2003 National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK
B.Sc. (Hons) 1997 University of Southampton, UK
Research
- Hydrodynamics over salt marsh platforms and within tidal creeks.
- The generation and headward erosion of tidal creeks in salt marshes.
- Small scale turbulence and interaction of the flow with vegetation and bedforms.
- The calculation of near bed shear stress and bed roughness from high frequency measurements of velocity.
- Numerical modeling of currents, waves, and combined flows (presently using FVCOM, SWAN, and CGWAVE).
- The hydrodynamics of tidal inlets.
- Wave current interaction.
- Sediment transport and bedform dynamics under both waves and currents, and combined flows.
- The measurement of vessel wakes and their impact on the shoreline.
Coastal and Marine Science research group
Surface Processes research group
Teaching
- Introduction to Marine Science (MET ES 141)
Selected Publications
- Hughes, Z.J., D.M. FitzGerald, C.A. Wilson, S.C. Pennings, K. Wieski, and A. Mahadevan (2008), Rapid headward erosion of marsh creeks in response to relative sea level rise. Geophysical Research Letters, in press.
- Argow, B.A., Z.J. Hughes, and D.M. FitzGerald (2008), The potential for ice-rafted sediment influx on northern marshed. Geophysical Research Letters. Submitted.
- Argow, B.A., Z.J. Hughes, and D.M. FitzGerald (2007), Ice raft formation, dispersion and sedimentation on New England salt marshes. In: N.C. Kraus and J.D. Rosati (Editors), Coastal Sediments ‘07: Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Coastal Engineering and Science of Coastal Sediment Processes. American Society of Civil Engineers, New Orleans, LA, USA, 1: 798-813.
- Hughes, Z.J., D.M. FitzGerald, N.C. Howes, and P. Rosen (2007), The impact of natural waves and ferry wakes on the erosion of bluffs, Boston Harbour, US. Journal of Coastal Research, SI(50) 497-501.
- FitzGerald, D.M., M. Kulp, Z.J. Hughes, I. Georgiou, M. Miner, S. Penland, and N.C. Howes (2007), Impacts of rising sea level to backbarrier wetlands, tidal inlets, and barrier islands: Barataria coast, Louisiana, Journal of Coastal Research, in press.
