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Join us today for a seminar presentation! Submitted by qtrimble on Thu, 2016-04-07 10:11

MacGillivray’s Seaside Sparrow Demographics and Incubation Behavior at the Tom Yawkey Wildlife Center Submitted by qtrimble on Thu, 2016-04-07 10:02

Spatial and temporal groundwater discharge patterns through the Mississippi River delta


Dr. Jaye Cable is a Professor in the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of North Carolina. Her areas of interests are in coastal hydrology and geochemistry.

More information about her and her work can be found here.

Submitted by qtrimble on Thu, 2016-04-07 09:58

SCMSS Professor Erin Hackett Awarded Grant from the Office of Naval Research

Assistant Professor Erin Hackett was recently awarded over a quarter million dollars to investigate the effects of the marine atmospheric boundary layer on electromagnetic (EM) waves, such as those produced by communication systems and radars.  The outcome of her research is to assist the U.S. Navy in development of an “EM forecast,” which improves their maritime domain awareness, including their evaluations of susceptibility.

Submitted by qtrimble on Thu, 2016-03-31 12:45

Join us this morning for a thesis defense! Submitted by qtrimble on Tue, 2016-03-29 08:54

An Evaluation of Recreational Fishing Pier Behavior at Myrtle Beach State Park Submitted by qtrimble on Mon, 2016-03-28 10:38

Big Data Analytics Framework for System Health Monitoring


In this talk, Machine Learning (ML) based big data analytics framework that was developed and tested to improve the quality and performance of Auxiliary Power Units (APU) health monitoring services will be presented. In addition, the text mining classification framework that was implemented and evaluated using big datasets and the Cloud Enabled Brain Computer Interface (CEB) architecture for intuitive decision making to augment the current data processing techniques will be presented as well.

Key contributions in this work include the development and use of customized ML algorithms that have been tested and used to analyze multiple data sources and to provide useful insights and increase the ability to predict (1) APU wear from 39%to 56% and (2) APU shutdown events from 19% to 60%. In addition, the proposed framework and the algorithms create predictive models to predict the category labels for a given text input with high classification accuracy based on the experiments and by improving our algorithms and framework integrating with Natural Language Process (NLP) tools. Preliminary experimental results indicate that the classification and prediction accuracy of the predictive models created from the framework improved from 40% to 90%.

Such system health monitoring can be integrated with the widely used condition based maintenance (CBM) services. Users can use this cloud based analytic toolset and access the big data through any devices (PCs, Tablets, smart phones) anytime and anywhere. Future work will be focused on expanding the big data analytics framework towards data-driven predictive analytics for related applications in other domains.


Dr. Sathis Kumar is an Assistant Professor at Coastal Carolina University in the Department of Computer Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Louisville in 2007.

More information about him and his work can be found here.

Submitted by qtrimble on Fri, 2016-03-25 16:07

Use of photo-identification and mark-recapture techniques to identify characteristics of the stock structure of coastal bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) off northern South Carolina Submitted by qtrimble on Fri, 2016-03-25 14:54

Wind Introduction and Implementation into the Coastal Southeastern United States Submitted by qtrimble on Fri, 2016-03-25 14:52

Coastal Conservation, Education, and Outreach at Huntington Beach State Park Submitted by qtrimble on Fri, 2016-03-25 14:50