Speakers
Tate O. McAlpin
Tate O. McAlpin is a Research Physicist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL) at the U.S. Army Engineering Research and Development Center (ERDC) in Vicksburg, MS. He received undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Physics from Mississippi State University (2005) and also received a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering from Mississippi State University (2012). He is a registered professional engineer in the state of Mississippi and currently working on a PhD in Civil Engineering from Louisiana State University focused on bed-load transport on large sand bed rivers. During his 20 years at ERDC-CHL, he has worked in the development and application of multi-dimensional numerical models focused on hydrodynamics, salinity, and sediment transport in estuaries and rivers. He is the primary developer of the ISSDOTv2 code to determine the bed-load transport rates in large sand bed rivers using high resolution multi-beam measurements.