• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.49 no.6
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• pp.479-490
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• 2016

Seabed drilling system has recently been used to drill seafloor mineral resources. This case report highlights the procedure and result of sea-trial of seabed drilling system at off-shore of Japan on March, 2016 as well as briefs an international-technical trend of seabed drilling system. In case of having less than 100 m drill depth, seabed drilling system is favorable for seafloor mineral deposits which are mostly distributed within a narrow district and situated between 1000~3000 m water depth, compared with vessel-mounted drilling system. The system is featured by the remotely-operated drill gear, which has top drives, drill strings and mud system on it. The core samples are generally recovered to ship with seabed driller after a dive. In this sea-trail, recovery rate of core samples averagely shows about 55% and the recovered rocks mostly correspond to fresh and/or weak-altered basalt. In case of drilling hydrothermal ore deposit, the recovery rate would be lower than 55% because of the fragile nature of ores. Alternatively it is used to collect cutting chips through riser or bins in order to increase the recovery rates. Recently a reverse circulation method is taken considered to acquire the better cutting-chips. Three-leg type outrigger system and four-leg type leveling system are the competing landing-instruments of seabed drill system. However the landing efficiency using these gears has to be further monitored due to lack of case reports.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.681-688
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• 2020

Approximately 6,000 chemicals are transported through the sea, including hazardous and noxious substances (HNS), which cause marine pollution and are harmful to marine life. The HNS discharged into the sea during the maritime transportation process undergoes physical and chemical changes on the sea surface and in seawater, and some types of HNS sink and are deposited on the seabed. The HNS deposited on the seabed adversely affects the benthic ecosystem, and hence, it is desirable to detect, treat, and recover the HNS on the seabed. Therefore, this study was conducted to analyze the performance requirements that should be considered as the top priority when developing a mechanical system for recovering the HNS deposited on the seabed. Various types of existing dredging devices used for collecting and recovering pollutants from river beds and seabeds were investigated, and 10 performance indices for the mechanical devices were selected. The new performance requirements for the development of the seabed-deposited HNS recovery system were proposed using performance indices. By considering the depth of water in domestic seaports, some of the performance requirements of the mechanical system for recovering deposited HNS from the seabed were obtained as follows: production rate (50-300 ㎥/hr), maximum operation depth (50 m), sediment type (most forms), percentage of solids (10 % or higher), horizontal operating accuracy (±10 cm), limiting currents (3-5 knots). These performance requirements are expected to be useful in the conceptual and basic design of mechanical systems for recovering seabed-deposited HNS.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.23-36
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• 2000

Bottom sea waters in eight stations including from inner bay to outer bay to understand the importance of the submarine groundwater discharge for the environmental assessment of Chinhae Bay was collected in August 1999 and January 2000. Generally, /sup 222/Rn is very useful tracer to assess the submarine groundwater discharge because it is 2-4 orders of magnitude more concentrated in groundwater compared to surface water. The /sup 222/Rn activities ranged between about 33 to 182 dpm/100kg within the bay. Higher activities more than 100 dpm/100kg were found at the inner bay. The /sup 226/Ra activities, its parent, however, were little different between stations. /sup 222/Rn activities at the same station varied with season. It suggests that the major source of /sup 222/Rn is not from the bottom sediment, but from the change of submarine groundwater discharge by precipitation. The contents of Cl/sup -/ and SO/sub 4//sup 2-/ in the groundwater of Wonjeon-ri were very high as 1,312 and 369 ppm, respectively, indicating that this groundwater along the Chinhae coast was affected by seawater. Therefore, the submarine groundwater in the inner Bay may discharge to the overlying water. It indicates that these submarine groundwater discharges may play an important role as another important source of nutrients in the Chinhae Bay, because groundwater around the Chinhae Bay showed high concentration of dissolved inorganic nutrients (average , nitrate>174 μM, silicate>262 μM). Therefore, further studies are required to assess the contribution by the submarine groundwater discharge in the biogeochemical processes of the Chinhae Bay.

• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.116-131
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• 2019

In order to obtain high-quality high-resolution marine seismic data, the survey needs to be carried out at very low-sea condition. However, the survey is often performed with a slight wave, which degrades the quality of data. In this case, it is possible to improve the quality of seismic data by detecting the exact location of the sea bottom signal and eliminating the influence of waves or swells automatically during data processing. However, if noise is included or the sea bottom signal is weakened due to sea waves, sea bottom detection errors are likely to occur. In this study, we applied a method reducing such errors by estimating the sea bottom location, setting a narrow detection range and detecting the sea bottom location within this range. The expected location of the sea bottom was calculated using previously detected sea bottom locations for each channel of multi-channel data. The expected location calculated in each channel is also compared and verified with expected locations of other channels in a shot gather. As a result of applying this method to the noisy 8-channel high-resolution air-gun seismic data acquired off Yeosu, the errors in selecting the strong noise before sea bottom or the strong subsurface reflected signal after the sea bottom signal are remarkably reduced and it is possible to produce the high-quality seismic section with the correction of ~ 2.5 m swell effect.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.17-17
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• 2015

세계적으로 최근 국지적 호우에 의한 홍수 및 토사재해가 빈번히 발생하여 인적피해 및 자산피해가 급증하고 있다. 일반적으로 강우에 의해 홍수가 발생되며 하안 및 하천 구조물에 피해를 주는 동시에 월파 및 제방이 붕괴되어 하천에서 제내지로 범람하여 범람피해가 발생된다. 하지만 도시지역에서 발생되는 강우는 불투수 면적비율이 비교적 커 다른 지역보다 최대 침수심이 발생되는 시간이 매우 빠르게 도달하는 환경적 특징이 있다. 또한 선상지 지역에 발달된 도시는 어느 동일한 강우사상에 의해 발생되는 내 외수 범람재해 및 토사재해가 동시에 발생되어 피해가 중첩될 가능성이 매우 크며 피해 리스크 또한 증가하고 있는 추세이다. 따라서 이상기후에 의해 발생되는 재해경감을 위해 기존의 대책 및 새롭게 구축되는 해저드 맵에 대해서 이와 같은 여러 재해 발생 가능성을 충분히 고려된 멀티 해저드 맵 구축이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 일본 오노시의 지역방재계획을 위한 통합적인 해저드 맵 구축을 위해 내 외수 범람에 의한 피해 및 토석류 발생에 의한 영향평가를 실시하여 두 재해가 동시에 발생 가능한 지역을 대상으로 멀티 해저드 맵 구축 및 피난계획 수립을 목적으로 최근 발생되는 국지적 호우에 대한 예측을 위해 아직 검토대상 지역에 발생하진 않았지만 발생 가능한 강우사상을 추출하기 위해 DAD 분석을 실시하여 가능최대강우량을 산정하여 외력조건으로 사용하였다. 뿐만 아니라 토석류 모델의 현장 적용성 평가를 위해 2011년에 발생된 우면산 토석류 재해를 대상으로 비교 검토를 실시하였으며 본 논문의 주요한 결과를 아래와 같이 나타내었다.

• 어항어장
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• s.75
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• pp.44-50
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• 2006

대수심 침체어구 조사장비는 동해안 깊은 바다의 침체어구 수거에 활용하여 수거효율을 증대시켜 해저환경을 복원할 수 있을 것으로 기대되며, 또한 유령어업 실태에 대한 과학적 조사방법도구로 사용할 수 있을 뿐만 아니라 대수심 해저면 어족자원 분포조사 및 생태조사에 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Proceedings of KOSOMES biannual meeting
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.174-175
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• 2017

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.25-33
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• 2007

Crowd behaviors on cyber underwater environment are often produced in entertainment contents, such as films and games. It is easy for us to come in contact with the scenes appearing a lot of characters as digital films and animation works are increased gradually, owing to developing of computer graphics. Though the processing a scene of crowd and the behavior system of crowd, related to the processing techniques of crowd behavior in cyber space, have been implemented so far, the research for developing the natural crowd behavior simulator can not be still satisfying. In this paper, we designed a realistic and efficient Fish Schooling Behavior Simulator for the contents production of cyber underwater environment, which showed each type of fish behavior in cyber underwater smartly, and which generated the animating the behavior automatically, reducing the time and cost.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2019.11a
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• pp.147-149
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• 2019

해수 온도의 상승과 해양 오염의 증가로 근래 국내 해안에서도 갯녹음이 확산되면서 바다숲이 축소되고 있다. 특히, 온난류의 유입에 의한 무절 석회조류의 난입과 해수에 함유 농도가 증가한 칼슘이 석출되고 해저 암반을 뒤덮어 해조류의 포자 활착 공간을 없애는 백화현상이 확산되면서 바다의 사막화 현상이 가속화되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 해조류의 포자가 빠르게 활착하여 안전하게 생장할 수 있는 공간을 제공하기 위한 새로운 방안으로, 먼저 육상에서 모판의 기능을 제공하여 해조류의 포자를 착상하여 성장시킨 후 해저로 이식하는 것으로 바다숲과 해안의 환경을 효과적으로 복원하기 위한 방안으로 다공성 기질 생태 플랫폼을 디자인하고 이의 특성 및 활용 방안을 제시하였다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.200-202
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• 2008

동해 울릉분지에서는 시추선 RemEtive를 사용하여 UBGH-X-01 가스하이드레이트 탐사가 2007년에 실시되었다. 본 연구에서는 천부 가스하이드레이트가 확인된 UBGH1-10 정점에서 무인잠수정(Quantam WROV)을 사용하여 획득된 푸쉬코어와 해저지형 분석을 수행되었다.UBGH1-10 정점은 seismic chimneys의 탄성파 특성이 발달된 지역이다. 이곳에서는 해저표면으로부터 수 m 하부에서 가스하이드레이트가 발견되었다. 이 정점은 수 m 높이의 얕은 둔덕들이 무인잠수정에 부착된 비디오 카메라에 의해서 관찰되었다.이곳에서 채취된 길이 약40 cm의 푸쉬코어는 생물교란된 뻘질 퇴적물로 구성되어 있으며, 가스하이드레이트와 chemosynthetic community는 관찰되지 않았다. 푸쉬코어는 X-ray fluorescence scanner를 사용하여 퇴적물의 26가지 원소 조성을 분석하였다. UBGH1-10 정점의 산화환원환경은 Mo/Al과 Mn/Ti 원소비를 이용하여 천부 가스하이드레이트가 발견되지 않은 UBGH1-9와 UBGH1-1 정점과 대비하였다. 이 정점의 일차생산력은 Ba/Al 원소비를 이용하여 다른 정점과 대비하였다. 천부 가스하이드레이트가 발견된 UBGH1-10 정점은 활발한 가스방출과 관련된 생물집단 서식 또는 자생광물 형성의 흔적이 발견되지 않으며, 퇴적물에서도 산화환원환경과 일차생산력의 큰 차이가 관찰되지 않는다.