Derek Fong

Senior Research Engineer and Lecturer, Stanford University
Derek A Fong 

Publications:

Fong, D.A., Monismith, S.G., Stacey, M.T., and J.R. Burau, 2009. Turbulent stresses and secondary circulation in a tidal-forced channel with significant curvature and asymmetric bedforms. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering,135, 198-208.

Fong, D.A., and N.L. Jones, 2006. Evaluation of AUV-based ADCP measurements, Limnology and Oceanography: Methods,4,58-67.

Fong, D.A., and S.G. Monismith, 2004. Evaluation of the accuracy of a ship-mounted, bottom tracking ADCP in a near-shore coastal flow, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 21(7), 1121-1128.

Fong, D.A. and M.T. Stacey, 2003. Horizontal disperion of a near bed coastal plume. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 489,239-267.

Fong, D.A. and W.R. Geyer, 2002. The alongshore transport of freshwater in a surface-trapped river plume. Journal of Physical Oceanography,32, 957-972.

Fong, D.A. and W.R. Geyer, 2001. The response of a river plume during an upwelling favorable wind event. Journal of Geophysical Research, 106, 1067-1084.

Fong, D.A., Geyer, W.R., and R.P. Signell, 1997. The wind-forced response of a buoyant coastal current: Observations of the western Gulf of Maine plume. Journal of Marine Systems 12, 69-81.

Geyer, W.R., Signell R.P., Fong D.A., Wang J., Anderson D.M., Keafer B.P, 2004. The freshwater transport and dynamics of the western Maine coastal current, Continental Shelf Research, 24, 1339-1357.

Giddings, S.N., D.A. Fong, S.G. Monismith, C.C. Chickadel, K.A. Edwards, W.J. Plant, B. Wang, O.B. Fringer, A.R. Horner-Devine, and A.T. Jessup, 2011. Frontogenesis and frontal progression of a trapping-generated estuarine convergence front and its influence on mixing and stratification. Estuaries and Coasts, doi:10.1007/s12237-011-9453-z.

Giddings, S.N., D.A. Fong, and S.G. Monismith, 2011. Role of straining and advection in the intratidal evolution of stratification, vertical mixing, and longitudinal dispersion in a shallow, macrotidal, salt wedge estuary. J. Geophys. Res,116, C03003,doi:10.1029/2010JC006482.

Horner-Devine, A.R., D.A. Fong, S.G. Monismith, and T. Maxworthy, 2005. Laboratory experiments simulating a coastal river inflow, Journal of Fluid Me chanics, 555,203-232.

Horner-Devine, A.R., Fong, D.A., and Monismith, S.G., 2008. Evidence for the inherent unsteadiness of a river plume: satellite observations of the Niagara River discharge. Limnology and Oceanography, 53,2731-2737

Horner, A.R., D.A. Fong, J.R. Koseff, T. Maxworthy, and S.G. Monismith, 2000. The control of coastal current transport. 5th International Symposium on Stratified Flows, International Association of Hydraulic Research, 2, 865-870.

Jones, N.L., Lowe, R.J., Pawlak, G., Fong, D.A., and Monismith, S.G., 2008. Plume dispersion on a fringing coral reef system. Limnology and Oceanography, 53,2273-2286.

Monismith, S.G., Hench, J.L., Fong, D.A., Nidzieko, N.J., Fleenor, W.E., Doyle, L., and S.G. Schladow, 2009. Thermal variability in a tidal river,” Est. Coasts. DOI10.1007/s12237-008- 9109-9

Monismith, S.G., and D.A. Fong, 2004. A note on the potential transport of scalars and organisms by surface waves, Limnology and Oceanography, 49, 1214-1217.

Monismith, S.G. and D.A. Fong, 1996. A simple model of vertical mixing in a stratified tidal flow, Journal of Geophysical Research, 101, 28583-28595.

Monismith, S.G., Fong, D.A., and M.T. Stacey, 1993. A model of mixing in a stratified tidal flow. In Shen, H.W., Su, S.T., and F. Wen, editors, H ydraulic Engineering ’93, 2, 725-730.

Musiak, J.D., M.T. Stacey, D. Sereno, T.M. Powell, S.G. Monismith, D.A. Fong, and M. Purcell, 2000. Vertical mixing and horizontal transport in stratified flow at a near coastal site. 5th International Symposium on Stratified Flows, International Association of Hydraulic Research, 2, 989-994.

Nidzieko, N.J., D.A. Fong, and J.L. Hench, 2006. Comparison of Reynolds stress estimates derived from standard and fast-ping ADCPs, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 23,854-861.

Palmarsson, S.O., S. G. Schladow, and D.A. Fong, 2004. Salvaging velocity measurements corrupted by nearby instruments, Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 3, 263-274.

Plant, W.J., R. Branch, G. Chatham, C.C. Chicakdel, K. Hayes, B. Hayworth, A.R. Horner- Devine, A. Jessup, D.A. Fong, O.B. Fringer, S.N. Giddings, S.G. Monismith, and B. Wang 2009. Remotely sensed river surface features compared with modeling and in situ measurements

Wang, B. S.N. Giddings, O.B. Fringer, D.A. Fong, and S.G. Monismith 2010. Modeling and understanding turbulent mixing a macrotidal salt wedge estuary. J. Geophys. Res, doi:10.1029/2010JC00615

Wang, B., Fringer, O.B., Giddings, S.G., and D.A. Fong, 2009. High Resolution simulations of a macrotidal estuary using SUNTANS.” Ocean Modeling, 26,60-85.

Warrick, J.A. and D.A. Fong, 2004. Dispersal scaling from the world’s rivers. Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L04301, doi: 10. 1029/2003GL019114.

Xing, Z., Fong, D.A., Tan, K.M., Lo, E.W-M, and S.G. Monismith 2012. Water and heat budgets of a shallow tropical reservoir. Water Resources Research, doi:10.1029/2011WR011314.

Young, M., Eagle-Gonneea, M., Fong, D. A., Moore, W., Herrera-Silveira, J., and A. Paytan. 2007. Characterizing sources of groundwater to a ropical coastal lagoon in a karstic area using radium isotopes and water chemistry. Marine Chemistry,doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2007.07.010