A sea campaign in the Galé beach region ended this Saturday, the 5th, with the aim of characterizing the state of equilibrium of some beaches on the southern coast of the Algarve region. The campaign had started on March 25th.
This research takes place within the scope of the MOSES Project, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology, and brings together researchers from the Center for Marine and Environmental Research (CIMA) of the University of Algarve, the Center for Technological Research of the Algarve (CINTAL) and the University from Lisbon.
The experimental design used will allow to estimate the effectiveness of feeding the beaches studied with the sand that travels along the coast. This process is essential to maintain the dynamic balance of beaches and adjacent rocky cliffs.
The team from the Scientific Diving Center of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Algarve, which placed the equipment at a depth of seven meters, dived this Saturday to collect the sensors used to measure waves and currents.
The MOSES Project proposes an innovative and little explored approach to quantify the volumes of sand that transpose the rocky ridges into crenulated shores.
To this end, acoustic techniques will be used together with the more traditional techniques of tracers and digital image processing. This multi-approach will allow the mutual calibration of the methodologies used.
It is being developed on the rocky coast of the central region of the Algarve, where the beaches and cliffs are undergoing a phase of adjustment to the modification of environmental parameters, such as the fall of the cliffs and the attempt to stabilize them, the thinning of the beaches and their artificial feeding.
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