Motivation

The intersection between the Yahara River and Lake Mendota has been point of interest for many disciplines of science and engineering over last few decades (and some have achieved a partial success as well). Issues such as unequal sediment loading and changing water levels during summer and winters have long create serious problems . One of the major keys to solve these problems is to study the behavior of surface water around this region . Hence , our purpose is to  create a brief picture for the wave condition at the Yahara River outlet to Lake Mendota. We hope our research can create valuable information for future  hydrological  or hydrodynamic studies at  this area.

Our plan to achieve our goal could be summarized as following:

• Know the bathymetry of Yahara River from Windsor to entrance to Lake Mendota using different instruments and computer software.
• Find out the variations in water levels in Yahara River due to a specific inflow/out flow conditions across the river.
• Study the wave characteristics across the river and predict wave height and wave time period under different wind and fetch conditions.
• The knowledge so gained can be used for further studies in relation with different aspects of the same study site e.g; wetland restoration projects etc.

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