Courses Taught

CE 3523 - Water Resources Engineering
CE 4523/6523 - Open Channel Hydraulics
CE 4990/6990 - Sedimentation Engineering
CE 8990 - Estuarine Engineering
CE 4990/6990 - Waterborne Transport

Education

Ph.D. Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering, University of Florida, 1999
M.S. Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering, University of Florida, 1973
B.S. Civil Engineering, Arizona State University, 1969

Publications

About 80 publications, including:

Mehta, A. J. and McAnally, W. H., “Fine-Grained Cohesive Sediment Transport”, Chapter 4 in Sedimentation Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers Manual 54, Volume 2, accepted for publication, American Society of Civil Engineers, New York.

McAnally, W. H. and Mehta, A. J., “Significance of Aggregation of Fine Sediment Particles in Their Deposition,” Estuarine, Coastal, and Shelf Science, 54(4), 2002.

Parchure, T. M., McAnally, W. H., and Teeter, A. M., “Desktop Method for Estimating Vessel-Induced Sediment Suspension,” Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, July 2001, American Society of Civil Engineers, New York.

McAnally, W. H. and Mehta, A. J., editors, Coastal and Estuarine Fine Sediment Processes, Proceedings in Marine Science, 2001 Elsevier, Amsterdam.

McAnally, W. H. and Mehta, A. J. "Aggregation Rate of Fine Sediment," Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, December 2000, American Society of Civil Engineers, New York.

Parchure, T. M., Wilhelms, S. C., Sarruff, M. S., and McAnally, W. H., “Salinity Intrusion in the Panama Canal”, ERDC/CHL TR-00-4, 2000, U. S. Engineer R&D Center, Vicksburg, MS.

McAnally, W. H. et al., “Water Resources”, Chapter 5 in An Engineering Response to Global Climate Change, R. Watt, Ed., 1997, CRC Press, New York.

McAnally, W. H. and Pritchard, D. P., “Salinity Control in the Mississippi River Under Drought Flows”, Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering, Jan 1997, American Society of Civil Engineers, New York.

Chapter 6: “Management Measures for Hydromodification: Channelization and Channel Modification, Dams, and Streambank and Shoreline Erosion”, Guidance Specifying Management Measures for Sources of Nonpoint Pollution in Coastal Waters, 1993, Environmental Protection Agency and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington DC. (One of several contributing authors.)

Research Interests

Sedimentation Engineering
Sedimentation Engineering is the use of operational methods and constructed works in concert with natural processes to cause an economically and environmentally sustainable sediment distribution. It considers individual projects within the context of a regional morphological system and in terms of their effects on the region.

Example projects include:

· Ports Sedimentation Study, Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway

· Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDL’s) for the Big Sunflower River

· Aggregation and Deposition of Estuarial Fine Sediment

Estuarine Hydraulics
Estuaries are water bodies where rivers meet the sea. They are usually described as semi-enclosed bodies of water with a free connection to the open sea and where sea water is measurable diluted by fresh water from land runoff. They serve as home or a temporary habitat for thousands of species of birds, mammals and fish. They provide for transportation of people and goods by water, and they dilute and assimilate societies’ waste.

Estuarine hydraulics deals with the rise and fall of tides and associated ebb and flood currents, wind-waves, surges, and density currents, and transport processes within tidal waters, including transport, deposition, and erosion of sediments and transport and assimilation of waste materials.

Example projects include:

· Panama Canal Salinity Reduction

· Mississippi River Salinity Intrusion

Waterborne Transportation
Waterborne transportation provides economical, safe, and environmentally sustainable transport of people and goods. The U. S. Marine Transportation System (MTS) includes about 25,000 miles of navigable waterways, 300 ports, 4000 terminals, vessels of all kinds, and connections to other transportation modes. Each year the U.S. MTS handles more than 2 billion tons of freight and 200 million passengers, contributes more than $700 billion to the U. S. economy, employs more than 13 million people, and serves national defense. It presents planning and design challenges for economists, engineers, and scientists working in Federal, and local agencies and private firms to create a safe, efficient, and environmentally sustainable system.

Example Projects Include:

· Transportation Responses to Increased Latin American Trade

· Ports Sedimentation Study, Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway