A one-year study examining water-column and near-bed time-series observations from
benthic-boundary-layer tripods was undertaken in the Waipaoa Sedimentary System (WSS)
on the Poverty Bay continental shelf, offshore of the Raukumara Ranges, New Zealand.
Here, the nature of the adjacent post-glacial shelf deposits, fed by the Waipaoa River, and
century-scale sediment accumulation is well established, but event-scale sediment dispersal
and hydrodynamics had not been measured. Data from two tripods outfitted with acoustic …