Research Interests

• Hurricane-Induced Storm Surge, Wave, Coastal Inundation, and Beach Erosion
• Coastal Ocean Observing and Predicting System
• CyberInfrastructure for Coastal, Estuarine, and Hydrologic Sciences
• Estuarine, Shelf, and Lake Hydrodtnamic and Trasnport Processes
• Sediment Transport Processes
• Water Quality Dynamics
• Ecosystem (Light Attenuation and Submerged Aquatic Vegetation) Dynamics
• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Turbulence Modeling
• Boundary Layer Dynamics
• Current-Wave Interaction
• High Performance Environmental Modeling
• Development and Application of Integrated Modeling System for Predicting Changes in Aquatic Ecosystems due to Anthropogenic and Climatic Causes
• Development and Application of Integrated Modeling System for Prediction of Storm Surge and Coastal Flooding and Production of Flood Insurance Rate Maps
• Nearshore Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport Modeling
• Artificial Reefs
• GIS Applications
• Field Monitoring of Hydrodynamic and Ecosystem Processes
• Micrometeorology, Hurricane and Tornado Dynamics