Possible landslide generated waves off the east U.S. coast from a historic landslide.

Research Group

Current Graduate Students

Hoda El-Safty (Ph.D.) Interaction of Long and Short Wave Motions in Turbulent Environments, expected August 2015
Haeng-Sik Ko (Ph.D.) Development of a High-Control Wavemaker System, expected December 2015
Nikos Kalligeris (Ph.D.) Tsunami-Induced, Shallow Turbulent Coherent Structures, expected August 2016
Aykut Ayca (Ph.D.) Modeling the Random Components of Nearshore Tsunami Currents, expected December 2016
Sasan Tavakkol (Ph.D.) Fast-Computation Coastal Wind Wave Modeling, expected August 2017
Luis Montoyo (Ph.D.) Simulation Confidence in Overland Flow, expected August 2018
Adam Keen (Ph.D.) Stochastic Analysis of Coastal Hazards, expected August 2017

Khairil Irfan Sitanggang (Ph.D.) Computational modeling of very large scale 3D ocean and coastal problems, graduated May 2008. Currently a Naval Architect at Wolsey-Parsons, Houston, TX.
Dae-Hong Kim (Ph.D.) Coupling of Shallow Flow Turbulence with Wind Waves, graduated August 2009. Currently an Assistant Professor at University of Seoul, Korea. web page
Sangyoung Son (Ph.D.) Wave Induced Hydrodynamic Complexity and Transport in the Nearshore, graduated August 2012. Currently an Assistant Professor at University of Ulsan, Korea. web page
Lauren Augustin (M.S.) Bottom Vegetation Effects on Waves and Surge, graduated Dec 2007. Last position was Coastal Engineer at HDR-Shiner Moseley, Corpus Christi, TX
David Swigler (M.S.) Laboratory Experiments of 3D Tsunami Breaking, graduated May 2009. Currently a Coastal Engineer at Coastal Planning & Engineering, Boca Raton, FL
Drake Oaks (M.S.) Modeling of the Transition Between a Levee and Floodwall, graduated May 2010. Currently an Ocean Engineer at Exxon Research, Houston, TX
Arturo Jimenez (M.S.) Probabilistic Assessment of Tsunami Generation Potential by Landslide, August, 2011. Currently a Coastal & Ocean Engineer at Moffatt & Nichol, Houston, TX