Our group conducts interdisciplinary research on coastal and ocean hydrodynamics, interactions between physics and biological processes, and vulnerabilities of coastal infrastructure to changing coastal forces. Current research interests include nonlinear dynamics of water waves, interactions between waves, sediments, and aquatic vegetation, and storm impacts on coastal infrastructure. We also study the generation of internal waves in density-stratified fluids. Recent projects have been focused on improving the representation of mud and aquatic vegetation in numerical wave models to better quantify their impacts on nearshore surface wave propagation, quantifying the efficiency of nature-based features as defense against coastal storms, modeling compound flooding and coastal erosion in the face of sea level rise. We extensively use numerical models but also use analytical methods and conduct field measurements.
