Coastal Engineering @ USCFaculty, Researchers, and Instructors in the Coastal Engineering group. Welcome. Welcome to the Coastal Engineering Group at the University of Southern California. Recent Funding and News 8/2. The USC Coastal Engineering group constructs an . See a local elementary student interacting with the exhibit here.
Synolakis receives a NSF award to study the effect of offshore islands on mainland runup and flow properties. Jim Kaihatu at TAMU are co- PI's on the project. Link to project description here.
Lynett receives funding from the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center to examine tsunami loading on coastal bridges. A story on a recent article by Synolakis picked up by various media outlets. Lynett receives funding from the Department of Energy for the project . Link to project description here. Lynett receives funding from the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center to examine simulation confidence in tsunami- driven overland flow. Synolakis quoted widely following the Mw 8.
Chile. 3/2. 4/2. 01. Lynett participates in a tsunami impacts panel at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, CA. Example coverage of the event can be read here and here. Synolakis pens an editorial in the Wall Street Journal in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, calling for increased disaster preparedness in coastal communities. Article can be found here.
Synolakis has been awarded the 2. Soloviev Medal of the European Geophysical Union. According to EGU the medal is awarded in .
It will be awarded for outstanding scientific contributions in fundamental research that improves our knowledge of basic natural hazards principles as well as research that assesses and leads to the proper mitigation of natural hazards from both human and environmental perspectives. Feature can be seen here. Lynett joins the Editorial Board of ASCE's Waterways journal as an Associate Editor. Lynett is also currently an Associate Editor at JGR- Oceans and is the Editor- in- Chief of the Proceedings of the International Conference on Coastal Engineering (ICCE). Congrats to recent Ph.
D graduate Sangyoung Son who has accepted a tenure- track faculty position back home in South Korea. CEE's writeup is here.
Research by Synolakis and others at the Ecole Normale Superieure about the effect of offshore islands on tsunami impact highlighted in The Economist. Link to the article is here. Efforts of an NSF RAPID funded team to the coasts of New Jersey and New York after Hurricane Sandy are highlighted by the NSF.
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Jen Irish of Virginia Tech led the team, and Prof. Robert Weiss of VT and Lynett were other members of the team. Link to writeup here. Lynett receives funding from the Office of Naval Research to develop spot- application techniques for the use of high- resolution wave models.
Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize. According to the ASCE website, . Huber Civil Engineering Research Prizes recognizes members of the Society, in any grade, who demonstrate notable achievements in research related to Civil Engineering. Preference is given to younger members (generally under 4. Army Corps of Engineers as standards for evaluation and design. Lynett's contributions to coastal engineering.
Link to article is here. Synolakis publishes editorial in The Wall Street Journal titled . Lynett's research highlighted in USC High- Performance Computing and Communication brochure. Hermann Fritz of Georgia Tech and USC Tsunami Research Center alum Dr.
A number of articles with USC authorship published in a special issue on the Japan 2. Lynett discusses tsunami hazards in ports and harbors with Chile newspaper and television at a workshop in Valparaiso. Lynett, along with Prof. Dalrymple (Johns Hopkins) and Prof. Losada (Cantabria), interviewed about coastal engineering at this years International Conference on Coastal Engineering in Santander, Spain. Lynett receives funding from the Office of Naval Research to examine the effects of tsunami- induced currents near Naval facilities in the Port of San Diego. Synolakis publishes editorial in Huffington Post - on the anniversary of the Titantic sinking - about understanding the ocean.
Borrero and Lynett discuss tsunami- induced currents in ports and harbors in an article published in ASCE's Civil Engineering. Synolakis and Lynett give technical presentations on the island of Crete about coastal zone management and engineering responses to beach erosion. Synolakis, Lynett, and Borrero widely referenced and quoted as the one- year anniversary of the Japan tsunami approaches.
The Washington Post quoted Patrick Lynett about tsunami risk in the Pacific Northwest. Synolakis quoted in a science review news article in Nature. Lynett interviewed about tsunami induced currents for the Discovery Channel show Daily Planet. The segment can be seen here 1.
Synolakis quoted in USA Today, following press conference given at the AGU Fall Meeting. Lynett part of a multi- disciplinary group funded by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to better understand and quantify the tsunami hazard to new and existing nuclear power plants.
Lynett receives funding from the Office of Naval Research to study the complex interactions of waves and currents in the vicinity of tidal inlets and river mouths. Lynett part of a three researcher team to receive $1. NSF funding to investigate coherent turbulent structures generated by long period waves. Lynett awarded the John and Dorothy Shea Early Career Chair in Civil Engineering at USC.
A little about the Shea's can be read here. Synolakis quoted in USA Today news story about the results of field surveys in Japan. Lynett receives NSF RAPID funding to visit tsunami stricken areas in the Pacific.
Lynett awarded John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship to study complex wave processes during hurricanes.