We are currently investigating the potential of nature to reduce hurricane-flooding impacts to critical infrastructure. We also strive to incorporate climate variability and human induced environmental changes to engineering practice and design. Our group is also focusing on integrating riverine, urban and coastal flooding analysis at real time, near future forecasting and infrastructure design. W
e work across spatial scales and our projects range from international to regional and local applications. We are currently developing local projects in Fairfax County, regional projects in the Chesapeake Bay area, Northern Virginia, Baltimore and Washington DC metropolitan areas, and internationally in the Bay of Bengal and Brazil. In addition to advancing science and engineering in the fields of water resources, environmental and coastal engineering, our team works on a highly interdisciplinary environment providing our expertise to climate scientists, systems engineers, ecologists, social scientists, public policy and public health scientists. Our work combines field instrumentation for environmental monitoring, numerical modeling, High Performance Computing (HPC) and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). We recently established the Flood Hazards Research Lab within our research group. With the support of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering, we are creating a Lab specifically dedicated to research sustainable solutions to flood hazards impacting societies in coastal, riverine and urban environments.
