Understanding the Long-Term Evolution of the Coupled Natural-Human Coastal System The Future of the U.S. Gulf Coast (2018) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix A Committee and Staff Biographical Sketches
Appendix A Committee and Staff Biographical Sketches
Pages 135-142
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Her research program focuses on the use of numerical, field, laboratory, and analytical approaches to predict water motion and bathymetric change in bays, inlets, and the continental shelf. She has developed models to predict surf zone wave fields, conducted research to understand the effects of wave energy converters on the nearshore wave field, and investigated the mechanisms that control nearshore rip currents.
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His major research interests are in the areas of coastal engineering, wave mechanics, fluid mechanics, littoral processes, and tidal inlets. His research currently explores water wave modeling, including tsunamis and their impacts on shorelines.
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Dr. Irish's research involves the physical impacts of coastal hazards, including storm surge, tsunami inundation, and storm-induced erosion; coastal hazard probability and risk assessment; impacts of climate change and sea level rise at the coast; and the role of natural and nature-based features in coastal hazard mitigation, including wetlands, coastal forest, dunes, and beaches.
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Her interdisciplinary research program focuses on the response of low-lying coastal environments to climate change. Recent and ongoing work relies on the merging of observational and numerical approaches to investigate barrier island response to sea level rise; coastal foredune dynamics; couplings among barriers, back-barrier marshes, and bays; large-scale coastline response to changing wave climate; two-way couplings between human activities and natural processes that affect coastline evolution; and novel arts-based approaches to climate change education.
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More specifically, he examines the sedimentary record of the Louisiana coast to investigate sea level change over timescales ranging from the past decade to the past 10,000 years. Sea-level records provide insights on a variety of issues, including rates of ice sheet melt during past warm periods, as well as subsidence mechanisms, rates, and their spatial patterns.
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work, she was a Research Associate in Physical Oceanography at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Since joining the National Academies staff in 2008, she has worked on several ocean and Earth science studies, including such topics as scientific ocean drilling, critical ocean science research needs and infrastructure, the academic research fleet, marine hydrokinetic energy, methane hydrates, coal mining and human health, and geoscience education.
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At the National Academies, he worked on studies dealing with the use of chemical dispersants in oil spill response and the NASA Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space.
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