Research

Ongoing Projects

Sunny Day Flooding Project
  • We collect data, develop computer models, and conduct surveys to better understand the causes and impacts of floods from sea-level rise, and potential solutions.
Thomas and Katherine surveying a SuDS in Carolina Beach.
NC-DOT Coastal Monitoring Program: Pea Island, NC
  • We use remote sensing, aerial photography, and computer models to characterize the present and future vulnerability of NC Highway 12.
Modeling the future of developed barrier systems
  • We develop models to better understand what factors control how barrier systems change shape over decades to centuries, particularly when altered by human activities (development and roadway management)
  • We develop models to explore what factors impact barrier recovery following outwash events (bay to ocean flows) over many decades.
Morphodynamics at Frying Pan Shoals
  • We deploy oceanographic sensors and create maps of the seafloor using custom-outfitted jetskis to understand sand movement at the NC capes.
Dune evolution & infragravity waves during collision
  • We deploy oceanographic sensors and use line-scanning lidar to relate wave-by-wave impacts to dune erosion during storms.
Storm impacts and beach recovery at Masonboro Island
  • We use stereo cameras and in situ sensors to monitor storm impacts and beach recovery on remote barrier islands.
Stereo cameras at Masonboro Island, NC
West Greenland: Source to Sink
  • We assess sediment delivery on delta growth patterns by using satellite imagery and field observation.

 

Geomorphology is fun.

 

Past Projects