• Hurricane-Induced Storm Surge, Wave, Coastal Inundation, and Beach Erosion
• Coastal Ocean Observing and Predicting System
• CyberInfrastructure for Coastal, Estuarine, and Hydrologic Sciences
• Estuarine, Shelf, and Lake Hydrodtnamic and Trasnport Processes
• Sediment Transport Processes
• Water Quality Dynamics
• Ecosystem (Light Attenuation and Submerged Aquatic Vegetation) Dynamics
• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Turbulence Modeling
• Boundary Layer Dynamics
• Current-Wave Interaction
• High Performance Environmental Modeling
• Development and Application of Integrated Modeling System for Predicting Changes in
• Aquatic Ecosystems due to Anthropogenic and Climatic Causes
• Development and Application of Integrated Modeling System for Prediction of Storm Surge and Coastal Flooding and Production of Flood Insurance Rate Maps
• Nearshore Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport Modeling
• Artificial Reefs
• GIS Applications
• Field Monitoring of Hydrodynamic and Ecosystem Processes
• Micrometeorology, Hurricane and Tornado Dynamics

My team is currently working on the valuation of coastal wetlands for buffering coastal communities from storm-induced flood, wave, and residential structural loss, considering sea level rise, more intense storms in the future, and wetland evolution. We are developing high-resolution (4-50m) probabilistic coastal flood and wave maps for the 21st century (2030, 2070, 2100). We use integrated models and data of climate, hurricane, hydrodynamic, wave, ecological, and economic processes.