Christine Angelini is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for Coastal Solutions (CCS). Founded in 2020, CCS works across disciplines–ecology, engineering, health, computer sciences, policy and communications–to develop and deliver research and technology solutions that support coastal communities in addressing hazards and environmental degradation. A hallmark of the center’s innovation is the integration of large data sets, artificial intelligence and supercomputing to rapidly simulate coastal environmental scenarios and produce data driven solutions.…
I joined UF in December 2017 after receiving my Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, and after two post-docs, at Boston University and Penn State University. My primary research focus is on the numerical modeling of coastal and estuarine hydrodynamics and morphodynamics. My ultimate goal is to understand the mechanisms governing the evolution of natural and man-influenced environments.…
Using the latest advances in technology, my research program primarily focuses on the theory and technological development necessary to advance science, education, and observation of the coastal and estuarine environment.
US Patent No. 10,436,625: Interferometric doppler radar and method for wave and water level measurement
Duties
Numerical modeling, Sensor networking, cyberphysical laboratory testing, ESSIE/Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering IT Support: Networking, Unix/Linux System Administration, HPC Cyberinfrastructure Manager, UF NHERI Experimental Facility.…
Primary Research Area
Water Systems
Other Research Areas
Coastal & Oceanographic Engineering, New Infrastructure Planning and Management, Systems Ecology & Ecological Engineering
Research Interests
Hydrology, water resources, remote sensing, public health, water- and vector-borne diseases, hydrologicalmodeling
Education
B.Tech. Agricultural Engineering, 2001, Punjab Agricultural University, India
M.Sc. Water Resources, 2006, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Ph.D., Water Resources, 2011, Tufts University, MA
Primary Research Area
Coastal & Oceanographic Engineering
Other Research Areas
Coastal and estuarine hydrodynamics, sediment transport
Education
Ph.D., 1973, University of Florida
Maitane Olabarrieta received her doctorate in marine science and technology from the University of Cantabria in Spain in 2006. Her research interests cover diverse oceanographic and long-term morphodynamic evolution problems that affect our coasts. She studies processes such as atmosphere and ocean momentum exchange processes during hurricanes and extreme storms, the generation mechanisms of meteotsunamis, storm impacts and longer-term evolution of estuaries and coastal areas.…
Primary Research Area
Coastal & Oceanographic Engineering
Other Research Area
Coastal Ecosystem Dynamics
Smith is a Research Professor at UF and an Emeritus Senior Research Scientist at US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center. Her research focus is on coastal hydrodynamics, including nearshore waves and currents, shallow-water wave processes, and storm surge. Her projects include theoretical and numerical studies as well laboratory and field experimentation. Smith is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Distinguished member of ASCE.…
Nina Stark is the faculty lead of the coastal & marine geotechnics research group. Nina has received her MS (Diploma) in Geophysics in 2007 from the Westphalian Wilhelms University Muenster, Germany, and her PhD in Marine Geotechnics in 2011 from the University of Bremen, Germany. She worked as a postdoc at the University of Bremen (2011-2012) and at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada (2012-2013).…
Dr. Robert Thieke has worked at the University of Florida for over 29 years in the areas of coastal engineering and civil engineering hydraulics. He served 9 years as the Graduate Coordinator of the Coastal & Oceanographic Engineering program, and has for the last 12 years been the Undergraduate Coordinator and major Advisor of the Civil Engineering program.…
Primary Research Area
Coastal & Oceanographic Engineering
Research Interests
Coastal hydrodynamics, sea-level rise, data analysis, models
Education
B.S., University of Baja California, Mexico
M.S., Stony Brook University
Ph.D., Stony Brook University
Dr. Xiao Yu is assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering at the University of Florida. He joined UF in 2017 after receiving his Ph.D. in Ocean Engineering from the University of Delaware. His primary areas of research are turbulent mixing and transport in estuaries and coastal ocean, sediment transport, and physical-biological coupling in ecosystems.…