Graduate Students
Current Graduate Students
Olivia Amante
MS/Ocean Engineering program
Advisor: Jack A. Puleo
Email: oamante@udel.edu
Research Interests: Coastal Erosion, Sediment Transport, Hydrodynamic and Morphodynamic During Extreme Storms
Erika Beddings
MCE
Advisor: Jack A. Puleo
Email: ecbedd@udel.edu
Research Interests: Beach Nourishment, Sediment Transport, Coastal Flooding
Cassie Everett
MCE/Coastal program
Advisor: Jack A. Puleo
Email: clturner@udel.edu
Research Interests: Ship-wake-induced morphodynamics, living shorelines and nature-based systems
Maria Fotia
Advisor: Jim Kirby
Email: fotia@udel.edu
Research Interests: Water Waves and Computational Methods
Temitope E. Idowu
Ph.D.
Advisor: Jack A. Puleo
Email: teidowu@udel.edu
Research Interests: Objects’ migration and burial in swash and surf zones, Coastal processes, sustainability of coastal environments, GIS applications
Paterno "Jowi" Miranda IV
MCE/Coastal program
Advisor: Nobu Kobayashi
Email: psm@udel.edu
Research Interests: Coastal Structures, Sediment Transport
Jirat Laksanalamai
Advisor: Nobu Kobayashi
Email: jiratlak@udel.edu
Research interests: Coastal Erosion, Sediment Transport, Nearshore Hydrodynamics.
Mike Larner
MCE
Advisor: Jack A. Puleo
Email: mjlarner@udel.edu
Research Interests: Coastal Processes, Shoreline Protection, Ship-wake-induced Morphodynamics
Evan Mazur
Ph.D.
Advisor: Jack A. Puleo
Email: emazur@udel.edu
Research Interests: Barrier island morphodynamics, coastal infrastructure resiliency
Courtney Olney
MCE/Coastal program
Advisor: Jack A. Puleo
Email: colney@udel.edu
Research Interests: Hydrodynamics, Numerical Modeling, and Coastal Flooding
Jorge A. Penaloza-Giraldo
Advisor: Tom Hsu
Email: japg@udel.edu
Research Interests: Cohesive Sediments
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Maro Pontiki
Advisor: Jack A. Puleo
Email: mpontiki@udel.edu
Research Interests: Investigation of physics of dune erosion, during extreme surge and wave events, physical modeling, probabilistic modeling for the prediction of coastal floods
Dannielle Pratt
Ph.D./Civil and Environmental Engineering program
Advisor: Holly Michael
Email: depratt@udel.edu
Research Interests: Hydrogeology, Sea Level Rise, Coastal Marshes, Salinization, Coastal Critical Zone
Yashar Rafati
Ph.D.
Advisor: Tian-Jian (Tom) Hsu
Email: yashar@udel.edu
Research Interests: Coastal Sediment Processes, Multiphase Flow, Nearshore Hydrodynamics
Daniel Sharar—Salgado
MCE/Coastal program
Advisor: Tian-Jian Hsu
Email: dsharars@udel.edu
Research Interests: Riverine-Coastal Compound Flooding, Numerical Modeling (Finite Volume & Spectral Element Methods), Scour, Water Waves and Machine Learning
Ali Salimi Tarazouj
Ph.D.
Advisor: Tian-Jian (Tom) Hsu
Email: alisalim@udel.edu
Research Interests: Numerical Modeling, Sediment Transport, Multi Phase Modeling and Turbulence
Michele Strazzella
Ph.D.
Advisor: Nobu Kobayashi
Email: micstra@udel.edu
Research Interests: Coastal Structures, Coastal Erosion, Sediment Transport, Nearshore Hydrodynamics
Benjamin Tsai
Ph.D.
Advisor: Tian-Jian (Tom) Hsu
Email: btsai@udel.edu
Research Interests: Dune Erosion, Sediment Transport, Turbulence Modeling, Large Eddy Simulation
Oscar Williams
MCE/Coastal program
Advisor: Jack A. Puleo
Email: oscarw@udel.edu
Research Interests: Living shorelines, Ship-wake-induced morphodynamics, Coastal erosion
Jiaye Zhang
MCE/Coastal program
Advisor: Tian-Jian Hsu
Email: jiaye@udel.edu
Research Interests: Numerical modeling, sediment transport
Tingting Zhu
Ph.D.
Advisor: Nobu Kobayashi
Email: ztting@udel.edu
Research Interests: Coastal Structures, Coastal Erosion Control Strategies, Sediment Transport, Nearshore Hydrodynamics
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