# positions[].organizations[].parent[].label
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

# overview
My primary interests involve many aspects of surface wave generation and propagation, including shelf-scale wave transformation, nonlinear wave-wave interaction, wave breaking and nearshore circulation, and the effects of various bottom types, with an emphasis on cohesive bottom sediments. Recently, I have been investigating the signature of nearshore phenomena (breaking, dissipation and nonlinear dynamics) on the longer term statistics (effect on spectral shape, skewness, and asymmetry). I am also interested in data assimilation, and the ability to invert known or best-deduced dynamics to yield information such as bottom characterization parameters, input conditions and bathymetry.

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University of California, Berkeley - (Berkeley, California, United States)

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California State Polytechnic University - (Pomona, California, United States)

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University of Delaware - (Newark, Delaware, United States)

# awardsAndHonors[].label
Zachry Department of Civil Engineering Service Impact Award

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Modelling of Nearshore Wave, Current and IG-Wave Motion

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Asymptotic behavior of frequency and wave number spectra of nearshore shoaling and breaking waves

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Equilibrium beach profiles with random seas

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Dispersal of Mississippi and Atchafalaya sediment on the Texas-Louisiana shelf: Model estimates for the year 1993

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Nonlinear and Dissipation Characteristics of Ocean Surface Waves in Estuarine Environments

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Performance of the WRF Model for Surface Wind Prediction around Qatar

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Generation of oblique interfacial waves due to resonant interaction with surface gravity waves in shallow water

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Incorporation of a Nearshore Hydrodynamic Model into the Unmanned Cooperative Cueing and Intervention Automated Planner

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DIOPS: A PC-based wave, tide and surf prediction system

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HILBERT SPECTRA OF NONLINEAR OCEAN WAVES

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Chapter 2 Frequency domain wave models in the nearshore and surf zones

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EFFECTS OF DESALINATION ON HYDRODYNAMIC PROCESS IN PERSIAN GULF

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Incorporation of wind effects into Boussinesq wave models

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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NONLINEAR AND DISSIPATIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF A COMBINED RANDOM - CNOIDAL WAVE FIELD

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Spectral Evolution of Directional Finite Amplitude Dispersive Waves in Shallow Water

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Mesoscale wave energy dissipation over heterogeneous sediments

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Impact of Curriculum Transformation Committee Experience on Faculty Perspectives of their Teaching and its Influence on Student Learning

# publications[].publisher
American Society for Engineering Education

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Model predictions of Nearshore processes near complex bathymetry

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Nonlinear wave dynamics in the presence of mud-induced dissipation on Atchafalaya Shelf, Louisiana, USA

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Nonlinear and Dissipation Characteristics of Ocean Surface Waves in Estuarine Environments

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Assimilating Data into a Circulation Model

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SPATIAL EVOLUTION OF THE FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION OF DISSIPATION AND IMPLICATIONS ON FREQUENCY DOMAIN MODELING

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Dissipation of nonlinear shallow water waves

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PREDICTING THE INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON HURRICANE FLOODING

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Analysis of SWAN Model with In-Situ and Remotely Sensed Data from SandyDuck '97

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Modeling Wind Effects on Shallow Water Waves

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Determining heterogeneous bottom friction distributions using a numerical wave model

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LONG WAVE EFFECTS ON BREAKING WAVES OVER FRINGING REEFS

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MESOSCALE WAVE ENERGY DISSIPATION OVER HETEROGENEOUS SEDIMENTS

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Diffusion reduction in an arbitrary scale third generation wind wave model

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Potential Human Health Hazard of Post-Hurricane Harvey Sediments in Galveston Bay and Houston Ship Channel: A Case Study of Using In Vitro Bioactivity Data to Inform Risk Management Decisions.

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A Consistent Nonlinear Mild-Slope Equation Model.

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Structure of Frequency Domain Models for Random Wave Breaking

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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COMBINED RANDOM SWELL AND TRANSIENT LONG WAVES: DISSIPATION CHARACTERISTICS

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Potential implications of global warming and barrier island degradation on future hurricane inundation, property damages, and population impacted

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A comparison of the energy flux computation of shoaling waves using Hilbert and wavelet spectral analysis techniques

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Progress during the NOPP Wave Model Improvement Program

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Nonlinear and Dissipation Characteristics of Ocean Surface Waves in Estuarine Environments

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Spectral description of energy dissipation in breaking wave groups

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Nonlinear and directional effects on wave predictions over muddy bottoms: central chenier plain coast, Western Louisiana Shelf, USA

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The effect of bathymetric filtering on nearshore process model results

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Development of Numerical 3-Wave Interactions Module For Operational Wave Forecasts In Intermediate-Depth And Shallow Water

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Wave Forecasts in Muddy Coastal Environments: Model Development and Real-Time Applications

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Optimized Determination of Viscous Mud Properties Using a Nonlinear Wave Mud Interaction Model

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Directional wavenumber spectra of ocean surface waves

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The effect of wind variability and domain size in the Persian Gulf on predicting nearshore wave energy near Doha, Qatar

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Nonlinear and Dissipation Characteristics of Ocean Surface Waves in Estuarine Environments

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Multi-dimensional error analysis of nearshore wave modeling tools, with application toward data-driven boundary correction

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Development and Verification of a Comprehensive Community Model for Physical Processes in the Nearshore Ocean

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Forecasting and hindcasting waves with the SWAN model in the Southern California Bight

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Spectral Models Based on Boussinesq Equations

# publications[].publisher
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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A Modified Frequency Distribution Function of Wave-Breaking-Induced Energy Dissipation.

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Temporal and spatial analysis of per and polyfluoroalkyl substances in surface waters of Houston ship channel following a large-scale industrial fire incident.

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NONLINEAR TRANSFORMATION OF WAVES IN FINITE WATER DEPTH

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Diffusion reduction in an arbitrary scale third generation wind wave model (vol 29, pg 1357, 2002)

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Comparisons of remotely-retrieved directional wave spectra over a large area with a shoaling-wave model

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Progress during the NOPP Wave Model Improvement Program

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Modeling nonlinear wave-wave interactions with the elliptic mild slope equation

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THE INFLUENCE OF SWELL ON THE SEA SURFACE ROUGHNESS AND THE GROWTH OF WIND WAVES

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Modeling of Coastal Waves and Hydrodynamics

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Hurricane Michael in the Area of Mexico Beach, Florida

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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The interaction between short ocean swell and transient long waves: Dissipative and nonlinear effects

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The Integrated Ocean Prediction System (IOPS)

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Generation of long subharmonic internal waves by surface waves

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Data-Driven Boundary Correction and Optimization of a Nearshore Wave and Hydrodynamic Model to Enable Rapid Environmental Assessment

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A Hybrid Model for Nearshore Nonlinear Wave Evolution

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Use of Phase-Resolving Wave Models in Bathymetry Deduction

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Wave transformation at Pensacola Pass, Florida

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Wind, Wave and Current Modeling and Prediction

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A HYBRID MODEL FOR NEARSHORE NONLINEAR WAVE EVOLUTION

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Hilbert spectra of nonlinear ocean waves

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Modeling of nonlinear wave propagation over fringing reefs

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DISSIPATION OF NONLINEAR SHALLOW WATER WAVES

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THE NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF WAVE GENERATION BY LOW SPEED WINDS

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Evolution of high frequency waves in shoaling and breaking wave spectra

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Application of a nonlinear frequency domain wave-current interaction model to shallow water recurrence effects in random waves

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LONGSHORE SEDIMENT TRANSPORT RATE AT MORRO BAY, CA

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Dissipation of wave energy by cohesive sediments

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The combined effect of wave-current interaction and mud-induced damping on nonlinear wave evolution

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Refinements to an Optimized Model-Driven Bathymetry Deduction Algorithm

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Two-dimensional parabolic modeling of extended Boussinesq equations

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Review and Verification of Numerical Wave Models for Near Coastal Areas - Part 2: Verification of Near Coastal Numerical Wave Models

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Using Genetic Algorithms to Optimize Bathymetric Sampling for Predictive Model Input

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Nonlinear and Dissipation Characteristics of Ocesan Surface Waves in Estuarine Environments

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QUANTIFICATION OF THE WIND EFFECT ON WAVE BREAKING BASED ON A BOUSSINESQ WAVE MODEL

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Development and Verification of a Comprehensive Community Model for Physical Processes in the Nearshore Ocean

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A NUMERICAL CODE FOR WAVES IN A TWO-LAYER SHALLOW FLUID

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A real-time nearshore wave and current prediction system

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Development of an AUV-Fed Nearshore Nowcasting System

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A MODEL IN FREQUENCY DOMAIN FOR TRANSFORMATION OF FULLY DISPERSIVE NONLINEAR WAVES

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Parameterization of Maximum Significant Wave Heights in Coastal Regions due to Hurricanes

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS OF WAVE ATTENUATION AND WAVE SETUP BY VEGETATION

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Empirical orthogonal function analysis of ocean surface currents using complex and real-vector methods

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Wave Forecasting in Muddy Coastal Environments: Model Development Based on Real-Time Observations

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IMMEDIATE IMPACTS OF HURRICANE IKE ON THE TEXAS COAST

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Modeling wave-mud interaction on the central chenier-plain coast, western Louisiana Shelf, USA

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Model parameterization and experimental design issues in nearshore bathymetry inversion

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Assimilating Data into a Circulation Model

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POTENTIAL IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON HURRICANE FLOODING INUNDATION, POPULATION AFFECTED AND PROPERTY DAMAGES IN CORPUS CHRISTI

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Wave Dissipation Mechanisms in Spectral Phase-Resolved Nonlinear Wave Models

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DISSIPATION OF WAVE ENERGY BY COHESIVE SEDIMENTS

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Numerical modeling of nonlinear wave transformation using elliptic mild slope equation

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Impacts of Hurricane Dorian on the Bahamas: field observations of hazard intensity and performance of the built environment

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Numerical Investigation of Wind Waves in the Persian Gulf: Bathymetry Effects

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HILBERT SPECTRA OF NONLINEAR OCEAN WAVES

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Improvement of parabolic nonlinear dispersive wave model

# publications[].publisher
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Effects of Mode Truncation and Dissipation on Predictions of Higher Order Statistics

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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THE INTERACTION OF TSUNAMIS WITH OCEAN SWELL: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY

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The influence of swell on the sea surface roughness and the growth of wind waves

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The NOPP operational wave model improvement project

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Optimization of Bathymetry Estimates for Nearshore Hydrodynamic Models Using Bayesian Methods.

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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INCORPORATION OF RANDOM WAVE EFFECTS INTO A QUASI-3D NEARSHORE CIRCULATION MODEL

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Data-Driven Boundary Correction and Optimization of a Nearshore Wave and Hydrodynamic Model to Enable Rapid Environmental Assessment

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Littoral Environmental Nowcasting System (LENS)

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Application of Delft3D in the nearshore zone

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IMPROVEMENTS TO SHALLOW WATER FREQUENCY DOMAIN MODELS

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Wave/current interaction at harbor entrances

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On the Shoaling of Solitary Waves in the Presence of Short Random Waves

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Lessons learned from the first round of course assessments after curriculum restructure based on ASCE BOK2

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Imaging-Based Nearshore Bathymetry Measurement Using an Unmanned Aircraft System

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Nonlinear and Dissipation Characteristics of Ocean Surface Waves in Estuarine Environments

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Data-Enhanced Modeling of Sea and Swell on the Continental Shelf

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Chapter 2: Frequency Domain Wave Models in the Nearshore and Surf Zones

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A model for the propagation of nonlinear surface waves over viscous muds

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Shoaling and breaking of random wave trains. Spectral approaches

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Effect of Cold Front-Induced Waves Along Wetlands Boundaries

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Collaborative Research : Nonlinear Long Wave Amplification in the Shadow Zone of Offshore Islands

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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FFATA:  NEESR: Interaction of Tsunamis with Short Waves and Bottom Sediment - Numerical and Physical Modeling

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Multi-Scale Modeling of Hydrodynamics in Arabian Gulf

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Qatar National Research Fund - (Doha, Qatar)

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Nonlinear and Dissipation Characteristics of Ocean Surface Waves in Estuarine Environments

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United States Department of the Navy - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Comprehensive Tools and Models for Addressing Exposure to Mixtures During Environmental Emergency-Related Contamination Events

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National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences - (Durham, North Carolina, United States)

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DHHS-NIH-National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

# streetAddress
Texas A&M University; Civil Engineering; 3136 TAMU

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Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

# schools[]
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

# inTheNews[].label
Researchers To Examine Risk Of Flood-Induced Chemical Spills At Coastal Facilities

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Offshore Islands Might Not Shield Coastlines from Tsunami Waves

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Mclaughlin, Patrick William (2014-05). Parameterization and Statistical Analysis of Hurricane Waves. Master's Thesis.

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Frost, Kevin E (2015-12). Hyrdrodynamic and Sedimentary Response to Tropical Storm Bill in the Gulf of Mexico and Christmas Bay. Master's Thesis.

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Lee, Wonhyun (2018-08). Modeling Of Three-Dimensional Wind-Driven Hydrodynamic and Environmental Processes in the Arabian/Persian Gulf. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Lewis, Joshua Mark (2014-12). Measuring the Effects of Cutter Suction Dredge Operating Parameters on Minor Losses due to Fixed Screens Installed at the Suction Inlet. Master's Thesis.

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Singhal, Gaurav (2012-10). Viability, Development, and Reliability Assessment of Coupled Coastal Forecasting Systems. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Goertz, John 1985- (2012-12). Long Wave Breaking Effects on Fringing Reefs. Master's Thesis.

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Sharma, Abhishek (2015-05). Modeling Wave-Wave Interactions and 3-D Wave-Induced Circulation in the Presence of Reflection-Diffraction. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Taylor, Sym 1978- (2012-12). Parameterization of Maximum Wave Heights Forced by Hurricanes: Application to Corpus Christi, Texas. Master's Thesis.

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Lu, Chi (2016-12). Riverine and Sediment Processes in the Yangtze River Estuary-modeling and Validation. Master's Thesis.

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Penugonda, Mourya (2018-08). Nonlinear Wave Transformation Using Modified Dispersive Shoaling Models. Master's Thesis.

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Liao, Ying-Po (2016-10). Interaction of a Turbulent Wind with Ocean Surface Waves - Numerical Modeling. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Penugonda, Mourya (2018-06). Nonlinear Wave Transformation Using Modified Dispersive Shoaling Models. Master's Thesis.