{"id":709,"date":"2025-07-30T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/?p=709"},"modified":"2025-09-01T22:33:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T02:33:38","slug":"ms-thesis-defense-felipe-espinoza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/ms-thesis-defense-felipe-espinoza\/","title":{"rendered":"MS Thesis Defense: Felipe Espinoza"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>July 30, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/people\/felipe-espinoza\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"320\">Felipe Espinoza<\/a><\/strong> successfully defended his MS thesis in Ocean Engineering today! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His research brought together numerical modeling and lab data analysis to study <strong>wave attenuation by mangroves<\/strong> \u2014 great work on a challenging topic!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well done, Felipe! \ud83d\udc4f \ud83c\udf0a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Big thanks to the committee and faculty for their support:<br>Drs. Nick Pizzo, Chris Baxter, Annette Grilli (URI)<br>Dr. Yu-Lin Tsai (Kyoto U)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2180\/FE_Defense-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-713\" style=\"width:759px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2180\/FE_Defense-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2180\/FE_Defense-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2180\/FE_Defense-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2180\/FE_Defense-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2180\/FE_Defense-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2180\/FE_Defense-364x205.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2180\/FE_Defense-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2180\/FE_Defense-1000x562.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2180\/FE_Defense-1280x720.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2180\/FE_Defense-2000x1125.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2180\/FE_Defense.jpg 2500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 30, 2025 Felipe Espinoza successfully defended his MS thesis in Ocean Engineering today! His research brought together numerical modeling and lab data analysis to study wave attenuation by mangroves \u2014 great work on a challenging topic! Well done, Felipe! \ud83d\udc4f \ud83c\udf0a Big thanks to the committee and faculty for their support:Drs. Nick Pizzo, Chris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5030,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1463,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chang-coastal-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}