Research Projects

2023-2025: “Quantification and optimization of nature-based solutions for mitigating coastal vulnerability and risk”, National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration, Effects of Sea Level Rise Program.

2021-2025: “Modeling, Visualizing, and Communicating Nor’easter and Hurricane Threats with Sea-level Rise to Support Coastal Management within New England,” National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration, Effects of Sea Level Rise Program.

2021-2025: “Forecasting Coastal Impacts from Tropical Cyclones along the US East and Gulf Coasts using the ADCIRC Prediction System”, National Ocean Partnership Program, Office of Naval Research.

2016-2024: “Modeling the combined coastal and inland hazards from high-impact hurricanes”, U.S. Department of Homeland Security,  Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence. 

2019-2023: “Assessing Nor’easter vulnerability for three New England parks”, National Park Service.

2020-2022: “A hazard resilient future for Naval Station Newport within its coastal community: Military Installation Resilience Review for short-term preparedness and long-term planning”, U.S. Department of Defense, Office of Economic Adjustment 

2018-2022: “Collaborative Research: Surface wave impacts on upper ocean response to tropical cyclones”, National Science Foundation.

2017-2022: “A modeling study of rapidly intensifying typhoons in the Western Pacific”, Korea Institute of Ocean Sciences and Technology.

2015-2018: “Advancing tropical cyclone models through the explicit representation of boundary layer roll vortices”, Office of Naval Research.

2010-2017: “GFDN/Navy Tropical Cyclone Model Maintenance and Support”, U.S. Navy, Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center.

2014-2016: “NOAA’s HWRF Prediction System through New Advancements in the Ocean Model Component”, National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration, Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program.

2011-2016: “Collaborative Research: Langmuir Turbulence under Tropical Cyclones”, National Science Foundation.

2013-2015:  “Improving the GFDL/GFDN Operational Tropical Cyclone Models at NOAA and Navy”, National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration, Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program.

2013-2015: “Coupling tropical cyclone and climate physics with ocean waves”, Australian Research Council.

2012-2015:  “Developing super-parameterization of Boundary Layer Roll Vortices in Tropical Cyclones”, Office of Naval Research.

2012-2014: “Advancing NOAA’s HWRF Prediction System through New and Enhanced Physics of Air-Sea Interaction”, National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration, Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program.

2008-2014: “Hurricane and Climate Research”, WeatherProdict Consulting Inc.

2010-2013: “Linking natural, behavioral, and communication sciences to enhance coastal community well-being in the face of climate change”, National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration, Climate Program Office. 

2008-2013: “Collaborative Research: Hurricane Katrina – What Have We Learned?”, National Science Foundation.

2009-2012: “National Ocean Partnership Program: Advanced Coupled Atmosphere-Wave-Ocean-Modeling”, Office of Naval Research.

2008-2012: “Development of the Korean Coupled Typhoon-Ocean Prediction System”, Korea Research and Development Institute.

2009-2011: “Improving HWRF coupled model for transition to operations”, National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration, National Weather Service. 

2009-2010: “Hurricane aerosol and microphysics project”, U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

2007-2009: “Improving the Hurricane WRF-Wave-Ocean Coupled System for Transition to Operations”, National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration.

2005-2009: “Transferring a coupled hurricane-wave-ocean model to operational forecasting at the EMC National Centers for Environmental Prediction”, National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration.

2007-2008: “Cooperative Science Education Program: Research to Operations”, National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration.

2004-2008: “Impact of surface wave dependent air-sea fluxes on tropical cyclone prediction”, National Science Foundation.

2006-2007: “Super-parameterization of coherent vortices in the oceanic boundary layer”, Office of Naval Research.

2005-2007: “Physics-based parameterizations of air-sea fluxes at high winds”, Office of Naval Research.

2004-2005: “Modeling of Coupled the Upper and Deep Ocean Topography in Marginal Seas,” Office of Naval Research.

2003-2005: “Improving the GFDL/URI Coupled Hurricane-Ocean Model for Transition to Operations”, National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration.

2002-2003: “Development of an improved version of the GFDL Hurricane model for transition to operational forecasting”, National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration.

2002-2003: “Processes of coupling the upper and deep ocean over topography: towards improving model initialization and data assimilation”, Office of Naval Research.

2001-2003: “Transition of a coupled hurricane-ocean model to operational forecasting at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction”, National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration.

2002-2003: “Air-sea fluxes at high wind speeds with application to tropical cyclone intensity prediction”, Office of Naval Research.

1999-2002: “Understanding and predicting the effects of large-scale climate variability on tropical cyclones: A numerical modeling program”, Risk Prediction Initiative, Bermuda Biological Station for Research.

2000-2001: “Thermocline-deep ocean processes in baroclinic fronts and eddies: Toward improving model initialization and data assimilation”, Office of Naval Research.

2000-2001: “Coupled atmosphere-ocean modeling using movable nested grid techniques”, Office of Naval Research.

1998-2001: “Numerical modeling of tropical cyclone-ocean interactions”, Office of Naval Research.

1998-2000: “National Ocean Partnership Program: Coastal marine demonstration of forecast information to mariners for the U.S. East Coast”, Office of Naval Research.

1997-2000: “Implementation of a coupled air-sea numerical model for improving operational prediction of landfalling Gulf of Mexico and Western Atlantic Hurricanes”, National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration.

1996-2000: “Ocean data assimilation for the TOGA-COARE Program”, National Science Foundation.

1996-1999: “Coupled tropical cyclone-ocean modeling for the transition to operational predictive capabilities”, Office of Naval Research.

1996-1999: “Numerical investigation of binary tropical cyclones and their interaction with the ocean”, United States-Israel Binational  Science Foundation.

1997-1998: “Coupled Shallow – Deep Ocean Processes in the Continental Slope/Rise Regions”, Office of Naval Research.

1994-1997: “Numerical modeling for TOGA-CORE: Ocean observational/model analyses and regional air/sea interaction”, National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration.

1994-1996: “Upper ocean response to strong atmospheric forcing: midlatitude coupled air/sea interactions near frontal regions”, Office of Naval Research.

1993-1995: “Influence of tropical cyclone-ocean interaction on tropical cyclone intensity and trajectory”, United States-Israel Binational  Science Foundation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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