{"id":10928,"date":"2021-02-03T16:13:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/2021\/02\/03\/kyle-mcelroy\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T09:31:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T14:31:04","slug":"kyle-mcelroy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/2021\/02\/03\/kyle-mcelroy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle McElroy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Degree program: <\/strong>PhD<br \/>\n<strong>Year accepted:<\/strong> 2020<br \/>\n<strong>Advisor:<\/strong> Austin Becker<br \/>\n<strong>Research: <\/strong>Coastal resilience and adaptation, Coastal hazard response and preparedness response<br \/>\n<strong>Background: <\/strong>University of Texas at Austin, Bachelor\u2019s in Mechanical Engineering, 2009; European Joint program (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Polytechnic University of Catalunya, City, University of London) Master\u2019s in Coastal and Marine Engineering and Management, 2016<\/p>\n<p>While I joined the URI Marine Affairs department in the Fall of 2020, my background is formally in coastal engineering design and marine construction. I have professional experience working in marine construction on dredging projects with Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company, LLC, and in coastal engineering modeling and design, working in both the public (USACE Norfolk District) and private (Mott MacDonald Consultancy Group) professional sectors.<\/p>\n<p>kyle_mcelroy@uri.edu<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kyle-mcelroy-8335a159\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhD<br \/>Coastal resilience and adaptation, Coastal hazard response and preparedness response<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1962,"featured_media":12132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1962"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10928"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12330,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10928\/revisions\/12330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}