People
At the heart of the Center for Coastal Studies is an interdisciplinary and growing network of more than 45 Virginia Tech faculty from nine of Virginia Tech’s Colleges:
- College of Agriculture & Life Sciences |
- College of Science - Pamplin College of Business - Virginia Agricultural Research and Extension Centers - Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine |
These faculty represent the strength and breadth of expertise essential for comprehensively addressing complex challenges in the coastal zone.
We invite members of the Virginia Tech community with interest in joining the Center to contact us.
Anamaria Bukvic
Associate Director
ana.bukvic@vt.edu
540-231-2941
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, College of Natural Resources & Environment
Jennifer Irish
Associate Director
jirish@vt.edu
540-231-2298
Professor, The Charles E. Via, Jr. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
Marie Paretti
Associate Director
mparetti@vt.edu
540-231-1812
Professor, Department of Engineering Education, College of Engineering
Liesel Ritchie
Associate Director
liesel14@vt.edu
540-231-8320
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences
Michael Schwarz
Associate Director
mschwarz@vt.edu
757-727-4861
Director, Virginia Seafood AREC
Wendy Stout
wstout@vt.edu
Coastal Collaborator Center Manager,
Coastal Resilience Extension Specialist
Shannon Bell
Assistant Professor
College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences
Sociology
Socio-political barriers to climate mitigation
Climate inequalities/injustice
Qualitative research methods
Sean Bemis
Research Scientist
College of Science
Geosciences
Active tectonics
Geomorphology
Drones and photogrammetry
Anamaria Bukvic
Assistant Professor
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Geography
ana.bukvic@vt.edu
540-231-2941
Coastal Adaptation
Resilience
Relocation
Tanyel Bulbul
Associate Professor
College of Architecture and Urban Studies
Building Construction
Computational approaches
Building design
Construction
Ryan Calder
Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Policy
Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine
Population Health Sciences
Probabilistic Risk Assessment
Water Quality Modeling
Statistical Analysis
Leandro Castello
Associate Professor
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Fish
Fisheries
Conservation
Maggie Cowell
Associate Professor
College of Architecture and Urban Studies
Urban Affairs and Planning
Community resilience
Economic development
Regionalism
Tom Crawford
Professor, Department Chair of Geography
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Geography
Shoreline erosion
Vulnerability/resilience
Geospatial analysis
Shannon Bell
Assistant Professor
College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences
Sociology
Socio-political barriers to climate mitigation
Climate inequalities/injustice
Qualitative research methods
Sean Bemis
Research Scientist
College of Science
Geosciences
Active tectonics
Geomorphology
Drones and photogrammetry
Anamaria Bukvic
Assistant Professor
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Geography
ana.bukvic@vt.edu
540-231-2941
Coastal Adaptation
Resilience
Relocation
Tanyel Bulbul
Associate Professor
College of Architecture and Urban Studies
Building Construction
Computational approaches
Building design
Construction
Ryan Calder
Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Policy
Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine
Population Health Sciences
Probabilistic Risk Assessment
Water Quality Modeling
Statistical Analysis
Leandro Castello
Associate Professor
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Fish
Fisheries
Conservation
Maggie Cowell
Associate Professor
College of Architecture and Urban Studies
Urban Affairs and Planning
Community resilience
Economic development
Regionalism
Tom Crawford
Professor, Department Chair of Geography
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Geography
Shoreline erosion
Vulnerability/resilience
Geospatial analysis
Ashley Dayer
Assistant Professor
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Conservation social science
Private lands
Wildlife conservation
Xinwei Deng
Associate Professor
College of Science
Department of Statistics
Fisheries
Evolution
Mathematical modeling
Tina Dura
Assistant Professor
College of Science
Geosciences
Coastal paleoseismology
Prehistoric tsunamis
Diatom paleoecology
Francesco Ferretti
Assistant Professor
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Marine data science
Fisheries science
Marine ecology and conservation
Mark Ford
USGS VCFWRU Unit Leader
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Habitat Associations
Disturbance Ecology
Bats
Hosein Foroutan
Assistant Professor
College of Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions
Atmospheric Science and Air Quality
Environmental Fluid Mechanics
James Fraser
Professor
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Coastal ecology
Shorebirds and seabirds
Endangered species
Fernando Gonçalves
Research Scientist
Virginia Seafood Agricultural Research and Extension Center
ocfernando@vt.edu
(757) 900-9914
Economics
Fisheries and aquaculture
Sustainability
Stanley Grant
Professor, Co-Director of Occoquan Watershed Monitoring Laboratory
College of Enginering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
stanleyg@vt.edu
703-361-5606 x 142
Water Quality and Water Supply
Environmental Science and Engineering
Hydrology
Elizabeth Hunter
Assistant Professor
Assistant Unit Leader
USGS VA Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit
Ecological modeling
Conservation of birds and reptiles
Decision making in habitat management and conservation
Jennifer Irish
Professor
College of Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Coastal engineering
Coastal hazards
Nature-based coastal infrastructure
Jun-Whan Lee
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Architectural and Environmental Engineering
University of Texas, Austin
Coastal Engineering
Coastal hazards
Machine learning
Jun-Whan Lee
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Architectural and Environmental Engineering
University of Texas, Austin
Coastal Engineering
Coastal hazards
Machine learning
Francesco Ferretti
Assistant Professor
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Marine data science
Fisheries science
Marine ecology and conservation
Mark Ford
USGS VCFWRU Unit Leader
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Habitat Associations
Disturbance Ecology
Bats
Hosein Foroutan
Assistant Professor
College of Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions
Atmospheric Science and Air Quality
Environmental Fluid Mechanics
James Fraser
Professor
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Coastal ecology
Shorebirds and seabirds
Endangered species
Affiliated Faculty
Megan Rippy
Assistant Professor
College of Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
mrippy@vt.edu
703-361-5606 x112
Ecosystem services
Green stormwater infrastructure
Coastal water quality
Liesel Ritchie
Professor
College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences
Sociology
Societal Dimensions of Hazards and Disasters
Community Resilience
Technological Hazards and Disasters
Todd Schenk
Associate Professor
College of Architecture and Urban Studies
Urban Affairs and Planning
Climate adaptation planning
Stakeholder engagement and collaborative governance
Serious games to support engagement and deliberation
Stephen Schoenholtz
Professor, Director of Virginia Water Resources Research Center
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Virginia Water Resources Research Center
Land use impacts on water and soil quality
Watershed management
Water education
Michael Schwarz
Director of Virginia Seafood AREC
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Virginia Seafood AREC
Sustainability
Food production systems
Biofuel
Yang Shao
Associate Professor
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Geography
Geospatial analytics
Land use/cover change
Decision support systems
Manoochehr Shirzaei
Associate Professor
College of Science
Geosciences
Remote Sensing
Relative Sea-level Rise
Coastal Hazards
Julie Shortridge
Assistant Professor
College of Engineering
Biological Systems Engineering
jshortridge@vt.edu
540-231-2797
Climate change adaptation
Risk and decision analysis
Integrated systems modeling
Venkat Sridhar
Associate Professor
College of Engineering
Biological Systems Engineering
Flood forecasting
Earth system modeling
Salinity impacts
Sarah Stamps
Associate Professor
College of Science
Geosciences
Subsidence
Numerical modeling
GPS
Susanna Werth
Associate Research Professor
College of Science
Geosciences
Terrestrial hydrology
Hydrogeodesy
Signal processing
Randolph Wynne
Professor
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation
Applications of remote sensing to forestry
Natural resource management
Ecological modeling
Yang Zhang
Associate Professor
College of Architecture and Urban Studies
Urban Affairs and Planning
Disaster recovery
Hazards mitigation
Floodplain management
Stephanie Zick
Assistant Professor
College of Natural Resources and Environment
Geography
Hurricanes
Rainfall
Weather forecast models
Christopher Zobel
R. B. Pamplin Professor
Pamplin College of Business
Business Information Technology
Disaster resilience
Supply chain resilience
Humanitarian operations management