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Follow the CoRE Lab on Twitter for the latest news and updates ⇒ |
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November 3, 2023
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CoRE Lab members at 2023 ASEM Florida Annual Meeting! They presented their latest research on the variability of sea level cycles, storm surge clustering, compound flooding, and the socio-economic impacts of compound extreme events.
Great job everyone! 👏 |
(L → R: Amanda, Javed, Thomas, Sara and Ariadna)
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🎉 Huge Congratulations to Dr. Wahl for getting honored with the 2023 Rising Stars Award in Engineering from the Academy of Science, Engineering & Medicine of Florida. He received this award for his fundamental contributions to research of extreme sea level changes, compound events, and assessment of coastal flood risk.
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May 24, 2023
Our two Ph.D. students, Ariadna and Pravin, and Dr. Wahl attended the 2023 Interdisciplinary Workshop on Weather and Climate Extremes at Clemson University and presented their works.
Ariadna presented a novel auto-correlation framework to de-cluster time series, applied to storm surge detection to find clusters of events on a global analysis. Pravin presented his work on developing a data-driven probabilistic approach to derive synthetic drivers for compound flood analysis in Gloucester City, NJ. Dr. Wahl gave a talk on "Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling for Extreme Sea Level Analysis".
Ariadna presented a novel auto-correlation framework to de-cluster time series, applied to storm surge detection to find clusters of events on a global analysis. Pravin presented his work on developing a data-driven probabilistic approach to derive synthetic drivers for compound flood analysis in Gloucester City, NJ. Dr. Wahl gave a talk on "Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling for Extreme Sea Level Analysis".
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May 14, 2023
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Javed Ali, a member of the CoRE Lab, has been featured in the Graduate Studies Spotlight by the College of Graduate Studies at the University of Central Florida for his innovative research work on multi-hazard risk assessment and analyzing impacts of climate and weather extreme events.
🎉 Congratulations, Javed. We are so proud of you! |
May 10, 2023
The Center for Environmental Studies at Florida Atlantic University hosted the Annual International Water Professionals Program from April 28th to May 10th, 2023. This program welcomed 22 graduate students from the UNESCO-affiliated IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, the Netherlands and two CoRE Lab members Pravin Maduwantha and Amanda Barroso.
During the program, participants attended lectures by experts from various organizations such as the South Florida Water Management District and U.S. Geological Survey. These presentations centered around local restoration projects in areas such as the Everglades, in addition to strategies employed for managing flood risks and ensuring a sustainable water supply. These engaging sessions offered invaluable insights into effective water management practices and reaffirmed the program's commitment to fostering international cooperation and understanding in this essential field.
Read more about the program here: https://www.theinvadingsea.com/2023/05/11/international-water-professionals-program-fau-ces-ihe-delft-institute-water-education/
During the program, participants attended lectures by experts from various organizations such as the South Florida Water Management District and U.S. Geological Survey. These presentations centered around local restoration projects in areas such as the Everglades, in addition to strategies employed for managing flood risks and ensuring a sustainable water supply. These engaging sessions offered invaluable insights into effective water management practices and reaffirmed the program's commitment to fostering international cooperation and understanding in this essential field.
Read more about the program here: https://www.theinvadingsea.com/2023/05/11/international-water-professionals-program-fau-ces-ihe-delft-institute-water-education/
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May 6, 2023
CoRE Lab team organized another successful exhibition event at Orlando Science Center today! We were delighted to see so many curious children engage in playful hands-on learning about sea level rise, climate change and their impacts on coastal areas. Together, we explored various measures to protect coastal homes from flooding, sea level rise and shoreline erosion.
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May 4, 2023
🎉BIG NEWS 🎉
Our PhD student Javed @javedali99 has passed his candidacy exam today! 🌟👏 Congratulations Javed for your dedication and hard work to achieve this significant milestone. We wish you all the best in your future research! Javed's research focuses on "Assessing Multi-hazard Risks and Impacts of Compound Climate and Weather Extreme Events for Socioeconomic Risk Management". |
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April 4, 2023
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🏆🎉 Exciting news! Our very own PhD student, Javed Ali, has been awarded the most prestigious Order of Pegasus Award at University of Central Florida. This accolade recognizes his exceptional achievements in academics, research, leadership, and community service.
We're proud to have such dedicated and talented researchers in our lab! Congratulations, Javed, on this well-deserved achievement! 🌟👏
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March 2023
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📣 In a recent interview, 2021 IAPSO Early Career Scientist Medallist Dr. Wahl shared valuable insights on his groundbreaking oceanography research. We look forward to celebrating his achievements at the 28th @theIUGG General Assembly, 11-20 July 2023, in Berlin, Germany.
🎉 Congratulations, Dr. Wahl! Read the full interview here. |
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March 17, 2023
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Huge congratulations to Dr. Wahl for being honored with the prestigious 2023 Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for his pioneering work on coastal compound flooding and developing innovative multivariate design concepts.
The Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize (Huber Award) is the highest-level mid-career research award in all areas of civil engineering. The award is annually given to individuals with notable achievements and contributions in research with respect to all disciplines of civil engineering. This award was first established by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) board of directors in 1946 and was given for the first time in 1949. |
February 10, 2023
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UCF Today News features our recently published paper on "Climate change hotspots and implications for the global subsea telecommunications network", in which we conducted first comprehensive assessment of a range of climate related threats to seafloor cables across the globe & their landing stations.
Read full paper here: https://bit.ly/3YKrxHn |
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January 2023
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Our recent article "Understanding uncertainties in contemporary and future extreme wave events for broad-scale impact and adaptation planning" published in Nature Science Advances journal were covered by various media outlets.
Check out all the coverage here. Read the full article here. |
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9 December 2022
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Dr. Wahl was featured on NPR's Radio Special on After the Storms to discuss the devastating impacts of Hurricanes Ian and Nicole on Central Florida. The storms brought historic flooding and coastal damage, resulting in billions of dollars in damages throughout the state. The vulnerability of this region to such disasters, along with the impacts of climate change, highlights the need for proactive risk management and mitigation efforts. Our research lab is dedicated to analyzing the risks and impacts of such hazards, as well as finding solutions to mitigate future disasters.
🔈 Listen the full episode here. |
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4 November 2022
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CoRE Lab director, Dr. Wahl, was on PBS WUCF's "NewsNight Special: Hurricane Ian, In the Wake of the Storm" last night. He talked about the impacts of Hurricane Ian, including mitigation, climate change adaptation, the challenges going forward and the lessons learned.
📺 Watch the full interview here: https://tinyurl.com/wucf-wahl 
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22 October 2022
CoRE Lab members along with UCF Coastal team conducted a field work in support of the city of Cape Coral and Lee County, Florida, for the collection of high water marks (HWMs) preserving forensic evidence of storm surge flooding from Hurricane Ian. HWMs help us create a baseline understanding of storm surge exposure and will help support equitable disaster recovery.
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28 September 2022
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Dr. Wahl was recently featured in Scientific American News, where he talks about the coastal risk and vulnerability of the Florida coastline to compound flooding and catastrophic risks of Hurricane Ian to the Gulf Coast of Florida.
Read the full news article here. |
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14 September 2022
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In the 2nd episode of Getting to Know @CoRELabUCF Members, we introduce one of our PhD students, Amanda Barroso from Miami, Florida.
Watch the full video here to learn more about her and the research she's been doing. |
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29 August 2022
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We are launching a video series in which we will introduce all @CoRELabUCF members and their research work.
In this episode of Get to Know CoRE Lab Members, we introduce one of our Postdoctoral Researchers, Joao Morim @joaommorim from Portugal. Watch it here. For latest news and updates from our research group, please subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow us on Twitter. |
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22 August 2022
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Dr. Wahl has been featured in UCF Academic Spotlight for his research and teaching at UCF.
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21 August 2022
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Yesterday, we had the full @CoRELabUCF team dinner. We celebrated Michael's #PhD graduation and wished him the best in his new job at Hazen and Sawyer.
Fly high @mikeltadesse and make us proud. Thanks for all your contributions to the lab! We will all miss you! |
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16 August 2022
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We are very happy to welcome two new members to our group!
@AriadnaMartin98 from Spain and @PravinMaduwant from Sri Lanka joined @CoRELabUCF as Ph.D. students. Ariadna will work on investigating the spatial and temporal clustering of storm surges globally and how these clusters modulate coastal impacts. Pravin will work on developing and applying data-driven and statistical methods to analyze compound flooding in coastal areas caused by the combination of storm surge, wave impacts, rainfall, and high river discharge. |
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21 July 2022
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Michael Tadesse has been featured in the UCF's Research in 60s video series, where he explains his PhD research in 60 seconds.
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14 July 2022
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🚨Check out @theAGU's press release about our latest paper on "Contributions of Different Sea-Level Processes to High-Tide Flooding Along the U.S. Coastline", published in JGR: Ocean!
Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC018276 |
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13 June 2022
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We are honored to be one of the seven @NSF CAREER award recipients from @UCF this year.
To know more about it, check out the UCF Today's article here. |
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May 2022
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🎉 We are pleased to welcome Sara as a new Postdoctoral Research Fellow in our group!
She will be working on modeling compound flooding caused by different combinations of drivers to support decision-makers in developing adaptation strategies. |
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1 April 2022
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Check out UCF’s press release about our recent paper "Trends in Europe storm surge extremes match the rate of sea-level rise", which was published this week in Nature.
Read the full paper here. Check other media coverage here. |
31 March 2022
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PhD students, Javed and Ahmed, from CoRE Lab presented their research works at UCF Student Scholar Symposium 2022.
Javed Ali: A Novel Approach for Assessing Compounding Effects of Weather and Climate Extremes Ahmed Nasr: Changes in Dependence Between Drivers of Compound Flooding Around the Contiguous United States Coastline |
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29 March 2022
We have a new doctor in the house. Big congratulations to Michael, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation today on “Modeling, Reconstruction, and Trend Analysis of Global Storm Surges using a Data-Driven Approach”.
He will be joining the Hazen and Sawyer in May 2022 as a Water Resources Engineer.
He will be joining the Hazen and Sawyer in May 2022 as a Water Resources Engineer.
4 February 2022
Dr. Wahl has recently been interviewed by multiple news and media outlets about a study published in Nature Climate Change on "Tropical cyclone climatology change greatly exacerbates US extreme rainfall–surge hazard". Some of them are listed below.
14 December 2021
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A story about our work on "Evolving tides aggravate nuisance flooding along the U.S. coastline" by Sida Li et. al. made the Top 10 UCF Research Stories of 2021.
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16 November 2021
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Dr. Wahl gave a civil engineering seminar at Western University on the topic "Ignored But Not Forgotten – Unappreciated Drivers of Changes in Coastal Flood Risk".
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11 October 2021
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Dr. Wahl was recently interviewed by the Spectrum News 13 to talk about how coastal communities can adapt to rising sea levels and climate change.
Read more about it here. |
29 September 2021
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CoRE Lab is part of a new $20M Megalopolitan Coastal Project funded through the National Science Foundation’s Coastlines and People (CoPe) Program that will develop a Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub (MACH) to create climate-resilient decision-making frameworks to equitably support coastal communities.
Read the news coverage by UCF Today. Learn more about the project here. |
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28 September 2021
22 September 2021
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Michael from the CoRE Lab has been featured in UCF Graduate Studies Spotlight for his research work on developing a global storm surge database. Congratulations, Mike 🎉
Read the full article about his research here. |
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5 August 2021
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Our latest research on the development of global storm surge database was featured in UCF NEWS | STORIES OF IMPACT + INNOVATION.
Read the full article published in Nature Scientific Data. |
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21 July 2021
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Dr. Wahl gave a talk on "Bigger ships or less flooding? How tidal changes affect flooding along the US coast" at the Virtual Atmosphere-Cryosphere-Ocean seminar series (VACO-21) as a part of receiving the 2021 IAPSO Early Career Scientist Award.
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7 July 2021
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Michael Tadesse presented his research to 55 K-12 teachers at a workshop organized through a statewide program in Florida, Scientist in Every Florida School. With “Hydrosphere” being the theme of the workshop, the goal was to improve teachers’ content knowledge through current research to feel more confident teaching water concepts to their students. Scientist in Every Florida School has the potential to impact nearly 2.3 million K-12 students and 1000s of teachers statewide.
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3 June 2021
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PBS WUCF TV interviewed Dr. Wahl about how sea-level rise is already affecting the Central Florida.
Watch the interview here. |
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18 May 2021
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) blog on our recently published article in Nature Scientific Data.
Read the full paper: "A database of global storm surge reconstructions". |
7 April 2021
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Great news. Dr. Wahl has been awarded the Reach for the Stars Honor for his outstanding research contributions in Sea Level Science field.
Read the full announcement here. |
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6 April 2021
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Congratulations to Javed on being elected a Regional Representative for the North American Region at the Young Earth System Scientists Community.
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2 April 2021
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Congratulations to Ahmed for receiving Scholar Symposium Award for his poster presentation at the UCF Student Research Week. He presented his research on "Dependence between Drivers of Compound Flooding around the Contiguous United States Coastline" at the UCF Graduate Research Forum during the Student Research Week.
Check his poster here. |
Elizabeth Klonoff (Vice President for Research and Dean of the College of Graduate Studies) announcing the awarded projects.
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24 March 2021
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Great news. Dr. Wahl has been awarded the 2021 IAPSO Early Career Scientist Medal in physical ocean science in recognition of his fundamental contributions to the research on changes in mean sea level, tides, storm surges, waves, and their interactions.
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17 March 2021
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Congratulations to Victor for successfully defending his PhD dissertation. He is the first PhD student graduating from the CoRE Lab. He will be joining the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) in April 2021 as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
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11 March 2021
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Dr. Wahl was interviewed by the Eyewitness NEWS 9 at WFTV9 for our latest work on the effects of changes in tides on nuisance flooding in coastal areas in the United States.
Read the full paper here. |
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5 March 2021
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Our recently published paper on "Evolving tides aggravate nuisance flooding along the U.S. coastline" in Science Advances is attracting a lot of attention from news and media. Here is a collection of news and blog posts. Read the UCF Today blog post about the study below.
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1 Feb 2021
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Our recent work "Extreme sea level variability dominates coastal flood risk changes at decadal time scales" published in Environmental Research Letters, IOPscience has been featured in a NOAA Blog.
Read the full blogpost here. |
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28 September 2020
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Our recent work on "Predictability of Extreme Sea Level Variations Along the U.S. Coastline" has been featured in National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) blog.
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16 Sept 2020
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Dr. Wahl discussed CoRE lab's recent work "Predictability of Extreme Sea Level Variations Along the U.S. Coastline" on 10 Tampa Bay News.
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10 September 2020
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Dr. Wahl was featured on FOX 35 News channel for the CoRE Lab's ongoing research on storm surge prediction.
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9 September 2020
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Dr. Wahl and Dr. Rashid were featured on the Spectrum News 13 channel for their research work on storm surge prediction.
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19 July 2020
Dr. Wahl gave a talk on "Compounding effects of Storm Surge, Sea Level Rise, extreme Rainfall and Water Table on Urban Flooding in Southeast Coast of Florida" at "Coastal Flooding & Solutions Workshop: Modeling, Prediction, and Sensor Networks for Coastal Flooding in the US East Coast"
5 June 2020
Dr. Wahl gave a virtual faculty research talk on "Compound and Correlated Extremes in the Context of Coastal Flood Risk Analysis" and discussed the results from projects CoRE research team is using to assess compound flood risk.
17 June 2020
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Our recently published paper in Nature Climate Change "Understanding and Managing Connected Extreme Events" was featured in UCF TODAY News and other news blogs.
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21 April 2020
Our Nature Communications paper "Non-linear interaction modulates global extreme sea levels, coastal flood exposure, and impacts" was featured in UCF Today news.
13 January 2020
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The NASciences Thriving Communities Grant kick-off meeting held today. Dr. Wahl is Co-PI for "The New First Line of Defense: Building Community Resilience through Residential Risk Disclosure" Project.
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18 December 2019
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Dr. Wahl and Dr. Rashid presented research data to media from their extreme sea level indicator study.
Read more at UCF Today Read the full paper published in Nature Scientific Data. |
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October 2019
Dr. Wahl was invited panel member on the session "Compound Flooding: Use Cases, Methods, and Challenges" at USRA Earth from Space Institute (EfSI) inaugural symposium “Making Communities More Resilient to Extreme Flooding” , Columbia, MD.
Watch the panel discussion here
Watch the panel discussion here
11 April 2019
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We are very proud of Maria Bower (undergraduate research assistant) for joining the Order of Pegasus, the highest honor students can achieve at UCF for outstanding accomplishments. She also won the Judges‘ Choice Award at the UCF Undergraduate Research Showcase where she presented her work.
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06 April 2019
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Victor (PhD student) presented his work on predicting dune erosion with surrogate models for XBeach.
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17 February 2019
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Dr. Wahl was interviewed for helping the United Nations better understand and communicate climate change to the world.
UCF COS NEWS |
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April 2018
Dr. Wahl was awarded EGU 2018 Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award
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Dr. Wahl received the 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award for his fundamental contributions to the research on assessment of coastal-flood risk. He also gave an invited awards lecture during the EGU 2018 General Assembly.
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02 June 2017
Special issue "Extreme Value Analysis and Application to Natural Hazards" with Natural Hazards
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To complement the EVAN2017 conference we have arranged to organize a special issue with the journal Natural Hazards. Talks from the conference will form the basis for papers in this special issue, although additional contributions are welcome. Papers describing and analysis of extremes of a wide range of geophysical variables (i.e. temperature, rainfall, flows, sea level, winds, surface ocean waves, snow) and works related to natural hazards (floods, windstorms, wave storms, heat waves, droughts, landslides) are welcome. Manuscripts can be submitted between now and January 1st 2018. More information is available here. We are looking forward to receiving many interesting contributions.
The special issue is now available here. |
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17 May 2017
Dr. Wahl was interviewed by The Guardian and Climate Central to comment on new research on coastal flooding in Europe and globally.
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03 November 2016
Special issue "Coastal Sea Levels, Impacts and Adaptation" with Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
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We currently invite papers for a special issue “Coastal Sea Levels, Impacts and Adaptation” that is organized in collaboration with the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. More information, including a list of topics and deadlines for the submission of manuscripts can be found here.
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05 September 2016
EVAN2017 Conference
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In 2017 my colleagues Ivan Haigh, Ben Gouldby, Pietro Bernadara and myself are hosting the 3rd International Conference on Advances in Extreme Value Analysis and Application to Natural Hazarzs (EVAN2017). The conference will take place from Tuesday 5 to Thursday 7 September 2017 at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK. The overall aim of the conference is to bring together and promote interchange between a diverse community of research scientists, students, practitioners and stakeholders concerned with this complex and inter-disciplinary topic.
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03 September 2016
AGU session on Extreme Sea Levels
At this year’s AGU Fall Meeting we are hosting a session on Extreme Sea Levels and Coastal Risks in a Changing Climate. The conference will take place from the 12 to 17 December in San Francisco. We received over 50 abstracts which will be presented during two oral sessions and a poster session.
29 July 2015
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L.A. Times article on our work on compound flooding.
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27 July 2015
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Dr. Wahl wrote a guest article on "Flood severity along US coastline has worsened" with Prof. Shaleen Jain in The Conversation.
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02 June 2015
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Our Geophysical Research Letters paper "Changes in erosion and flooding risk due to long‐term and cyclic oceanographic trends" was featured in an AGU Blog post.
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06 May 2014
Research Spotlight in EOS on our work on seasonal sea level changes.
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