My research goals blend geology, economics, and policy, including:

• Understanding urban coastal behaviors

  • Coupling a game-theoretic framework with coastal morphodynamic processes

  • Understanding how alongshore-neighboring communities make management decisions (i.e. beach nourishment and groin construction) in concert vs. independently

  • Exploring how community-scale socioeconomics and beach recreational values control the frequency of re-nourishment projects

• Building numerical modeling frameworks to tackle complex questions; predicting future scenarios for coastal communities based on the feedbacks between humans and physical environments

• Deploying quantitative scientific concepts effectively for future public policies

  • Citizen science initiatives to foster participation in data collection

  • Community outreach with local students to engage their interests in science

  • Involvement with local government agencies to address sea-level-rise threats facing beach towns