Nobu Kobayashi

• 1) Dune erosion, overwash and breaching
  2) Wave overtopping and overflow on levees
  3) Prediction of beach nourishment project performance
  4) Sediment transport processes on sand beaches and tidal flats
  5) Resilient design of coastal structures

James T. Kirby

• 1) Surface wave effects on underwater acoustic communications (ONR MURI)
  2) Generation, transport and fate of air bubbles in the surfzone (ONR)
  3) Physical factors affecting hypoxia events in Chesapeake and Delaware Inland Bays. (NOAA CHRP)
  4) Laboratory studies of cross-shore transport and beach profile evolution (NSF)
  5) Wave-induced circulation and transport in a complex beach environment - Truc Vert, France. (NSF)
  6) Coupled model for storm surge in Delaware Bay (Sea Grant)
  7) Video-based bathymetric determination for nearshore studies (Sea Grant)
  8) Understanding rip current outbreaks (Sea Grant)
  9) Development of a Community Sediment Transport Model (NOPP)

Jack A. Puleo

• 1) Scour monitoring at the Indian River Inlet (DelDOT)
  2) Video-based shoreline change analysis at Rehoboth Beach, DE and Cape May, NJ (DNREC, UDRF)
  3) Multi-spectral imaging and geotechnical properties of tidal mud flats (ONR)
  4) Use of calibrated video imagers for traffic analaysis (DelDOT)
  5) Bedload transport in the swash zone (UD)
  For more thorough information on these and past projects, see PULEO'S RESEARCH

Fengyan Shi

• 1) Coupling of Meteorology, Ocean and Nearshore Models for Predicting Coastal Inundation (Sea Grant, Morphos)
  2) Development of Community Sediment Transport Model (NOPP)
  3) Storm-Induced Sediment Transport and Morphology Change (Morphos)
  4) Surfzone Bubbles and Bubble-Sediment Interaction (ONR)
  5) Modeling Coastal Erosion at Ocean Beach, California (USGS)
  Detailed on-going and past projects can be found at SHI'S RESEARCH