Research

Coastal Hazards Modeling

Coastal Wave Surge Modeling

Blanton, B., R. Luettich, P. Vickery, J. Hanson, 2010, “North Carolina Floodplain Mapping Program, Submittal Number Two, Report on Tidal and Storm Validation Studies, March 26, 2010, 183p.

Bunya, S., J.C. Dietrich, J.J. Westerink, B.A. Ebersole, J.M. Smith, J.H. Atkinson, R. Jensen, D.T. Resio, R.A. Luettich, C. Dawson, V.J. Cardone, A.T. Cox, M.D. Powell, H.J. Westerink, H.J. Roberts, “A High Resolution Coupled Riverine Flow, Tide, Wind, Wind Wave and Storm Surge Model for Southern Louisiana and Mississippi: Part I – Model Development and Validation,” Monthly Weather Review, 138, 345-377, 2010.

Dietrich, J.C., S. Bunya, J.J. Westerink, B.A. Ebersole, J.M. Smith, J.H. Atkinson, R. Jensen, D.T. Resio, R.A. Luettich, C. Dawson, V.J. Cardone, A.T. Cox, M.D. Powell, H.J. Westerink, H.J. Roberts, “A High-Resolution Coupled Riverine Flow, Tide, Wind, Wind Wave and Storm Surge Model for Southern Louisiana and Mississippi: Part II – Synoptic Description and Analysis of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita”, Monthly Weather Review, 138(2):378-404, DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2907.

Dietrich, J.C., C.J. Trahan, M.T. Howard, J.G. Fleming, R.J. Weaver, S. Tanaka, L. Yu, R.A. Luettich, C.N. Dawson, J.J. Westerink, G. Wells, A. Lu, K. Vega, A. Kubach, K.M. Dresback, R.L. Kolar, C. Kaiser, R.R. Twilley, “Surface trajectories of oil transport along the northern coastline of the Gulf of Mexico,” Continental Shelf Research, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2012.03.015, 2012.

Dietrich, J.C., S. Tanaka, J.J. Westerink, C.N. Dawson, R.A. Luettich, Jr., M. Zijlema, L.H. Holthuijsen, J.M. Smith, L.G. Westerink, H.J. Westerink, “Performance of the Unstructured-Mesh, SWAN+ADCIRC Model in Computing Hurricane Waves and Surge,” Journal of Scientific Computing, In Press, DOI 10.1007/s10915-011-9555-6, 2011.

Tanaka, S., S. Bunya, J.J. Westerink, C. Dawson, R.A. Luettich, “Scalability of an Unstructured Grid Continuous Galerkin Based Hurricane Storm Surge Model,” Journal of Scientific Computing, 46, 329-358, 2011.

Dietrich, J.C., J.J. Westerink, A.B. Kennedy, J.M. Smith, R. Jensen, M. Zijlema, L.H. Holthuijsen, C. Dawson, R.A. Luettich, Jr., M.D. Powell, V.J. Cardone, A.T. Cox, G.W. Stone, H. Pourtaheri, M.E. Hope, S. Tanaka, L.G. Westerink, H.J. Westerink, Z. Cobell, “Hurricane Gustav (2008) Waves and Storm Surge: Hindcast, Synoptic Analysis and Validation in Southern Louisiana,”Monthly Weather Review, 139, 2488-2522, DOI 10.1175/2011MWR3611.1, 2011.

Dietrich. J.C., M. Zijlema, J.J. Westerink, L.H. Holthuijsen, C. Dawson, R.A. Luettich, R. Jensen, J.M. Smith, G.S. Stelling, G.W. Stone, “Modeling Hurricane Waves and Storm Surge using Integrally-Coupled, Scalable Computations,” Coastal Engineering, 58, 45-65, 2011.

Dietrich, J.C., S. Bunya, J.J. Westerink, B.A. Ebersole, J.M. Smith, J.H. Atkinson, R. Jensen, D.T. Resio, R.A. Luettich, C. Dawson, V.J. Cardone, A.T. Cox, M.D. Powell, H.J. Westerink, H.J. Roberts, “A High Resolution Coupled Riverine Flow, Tide, Wind, Wind Wave and Storm Surge Model for Southern Louisiana and Mississippi: Part II – Synoptic Description and Analyses of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita ,” Monthly Weather Review, 138, 378-404, 2010.

Forbes, C., R.A. Luettich, C.A. Mattocks, J.J. Westerink, “A Retrospective Evaluation of the Storm Surge Produced by Hurricane Gustav (2008): Forecast and Hindcast Results,” Weather and Forecasting, 25, No. 6, 1577-1602, 2010.

Forbes, C., R. Luettich, C. Mattocks, 2010, “Storm Surge Simulations of Hurricane Ike (2008): Its Impact in Louisiana and Texas”, Estuarine and Coastal Modeling XI, M. Spaulding [ed], ASCE, pg. 704-723.

Schwab, A., R. Luettich and G. Smith, Coastal Hazards Colloquium: Final Report, Department of Homeland Security, September 2009, 37p.

Tromble, E., R. Kolar, K. Dresback, Y. Hong, B. Vieux, R. Luettich, J. Gourley, K, Kelleher, S. Van Cooten, “Aspects of Coupled Hydrologic-Hydrodynamic Modeling for Coastal Flood Inundation”, Estuarine and Coastal Modeling XI, M.L. Spaulding [ed], ASCE, pg .724-743.

Tromble, E.M., Kolar, R.L., Dresback, K.M., Hong, Y., Vieux, B.E., Luettich, R.A., Gourley, J.J., Kelleher, K., Van Cooten, S., “Aspects of Coupled Hydrologic – Hydrodynamic Modeling for Coastal Flood Inundation.” In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Estuarine and Coastal Modeling, ML Spaulding, ed., American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010, pp. 724-743.

S. Van Cooten, K.E. Kelleher, K. Howard, J. Zhang, J.J. Gourley, J.S. Kain, K. Nemunaitis-Monroe, Z. Flamig, H. Moser, A. Arthur, C. Langston, R.L. Kolar, Y. Hong, K.M. Dresback, E.M. Tromble, H.J. Vergara, R.A. Luettich, B. Blanton, H. Lander, K. Galluppi, J. Losego, C.A. Blain, J. Thigpen, K. Mosher, D. Figurskey, M. Moneypenny, J. Blaes, J. Orrock, R. Bandy, C. Goodall, D. Eslinger, J. Payne, G. Olmi, J. Feldt, J. Schmidt, T. Hamill, R. Bacon, R. Stickney, L. Spence, “The CI-FLOW Project: A System for Total Water Level Prediction From the Summit to the Sea,” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 55 pp., in press.Looper, J.P. and B.E. Vieux, 2011. Journal of Hydrology. Available July 6, 2011 online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.05.046

Weaver, R.J., R.A. Luettich, Jr., 2010, “2D vs. 3D Storm Surge Sensitivity in ADCIRC: Case Study of Hurricane Isabel”, Estuarine and Coastal Modeling XI, M. Spaulding [ed], ASCE, pg .762-779.

Coastal Hazard Modeling with Sea Level Rise and Educational Opportunities

Shay, T., B. Blanton, and R. Luettich (2010): Potential Future Effects of Sea Level Rise in Northeastern North Carolina. NOAA Climate Prediction S&T Digest, 35th NOAA Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop Special Issue, Dec 2010, pp157-160.

Downscaling Storm Surge Models for Engineering Applications

Simon, Jason. “A Computational Approach for Local Storm Surge Modeling,” Master’s Thesis under the direction of John Baugh, NC State University, Raleigh, N.C., July 2011.

A Hydrologic Modeling System for Coastal Environments

Meterological Modeling

Fitzpatrick, P.J., Y. Lau, N. Tran, Y. Li, and C.M. Hill, 2010. The role of bathymetry in local storm surge potential. Submitted to Natural Hazards Earth Systems Sciences

Fitzpatrick, P.J., 2011: The debate over tropical cyclones and anthropogenic climate change. World History Encyclopedia, Era 9: Promises and Paradoxes, 1945-Present. A. J. Waskey and F. R. Nadis, Eds., ABC-CLIO eBook Collection, 28-29. Available from http://ebooks.abc-clio.com

Knaff, J.A., P.J. Fitzpatrick, C.R. Sampson, Y. Jin, and C. Hill, 2011. Simple diagnosis of tropical cyclone structure via pressure gradients. Weather Forecasting. In press. Abstract available at: http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/WAF-D-11-00013.

Engineering to Enhance the Resilience of the Built and Natural Environment

In-Situ Scour Evaluation Probe

Caruso, C.W. and Gabr, M., (2010), “In Situ measurement of the scour potential of non-cohesive sediments (ISEP)”, ICES-5, ASCE, San Francisco, CA.

Caruso, C.W. and Gabr, M., (2011), In Situ Assessment of Scour Potential with Depth Using Jetting Approach, GeoFrontiers-2011, ASCE, Dallas, TX

Gabr, M. “Deformation-Based Limit States for Earth Embankments” Geotechnical Special Publication No. 211, Geo-Frontiers, Geo-Frontiers 2011: Advances in Geotechnical Engineering, Dallas, Texas, 2011, pp. 3639-3648.

Gabr, M. “External Stability of Geotubes” Geotechnical Special Publication No. 224, Geo-Risk, Atlanta, Georgia, 2011.

Gabr, M. “Limit States Approach for Coupled Seepage-Deformation Analysis of Earth Embankments” conference proceedings paper, Dam Safety, Washington, D.C., September 2011.

Evolving and Engineered Landforms

Hardin E., Kurum O., Mitasova H., Overton M.,F, 2011, Least cost path extraction of topographic features for storm impact scale mapping, Journal of Coastal Research.

Mitasova, H., E. Hardin, M. Overton, M. Kurum. “Geospatial analysis of vulnerable beach-foredune systems from decadal time series of lidar data.” Journal of Coastal Conservation, Vol. 14. No. 3. 2010: 161-172.

Mitasova, H., R. Harmon, K. Weaver, N. Lyons, M. Overton, 2010. “Scientific Visualization of Landscapes and Landforms”. Geomorphology special issue on Geospatial Technologies and Geomorphological Mapping.

System Observability, Diagnosis and Prognosis

Mosavi, A.A., Dickey, D., Seracino, R. and Rizkalla, S., Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing (2011), doi:10.1016/j.ymssp.2011.06.009.

Infrastructure Modeling: Decision Technologies

Cavdaroglu B., Hammel E., Mitchell J.E.,Sharkey T.C., Wallace W.A., Integrating Restoration and Scheduling Decisions for Disrupted Interdependent Infrastructure Systems, Annals of Operations Research, accepted in July 2011.

Planning for Resilience

Anaylsis of Federal Mitigation Policy in the U.S.: Mitigation Plans, Expenditures, Civic Engagement and Local Capability

Berke, Philip. Book Chapter titled, “Hazard Mitigation, Planning and Disaster Resiliency: Challenges and Strategic Choices for the 21st Century” in Planning the Risk: Spatial Planning as a Strategy for Mitigation and Adaptation to Natural Hazards, Ed. Urban Fra. Amsterdam: ISO Press: pp. 1-23, 2009.

Berke, Philip, Gavin Smith and Ward Lyles. “Planning for Resilience: An Evaluation of Coastal Hazard Mitigation Plans.” Forthcoming, Natural Hazards Review.

Applying Plan Quality Principles to State Disaster Recovery Planning

Smith, Gavin, Dylan Sandler. “State Disaster Recovery Planning Guide.” September 2012.

Disaster Response and Social Resilience

Risk Perceptions, Preferences and Preparedness

Donahue, A.K. 2011. “Ready or Not: How citizens and public officials perceive risk and preparedness.” Presented at the Public Management Research Conference, Syracuse, New York, June 4, 2011.

Psychological Adjustments Following Coastal Disasters: Identification of Risk and Protective Factors for Families and Web-Based Curriculum Development

Hernandez, B.C., Vigna, J.F., & Kelley, M.L. (2010). The Youth Coping Responses Inventory: Development and initial validation. Journal of Clinical Psychology. 66, 1008-1025.

Kelley, M.L., Self-Brown, S., Le, B., Bosson, J.V., Hernandez, B.C., Gordon, A.T. (2010). Predicting posttraumatic stress symptoms in children following Hurricane Katrina: A prospective analysis of the effect of parental distress and parenting practices. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 22, 1-9.

Kelley, M.L., Palcic, J., Vigna, J.F., Wang, J., Spell, A.W., Pellegrin, A., Davidson, Self-Brown, S., & Ruggiero, K. (2010). The Effects of Parenting Behavior on children’s Mental Health Post-Hurricane Katrina. In: R. P. Kilmer, V. Gil-Rivas, R.G. Tedeschi, & L.G. Calhoun (Eds.), Meeting the needs of children, families, and communities post-disaster: lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Vigna, J. F., Hernandez, B.C., Paasch, V., Gordon, A., & Kelley, M.L. (2009). Positive adjustment in youth post-Katrina: The impact of child and maternal social support and coping. In K. E. Cherry (Ed), Lifespan perspectives on natural disasters: Coping with Katrina, Rita and other Storms. NY: Springer.

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