Lauren Ross

Lauren is an associate professor in the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department. Her research area is in Coastal Engineering focusing on coastal and estuarine physical oceanography and stakeholder-driven research. It involves studying tides, waves, intra-tidal and subtidal circulation, and material transport in the coastal environment as well working on marine renewable energy, coastal hazards such as sea level rise and storm surge, understanding how climate and anthropogenic change is altering coasts and estuaries, and modeling estuarine water quality to aid coastal managers and policy makers.

Awards

NSF CAREER Award: What’s salt got to do with it? Liking the variability of mixing to exchange flow in estuaries.
Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation Donald W. Pritchard Award for the best physical oceanography paper published in Estuaries and Coasts (2023)