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affiliated hub members

With over 100 researchers, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate researchers, the Hub extends its reach across a multitude of institutions and disciplines. Teams are led by several co-leads and are each supported by a coastal community lead, who is an affiliate of Washington, Oregon, or California Sea Grant. Coastal community leads support their teams by connecting our researchers with community members and regional partners.

Hub members and partners gather at their annual meeting in Newport Oregon in April 2024

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Team 1: Studying and modeling the geohazards associated with earthquakes, tsunamis, and landslides to better understand their impacts on infrastructure and coastal communities.
Team 2: Understanding and predicting risks to coastal communities due to flooding, erosion and ecosystem change, and evaluating natural and nature-based solutions.
Team 3: Increase adaptive capacity of coastal communities to prepare, respond, and recover from chronic and acute hazards.
Team 4: Increase the diversity of future coastal hazard researchers and practitioners.
Team 5: Support community engagement and co-production of coastal hazards science.

Directors

Peter Ruggiero

Co-Director and Principal Investigator; Team 2 Co-Lead

Ann Bostrom

Co-Director; Co-PI, Theme 2 Lead; Team 3

Leadership Team

Alessandra Burgos

Project Manager

Alison Duvall

Co-PI, Team 1 Co-Lead

Dwaine Plaza

Co-PI, Team 4 Co-Lead

Harold Tobin

Co-PI, Team 1 Co-Lead

Jenna Tilt

Team 3 Co-Lead

Nicole Errett

Team 3 and 5 Co-Lead

Lisa Gaines

Team 4 Co-Lead

Investigators

Alex Grant

Team 1

Alex Horner-Devine

Team 2 Co-lead

Amanda Murphy

Team 5

Andre Barbosa

Team 1

Andrea Ogston

Team 2

Carrie Garrison-Laney

Team 1 Coastal Community Lead

Christie Hegermiller

Team 2

Dan Abramson

Theme 1 Lead; Team 3 and 4 Co-Lead

Dan Cox

Team 1 Co-Lead; Team 2

David Schmidt

Team 1

Eric Welch

External Evaluator

Erin Wirth

Team 1 Co-Lead

Frank Gonzalez

Team 1

Felicia Olmeta Schult

Team 3 Coastal Community Lead

Guillaume Mauger

Team 1 and 2

Haizhong Wang

Team 1 and 3

Ian Miller

Team 2 Coastal Community Lead; Team 1

Jamie Donatuto

Team 5 Co-Lead; Team 3

Janet Watt

Team 1

Jennifer Marlow

Team 3

Jeffrey Berman

Theme 3 Lead; Team 1

Joan Gomberg

Team 1 and 2

Joe Wartman

Team 1

John Bolte

Team 2

José Meléndez

Team 4 Co-Lead; Team 3

Joseph Louis

Team 1 and 3

Julia Melkers

External Evaluator

Juliet Crider

Team 1

Kendall Valentine

Team 2

Laurie Richmond

Team 3

Loyce Adams

Team 1

Marc Eberhard

Team 1 Co-Lead

Meagan Wengrove

Team 2

Michael Howard

Team 3 and 4

Phyllis Shulman

Team 5

Randy LeVeque

Team 1

Sally Hacker

Team 2

Steve Dundas

Team 2 and 3

Terrie Klinger

Team 2

Yong Wei

Team 1

Coastal Community Leads

Carrie Garrison-Laney

Team 1 Coastal Community Lead

Ian Miller

Team 2 Coastal Community Lead; Team 1

Felicia Olmeta Schult

Team 3 Coastal Community Lead

Postdoctoral Scholars

Andrea Mah

Team 3

Audrey Dunham

Team 1

Ian Stone

Team 1

Larry Syu-Heng Lai

Team 1

Maja Jeranko

Team 3

Wuming Ni

Team 2

Zhenqiang Wang

Team 3

Graduate Researchers

Alyssa Suárez

Team 3

Amina Meselhe

Team 1

Andrew Schuldt

Team 2

Anna Ledeczi

Team 1

Anna Pearson

Team 1

Ashley Moore

Team 3

Bering Tse

Team 1

Carly Ringer

Team 2

Carson Williams

Team 2

Chenqiang Liu

Team 3

Chonnapat Opanasopit

Team 1 + 3

Clara Riggio

Team 2

Clara Stanbury

Team 2

Daniel Acosta Reyes

Team 1

Danielle Whalen

Team 2

Dollar Ganu

Team 3

Emma Gleeman

Team 3

Hailey Bond

Team 2

Ian Clifford

Team 2

John Downes

Team 3

Joshua Blockstein

Team 3

Kailin Sepp

Team 3

Louiza Wise

Team 2

Julia Grossman

Team 1

Julia Lensing

Team 1

Julie Sorfleet

Team 3

Madeleine Lucas

Team 1

Mani Kumar Reddy

Team 3

Mohsen Taherkhani

Team 2

Najiba Rashid

Team 3

Paul Morgan

Team 1

Ryan Chiu

Team 2

Yingzhong Lou

Team 2

Ziyang Liu

Team 3

Contributing Members

Evan Mix

Team 3

Luyu Du

External Evaluation Team

Maya Trajkovski

CHARTER Fellow Mentor

CHARTER Fellows

Angellica Diaz

Cal Poly Humboldt

Annika Jensen

University of Washington

Catalina Kurihara

University of Oregon

Daniel Friese

Oregon State University

Estela Carvajal Arellano

Oregon State University

Jordan Ackemann

University of Oregon

Kaitlynn Spino

University of Oregon

Nell Thompson

University of Washington

Sadie Woolman-Schlukebier

University of Oregon

Si Tong Lu

University of Washington

Thaile Schrock

Oregon State University

Valentine Bentz

University of Oregon

PEOPLE

Investigators

Postdoctoral Scholars

Graduate Researchers

affiliated hub members

Click on a person to learn more about their role in the Hub!

Directors

Leadership Team

Investigators

Coastal Community Leads

Postdoctoral Scholars

Graduate Researchers

Contributing Members

CHARTER Fellows

Check out how our Hub is organized in our organizational chart below