Join us on Thursday, November 14 at 7:00 PM for a one hour lecture on how our beaches respond to extreme weather events. The event will be held at the 801 Ocean Center, 801 Ocean Dr on Oak Island.

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Dr. Ryan Mieras, Assistant Professor in Coastal Engineering at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, will lead the lecture.

Dr. Mieras earned both his Ph.D. and M.C.E. in Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Delaware in 2017 and 2014, respectively. He holds a B.S in Ocean Engineering from Texas A&M University (2011). Prior to academia, Mieras worked at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory – Stennis Space Center as a National Research Council, Postdoctoral Fellow from 2017-2019, where he developed technology to measure sediment concentration in the coastal swash zone (US patent pending). To date, he has secured nearly $2 million in federal funding from agencies including the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. His research encompasses nearshore sediment transport and hydrodynamic processes via field and laboratory studies, serving to improve our understanding of the physical processes driving coastal flooding and geomorphology in a changing climate. His recent research activities include applied instrumentation development, extreme event reconnaissance observation platforms, post-storm beach recovery, and affordable LiDAR and remote sensing coastal observation systems.