WILMINGTON — A UNCW professor is set to conduct U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-sponsored shoreline research.
The project was granted nearly $1 million dollars by the U.S. Coastal Research Program via the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The project will shed light on how waves and extreme weather events affect sand movement and coastal change, providing valuable information to weather services and the Army Corps of Engineers.
Dr. Ryan Mieras, UNCW assistant professor of coastal engineering, is one of the frontlining investigators on a research project examining how the movement of sand affects shorelines. He also assesses shortcomings in computer models that forecast coastal change.
Mieras, Jack Puleo and Tian-Jian Hsu of the University of Delaware, Blair Johnson of the University of Texas at Austin, and three doctoral students will embark on a collaborative summer 2025 research project, taking place in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
The research will incorporate Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) and sand transport sensor technology that were developed at UNCW via a $924,974 National Science Foundation grant that was awarded to Miras in 2020.
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