Our Resilience Research Team

Dr. Thomas Herrington

Dr. Thomas Herrington has over 22 years of experience in coastal sustainability and hazard mitigation research, including the analysis of high-resolution flood modeling and mitigation. He is the chief architect of the NJ Coastal Monitoring Network and the Stevens Storm Surge Warning System designed to inform municipal officials and the public regarding potential flooding events. He is author or coauthored on over 100 journal, outreach and technical publications in the field of coastal and ocean engineering, including the NJ Sea Grant Manual for Coastal Hazard Mitigation. Dr. Herrington presently serves on FEMA’s Flood Hazard Remapping Scientific Advisory Panel, and was a contributing scientist to the US Army Corps of Engineers Post Sandy North Atlantic Coast Comprehensive Study.

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Dr. Philip Orton

Dr. Philip Orton is a research assistant professor whose specific research interests include estuary and coastal ocean physics, storm surges and sea level rise, urban coastal adaptation, turbulent mixing, air-sea interaction and gas exchange, sediment transport, urban and coastal atmospheric science, and numerical ocean and atmospheric modeling. Calling upon his unique, detailed knowledge of ocean, estuary, and atmosphere transport processes, Dr. Orton endeavors to evaluate and solve problems related to storm surges, climate change and pollutant discharges.

Dr. Julie Pullen

Dr. Julie Pullen's work centers on meteorology and oceanography, and their intersections. She investigates and predicts coastal air/sea interactions and patterns around cities utilizing high-resolution two-way coupled ocean/atmosphere models along with observations. Her work has direct societal impact in the realms of contaminant transport and heat wave projections in urban areas. Dr. Pullen's research also contributes to the understanding and development of resilience and sustainability in coastal environments, and the enhancement of Earth Systems Models on weather, seasonal-to-subseasonal, and climate timescales.

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Jose Emmanuel Ramirez-Marquez

Dr. Jose Emmanuel Ramirez-Marquez is Director of the Enterprise Science and Engineering Division, and associate professor in the School of Systems & Enterprises (SSE) at Stevens Institute of Technology. A former Fulbright Scholar, he holds degrees from Rutgers University in Industrial Engineering (Ph.D. and M.Sc.) and Statistics (M.Sc.) and from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in Actuarial Science. His research efforts focus on the development of mathematical models for the analysis and computation of system operational effectiveness; reliability and vulnerability analysis as the basis for designing system resilience. He also works at the intersection of evolutionary computation for the optimization of complex problems associated with system performance and design. His recent work has explored how visualization of data can be used for decision making purposes at the community level.

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Dr. Firas Saleh

Dr. Firas Saleh is a senior research engineer in the Davidson Lab who holds a Ph.D. in Geosciences and Natural Resources from the University of Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI (Sorbonne Universités), France. His research is focused on developing state-of-the-art flood prediction frameworks in coastal urban areas. Dr. Saleh provides daily hydrological forecasts on the Hudson and Raritan River basins via the Stevens Flood Advisory System (SFAS). Examples of projects he worked on include the Exxon Valdez oil spill on Alaskan beaches, the recovery and resilience of the New Jersey shorelines following Hurricane Sandy, and the NASA/CNES Surface Water Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission to make the first global survey of earth's surface water by satellite. Dr. Saleh is the recipient of the U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal award, the highest honorary award granted by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, for his distinguished achievement in the Federal service.

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Claire Weisz

Claire is a founding partner of WXY, a firm known for interdisciplinary architecture and urban design strategies. . She has taught and lectured widely, and was most recently a Visiting Distinguished Professor at CCNY’s Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture.Claire has contributed significantly to waterfront planning, design and resiliency efforts through her leadership in post-Hurricane Sandy efforts for the New York City area and beyond, including the NYC Special Initiative for Rebuilding and Resiliency, for which she served as the Community Area Planner for the Brooklyn-Queens Waterfront, the lead designer on the Rockaway Boardwalks Reconstruction, and as a team lead on one of the ten finalist teams in HUD’s Rebuild by Design competition. She has also led notable public space and architecture projects including the Brooklyn Strand Action Plan, and the Far Rockaway PlaNYC Park Structures.

Coastal Urban Resilience Research at the Davidson Laboratory

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Port Authority of NY-NJ

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New Jersey Transit

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