Sobre Mi:
I am a geographer and coastal geomorphologist that studies dune processes and coastal vegetation. My undergraduate degree is from the University of Puerto Rico and my MS and Ph.D from Rutgers University in New Jersey. I will be starting a Post-doctoral Fellowship in September 2010 at the Geography Department of the University of Kentucky.
Información de proyecto:
Dunes are essential ecosystems that may protect landward settlements from high wave energy events and coastal flooding. My main purpose in studying dunes is to understand the processes that create and reinforce their presence in the landscape to create management alternatives that consider these processes in urbanized coastal zones.