She is also the leader of mooring design within the "Structural Design of wave energy devices" project (www.sdwed.cicil.aau.dk), 2010-2014, funded by the Danish Agency for Science Technology and Innovation.
Dan Palermo is an associate professor of strucutral engineering at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. His research interests include seismic design of concrete structures, seismic repair and retrofit of concrete structures, tsunami-resistant design of concrete structures, and performance of concrete structures under blast loading. He is a member of ACI 447 Finite Element Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Structures, associate member of ACI 369 Seismic Repair and Rehabilitation, and associate member of ASCE-7 Tsunami Loads and Effects subcommittee. Prof. Hwung-Hweng Hwung of Department of Hydraulics and Ocean Engineering of National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, the former Senior Executive Vice-President, was sworn in as the University's new President on February 1, 2011. Best known for his research in wave modulation, wave dynamics and sediment transport, President. Hwung-Hweng Hwung's outstanding research achievements include the behavior of nonlinear wave slopes, two phase boundary layer flow in surf and swash zone, wave motion of layered fluids, tsunami spread, shore line erosion and the digital image technology for applications of water level monitor. Besides, President Hwung is one of the key figures in promoting industry-academia cooperation. Dr. Ioan Nistor is Associate Professor of Hydraulic and Coastal Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Ottawa, Canada. His research focuses on hazards associated with extreme hydrodynamic loading on infrastructure. He is the Chair of the Hydrotechnical Division of the CSCE and Associate Editor for Coastal Engineering Journal and the Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering. Winner of several awards (2010 Award of Tsunami International Society, 2010 Excellence in Education Teaching Award of University of Ottawa, 2009 Teaching Award of Faculty of Engineering, 2005 Ontario Ministry for Infrastructure Renewal), Dr. Nistor obtained his PhD from Yokohama National University, Japan. Klemens Uliczka, Dr.-Ing., holds the current position of Senior Research Engineer at the Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute (BAW), Hamburg Office, Germany www.baw.de. He is responsible for the task of interaction ship / waterway at the coastal department. His previous experience includes: 1983 Civil Engineer Technical University of Braunschweig; 1984 - 1989 Research Engineer LWI, TU Braunschweig / GWK Univ. of Hannover, Coastal Engineering; 1989 Doctoral degree at LWI, TU Braunschweig; since 1989 Research Engineer BAW, Hamburg; 1993 Senior Research Engineer, Task: Interaction Ship / waterway; Member of HTG, Germany. Krystian Walenty Pilarczyk, M.Sc., born February 14, 1941 in Poland, was graduated in 1964 at the Gdansk Technical University, Faculty of Hydraulic Engineering. After the first six years of research activities at the Institute of Hydroengineering in Gdansk and Delft Hydraulics in Delft, he joined in 1971 the Rijkswaterstaat (Dutch Public Works Department). In the period 1971 to 1986 he was involved in the Delta Project (closure of the tidal estuaries) as a coordinator of the applied research and the designer. In that time he initiated a number of systematic research program's, among others, on static and dynamic stability of rock, closure techniques by means of rock and sand, scour prediction and scour protection, runup and overtopping, bank protections, design of dikes and various kinds of revetments, and design with geosystems. Leopoldo Franco graduated in Civil Engineering Hydraulics at the University of Rome in 1979, since 1987 associate professor of Coastal and Harbour Engineering at Politechnic of Milan and since 2004 full professor at the University of Rome 3. For some 30 years he carried out advanced laboratory investigations and mathematical models within national and EU funded projects (eg.MAST-PROVERBS-DELOS-CLASH-FLOODSITE) in maritime hydraulics and coastal structures described in about 190 technical-scientific papers. Main research topics include wave overtopping at breakwaters, wave analysis and prediction, shoreline modelling, hydraulic design of breakwater, harbours and marinas. He is PIANC delegate and also chartered at the Board of Engineers of Rome acting as designer and consultant at MODIMAR, Rome for various projects in Italy and abroad. Miguel Angel Losada Rodríguez is the Director of the Andalusian Environment Centre (CEAMA). Andalusian Autonomous Government - University of Granada. He is a Professor of Hydraulic Engineering, University of Granada and the Director of the Environmental Fluid Dynamics Group: Ports and Coasts, Rivers and Reservoirs and Wind Engineering. TEP 209.1998. In addition, he is the Coordinator of the Official Interuniversity Masters Degree in Environmental Hydraulics, with Quality Award Masahiko Isobe graduated in 1975 and obtained Dr. Eng. in 1981 from the Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo. After his professional career at the Department of Civil Engineering, Yokohama National University, as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor from 1981 to 1987, he moved back to The University of Tokyo. He is a founder of the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences at which he is serving as a professor. He also served as Executive Vice President from 2009 to 2011. His research field is coastal environment engineering covering wave hydrodynamics; coastal, ocean and harbor structures; sediment transport and beach profile change; coastal water quality; coastal zone management. Dr. Michael J. Briggs is a Research Hydraulic Engineer at the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS. His research interests include deep draft navigation, laboratory simulation and analysis of multidirectional waves, wave transformation along coasts and in harbors, and tsunami wave runup modeling. Dr. Briggs is currently a member of PIANC's WG49 that is revising the horizontal and vertical design guidance for approach channels. He is a registered Professional Engineer, Fellow in ASCE and COPRI, Coastal and Ocean Engineering Diplomate in ACOPNE, and has authored over 300 technical reports and papers. Professor Nigel William Henry Allsop is Technical Director for Maritime Structures at HR Wallingford, and Visiting Professor at University of Southampton and at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He has more than 38 years experience in research and consultancy studies covering testing, analysis, design and optimisation of breakwaters, sea walls, revetments, jetties / piers and wide range of reservoir, shoreline, estuarial and coastal structures. He also has experience of engineering works or renewable energy systems, river structures, outfalls and oil booms, and on the performance and certification of temporary flood protection devices. He devised the UK's first Tsunami Generator. William Allsop has extensively cooperated on research projects in UK, Europe and USA, particularly VOWS, Big-VOWS, MCS, PROVERBS, CLASH and FLOODsite. He has been a member of ICE Maritime Board, PIANC, BSI, ISO and ICE working groups. He has chaired the international 'Breakwaters' conference since 1998. Robert Hudspeth DEGREES B.S. (with distinction), Engineering, U.S. Naval Academy, 1963 MSCE Civil Engineering, University of Washington, 1966 Ph.D. Civil Engineering, (Mathematics), University of Florida, 1974 BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS Waves and Wave Forces on Coastal and Ocean Structures, World Scientific Pub., 2006. Wavemaker Theories, R.T. Hudspeth and R.B. Guenther, Handbook of Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Ch. 2, Ed. Y.C. Kim, World Scientific Pub., 2010, pp. 25-56. Analyses by the Melnikov Method of Damped Parametrically Excited Cross Waves, R.B. Guenther and R.T. Hudspeth, Handbook of Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Ch. 3, Ed. Y.C. Kim, World Scientific Pub., 2010, pp. 57-86. PUBLICATIONS Chaotic Analyses of Weakly Damped Parametrically Excited Cross Waves with Surface Tension, (with R. B. Guenther and S. Fadal), Acta Mechanica, 175(1-4), 2005, pp. 139-179. Dr Roshanka Ranasinghe holds a Ph.D. degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Western Australia and a BScEng degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He is currently Associate Professor of Coastal Engineering at UNESCO-IHE and Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands. His broad research interests are nearshore hydrodynamics, sediment transport, morphological evolution and coastal zone management, with a particular focus on climate change impacts. He has published over 100 international journal and conference articles and 3 book chapter. Dr. Ranasinghe is a member of the Engineers Australia National Committee of Coastal and Ocean Engineering. Dr. Todd Walton is a civil and coastal engineer with a professional engineeer license and over 35 years of experence in engineering, research, and education. He has been on the faculty,adjunct faculty, and visiting faculty of Florida State University, University of Florida, George Washington University, Mississippi State University, and Texas A&M University. He has over 50 refereed journal articles and book contributions, and over 100 professional publications in the area of coastal engineering. Professor Yu-cheng Li, an emeritus professor of Dalian University of Technology of CHINA ,is the charter-member of International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers, the TPC committee member of ISOPE, and also the steering committee member of APAC. He was the Vice-director of the State Key Lab of Coastal and Offshore Engineering in China. His major research fields are ocean and coastal engineering, the fluid-structure interaction of marine structures. He has published more than 200 articles. He is the author of the text-book of "wave action on maritime structure" (first edition in 1990 and second edition in 2002). He was invited to participate in compiling Coastal and Ocean Engineering Handbook (1990 edition be edited by Prof. John B. Herbich and 2009 edition be edited by Prof. Young C. Kim). His research have been awarded as the silver prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress of China in 2002 and 2007 and the brown prize of NSTP of China in 1999. He also received the PACOMS Award twice and the ISOPE Award once by ISOPE. Bill Kamphuis is Emeritus Professor of Coastal Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He directed the Queen's University Coastal Engineering Research Laboratory for 32 years and is president of J.W. Kamphuis, Associates Limited, Coastal Consultants. He has published more than 130 research papers and 150 research reports and is the author of the widely used "Introduction to Coastal Engineering and Management". Harry Yeh received his PhD degree in Civil Engineering in 1983 from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in the areas of environmental fluid mechanics, water wave phenomena, and tsunami hazards. He was a Hydraulic Engineer at Bechtel Inc., San Francisco from 1977 to 1983. From 1983 to 2002, he was a professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. Currently, he is the Miles Lowell and Margaret Watt Edwards Distinguished Chair in Engineering at Oregon State University. Harry Yeh has participated in many field surveys for tsunami disaster sites - from the 1992 Nicaragua to the 2011 East Japan Tsunamis. He also organized numerous multidisciplinary workshops for long-wave modeling, tsunami measurements, bathymetry and topography data, seafloor deformation, and tsunami laboratory facility. He is a registered professional engineer (civil) in California since 1979. Ronald Guenther is an emeritus professor of mathematics at Oregon State University. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1964, and then went to work for Marathon Oil Company before taking a position at Oregon State University. He has had visiting positions at the universities of Hamburg, Augsburg, the Free University of Berlin, and the Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany and the University of Montreal in Canada. He has also held a position at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut in Berlin, Germany and was a technical adviser for the Basalt Waste Isolation Project studying the groundwater system of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the state of Washington. He has published numerous research papers and books and given talks throughout North America and Europe as well as being a consultant in the area of mathematical modeling for a number of firms. His research has been in the areas of both applied and pure mathematics and classical and continuum mechanics. He has worked extensively with engineers on all aspects of fluid flow.
Prof. Hwung-Hweng Hwung of Department of Hydraulics and Ocean Engineering of National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, the former Senior Executive Vice-President, was sworn in as the University's new President on February 1, 2011. Best known for his research in wave modulation, wave dynamics and sediment transport, President. Hwung-Hweng Hwung's outstanding research achievements include the behavior of nonlinear wave slopes, two phase boundary layer flow in surf and swash zone, wave motion of layered fluids, tsunami spread, shore line erosion and the digital image technology for applications of water level monitor. Besides, President Hwung is one of the key figures in promoting industry-academia cooperation. Dr. Ioan Nistor is Associate Professor of Hydraulic and Coastal Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Ottawa, Canada. His research focuses on hazards associated with extreme hydrodynamic loading on infrastructure. He is the Chair of the Hydrotechnical Division of the CSCE and Associate Editor for Coastal Engineering Journal and the Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering. Winner of several awards (2010 Award of Tsunami International Society, 2010 Excellence in Education Teaching Award of University of Ottawa, 2009 Teaching Award of Faculty of Engineering, 2005 Ontario Ministry for Infrastructure Renewal), Dr. Nistor obtained his PhD from Yokohama National University, Japan. Klemens Uliczka, Dr.-Ing., holds the current position of Senior Research Engineer at the Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute (BAW), Hamburg Office, Germany www.baw.de. He is responsible for the task of interaction ship / waterway at the coastal department. His previous experience includes: 1983 Civil Engineer Technical University of Braunschweig; 1984 - 1989 Research Engineer LWI, TU Braunschweig / GWK Univ. of Hannover, Coastal Engineering; 1989 Doctoral degree at LWI, TU Braunschweig; since 1989 Research Engineer BAW, Hamburg; 1993 Senior Research Engineer, Task: Interaction Ship / waterway; Member of HTG, Germany. Krystian Walenty Pilarczyk, M.Sc., born February 14, 1941 in Poland, was graduated in 1964 at the Gdansk Technical University, Faculty of Hydraulic Engineering. After the first six years of research activities at the Institute of Hydroengineering in Gdansk and Delft Hydraulics in Delft, he joined in 1971 the Rijkswaterstaat (Dutch Public Works Department). In the period 1971 to 1986 he was involved in the Delta Project (closure of the tidal estuaries) as a coordinator of the applied research and the designer. In that time he initiated a number of systematic research program's, among others, on static and dynamic stability of rock, closure techniques by means of rock and sand, scour prediction and scour protection, runup and overtopping, bank protections, design of dikes and various kinds of revetments, and design with geosystems. Leopoldo Franco graduated in Civil Engineering Hydraulics at the University of Rome in 1979, since 1987 associate professor of Coastal and Harbour Engineering at Politechnic of Milan and since 2004 full professor at the University of Rome 3. For some 30 years he carried out advanced laboratory investigations and mathematical models within national and EU funded projects (eg.MAST-PROVERBS-DELOS-CLASH-FLOODSITE) in maritime hydraulics and coastal structures described in about 190 technical-scientific papers. Main research topics include wave overtopping at breakwaters, wave analysis and prediction, shoreline modelling, hydraulic design of breakwater, harbours and marinas. He is PIANC delegate and also chartered at the Board of Engineers of Rome acting as designer and consultant at MODIMAR, Rome for various projects in Italy and abroad. Miguel Angel Losada Rodríguez is the Director of the Andalusian Environment Centre (CEAMA). Andalusian Autonomous Government - University of Granada. He is a Professor of Hydraulic Engineering, University of Granada and the Director of the Environmental Fluid Dynamics Group: Ports and Coasts, Rivers and Reservoirs and Wind Engineering. TEP 209.1998. In addition, he is the Coordinator of the Official Interuniversity Masters Degree in Environmental Hydraulics, with Quality Award Masahiko Isobe graduated in 1975 and obtained Dr. Eng. in 1981 from the Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo. After his professional career at the Department of Civil Engineering, Yokohama National University, as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor from 1981 to 1987, he moved back to The University of Tokyo. He is a founder of the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences at which he is serving as a professor. He also served as Executive Vice President from 2009 to 2011. His research field is coastal environment engineering covering wave hydrodynamics; coastal, ocean and harbor structures; sediment transport and beach profile change; coastal water quality; coastal zone management. Dr. Michael J. Briggs is a Research Hydraulic Engineer at the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS. His research interests include deep draft navigation, laboratory simulation and analysis of multidirectional waves, wave transformation along coasts and in harbors, and tsunami wave runup modeling. Dr. Briggs is currently a member of PIANC's WG49 that is revising the horizontal and vertical design guidance for approach channels. He is a registered Professional Engineer, Fellow in ASCE and COPRI, Coastal and Ocean Engineering Diplomate in ACOPNE, and has authored over 300 technical reports and papers. Professor Nigel William Henry Allsop is Technical Director for Maritime Structures at HR Wallingford, and Visiting Professor at University of Southampton and at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He has more than 38 years experience in research and consultancy studies covering testing, analysis, design and optimisation of breakwaters, sea walls, revetments, jetties / piers and wide range of reservoir, shoreline, estuarial and coastal structures. He also has experience of engineering works or renewable energy systems, river structures, outfalls and oil booms, and on the performance and certification of temporary flood protection devices. He devised the UK's first Tsunami Generator. William Allsop has extensively cooperated on research projects in UK, Europe and USA, particularly VOWS, Big-VOWS, MCS, PROVERBS, CLASH and FLOODsite. He has been a member of ICE Maritime Board, PIANC, BSI, ISO and ICE working groups. He has chaired the international 'Breakwaters' conference since 1998. Robert Hudspeth DEGREES B.S. (with distinction), Engineering, U.S. Naval Academy, 1963 MSCE Civil Engineering, University of Washington, 1966 Ph.D. Civil Engineering, (Mathematics), University of Florida, 1974 BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS Waves and Wave Forces on Coastal and Ocean Structures, World Scientific Pub., 2006. Wavemaker Theories, R.T. Hudspeth and R.B. Guenther, Handbook of Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Ch. 2, Ed. Y.C. Kim, World Scientific Pub., 2010, pp. 25-56. Analyses by the Melnikov Method of Damped Parametrically Excited Cross Waves, R.B. Guenther and R.T. Hudspeth, Handbook of Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Ch. 3, Ed. Y.C. Kim, World Scientific Pub., 2010, pp. 57-86. PUBLICATIONS Chaotic Analyses of Weakly Damped Parametrically Excited Cross Waves with Surface Tension, (with R. B. Guenther and S. Fadal), Acta Mechanica, 175(1-4), 2005, pp. 139-179. Dr Roshanka Ranasinghe holds a Ph.D. degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Western Australia and a BScEng degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He is currently Associate Professor of Coastal Engineering at UNESCO-IHE and Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands. His broad research interests are nearshore hydrodynamics, sediment transport, morphological evolution and coastal zone management, with a particular focus on climate change impacts. He has published over 100 international journal and conference articles and 3 book chapter. Dr. Ranasinghe is a member of the Engineers Australia National Committee of Coastal and Ocean Engineering. Dr. Todd Walton is a civil and coastal engineer with a professional engineeer license and over 35 years of experence in engineering, research, and education. He has been on the faculty,adjunct faculty, and visiting faculty of Florida State University, University of Florida, George Washington University, Mississippi State University, and Texas A&M University. He has over 50 refereed journal articles and book contributions, and over 100 professional publications in the area of coastal engineering. Professor Yu-cheng Li, an emeritus professor of Dalian University of Technology of CHINA ,is the charter-member of International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers, the TPC committee member of ISOPE, and also the steering committee member of APAC. He was the Vice-director of the State Key Lab of Coastal and Offshore Engineering in China. His major research fields are ocean and coastal engineering, the fluid-structure interaction of marine structures. He has published more than 200 articles. He is the author of the text-book of "wave action on maritime structure" (first edition in 1990 and second edition in 2002). He was invited to participate in compiling Coastal and Ocean Engineering Handbook (1990 edition be edited by Prof. John B. Herbich and 2009 edition be edited by Prof. Young C. Kim). His research have been awarded as the silver prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress of China in 2002 and 2007 and the brown prize of NSTP of China in 1999. He also received the PACOMS Award twice and the ISOPE Award once by ISOPE. Bill Kamphuis is Emeritus Professor of Coastal Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He directed the Queen's University Coastal Engineering Research Laboratory for 32 years and is president of J.W. Kamphuis, Associates Limited, Coastal Consultants. He has published more than 130 research papers and 150 research reports and is the author of the widely used "Introduction to Coastal Engineering and Management". Harry Yeh received his PhD degree in Civil Engineering in 1983 from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in the areas of environmental fluid mechanics, water wave phenomena, and tsunami hazards. He was a Hydraulic Engineer at Bechtel Inc., San Francisco from 1977 to 1983. From 1983 to 2002, he was a professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. Currently, he is the Miles Lowell and Margaret Watt Edwards Distinguished Chair in Engineering at Oregon State University. Harry Yeh has participated in many field surveys for tsunami disaster sites - from the 1992 Nicaragua to the 2011 East Japan Tsunamis. He also organized numerous multidisciplinary workshops for long-wave modeling, tsunami measurements, bathymetry and topography data, seafloor deformation, and tsunami laboratory facility. He is a registered professional engineer (civil) in California since 1979. Ronald Guenther is an emeritus professor of mathematics at Oregon State University. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1964, and then went to work for Marathon Oil Company before taking a position at Oregon State University. He has had visiting positions at the universities of Hamburg, Augsburg, the Free University of Berlin, and the Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany and the University of Montreal in Canada. He has also held a position at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut in Berlin, Germany and was a technical adviser for the Basalt Waste Isolation Project studying the groundwater system of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the state of Washington. He has published numerous research papers and books and given talks throughout North America and Europe as well as being a consultant in the area of mathematical modeling for a number of firms. His research has been in the areas of both applied and pure mathematics and classical and continuum mechanics. He has worked extensively with engineers on all aspects of fluid flow.
Dr. Ioan Nistor is Associate Professor of Hydraulic and Coastal Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Ottawa, Canada. His research focuses on hazards associated with extreme hydrodynamic loading on infrastructure. He is the Chair of the Hydrotechnical Division of the CSCE and Associate Editor for Coastal Engineering Journal and the Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering. Winner of several awards (2010 Award of Tsunami International Society, 2010 Excellence in Education Teaching Award of University of Ottawa, 2009 Teaching Award of Faculty of Engineering, 2005 Ontario Ministry for Infrastructure Renewal), Dr. Nistor obtained his PhD from Yokohama National University, Japan. Klemens Uliczka, Dr.-Ing., holds the current position of Senior Research Engineer at the Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute (BAW), Hamburg Office, Germany www.baw.de. He is responsible for the task of interaction ship / waterway at the coastal department. His previous experience includes: 1983 Civil Engineer Technical University of Braunschweig; 1984 - 1989 Research Engineer LWI, TU Braunschweig / GWK Univ. of Hannover, Coastal Engineering; 1989 Doctoral degree at LWI, TU Braunschweig; since 1989 Research Engineer BAW, Hamburg; 1993 Senior Research Engineer, Task: Interaction Ship / waterway; Member of HTG, Germany. Krystian Walenty Pilarczyk, M.Sc., born February 14, 1941 in Poland, was graduated in 1964 at the Gdansk Technical University, Faculty of Hydraulic Engineering. After the first six years of research activities at the Institute of Hydroengineering in Gdansk and Delft Hydraulics in Delft, he joined in 1971 the Rijkswaterstaat (Dutch Public Works Department). In the period 1971 to 1986 he was involved in the Delta Project (closure of the tidal estuaries) as a coordinator of the applied research and the designer. In that time he initiated a number of systematic research program's, among others, on static and dynamic stability of rock, closure techniques by means of rock and sand, scour prediction and scour protection, runup and overtopping, bank protections, design of dikes and various kinds of revetments, and design with geosystems. Leopoldo Franco graduated in Civil Engineering Hydraulics at the University of Rome in 1979, since 1987 associate professor of Coastal and Harbour Engineering at Politechnic of Milan and since 2004 full professor at the University of Rome 3. For some 30 years he carried out advanced laboratory investigations and mathematical models within national and EU funded projects (eg.MAST-PROVERBS-DELOS-CLASH-FLOODSITE) in maritime hydraulics and coastal structures described in about 190 technical-scientific papers. Main research topics include wave overtopping at breakwaters, wave analysis and prediction, shoreline modelling, hydraulic design of breakwater, harbours and marinas. He is PIANC delegate and also chartered at the Board of Engineers of Rome acting as designer and consultant at MODIMAR, Rome for various projects in Italy and abroad. Miguel Angel Losada Rodríguez is the Director of the Andalusian Environment Centre (CEAMA). Andalusian Autonomous Government - University of Granada. He is a Professor of Hydraulic Engineering, University of Granada and the Director of the Environmental Fluid Dynamics Group: Ports and Coasts, Rivers and Reservoirs and Wind Engineering. TEP 209.1998. In addition, he is the Coordinator of the Official Interuniversity Masters Degree in Environmental Hydraulics, with Quality Award Masahiko Isobe graduated in 1975 and obtained Dr. Eng. in 1981 from the Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo. After his professional career at the Department of Civil Engineering, Yokohama National University, as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor from 1981 to 1987, he moved back to The University of Tokyo. He is a founder of the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences at which he is serving as a professor. He also served as Executive Vice President from 2009 to 2011. His research field is coastal environment engineering covering wave hydrodynamics; coastal, ocean and harbor structures; sediment transport and beach profile change; coastal water quality; coastal zone management. Dr. Michael J. Briggs is a Research Hydraulic Engineer at the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS. His research interests include deep draft navigation, laboratory simulation and analysis of multidirectional waves, wave transformation along coasts and in harbors, and tsunami wave runup modeling. Dr. Briggs is currently a member of PIANC's WG49 that is revising the horizontal and vertical design guidance for approach channels. He is a registered Professional Engineer, Fellow in ASCE and COPRI, Coastal and Ocean Engineering Diplomate in ACOPNE, and has authored over 300 technical reports and papers. Professor Nigel William Henry Allsop is Technical Director for Maritime Structures at HR Wallingford, and Visiting Professor at University of Southampton and at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He has more than 38 years experience in research and consultancy studies covering testing, analysis, design and optimisation of breakwaters, sea walls, revetments, jetties / piers and wide range of reservoir, shoreline, estuarial and coastal structures. He also has experience of engineering works or renewable energy systems, river structures, outfalls and oil booms, and on the performance and certification of temporary flood protection devices. He devised the UK's first Tsunami Generator. William Allsop has extensively cooperated on research projects in UK, Europe and USA, particularly VOWS, Big-VOWS, MCS, PROVERBS, CLASH and FLOODsite. He has been a member of ICE Maritime Board, PIANC, BSI, ISO and ICE working groups. He has chaired the international 'Breakwaters' conference since 1998. Robert Hudspeth DEGREES B.S. (with distinction), Engineering, U.S. Naval Academy, 1963 MSCE Civil Engineering, University of Washington, 1966 Ph.D. Civil Engineering, (Mathematics), University of Florida, 1974 BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS Waves and Wave Forces on Coastal and Ocean Structures, World Scientific Pub., 2006. Wavemaker Theories, R.T. Hudspeth and R.B. Guenther, Handbook of Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Ch. 2, Ed. Y.C. Kim, World Scientific Pub., 2010, pp. 25-56. Analyses by the Melnikov Method of Damped Parametrically Excited Cross Waves, R.B. Guenther and R.T. Hudspeth, Handbook of Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Ch. 3, Ed. Y.C. Kim, World Scientific Pub., 2010, pp. 57-86. PUBLICATIONS Chaotic Analyses of Weakly Damped Parametrically Excited Cross Waves with Surface Tension, (with R. B. Guenther and S. Fadal), Acta Mechanica, 175(1-4), 2005, pp. 139-179. Dr Roshanka Ranasinghe holds a Ph.D. degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Western Australia and a BScEng degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He is currently Associate Professor of Coastal Engineering at UNESCO-IHE and Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands. His broad research interests are nearshore hydrodynamics, sediment transport, morphological evolution and coastal zone management, with a particular focus on climate change impacts. He has published over 100 international journal and conference articles and 3 book chapter. Dr. Ranasinghe is a member of the Engineers Australia National Committee of Coastal and Ocean Engineering. Dr. Todd Walton is a civil and coastal engineer with a professional engineeer license and over 35 years of experence in engineering, research, and education. He has been on the faculty,adjunct faculty, and visiting faculty of Florida State University, University of Florida, George Washington University, Mississippi State University, and Texas A&M University. He has over 50 refereed journal articles and book contributions, and over 100 professional publications in the area of coastal engineering. Professor Yu-cheng Li, an emeritus professor of Dalian University of Technology of CHINA ,is the charter-member of International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers, the TPC committee member of ISOPE, and also the steering committee member of APAC. He was the Vice-director of the State Key Lab of Coastal and Offshore Engineering in China. His major research fields are ocean and coastal engineering, the fluid-structure interaction of marine structures. He has published more than 200 articles. He is the author of the text-book of "wave action on maritime structure" (first edition in 1990 and second edition in 2002). He was invited to participate in compiling Coastal and Ocean Engineering Handbook (1990 edition be edited by Prof. John B. Herbich and 2009 edition be edited by Prof. Young C. Kim). His research have been awarded as the silver prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress of China in 2002 and 2007 and the brown prize of NSTP of China in 1999. He also received the PACOMS Award twice and the ISOPE Award once by ISOPE. Bill Kamphuis is Emeritus Professor of Coastal Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He directed the Queen's University Coastal Engineering Research Laboratory for 32 years and is president of J.W. Kamphuis, Associates Limited, Coastal Consultants. He has published more than 130 research papers and 150 research reports and is the author of the widely used "Introduction to Coastal Engineering and Management". Harry Yeh received his PhD degree in Civil Engineering in 1983 from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in the areas of environmental fluid mechanics, water wave phenomena, and tsunami hazards. He was a Hydraulic Engineer at Bechtel Inc., San Francisco from 1977 to 1983. From 1983 to 2002, he was a professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. Currently, he is the Miles Lowell and Margaret Watt Edwards Distinguished Chair in Engineering at Oregon State University. Harry Yeh has participated in many field surveys for tsunami disaster sites - from the 1992 Nicaragua to the 2011 East Japan Tsunamis. He also organized numerous multidisciplinary workshops for long-wave modeling, tsunami measurements, bathymetry and topography data, seafloor deformation, and tsunami laboratory facility. He is a registered professional engineer (civil) in California since 1979. Ronald Guenther is an emeritus professor of mathematics at Oregon State University. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1964, and then went to work for Marathon Oil Company before taking a position at Oregon State University. He has had visiting positions at the universities of Hamburg, Augsburg, the Free University of Berlin, and the Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany and the University of Montreal in Canada. He has also held a position at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut in Berlin, Germany and was a technical adviser for the Basalt Waste Isolation Project studying the groundwater system of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the state of Washington. He has published numerous research papers and books and given talks throughout North America and Europe as well as being a consultant in the area of mathematical modeling for a number of firms. His research has been in the areas of both applied and pure mathematics and classical and continuum mechanics. He has worked extensively with engineers on all aspects of fluid flow.
Klemens Uliczka, Dr.-Ing., holds the current position of Senior Research Engineer at the Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute (BAW), Hamburg Office, Germany www.baw.de. He is responsible for the task of interaction ship / waterway at the coastal department. His previous experience includes: 1983 Civil Engineer Technical University of Braunschweig; 1984 - 1989 Research Engineer LWI, TU Braunschweig / GWK Univ. of Hannover, Coastal Engineering; 1989 Doctoral degree at LWI, TU Braunschweig; since 1989 Research Engineer BAW, Hamburg; 1993 Senior Research Engineer, Task: Interaction Ship / waterway; Member of HTG, Germany. Krystian Walenty Pilarczyk, M.Sc., born February 14, 1941 in Poland, was graduated in 1964 at the Gdansk Technical University, Faculty of Hydraulic Engineering. After the first six years of research activities at the Institute of Hydroengineering in Gdansk and Delft Hydraulics in Delft, he joined in 1971 the Rijkswaterstaat (Dutch Public Works Department). In the period 1971 to 1986 he was involved in the Delta Project (closure of the tidal estuaries) as a coordinator of the applied research and the designer. In that time he initiated a number of systematic research program's, among others, on static and dynamic stability of rock, closure techniques by means of rock and sand, scour prediction and scour protection, runup and overtopping, bank protections, design of dikes and various kinds of revetments, and design with geosystems. Leopoldo Franco graduated in Civil Engineering Hydraulics at the University of Rome in 1979, since 1987 associate professor of Coastal and Harbour Engineering at Politechnic of Milan and since 2004 full professor at the University of Rome 3. For some 30 years he carried out advanced laboratory investigations and mathematical models within national and EU funded projects (eg.MAST-PROVERBS-DELOS-CLASH-FLOODSITE) in maritime hydraulics and coastal structures described in about 190 technical-scientific papers. Main research topics include wave overtopping at breakwaters, wave analysis and prediction, shoreline modelling, hydraulic design of breakwater, harbours and marinas. He is PIANC delegate and also chartered at the Board of Engineers of Rome acting as designer and consultant at MODIMAR, Rome for various projects in Italy and abroad. Miguel Angel Losada Rodríguez is the Director of the Andalusian Environment Centre (CEAMA). Andalusian Autonomous Government - University of Granada. He is a Professor of Hydraulic Engineering, University of Granada and the Director of the Environmental Fluid Dynamics Group: Ports and Coasts, Rivers and Reservoirs and Wind Engineering. TEP 209.1998. In addition, he is the Coordinator of the Official Interuniversity Masters Degree in Environmental Hydraulics, with Quality Award Masahiko Isobe graduated in 1975 and obtained Dr. Eng. in 1981 from the Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo. After his professional career at the Department of Civil Engineering, Yokohama National University, as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor from 1981 to 1987, he moved back to The University of Tokyo. He is a founder of the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences at which he is serving as a professor. He also served as Executive Vice President from 2009 to 2011. His research field is coastal environment engineering covering wave hydrodynamics; coastal, ocean and harbor structures; sediment transport and beach profile change; coastal water quality; coastal zone management. Dr. Michael J. Briggs is a Research Hydraulic Engineer at the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS. His research interests include deep draft navigation, laboratory simulation and analysis of multidirectional waves, wave transformation along coasts and in harbors, and tsunami wave runup modeling. Dr. Briggs is currently a member of PIANC's WG49 that is revising the horizontal and vertical design guidance for approach channels. He is a registered Professional Engineer, Fellow in ASCE and COPRI, Coastal and Ocean Engineering Diplomate in ACOPNE, and has authored over 300 technical reports and papers. Professor Nigel William Henry Allsop is Technical Director for Maritime Structures at HR Wallingford, and Visiting Professor at University of Southampton and at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He has more than 38 years experience in research and consultancy studies covering testing, analysis, design and optimisation of breakwaters, sea walls, revetments, jetties / piers and wide range of reservoir, shoreline, estuarial and coastal structures. He also has experience of engineering works or renewable energy systems, river structures, outfalls and oil booms, and on the performance and certification of temporary flood protection devices. He devised the UK's first Tsunami Generator. William Allsop has extensively cooperated on research projects in UK, Europe and USA, particularly VOWS, Big-VOWS, MCS, PROVERBS, CLASH and FLOODsite. He has been a member of ICE Maritime Board, PIANC, BSI, ISO and ICE working groups. He has chaired the international 'Breakwaters' conference since 1998. Robert Hudspeth DEGREES B.S. (with distinction), Engineering, U.S. Naval Academy, 1963 MSCE Civil Engineering, University of Washington, 1966 Ph.D. Civil Engineering, (Mathematics), University of Florida, 1974 BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS Waves and Wave Forces on Coastal and Ocean Structures, World Scientific Pub., 2006. Wavemaker Theories, R.T. Hudspeth and R.B. Guenther, Handbook of Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Ch. 2, Ed. Y.C. Kim, World Scientific Pub., 2010, pp. 25-56. Analyses by the Melnikov Method of Damped Parametrically Excited Cross Waves, R.B. Guenther and R.T. Hudspeth, Handbook of Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Ch. 3, Ed. Y.C. Kim, World Scientific Pub., 2010, pp. 57-86. PUBLICATIONS Chaotic Analyses of Weakly Damped Parametrically Excited Cross Waves with Surface Tension, (with R. B. Guenther and S. Fadal), Acta Mechanica, 175(1-4), 2005, pp. 139-179. Dr Roshanka Ranasinghe holds a Ph.D. degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Western Australia and a BScEng degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He is currently Associate Professor of Coastal Engineering at UNESCO-IHE and Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands. His broad research interests are nearshore hydrodynamics, sediment transport, morphological evolution and coastal zone management, with a particular focus on climate change impacts. He has published over 100 international journal and conference articles and 3 book chapter. Dr. Ranasinghe is a member of the Engineers Australia National Committee of Coastal and Ocean Engineering. Dr. Todd Walton is a civil and coastal engineer with a professional engineeer license and over 35 years of experence in engineering, research, and education. He has been on the faculty,adjunct faculty, and visiting faculty of Florida State University, University of Florida, George Washington University, Mississippi State University, and Texas A&M University. He has over 50 refereed journal articles and book contributions, and over 100 professional publications in the area of coastal engineering. Professor Yu-cheng Li, an emeritus professor of Dalian University of Technology of CHINA ,is the charter-member of International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers, the TPC committee member of ISOPE, and also the steering committee member of APAC. He was the Vice-director of the State Key Lab of Coastal and Offshore Engineering in China. His major research fields are ocean and coastal engineering, the fluid-structure interaction of marine structures. He has published more than 200 articles. He is the author of the text-book of "wave action on maritime structure" (first edition in 1990 and second edition in 2002). He was invited to participate in compiling Coastal and Ocean Engineering Handbook (1990 edition be edited by Prof. John B. Herbich and 2009 edition be edited by Prof. Young C. Kim). His research have been awarded as the silver prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress of China in 2002 and 2007 and the brown prize of NSTP of China in 1999. He also received the PACOMS Award twice and the ISOPE Award once by ISOPE. Bill Kamphuis is Emeritus Professor of Coastal Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He directed the Queen's University Coastal Engineering Research Laboratory for 32 years and is president of J.W. Kamphuis, Associates Limited, Coastal Consultants. He has published more than 130 research papers and 150 research reports and is the author of the widely used "Introduction to Coastal Engineering and Management". Harry Yeh received his PhD degree in Civil Engineering in 1983 from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in the areas of environmental fluid mechanics, water wave phenomena, and tsunami hazards. He was a Hydraulic Engineer at Bechtel Inc., San Francisco from 1977 to 1983. From 1983 to 2002, he was a professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. Currently, he is the Miles Lowell and Margaret Watt Edwards Distinguished Chair in Engineering at Oregon State University. Harry Yeh has participated in many field surveys for tsunami disaster sites - from the 1992 Nicaragua to the 2011 East Japan Tsunamis. He also organized numerous multidisciplinary workshops for long-wave modeling, tsunami measurements, bathymetry and topography data, seafloor deformation, and tsunami laboratory facility. He is a registered professional engineer (civil) in California since 1979. Ronald Guenther is an emeritus professor of mathematics at Oregon State University. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1964, and then went to work for Marathon Oil Company before taking a position at Oregon State University. He has had visiting positions at the universities of Hamburg, Augsburg, the Free University of Berlin, and the Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany and the University of Montreal in Canada. He has also held a position at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut in Berlin, Germany and was a technical adviser for the Basalt Waste Isolation Project studying the groundwater system of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the state of Washington. He has published numerous research papers and books and given talks throughout North America and Europe as well as being a consultant in the area of mathematical modeling for a number of firms. His research has been in the areas of both applied and pure mathematics and classical and continuum mechanics. He has worked extensively with engineers on all aspects of fluid flow.
Krystian Walenty Pilarczyk, M.Sc., born February 14, 1941 in Poland, was graduated in 1964 at the Gdansk Technical University, Faculty of Hydraulic Engineering. After the first six years of research activities at the Institute of Hydroengineering in Gdansk and Delft Hydraulics in Delft, he joined in 1971 the Rijkswaterstaat (Dutch Public Works Department). In the period 1971 to 1986 he was involved in the Delta Project (closure of the tidal estuaries) as a coordinator of the applied research and the designer. In that time he initiated a number of systematic research program's, among others, on static and dynamic stability of rock, closure techniques by means of rock and sand, scour prediction and scour protection, runup and overtopping, bank protections, design of dikes and various kinds of revetments, and design with geosystems. Leopoldo Franco graduated in Civil Engineering Hydraulics at the University of Rome in 1979, since 1987 associate professor of Coastal and Harbour Engineering at Politechnic of Milan and since 2004 full professor at the University of Rome 3. For some 30 years he carried out advanced laboratory investigations and mathematical models within national and EU funded projects (eg.MAST-PROVERBS-DELOS-CLASH-FLOODSITE) in maritime hydraulics and coastal structures described in about 190 technical-scientific papers. Main research topics include wave overtopping at breakwaters, wave analysis and prediction, shoreline modelling, hydraulic design of breakwater, harbours and marinas. He is PIANC delegate and also chartered at the Board of Engineers of Rome acting as designer and consultant at MODIMAR, Rome for various projects in Italy and abroad. Miguel Angel Losada Rodríguez is the Director of the Andalusian Environment Centre (CEAMA). Andalusian Autonomous Government - University of Granada. He is a Professor of Hydraulic Engineering, University of Granada and the Director of the Environmental Fluid Dynamics Group: Ports and Coasts, Rivers and Reservoirs and Wind Engineering. TEP 209.1998. In addition, he is the Coordinator of the Official Interuniversity Masters Degree in Environmental Hydraulics, with Quality Award Masahiko Isobe graduated in 1975 and obtained Dr. Eng. in 1981 from the Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo. After his professional career at the Department of Civil Engineering, Yokohama National University, as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor from 1981 to 1987, he moved back to The University of Tokyo. He is a founder of the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences at which he is serving as a professor. He also served as Executive Vice President from 2009 to 2011. His research field is coastal environment engineering covering wave hydrodynamics; coastal, ocean and harbor structures; sediment transport and beach profile change; coastal water quality; coastal zone management. Dr. Michael J. Briggs is a Research Hydraulic Engineer at the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS. His research interests include deep draft navigation, laboratory simulation and analysis of multidirectional waves, wave transformation along coasts and in harbors, and tsunami wave runup modeling. Dr. Briggs is currently a member of PIANC's WG49 that is revising the horizontal and vertical design guidance for approach channels. He is a registered Professional Engineer, Fellow in ASCE and COPRI, Coastal and Ocean Engineering Diplomate in ACOPNE, and has authored over 300 technical reports and papers. Professor Nigel William Henry Allsop is Technical Director for Maritime Structures at HR Wallingford, and Visiting Professor at University of Southampton and at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He has more than 38 years experience in research and consultancy studies covering testing, analysis, design and optimisation of breakwaters, sea walls, revetments, jetties / piers and wide range of reservoir, shoreline, estuarial and coastal structures. He also has experience of engineering works or renewable energy systems, river structures, outfalls and oil booms, and on the performance and certification of temporary flood protection devices. He devised the UK's first Tsunami Generator. William Allsop has extensively cooperated on research projects in UK, Europe and USA, particularly VOWS, Big-VOWS, MCS, PROVERBS, CLASH and FLOODsite. He has been a member of ICE Maritime Board, PIANC, BSI, ISO and ICE working groups. He has chaired the international 'Breakwaters' conference since 1998. Robert Hudspeth DEGREES B.S. (with distinction), Engineering, U.S. Naval Academy, 1963 MSCE Civil Engineering, University of Washington, 1966 Ph.D. Civil Engineering, (Mathematics), University of Florida, 1974 BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS Waves and Wave Forces on Coastal and Ocean Structures, World Scientific Pub., 2006. Wavemaker Theories, R.T. Hudspeth and R.B. Guenther, Handbook of Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Ch. 2, Ed. Y.C. Kim, World Scientific Pub., 2010, pp. 25-56. Analyses by the Melnikov Method of Damped Parametrically Excited Cross Waves, R.B. Guenther and R.T. Hudspeth, Handbook of Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Ch. 3, Ed. Y.C. Kim, World Scientific Pub., 2010, pp. 57-86. PUBLICATIONS Chaotic Analyses of Weakly Damped Parametrically Excited Cross Waves with Surface Tension, (with R. B. Guenther and S. Fadal), Acta Mechanica, 175(1-4), 2005, pp. 139-179. Dr Roshanka Ranasinghe holds a Ph.D. degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Western Australia and a BScEng degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He is currently Associate Professor of Coastal Engineering at UNESCO-IHE and Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands. His broad research interests are nearshore hydrodynamics, sediment transport, morphological evolution and coastal zone management, with a particular focus on climate change impacts. He has published over 100 international journal and conference articles and 3 book chapter. Dr. Ranasinghe is a member of the Engineers Australia National Committee of Coastal and Ocean Engineering. Dr. Todd Walton is a civil and coastal engineer with a professional engineeer license and over 35 years of experence in engineering, research, and education. He has been on the faculty,adjunct faculty, and visiting faculty of Florida State University, University of Florida, George Washington University, Mississippi State University, and Texas A&M University. He has over 50 refereed journal articles and book contributions, and over 100 professional publications in the area of coastal engineering. Professor Yu-cheng Li, an emeritus professor of Dalian University of Technology of CHINA ,is the charter-member of International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers, the TPC committee member of ISOPE, and also the steering committee member of APAC. He was the Vice-director of the State Key Lab of Coastal and Offshore Engineering in China. His major research fields are ocean and coastal engineering, the fluid-structure interaction of marine structures. He has published more than 200 articles. He is the author of the text-book of "wave action on maritime structure" (first edition in 1990 and second edition in 2002). He was invited to participate in compiling Coastal and Ocean Engineering Handbook (1990 edition be edited by Prof. John B. Herbich and 2009 edition be edited by Prof. Young C. Kim). His research have been awarded as the silver prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress of China in 2002 and 2007 and the brown prize of NSTP of China in 1999. He also received the PACOMS Award twice and the ISOPE Award once by ISOPE. Bill Kamphuis is Emeritus Professor of Coastal Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He directed the Queen's University Coastal Engineering Research Laboratory for 32 years and is president of J.W. Kamphuis, Associates Limited, Coastal Consultants. He has published more than 130 research papers and 150 research reports and is the author of the widely used "Introduction to Coastal Engineering and Management". Harry Yeh received his PhD degree in Civil Engineering in 1983 from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in the areas of environmental fluid mechanics, water wave phenomena, and tsunami hazards. He was a Hydraulic Engineer at Bechtel Inc., San Francisco from 1977 to 1983. From 1983 to 2002, he was a professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. Currently, he is the Miles Lowell and Margaret Watt Edwards Distinguished Chair in Engineering at Oregon State University. Harry Yeh has participated in many field surveys for tsunami disaster sites - from the 1992 Nicaragua to the 2011 East Japan Tsunamis. He also organized numerous multidisciplinary workshops for long-wave modeling, tsunami measurements, bathymetry and topography data, seafloor deformation, and tsunami laboratory facility. He is a registered professional engineer (civil) in California since 1979. Ronald Guenther is an emeritus professor of mathematics at Oregon State University. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1964, and then went to work for Marathon Oil Company before taking a position at Oregon State University. He has had visiting positions at the universities of Hamburg, Augsburg, the Free University of Berlin, and the Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany and the University of Montreal in Canada. He has also held a position at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut in Berlin, Germany and was a technical adviser for the Basalt Waste Isolation Project studying the groundwater system of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the state of Washington. He has published numerous research papers and books and given talks throughout North America and Europe as well as being a consultant in the area of mathematical modeling for a number of firms. His research has been in the areas of both applied and pure mathematics and classical and continuum mechanics. He has worked extensively with engineers on all aspects of fluid flow.
Leopoldo Franco graduated in Civil Engineering Hydraulics at the University of Rome in 1979, since 1987 associate professor of Coastal and Harbour Engineering at Politechnic of Milan and since 2004 full professor at the University of Rome 3. For some 30 years he carried out advanced laboratory investigations and mathematical models within national and EU funded projects (eg.MAST-PROVERBS-DELOS-CLASH-FLOODSITE) in maritime hydraulics and coastal structures described in about 190 technical-scientific papers. Main research topics include wave overtopping at breakwaters, wave analysis and prediction, shoreline modelling, hydraulic design of breakwater, harbours and marinas. He is PIANC delegate and also chartered at the Board of Engineers of Rome acting as designer and consultant at MODIMAR, Rome for various projects in Italy and abroad. Miguel Angel Losada Rodríguez is the Director of the Andalusian Environment Centre (CEAMA). Andalusian Autonomous Government - University of Granada. He is a Professor of Hydraulic Engineering, University of Granada and the Director of the Environmental Fluid Dynamics Group: Ports and Coasts, Rivers and Reservoirs and Wind Engineering. TEP 209.1998. In addition, he is the Coordinator of the Official Interuniversity Masters Degree in Environmental Hydraulics, with Quality Award Masahiko Isobe graduated in 1975 and obtained Dr. Eng. in 1981 from the Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo. After his professional career at the Department of Civil Engineering, Yokohama National University, as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor from 1981 to 1987, he moved back to The University of Tokyo. He is a founder of the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences at which he is serving as a professor. He also served as Executive Vice President from 2009 to 2011. His research field is coastal environment engineering covering wave hydrodynamics; coastal, ocean and harbor structures; sediment transport and beach profile change; coastal water quality; coastal zone management. Dr. Michael J. Briggs is a Research Hydraulic Engineer at the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS. His research interests include deep draft navigation, laboratory simulation and analysis of multidirectional waves, wave transformation along coasts and in harbors, and tsunami wave runup modeling. Dr. Briggs is currently a member of PIANC's WG49 that is revising the horizontal and vertical design guidance for approach channels. He is a registered Professional Engineer, Fellow in ASCE and COPRI, Coastal and Ocean Engineering Diplomate in ACOPNE, and has authored over 300 technical reports and papers. Professor Nigel William Henry Allsop is Technical Director for Maritime Structures at HR Wallingford, and Visiting Professor at University of Southampton and at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He has more than 38 years experience in research and consultancy studies covering testing, analysis, design and optimisation of breakwaters, sea walls, revetments, jetties / piers and wide range of reservoir, shoreline, estuarial and coastal structures. He also has experience of engineering works or renewable energy systems, river structures, outfalls and oil booms, and on the performance and certification of temporary flood protection devices. He devised the UK's first Tsunami Generator. William Allsop has extensively cooperated on research projects in UK, Europe and USA, particularly VOWS, Big-VOWS, MCS, PROVERBS, CLASH and FLOODsite. He has been a member of ICE Maritime Board, PIANC, BSI, ISO and ICE working groups. He has chaired the international 'Breakwaters' conference since 1998. Robert Hudspeth DEGREES B.S. (with distinction), Engineering, U.S. Naval Academy, 1963 MSCE Civil Engineering, University of Washington, 1966 Ph.D. Civil Engineering, (Mathematics), University of Florida, 1974 BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS Waves and Wave Forces on Coastal and Ocean Structures, World Scientific Pub., 2006. Wavemaker Theories, R.T. Hudspeth and R.B. Guenther, Handbook of Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Ch. 2, Ed. Y.C. Kim, World Scientific Pub., 2010, pp. 25-56. Analyses by the Melnikov Method of Damped Parametrically Excited Cross Waves, R.B. Guenther and R.T. Hudspeth, Handbook of Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Ch. 3, Ed. Y.C. Kim, World Scientific Pub., 2010, pp. 57-86. PUBLICATIONS Chaotic Analyses of Weakly Damped Parametrically Excited Cross Waves with Surface Tension, (with R. B. Guenther and S. Fadal), Acta Mechanica, 175(1-4), 2005, pp. 139-179. Dr Roshanka Ranasinghe holds a Ph.D. degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Western Australia and a BScEng degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He is currently Associate Professor of Coastal Engineering at UNESCO-IHE and Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands. His broad research interests are nearshore hydrodynamics, sediment transport, morphological evolution and coastal zone management, with a particular focus on climate change impacts. He has published over 100 international journal and conference articles and 3 book chapter. Dr. Ranasinghe is a member of the Engineers Australia National Committee of Coastal and Ocean Engineering. Dr. Todd Walton is a civil and coastal engineer with a professional engineeer license and over 35 years of experence in engineering, research, and education. He has been on the faculty,adjunct faculty, and visiting faculty of Florida State University, University of Florida, George Washington University, Mississippi State University, and Texas A&M University. He has over 50 refereed journal articles and book contributions, and over 100 professional publications in the area of coastal engineering. Professor Yu-cheng Li, an emeritus professor of Dalian University of Technology of CHINA ,is the charter-member of International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers, the TPC committee member of ISOPE, and also the steering committee member of APAC. He was the Vice-director of the State Key Lab of Coastal and Offshore Engineering in China. His major research fields are ocean and coastal engineering, the fluid-structure interaction of marine structures. He has published more than 200 articles. He is the author of the text-book of "wave action on maritime structure" (first edition in 1990 and second edition in 2002). He was invited to participate in compiling Coastal and Ocean Engineering Handbook (1990 edition be edited by Prof. John B. Herbich and 2009 edition be edited by Prof. Young C. Kim). His research have been awarded as the silver prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress of China in 2002 and 2007 and the brown prize of NSTP of China in 1999. He also received the PACOMS Award twice and the ISOPE Award once by ISOPE. Bill Kamphuis is Emeritus Professor of Coastal Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He directed the Queen's University Coastal Engineering Research Laboratory for 32 years and is president of J.W. Kamphuis, Associates Limited, Coastal Consultants. He has published more than 130 research papers and 150 research reports and is the author of the widely used "Introduction to Coastal Engineering and Management". Harry Yeh received his PhD degree in Civil Engineering in 1983 from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in the areas of environmental fluid mechanics, water wave phenomena, and tsunami hazards. He was a Hydraulic Engineer at Bechtel Inc., San Francisco from 1977 to 1983. From 1983 to 2002, he was a professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. Currently, he is the Miles Lowell and Margaret Watt Edwards Distinguished Chair in Engineering at Oregon State University. Harry Yeh has participated in many field surveys for tsunami disaster sites - from the 1992 Nicaragua to the 2011 East Japan Tsunamis. He also organized numerous multidisciplinary workshops for long-wave modeling, tsunami measurements, bathymetry and topography data, seafloor deformation, and tsunami laboratory facility. He is a registered professional engineer (civil) in California since 1979. Ronald Guenther is an emeritus professor of mathematics at Oregon State University. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1964, and then went to work for Marathon Oil Company before taking a position at Oregon State University. He has had visiting positions at the universities of Hamburg, Augsburg, the Free University of Berlin, and the Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany and the University of Montreal in Canada. He has also held a position at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut in Berlin, Germany and was a technical adviser for the Basalt Waste Isolation Project studying the groundwater system of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the state of Washington. He has published numerous research papers and books and given talks throughout North America and Europe as well as being a consultant in the area of mathematical modeling for a number of firms. His research has been in the areas of both applied and pure mathematics and classical and continuum mechanics. He has worked extensively with engineers on all aspects of fluid flow.
Miguel Angel Losada Rodríguez is the Director of the Andalusian Environment Centre (CEAMA). Andalusian Autonomous Government - University of Granada. He is a Professor of Hydraulic Engineering, University of Granada and the Director of the Environmental Fluid Dynamics Group: Ports and Coasts, Rivers and Reservoirs and Wind Engineering. TEP 209.1998. In addition, he is the Coordinator of the Official Interuniversity Masters Degree in Environmental Hydraulics, with Quality Award Masahiko Isobe graduated in 1975 and obtained Dr. Eng. in 1981 from the Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo. After his professional career at the Department of Civil Engineering, Yokohama National University, as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor from 1981 to 1987, he moved back to The University of Tokyo. He is a founder of the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences at which he is serving as a professor. He also served as Executive Vice President from 2009 to 2011. His research field is coastal environment engineering covering wave hydrodynamics; coastal, ocean and harbor structures; sediment transport and beach profile change; coastal water quality; coastal zone management. Dr. Michael J. Briggs is a Research Hydraulic Engineer at the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS. His research interests include deep draft navigation, laboratory simulation and analysis of multidirectional waves, wave transformation along coasts and in harbors, and tsunami wave runup modeling. Dr. Briggs is currently a member of PIANC's WG49 that is revising the horizontal and vertical design guidance for approach channels. He is a registered Professional Engineer, Fellow in ASCE and COPRI, Coastal and Ocean Engineering Diplomate in ACOPNE, and has authored over 300 technical reports and papers. Professor Nigel William Henry Allsop is Technical Director for Maritime Structures at HR Wallingford, and Visiting Professor at University of Southampton and at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He has more than 38 years experience in research and consultancy studies covering testing, analysis, design and optimisation of breakwaters, sea walls, revetments, jetties / piers and wide range of reservoir, shoreline, estuarial and coastal structures. He also has experience of engineering works or renewable energy systems, river structures, outfalls and oil booms, and on the performance and certification of temporary flood protection devices. He devised the UK's first Tsunami Generator. William Allsop has extensively cooperated on research projects in UK, Europe and USA, particularly VOWS, Big-VOWS, MCS, PROVERBS, CLASH and FLOODsite. He has been a member of ICE Maritime Board, PIANC, BSI, ISO and ICE working groups. He has chaired the international 'Breakwaters' conference since 1998. Robert Hudspeth DEGREES B.S. (with distinction), Engineering, U.S. Naval Academy, 1963 MSCE Civil Engineering, University of Washington, 1966 Ph.D. Civil Engineering, (Mathematics), University of Florida, 1974 BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS Waves and Wave Forces on Coastal and Ocean Structures, World Scientific Pub., 2006. Wavemaker Theories, R.T. Hudspeth and R.B. Guenther, Handbook of Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Ch. 2, Ed. Y.C. Kim, World Scientific Pub., 2010, pp. 25-56. Analyses by the Melnikov Method of Damped Parametrically Excited Cross Waves, R.B. Guenther and R.T. Hudspeth, Handbook of Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Ch. 3, Ed. Y.C. Kim, World Scientific Pub., 2010, pp. 57-86. PUBLICATIONS Chaotic Analyses of Weakly Damped Parametrically Excited Cross Waves with Surface Tension, (with R. B. Guenther and S. Fadal), Acta Mechanica, 175(1-4), 2005, pp. 139-179. Dr Roshanka Ranasinghe holds a Ph.D. degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Western Australia and a BScEng degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He is currently Associate Professor of Coastal Engineering at UNESCO-IHE and Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands. His broad research interests are nearshore hydrodynamics, sediment transport, morphological evolution and coastal zone management, with a particular focus on climate change impacts. He has published over 100 international journal and conference articles and 3 book chapter. Dr. Ranasinghe is a member of the Engineers Australia National Committee of Coastal and Ocean Engineering. Dr. Todd Walton is a civil and coastal engineer with a professional engineeer license and over 35 years of experence in engineering, research, and education. He has been on the faculty,adjunct faculty, and visiting faculty of Florida State University, University of Florida, George Washington University, Mississippi State University, and Texas A&M University. He has over 50 refereed journal articles and book contributions, and over 100 professional publications in the area of coastal engineering. Professor Yu-cheng Li, an emeritus professor of Dalian University of Technology of CHINA ,is the charter-member of International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers, the TPC committee member of ISOPE, and also the steering committee member of APAC. He was the Vice-director of the State Key Lab of Coastal and Offshore Engineering in China. His major research fields are ocean and coastal engineering, the fluid-structure interaction of marine structures. He has published more than 200 articles. He is the author of the text-book of "wave action on maritime structure" (first edition in 1990 and second edition in 2002). He was invited to participate in compiling Coastal and Ocean Engineering Handbook (1990 edition be edited by Prof. John B. Herbich and 2009 edition be edited by Prof. Young C. Kim). His research have been awarded as the silver prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress of China in 2002 and 2007 and the brown prize of NSTP of China in 1999. He also received the PACOMS Award twice and the ISOPE Award once by ISOPE. Bill Kamphuis is Emeritus Professor of Coastal Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He directed the Queen's University Coastal Engineering Research Laboratory for 32 years and is president of J.W. Kamphuis, Associates Limited, Coastal Consultants. He has published more than 130 research papers and 150 research reports and is the author of the widely used "Introduction to Coastal Engineering and Management". Harry Yeh received his PhD degree in Civil Engineering in 1983 from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in the areas of environmental fluid mechanics, water wave phenomena, and tsunami hazards. He was a Hydraulic Engineer at Bechtel Inc., San Francisco from 1977 to 1983. From 1983 to 2002, he was a professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. Currently, he is the Miles Lowell and Margaret Watt Edwards Distinguished Chair in Engineering at Oregon State University. Harry Yeh has participated in many field surveys for tsunami disaster sites - from the 1992 Nicaragua to the 2011 East Japan Tsunamis. He also organized numerous multidisciplinary workshops for long-wave modeling, tsunami measurements, bathymetry and topography data, seafloor deformation, and tsunami laboratory facility. He is a registered professional engineer (civil) in California since 1979. Ronald Guenther is an emeritus professor of mathematics at Oregon State University. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1964, and then went to work for Marathon Oil Company before taking a position at Oregon State University. He has had visiting positions at the universities of Hamburg, Augsburg, the Free University of Berlin, and the Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany and the University of Montreal in Canada. He has also held a position at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut in Berlin, Germany and was a technical adviser for the Basalt Waste Isolation Project studying the groundwater system of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the state of Washington. He has published numerous research papers and books and given talks throughout North America and Europe as well as being a consultant in the area of mathematical modeling for a number of firms. His research has been in the areas of both applied and pure mathematics and classical and continuum mechanics. He has worked extensively with engineers on all aspects of fluid flow.
University of Granada. He is a Professor of Hydraulic Engineering, University of Granada and the Director of the Environmental Fluid Dynamics Group: Ports and Coasts, Rivers and Reservoirs and Wind Engineering. TEP 209.1998. In addition, he is the Coordinator of the Official Interuniversity Masters Degree in Environmental Hydraulics, with Quality Award
Masahiko Isobe graduated in 1975 and obtained Dr. Eng. in 1981 from the Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo. After his professional career at the Department of Civil Engineering, Yokohama National University, as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor from 1981 to 1987, he moved back to The University of Tokyo. He is a founder of the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences at which he is serving as a professor. He also served as Executive Vice President from 2009 to 2011. His research field is coastal environment engineering covering wave hydrodynamics; coastal, ocean and harbor structures; sediment transport and beach profile change; coastal water quality; coastal zone management. Dr. Michael J. Briggs is a Research Hydraulic Engineer at the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS. His research interests include deep draft navigation, laboratory simulation and analysis of multidirectional waves, wave transformation along coasts and in harbors, and tsunami wave runup modeling. Dr. Briggs is currently a member of PIANC's WG49 that is revising the horizontal and vertical design guidance for approach channels. He is a registered Professional Engineer, Fellow in ASCE and COPRI, Coastal and Ocean Engineering Diplomate in ACOPNE, and has authored over 300 technical reports and papers. Professor Nigel William Henry Allsop is Technical Director for Maritime Structures at HR Wallingford, and Visiting Professor at University of Southampton and at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He has more than 38 years experience in research and consultancy studies covering testing, analysis, design and optimisation of breakwaters, sea walls, revetments, jetties / piers and wide range of reservoir, shoreline, estuarial and coastal structures. He also has experience of engineering works or renewable energy systems, river structures, outfalls and oil booms, and on the performance and certification of temporary flood protection devices. He devised the UK's first Tsunami Generator. William Allsop has extensively cooperated on research projects in UK, Europe and USA, particularly VOWS, Big-VOWS, MCS, PROVERBS, CLASH and FLOODsite. He has been a member of ICE Maritime Board, PIANC, BSI, ISO and ICE working groups. He has chaired the international 'Breakwaters' conference since 1998. Robert Hudspeth DEGREES B.S. (with distinction), Engineering, U.S. Naval Academy, 1963 MSCE Civil Engineering, University of Washington, 1966 Ph.D. Civil Engineering, (Mathematics), University of Florida, 1974 BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS Waves and Wave Forces on Coastal and Ocean Structures, World Scientific Pub., 2006. Wavemaker Theories, R.T. Hudspeth and R.B. Guenther, Handbook of Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Ch. 2, Ed. Y.C. Kim, World Scientific Pub., 2010, pp. 25-56. Analyses by the Melnikov Method of Damped Parametrically Excited Cross Waves, R.B. Guenther and R.T. Hudspeth, Handbook of Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Ch. 3, Ed. Y.C. Kim, World Scientific Pub., 2010, pp. 57-86. PUBLICATIONS Chaotic Analyses of Weakly Damped Parametrically Excited Cross Waves with Surface Tension, (with R. B. Guenther and S. Fadal), Acta Mechanica, 175(1-4), 2005, pp. 139-179. Dr Roshanka Ranasinghe holds a Ph.D. degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Western Australia and a BScEng degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He is currently Associate Professor of Coastal Engineering at UNESCO-IHE and Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands. His broad research interests are nearshore hydrodynamics, sediment transport, morphological evolution and coastal zone management, with a particular focus on climate change impacts. He has published over 100 international journal and conference articles and 3 book chapter. Dr. Ranasinghe is a member of the Engineers Australia National Committee of Coastal and Ocean Engineering. Dr. Todd Walton is a civil and coastal engineer with a professional engineeer license and over 35 years of experence in engineering, research, and education. He has been on the faculty,adjunct faculty, and visiting faculty of Florida State University, University of Florida, George Washington University, Mississippi State University, and Texas A&M University. He has over 50 refereed journal articles and book contributions, and over 100 professional publications in the area of coastal engineering. Professor Yu-cheng Li, an emeritus professor of Dalian University of Technology of CHINA ,is the charter-member of International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers, the TPC committee member of ISOPE, and also the steering committee member of APAC. He was the Vice-director of the State Key Lab of Coastal and Offshore Engineering in China. His major research fields are ocean and coastal engineering, the fluid-structure interaction of marine structures. He has published more than 200 articles. He is the author of the text-book of "wave action on maritime structure" (first edition in 1990 and second edition in 2002). He was invited to participate in compiling Coastal and Ocean Engineering Handbook (1990 edition be edited by Prof. John B. Herbich and 2009 edition be edited by Prof. Young C. Kim). His research have been awarded as the silver prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress of China in 2002 and 2007 and the brown prize of NSTP of China in 1999. He also received the PACOMS Award twice and the ISOPE Award once by ISOPE. Bill Kamphuis is Emeritus Professor of Coastal Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He directed the Queen's University Coastal Engineering Research Laboratory for 32 years and is president of J.W. Kamphuis, Associates Limited, Coastal Consultants. He has published more than 130 research papers and 150 research reports and is the author of the widely used "Introduction to Coastal Engineering and Management". Harry Yeh received his PhD degree in Civil Engineering in 1983 from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in the areas of environmental fluid mechanics, water wave phenomena, and tsunami hazards. He was a Hydraulic Engineer at Bechtel Inc., San Francisco from 1977 to 1983. From 1983 to 2002, he was a professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. Currently, he is the Miles Lowell and Margaret Watt Edwards Distinguished Chair in Engineering at Oregon State University. Harry Yeh has participated in many field surveys for tsunami disaster sites - from the 1992 Nicaragua to the 2011 East Japan Tsunamis. He also organized numerous multidisciplinary workshops for long-wave modeling, tsunami measurements, bathymetry and topography data, seafloor deformation, and tsunami laboratory facility. He is a registered professional engineer (civil) in California since 1979. Ronald Guenther is an emeritus professor of mathematics at Oregon State University. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1964, and then went to work for Marathon Oil Company before taking a position at Oregon State University. He has had visiting positions at the universities of Hamburg, Augsburg, the Free University of Berlin, and the Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany and the University of Montreal in Canada. He has also held a position at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut in Berlin, Germany and was a technical adviser for the Basalt Waste Isolation Project studying the groundwater system of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the state of Washington. He has published numerous research papers and books and given talks throughout North America and Europe as well as being a consultant in the area of mathematical modeling for a number of firms. His research has been in the areas of both applied and pure mathematics and classical and continuum mechanics. He has worked extensively with engineers on all aspects of fluid flow.
Dr. Michael J. Briggs is a Research Hydraulic Engineer at the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS. His research interests include deep draft navigation, laboratory simulation and analysis of multidirectional waves, wave transformation along coasts and in harbors, and tsunami wave runup modeling. Dr. Briggs is currently a member of PIANC's WG49 that is revising the horizontal and vertical design guidance for approach channels. He is a registered Professional Engineer, Fellow in ASCE and COPRI, Coastal and Ocean Engineering Diplomate in ACOPNE, and has authored over 300 technical reports and papers. Professor Nigel William Henry Allsop is Technical Director for Maritime Structures at HR Wallingford, and Visiting Professor at University of Southampton and at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He has more than 38 years experience in research and consultancy studies covering testing, analysis, design and optimisation of breakwaters, sea walls, revetments, jetties / piers and wide range of reservoir, shoreline, estuarial and coastal structures. He also has experience of engineering works or renewable energy systems, river structures, outfalls and oil booms, and on the performance and certification of temporary flood protection devices. He devised the UK's first Tsunami Generator. William Allsop has extensively cooperated on research projects in UK, Europe and USA, particularly VOWS, Big-VOWS, MCS, PROVERBS, CLASH and FLOODsite. He has been a member of ICE Maritime Board, PIANC, BSI, ISO and ICE working groups. He has chaired the international 'Breakwaters' conference since 1998. Robert Hudspeth DEGREES B.S. (with distinction), Engineering, U.S. Naval Academy, 1963 MSCE Civil Engineering, University of Washington, 1966 Ph.D. Civil Engineering, (Mathematics), University of Florida, 1974 BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS Waves and Wave Forces on Coastal and Ocean Structures, World Scientific Pub., 2006. Wavemaker Theories, R.T. Hudspeth and R.B. Guenther, Handbook of Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Ch. 2, Ed. Y.C. Kim, World Scientific Pub., 2010, pp. 25-56. Analyses by the Melnikov Method of Damped Parametrically Excited Cross Waves, R.B. Guenther and R.T. Hudspeth, Handbook of Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Ch. 3, Ed. Y.C. Kim, World Scientific Pub., 2010, pp. 57-86. PUBLICATIONS Chaotic Analyses of Weakly Damped Parametrically Excited Cross Waves with Surface Tension, (with R. B. Guenther and S. Fadal), Acta Mechanica, 175(1-4), 2005, pp. 139-179. Dr Roshanka Ranasinghe holds a Ph.D. degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Western Australia and a BScEng degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He is currently Associate Professor of Coastal Engineering at UNESCO-IHE and Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands. His broad research interests are nearshore hydrodynamics, sediment transport, morphological evolution and coastal zone management, with a particular focus on climate change impacts. He has published over 100 international journal and conference articles and 3 book chapter. Dr. Ranasinghe is a member of the Engineers Australia National Committee of Coastal and Ocean Engineering. Dr. Todd Walton is a civil and coastal engineer with a professional engineeer license and over 35 years of experence in engineering, research, and education. He has been on the faculty,adjunct faculty, and visiting faculty of Florida State University, University of Florida, George Washington University, Mississippi State University, and Texas A&M University. He has over 50 refereed journal articles and book contributions, and over 100 professional publications in the area of coastal engineering. Professor Yu-cheng Li, an emeritus professor of Dalian University of Technology of CHINA ,is the charter-member of International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers, the TPC committee member of ISOPE, and also the steering committee member of APAC. He was the Vice-director of the State Key Lab of Coastal and Offshore Engineering in China. His major research fields are ocean and coastal engineering, the fluid-structure interaction of marine structures. He has published more than 200 articles. He is the author of the text-book of "wave action on maritime structure" (first edition in 1990 and second edition in 2002). He was invited to participate in compiling Coastal and Ocean Engineering Handbook (1990 edition be edited by Prof. John B. Herbich and 2009 edition be edited by Prof. Young C. Kim). His research have been awarded as the silver prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress of China in 2002 and 2007 and the brown prize of NSTP of China in 1999. He also received the PACOMS Award twice and the ISOPE Award once by ISOPE. Bill Kamphuis is Emeritus Professor of Coastal Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He directed the Queen's University Coastal Engineering Research Laboratory for 32 years and is president of J.W. Kamphuis, Associates Limited, Coastal Consultants. He has published more than 130 research papers and 150 research reports and is the author of the widely used "Introduction to Coastal Engineering and Management". Harry Yeh received his PhD degree in Civil Engineering in 1983 from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in the areas of environmental fluid mechanics, water wave phenomena, and tsunami hazards. He was a Hydraulic Engineer at Bechtel Inc., San Francisco from 1977 to 1983. From 1983 to 2002, he was a professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. Currently, he is the Miles Lowell and Margaret Watt Edwards Distinguished Chair in Engineering at Oregon State University. Harry Yeh has participated in many field surveys for tsunami disaster sites - from the 1992 Nicaragua to the 2011 East Japan Tsunamis. He also organized numerous multidisciplinary workshops for long-wave modeling, tsunami measurements, bathymetry and topography data, seafloor deformation, and tsunami laboratory facility. He is a registered professional engineer (civil) in California since 1979. Ronald Guenther is an emeritus professor of mathematics at Oregon State University. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1964, and then went to work for Marathon Oil Company before taking a position at Oregon State University. He has had visiting positions at the universities of Hamburg, Augsburg, the Free University of Berlin, and the Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany and the University of Montreal in Canada. He has also held a position at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut in Berlin, Germany and was a technical adviser for the Basalt Waste Isolation Project studying the groundwater system of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the state of Washington. He has published numerous research papers and books and given talks throughout North America and Europe as well as being a consultant in the area of mathematical modeling for a number of firms. His research has been in the areas of both applied and pure mathematics and classical and continuum mechanics. He has worked extensively with engineers on all aspects of fluid flow.
Professor Nigel William Henry Allsop is Technical Director for Maritime Structures at HR Wallingford, and Visiting Professor at University of Southampton and at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He has more than 38 years experience in research and consultancy studies covering testing, analysis, design and optimisation of breakwaters, sea walls, revetments, jetties / piers and wide range of reservoir, shoreline, estuarial and coastal structures. He also has experience of engineering works or renewable energy systems, river structures, outfalls and oil booms, and on the performance and certification of temporary flood protection devices. He devised the UK's first Tsunami Generator. William Allsop has extensively cooperated on research projects in UK, Europe and USA, particularly VOWS, Big-VOWS, MCS, PROVERBS, CLASH and FLOODsite. He has been a member of ICE Maritime Board, PIANC, BSI, ISO and ICE working groups. He has chaired the international 'Breakwaters' conference since 1998. Robert Hudspeth DEGREES B.S. (with distinction), Engineering, U.S. Naval Academy, 1963 MSCE Civil Engineering, University of Washington, 1966 Ph.D. Civil Engineering, (Mathematics), University of Florida, 1974 BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS Waves and Wave Forces on Coastal and Ocean Structures, World Scientific Pub., 2006. Wavemaker Theories, R.T. Hudspeth and R.B. Guenther, Handbook of Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Ch. 2, Ed. Y.C. Kim, World Scientific Pub., 2010, pp. 25-56. Analyses by the Melnikov Method of Damped Parametrically Excited Cross Waves, R.B. Guenther and R.T. Hudspeth, Handbook of Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Ch. 3, Ed. Y.C. Kim, World Scientific Pub., 2010, pp. 57-86. PUBLICATIONS Chaotic Analyses of Weakly Damped Parametrically Excited Cross Waves with Surface Tension, (with R. B. Guenther and S. Fadal), Acta Mechanica, 175(1-4), 2005, pp. 139-179. Dr Roshanka Ranasinghe holds a Ph.D. degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Western Australia and a BScEng degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He is currently Associate Professor of Coastal Engineering at UNESCO-IHE and Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands. His broad research interests are nearshore hydrodynamics, sediment transport, morphological evolution and coastal zone management, with a particular focus on climate change impacts. He has published over 100 international journal and conference articles and 3 book chapter. Dr. Ranasinghe is a member of the Engineers Australia National Committee of Coastal and Ocean Engineering. Dr. Todd Walton is a civil and coastal engineer with a professional engineeer license and over 35 years of experence in engineering, research, and education. He has been on the faculty,adjunct faculty, and visiting faculty of Florida State University, University of Florida, George Washington University, Mississippi State University, and Texas A&M University. He has over 50 refereed journal articles and book contributions, and over 100 professional publications in the area of coastal engineering. Professor Yu-cheng Li, an emeritus professor of Dalian University of Technology of CHINA ,is the charter-member of International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers, the TPC committee member of ISOPE, and also the steering committee member of APAC. He was the Vice-director of the State Key Lab of Coastal and Offshore Engineering in China. His major research fields are ocean and coastal engineering, the fluid-structure interaction of marine structures. He has published more than 200 articles. He is the author of the text-book of "wave action on maritime structure" (first edition in 1990 and second edition in 2002). He was invited to participate in compiling Coastal and Ocean Engineering Handbook (1990 edition be edited by Prof. John B. Herbich and 2009 edition be edited by Prof. Young C. Kim). His research have been awarded as the silver prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress of China in 2002 and 2007 and the brown prize of NSTP of China in 1999. He also received the PACOMS Award twice and the ISOPE Award once by ISOPE. Bill Kamphuis is Emeritus Professor of Coastal Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He directed the Queen's University Coastal Engineering Research Laboratory for 32 years and is president of J.W. Kamphuis, Associates Limited, Coastal Consultants. He has published more than 130 research papers and 150 research reports and is the author of the widely used "Introduction to Coastal Engineering and Management". Harry Yeh received his PhD degree in Civil Engineering in 1983 from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in the areas of environmental fluid mechanics, water wave phenomena, and tsunami hazards. He was a Hydraulic Engineer at Bechtel Inc., San Francisco from 1977 to 1983. From 1983 to 2002, he was a professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. Currently, he is the Miles Lowell and Margaret Watt Edwards Distinguished Chair in Engineering at Oregon State University. Harry Yeh has participated in many field surveys for tsunami disaster sites - from the 1992 Nicaragua to the 2011 East Japan Tsunamis. He also organized numerous multidisciplinary workshops for long-wave modeling, tsunami measurements, bathymetry and topography data, seafloor deformation, and tsunami laboratory facility. He is a registered professional engineer (civil) in California since 1979. Ronald Guenther is an emeritus professor of mathematics at Oregon State University. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1964, and then went to work for Marathon Oil Company before taking a position at Oregon State University. He has had visiting positions at the universities of Hamburg, Augsburg, the Free University of Berlin, and the Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany and the University of Montreal in Canada. He has also held a position at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut in Berlin, Germany and was a technical adviser for the Basalt Waste Isolation Project studying the groundwater system of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the state of Washington. He has published numerous research papers and books and given talks throughout North America and Europe as well as being a consultant in the area of mathematical modeling for a number of firms. His research has been in the areas of both applied and pure mathematics and classical and continuum mechanics. He has worked extensively with engineers on all aspects of fluid flow.
Robert Hudspeth DEGREES B.S. (with distinction), Engineering, U.S. Naval Academy, 1963 MSCE Civil Engineering, University of Washington, 1966 Ph.D. Civil Engineering, (Mathematics), University of Florida, 1974 BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS Waves and Wave Forces on Coastal and Ocean Structures, World Scientific Pub., 2006. Wavemaker Theories, R.T. Hudspeth and R.B. Guenther, Handbook of Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Ch. 2, Ed. Y.C. Kim, World Scientific Pub., 2010, pp. 25-56. Analyses by the Melnikov Method of Damped Parametrically Excited Cross Waves, R.B. Guenther and R.T. Hudspeth, Handbook of Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Ch. 3, Ed. Y.C. Kim, World Scientific Pub., 2010, pp. 57-86. PUBLICATIONS Chaotic Analyses of Weakly Damped Parametrically Excited Cross Waves with Surface Tension, (with R. B. Guenther and S. Fadal), Acta Mechanica, 175(1-4), 2005, pp. 139-179. Dr Roshanka Ranasinghe holds a Ph.D. degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Western Australia and a BScEng degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He is currently Associate Professor of Coastal Engineering at UNESCO-IHE and Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands. His broad research interests are nearshore hydrodynamics, sediment transport, morphological evolution and coastal zone management, with a particular focus on climate change impacts. He has published over 100 international journal and conference articles and 3 book chapter. Dr. Ranasinghe is a member of the Engineers Australia National Committee of Coastal and Ocean Engineering. Dr. Todd Walton is a civil and coastal engineer with a professional engineeer license and over 35 years of experence in engineering, research, and education. He has been on the faculty,adjunct faculty, and visiting faculty of Florida State University, University of Florida, George Washington University, Mississippi State University, and Texas A&M University. He has over 50 refereed journal articles and book contributions, and over 100 professional publications in the area of coastal engineering. Professor Yu-cheng Li, an emeritus professor of Dalian University of Technology of CHINA ,is the charter-member of International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers, the TPC committee member of ISOPE, and also the steering committee member of APAC. He was the Vice-director of the State Key Lab of Coastal and Offshore Engineering in China. His major research fields are ocean and coastal engineering, the fluid-structure interaction of marine structures. He has published more than 200 articles. He is the author of the text-book of "wave action on maritime structure" (first edition in 1990 and second edition in 2002). He was invited to participate in compiling Coastal and Ocean Engineering Handbook (1990 edition be edited by Prof. John B. Herbich and 2009 edition be edited by Prof. Young C. Kim). His research have been awarded as the silver prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress of China in 2002 and 2007 and the brown prize of NSTP of China in 1999. He also received the PACOMS Award twice and the ISOPE Award once by ISOPE. Bill Kamphuis is Emeritus Professor of Coastal Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He directed the Queen's University Coastal Engineering Research Laboratory for 32 years and is president of J.W. Kamphuis, Associates Limited, Coastal Consultants. He has published more than 130 research papers and 150 research reports and is the author of the widely used "Introduction to Coastal Engineering and Management". Harry Yeh received his PhD degree in Civil Engineering in 1983 from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in the areas of environmental fluid mechanics, water wave phenomena, and tsunami hazards. He was a Hydraulic Engineer at Bechtel Inc., San Francisco from 1977 to 1983. From 1983 to 2002, he was a professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. Currently, he is the Miles Lowell and Margaret Watt Edwards Distinguished Chair in Engineering at Oregon State University. Harry Yeh has participated in many field surveys for tsunami disaster sites - from the 1992 Nicaragua to the 2011 East Japan Tsunamis. He also organized numerous multidisciplinary workshops for long-wave modeling, tsunami measurements, bathymetry and topography data, seafloor deformation, and tsunami laboratory facility. He is a registered professional engineer (civil) in California since 1979. Ronald Guenther is an emeritus professor of mathematics at Oregon State University. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1964, and then went to work for Marathon Oil Company before taking a position at Oregon State University. He has had visiting positions at the universities of Hamburg, Augsburg, the Free University of Berlin, and the Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany and the University of Montreal in Canada. He has also held a position at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut in Berlin, Germany and was a technical adviser for the Basalt Waste Isolation Project studying the groundwater system of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the state of Washington. He has published numerous research papers and books and given talks throughout North America and Europe as well as being a consultant in the area of mathematical modeling for a number of firms. His research has been in the areas of both applied and pure mathematics and classical and continuum mechanics. He has worked extensively with engineers on all aspects of fluid flow.
DEGREES B.S. (with distinction), Engineering, U.S. Naval Academy, 1963 MSCE Civil Engineering, University of Washington, 1966 Ph.D. Civil Engineering, (Mathematics), University of Florida, 1974
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS Waves and Wave Forces on Coastal and Ocean Structures, World Scientific Pub., 2006. Wavemaker Theories, R.T. Hudspeth and R.B. Guenther, Handbook of Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Ch. 2, Ed. Y.C. Kim, World Scientific Pub., 2010, pp. 25-56. Analyses by the Melnikov Method of Damped Parametrically Excited Cross Waves, R.B. Guenther and R.T. Hudspeth, Handbook of Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Ch. 3, Ed. Y.C. Kim, World Scientific Pub., 2010, pp. 57-86.
PUBLICATIONS
Chaotic Analyses of Weakly Damped Parametrically Excited Cross Waves with Surface Tension, (with R. B. Guenther and S. Fadal), Acta Mechanica, 175(1-4), 2005, pp. 139-179.
Dr Roshanka Ranasinghe holds a Ph.D. degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Western Australia and a BScEng degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He is currently Associate Professor of Coastal Engineering at UNESCO-IHE and Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands. His broad research interests are nearshore hydrodynamics, sediment transport, morphological evolution and coastal zone management, with a particular focus on climate change impacts. He has published over 100 international journal and conference articles and 3 book chapter. Dr. Ranasinghe is a member of the Engineers Australia National Committee of Coastal and Ocean Engineering. Dr. Todd Walton is a civil and coastal engineer with a professional engineeer license and over 35 years of experence in engineering, research, and education. He has been on the faculty,adjunct faculty, and visiting faculty of Florida State University, University of Florida, George Washington University, Mississippi State University, and Texas A&M University. He has over 50 refereed journal articles and book contributions, and over 100 professional publications in the area of coastal engineering. Professor Yu-cheng Li, an emeritus professor of Dalian University of Technology of CHINA ,is the charter-member of International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers, the TPC committee member of ISOPE, and also the steering committee member of APAC. He was the Vice-director of the State Key Lab of Coastal and Offshore Engineering in China. His major research fields are ocean and coastal engineering, the fluid-structure interaction of marine structures. He has published more than 200 articles. He is the author of the text-book of "wave action on maritime structure" (first edition in 1990 and second edition in 2002). He was invited to participate in compiling Coastal and Ocean Engineering Handbook (1990 edition be edited by Prof. John B. Herbich and 2009 edition be edited by Prof. Young C. Kim). His research have been awarded as the silver prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress of China in 2002 and 2007 and the brown prize of NSTP of China in 1999. He also received the PACOMS Award twice and the ISOPE Award once by ISOPE. Bill Kamphuis is Emeritus Professor of Coastal Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He directed the Queen's University Coastal Engineering Research Laboratory for 32 years and is president of J.W. Kamphuis, Associates Limited, Coastal Consultants. He has published more than 130 research papers and 150 research reports and is the author of the widely used "Introduction to Coastal Engineering and Management". Harry Yeh received his PhD degree in Civil Engineering in 1983 from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in the areas of environmental fluid mechanics, water wave phenomena, and tsunami hazards. He was a Hydraulic Engineer at Bechtel Inc., San Francisco from 1977 to 1983. From 1983 to 2002, he was a professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. Currently, he is the Miles Lowell and Margaret Watt Edwards Distinguished Chair in Engineering at Oregon State University. Harry Yeh has participated in many field surveys for tsunami disaster sites - from the 1992 Nicaragua to the 2011 East Japan Tsunamis. He also organized numerous multidisciplinary workshops for long-wave modeling, tsunami measurements, bathymetry and topography data, seafloor deformation, and tsunami laboratory facility. He is a registered professional engineer (civil) in California since 1979. Ronald Guenther is an emeritus professor of mathematics at Oregon State University. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1964, and then went to work for Marathon Oil Company before taking a position at Oregon State University. He has had visiting positions at the universities of Hamburg, Augsburg, the Free University of Berlin, and the Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany and the University of Montreal in Canada. He has also held a position at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut in Berlin, Germany and was a technical adviser for the Basalt Waste Isolation Project studying the groundwater system of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the state of Washington. He has published numerous research papers and books and given talks throughout North America and Europe as well as being a consultant in the area of mathematical modeling for a number of firms. His research has been in the areas of both applied and pure mathematics and classical and continuum mechanics. He has worked extensively with engineers on all aspects of fluid flow.
Dr. Todd Walton is a civil and coastal engineer with a professional engineeer license and over 35 years of experence in engineering, research, and education. He has been on the faculty,adjunct faculty, and visiting faculty of Florida State University, University of Florida, George Washington University, Mississippi State University, and Texas A&M University. He has over 50 refereed journal articles and book contributions, and over 100 professional publications in the area of coastal engineering. Professor Yu-cheng Li, an emeritus professor of Dalian University of Technology of CHINA ,is the charter-member of International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers, the TPC committee member of ISOPE, and also the steering committee member of APAC. He was the Vice-director of the State Key Lab of Coastal and Offshore Engineering in China. His major research fields are ocean and coastal engineering, the fluid-structure interaction of marine structures. He has published more than 200 articles. He is the author of the text-book of "wave action on maritime structure" (first edition in 1990 and second edition in 2002). He was invited to participate in compiling Coastal and Ocean Engineering Handbook (1990 edition be edited by Prof. John B. Herbich and 2009 edition be edited by Prof. Young C. Kim). His research have been awarded as the silver prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress of China in 2002 and 2007 and the brown prize of NSTP of China in 1999. He also received the PACOMS Award twice and the ISOPE Award once by ISOPE. Bill Kamphuis is Emeritus Professor of Coastal Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He directed the Queen's University Coastal Engineering Research Laboratory for 32 years and is president of J.W. Kamphuis, Associates Limited, Coastal Consultants. He has published more than 130 research papers and 150 research reports and is the author of the widely used "Introduction to Coastal Engineering and Management". Harry Yeh received his PhD degree in Civil Engineering in 1983 from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in the areas of environmental fluid mechanics, water wave phenomena, and tsunami hazards. He was a Hydraulic Engineer at Bechtel Inc., San Francisco from 1977 to 1983. From 1983 to 2002, he was a professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. Currently, he is the Miles Lowell and Margaret Watt Edwards Distinguished Chair in Engineering at Oregon State University. Harry Yeh has participated in many field surveys for tsunami disaster sites - from the 1992 Nicaragua to the 2011 East Japan Tsunamis. He also organized numerous multidisciplinary workshops for long-wave modeling, tsunami measurements, bathymetry and topography data, seafloor deformation, and tsunami laboratory facility. He is a registered professional engineer (civil) in California since 1979. Ronald Guenther is an emeritus professor of mathematics at Oregon State University. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1964, and then went to work for Marathon Oil Company before taking a position at Oregon State University. He has had visiting positions at the universities of Hamburg, Augsburg, the Free University of Berlin, and the Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany and the University of Montreal in Canada. He has also held a position at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut in Berlin, Germany and was a technical adviser for the Basalt Waste Isolation Project studying the groundwater system of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the state of Washington. He has published numerous research papers and books and given talks throughout North America and Europe as well as being a consultant in the area of mathematical modeling for a number of firms. His research has been in the areas of both applied and pure mathematics and classical and continuum mechanics. He has worked extensively with engineers on all aspects of fluid flow.
Professor Yu-cheng Li, an emeritus professor of Dalian University of Technology of CHINA ,is the charter-member of International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers, the TPC committee member of ISOPE, and also the steering committee member of APAC. He was the Vice-director of the State Key Lab of Coastal and Offshore Engineering in China. His major research fields are ocean and coastal engineering, the fluid-structure interaction of marine structures. He has published more than 200 articles. He is the author of the text-book of "wave action on maritime structure" (first edition in 1990 and second edition in 2002). He was invited to participate in compiling Coastal and Ocean Engineering Handbook (1990 edition be edited by Prof. John B. Herbich and 2009 edition be edited by Prof. Young C. Kim). His research have been awarded as the silver prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress of China in 2002 and 2007 and the brown prize of NSTP of China in 1999. He also received the PACOMS Award twice and the ISOPE Award once by ISOPE. Bill Kamphuis is Emeritus Professor of Coastal Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He directed the Queen's University Coastal Engineering Research Laboratory for 32 years and is president of J.W. Kamphuis, Associates Limited, Coastal Consultants. He has published more than 130 research papers and 150 research reports and is the author of the widely used "Introduction to Coastal Engineering and Management". Harry Yeh received his PhD degree in Civil Engineering in 1983 from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in the areas of environmental fluid mechanics, water wave phenomena, and tsunami hazards. He was a Hydraulic Engineer at Bechtel Inc., San Francisco from 1977 to 1983. From 1983 to 2002, he was a professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. Currently, he is the Miles Lowell and Margaret Watt Edwards Distinguished Chair in Engineering at Oregon State University. Harry Yeh has participated in many field surveys for tsunami disaster sites - from the 1992 Nicaragua to the 2011 East Japan Tsunamis. He also organized numerous multidisciplinary workshops for long-wave modeling, tsunami measurements, bathymetry and topography data, seafloor deformation, and tsunami laboratory facility. He is a registered professional engineer (civil) in California since 1979. Ronald Guenther is an emeritus professor of mathematics at Oregon State University. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1964, and then went to work for Marathon Oil Company before taking a position at Oregon State University. He has had visiting positions at the universities of Hamburg, Augsburg, the Free University of Berlin, and the Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany and the University of Montreal in Canada. He has also held a position at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut in Berlin, Germany and was a technical adviser for the Basalt Waste Isolation Project studying the groundwater system of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the state of Washington. He has published numerous research papers and books and given talks throughout North America and Europe as well as being a consultant in the area of mathematical modeling for a number of firms. His research has been in the areas of both applied and pure mathematics and classical and continuum mechanics. He has worked extensively with engineers on all aspects of fluid flow.
Bill Kamphuis is Emeritus Professor of Coastal Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He directed the Queen's University Coastal Engineering Research Laboratory for 32 years and is president of J.W. Kamphuis, Associates Limited, Coastal Consultants. He has published more than 130 research papers and 150 research reports and is the author of the widely used "Introduction to Coastal Engineering and Management". Harry Yeh received his PhD degree in Civil Engineering in 1983 from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in the areas of environmental fluid mechanics, water wave phenomena, and tsunami hazards. He was a Hydraulic Engineer at Bechtel Inc., San Francisco from 1977 to 1983. From 1983 to 2002, he was a professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. Currently, he is the Miles Lowell and Margaret Watt Edwards Distinguished Chair in Engineering at Oregon State University. Harry Yeh has participated in many field surveys for tsunami disaster sites - from the 1992 Nicaragua to the 2011 East Japan Tsunamis. He also organized numerous multidisciplinary workshops for long-wave modeling, tsunami measurements, bathymetry and topography data, seafloor deformation, and tsunami laboratory facility. He is a registered professional engineer (civil) in California since 1979. Ronald Guenther is an emeritus professor of mathematics at Oregon State University. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1964, and then went to work for Marathon Oil Company before taking a position at Oregon State University. He has had visiting positions at the universities of Hamburg, Augsburg, the Free University of Berlin, and the Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany and the University of Montreal in Canada. He has also held a position at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut in Berlin, Germany and was a technical adviser for the Basalt Waste Isolation Project studying the groundwater system of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the state of Washington. He has published numerous research papers and books and given talks throughout North America and Europe as well as being a consultant in the area of mathematical modeling for a number of firms. His research has been in the areas of both applied and pure mathematics and classical and continuum mechanics. He has worked extensively with engineers on all aspects of fluid flow.
Harry Yeh received his PhD degree in Civil Engineering in 1983 from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in the areas of environmental fluid mechanics, water wave phenomena, and tsunami hazards. He was a Hydraulic Engineer at Bechtel Inc., San Francisco from 1977 to 1983. From 1983 to 2002, he was a professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. Currently, he is the Miles Lowell and Margaret Watt Edwards Distinguished Chair in Engineering at Oregon State University. Harry Yeh has participated in many field surveys for tsunami disaster sites - from the 1992 Nicaragua to the 2011 East Japan Tsunamis. He also organized numerous multidisciplinary workshops for long-wave modeling, tsunami measurements, bathymetry and topography data, seafloor deformation, and tsunami laboratory facility. He is a registered professional engineer (civil) in California since 1979. Ronald Guenther is an emeritus professor of mathematics at Oregon State University. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1964, and then went to work for Marathon Oil Company before taking a position at Oregon State University. He has had visiting positions at the universities of Hamburg, Augsburg, the Free University of Berlin, and the Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany and the University of Montreal in Canada. He has also held a position at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut in Berlin, Germany and was a technical adviser for the Basalt Waste Isolation Project studying the groundwater system of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the state of Washington. He has published numerous research papers and books and given talks throughout North America and Europe as well as being a consultant in the area of mathematical modeling for a number of firms. His research has been in the areas of both applied and pure mathematics and classical and continuum mechanics. He has worked extensively with engineers on all aspects of fluid flow.
Ronald Guenther is an emeritus professor of mathematics at Oregon State University. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1964, and then went to work for Marathon Oil Company before taking a position at Oregon State University. He has had visiting positions at the universities of Hamburg, Augsburg, the Free University of Berlin, and the Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany and the University of Montreal in Canada. He has also held a position at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut in Berlin, Germany and was a technical adviser for the Basalt Waste Isolation Project studying the groundwater system of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the state of Washington. He has published numerous research papers and books and given talks throughout North America and Europe as well as being a consultant in the area of mathematical modeling for a number of firms. His research has been in the areas of both applied and pure mathematics and classical and continuum mechanics. He has worked extensively with engineers on all aspects of fluid flow.
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Barbara Zanuttigh is Assistant Professor in Hydraulics, in charge of the course of Maritime Hydraulics, at the University of Bologna since 2006. Main research interests are wave-structure interaction, littoral morphodynamics and wave energy converters. She is author of more than 100 publication in international journals and conferences (h-index = 8). She is coordinator of THESEUS project (
Dan Palermo is an associate professor of strucutral engineering at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. His research interests include seismic design of concrete structures, seismic repair and retrofit of concrete structures, tsunami-resistant design of concrete structures, and performance of concrete structures under blast loading. He is a member of ACI 447 Finite Element Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Structures, associate member of ACI 369 Seismic Repair and Rehabilitation, and associate member of ASCE-7 Tsunami Loads and Effects subcommittee.
Prof. Hwung-Hweng Hwung of Department of Hydraulics and Ocean Engineering of National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, the former Senior Executive Vice-President, was sworn in as the University's new President on February 1, 2011. Best known for his research in wave modulation, wave dynamics and sediment transport, President. Hwung-Hweng Hwung's outstanding research achievements include the behavior of nonlinear wave slopes, two phase boundary layer flow in surf and swash zone, wave motion of layered fluids, tsunami spread, shore line erosion and the digital image technology for applications of water level monitor. Besides, President Hwung is one of the key figures in promoting industry-academia cooperation.
Dr. Ioan Nistor is Associate Professor of Hydraulic and Coastal Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Ottawa, Canada. His research focuses on hazards associated with extreme hydrodynamic loading on infrastructure. He is the Chair of the Hydrotechnical Division of the CSCE and Associate Editor for Coastal Engineering Journal and the Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering. Winner of several awards (2010 Award of Tsunami International Society, 2010 Excellence in Education Teaching Award of University of Ottawa, 2009 Teaching Award of Faculty of Engineering, 2005 Ontario Ministry for Infrastructure Renewal), Dr. Nistor obtained his PhD from Yokohama National University, Japan.
Klemens Uliczka, Dr.-Ing., holds the current position of Senior Research Engineer at the Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute (BAW), Hamburg Office, Germany www.baw.de. He is responsible for the task of interaction ship / waterway at the coastal department. His previous experience includes: 1983 Civil Engineer Technical University of Braunschweig; 1984 - 1989 Research Engineer LWI, TU Braunschweig / GWK Univ. of Hannover, Coastal Engineering; 1989 Doctoral degree at LWI, TU Braunschweig; since 1989 Research Engineer BAW, Hamburg; 1993 Senior Research Engineer, Task: Interaction Ship / waterway; Member of HTG, Germany.
Krystian Walenty Pilarczyk, M.Sc., born February 14, 1941 in Poland, was graduated in 1964 at the Gdansk Technical University, Faculty of Hydraulic Engineering. After the first six years of research activities at the Institute of Hydroengineering in Gdansk and Delft Hydraulics in Delft, he joined in 1971 the Rijkswaterstaat (Dutch Public Works Department). In the period 1971 to 1986 he was involved in the Delta Project (closure of the tidal estuaries) as a coordinator of the applied research and the designer. In that time he initiated a number of systematic research program's, among others, on static and dynamic stability of rock, closure techniques by means of rock and sand, scour prediction and scour protection, runup and overtopping, bank protections, design of dikes and various kinds of revetments, and design with geosystems.
Leopoldo Franco graduated in Civil Engineering Hydraulics at the University of Rome in 1979, since 1987 associate professor of Coastal and Harbour Engineering at Politechnic of Milan and since 2004 full professor at the University of Rome 3. For some 30 years he carried out advanced laboratory investigations and mathematical models within national and EU funded projects (eg.MAST-PROVERBS-DELOS-CLASH-FLOODSITE) in maritime hydraulics and coastal structures described in about 190 technical-scientific papers. Main research topics include wave overtopping at breakwaters, wave analysis and prediction, shoreline modelling, hydraulic design of breakwater, harbours and marinas. He is PIANC delegate and also chartered at the Board of Engineers of Rome acting as designer and consultant at MODIMAR, Rome for various projects in Italy and abroad.
Miguel Angel Losada Rodríguez is the Director of the Andalusian Environment Centre (CEAMA). Andalusian Autonomous Government -
Masahiko Isobe graduated in 1975 and obtained Dr. Eng. in 1981 from the Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo. After his professional career at the Department of Civil Engineering, Yokohama National University, as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor from 1981 to 1987, he moved back to The University of Tokyo. He is a founder of the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences at which he is serving as a professor. He also served as Executive Vice President from 2009 to 2011. His research field is coastal environment engineering covering wave hydrodynamics; coastal, ocean and harbor structures; sediment transport and beach profile change; coastal water quality; coastal zone management.
Dr. Michael J. Briggs is a Research Hydraulic Engineer at the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS. His research interests include deep draft navigation, laboratory simulation and analysis of multidirectional waves, wave transformation along coasts and in harbors, and tsunami wave runup modeling. Dr. Briggs is currently a member of PIANC's WG49 that is revising the horizontal and vertical design guidance for approach channels. He is a registered Professional Engineer, Fellow in ASCE and COPRI, Coastal and Ocean Engineering Diplomate in ACOPNE, and has authored over 300 technical reports and papers.
Professor Nigel William Henry Allsop is Technical Director for Maritime Structures at HR Wallingford, and Visiting Professor at University of Southampton and at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He has more than 38 years experience in research and consultancy studies covering testing, analysis, design and optimisation of breakwaters, sea walls, revetments, jetties / piers and wide range of reservoir, shoreline, estuarial and coastal structures. He also has experience of engineering works or renewable energy systems, river structures, outfalls and oil booms, and on the performance and certification of temporary flood protection devices. He devised the UK's first Tsunami Generator. William Allsop has extensively cooperated on research projects in UK, Europe and USA, particularly VOWS, Big-VOWS, MCS, PROVERBS, CLASH and FLOODsite. He has been a member of ICE Maritime Board, PIANC, BSI, ISO and ICE working groups. He has chaired the international 'Breakwaters' conference since 1998.
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Dr Roshanka Ranasinghe holds a Ph.D. degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Western Australia and a BScEng degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He is currently Associate Professor of Coastal Engineering at UNESCO-IHE and Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands. His broad research interests are nearshore hydrodynamics, sediment transport, morphological evolution and coastal zone management, with a particular focus on climate change impacts. He has published over 100 international journal and conference articles and 3 book chapter. Dr. Ranasinghe is a member of the Engineers Australia National Committee of Coastal and Ocean Engineering.
Dr. Todd Walton is a civil and coastal engineer with a professional engineeer license and over 35 years of experence in engineering, research, and education. He has been on the faculty,adjunct faculty, and visiting faculty of Florida State University, University of Florida, George Washington University, Mississippi State University, and Texas A&M University. He has over 50 refereed journal articles and book contributions, and over 100 professional publications in the area of coastal engineering.
Professor Yu-cheng Li, an emeritus professor of Dalian University of Technology of CHINA ,is the charter-member of International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers, the TPC committee member of ISOPE, and also the steering committee member of APAC. He was the Vice-director of the State Key Lab of Coastal and Offshore Engineering in China. His major research fields are ocean and coastal engineering, the fluid-structure interaction of marine structures. He has published more than 200 articles. He is the author of the text-book of "wave action on maritime structure" (first edition in 1990 and second edition in 2002). He was invited to participate in compiling Coastal and Ocean Engineering Handbook (1990 edition be edited by Prof. John B. Herbich and 2009 edition be edited by Prof. Young C. Kim). His research have been awarded as the silver prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress of China in 2002 and 2007 and the brown prize of NSTP of China in 1999. He also received the PACOMS Award twice and the ISOPE Award once by ISOPE.
Bill Kamphuis is Emeritus Professor of Coastal Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He directed the Queen's University Coastal Engineering Research Laboratory for 32 years and is president of J.W. Kamphuis, Associates Limited, Coastal Consultants. He has published more than 130 research papers and 150 research reports and is the author of the widely used "Introduction to Coastal Engineering and Management".
Harry Yeh received his PhD degree in Civil Engineering in 1983 from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in the areas of environmental fluid mechanics, water wave phenomena, and tsunami hazards. He was a Hydraulic Engineer at Bechtel Inc., San Francisco from 1977 to 1983. From 1983 to 2002, he was a professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. Currently, he is the Miles Lowell and Margaret Watt Edwards Distinguished Chair in Engineering at Oregon State University. Harry Yeh has participated in many field surveys for tsunami disaster sites - from the 1992 Nicaragua to the 2011 East Japan Tsunamis. He also organized numerous multidisciplinary workshops for long-wave modeling, tsunami measurements, bathymetry and topography data, seafloor deformation, and tsunami laboratory facility. He is a registered professional engineer (civil) in California since 1979.
Ronald Guenther is an emeritus professor of mathematics at Oregon State University. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1964, and then went to work for Marathon Oil Company before taking a position at Oregon State University. He has had visiting positions at the universities of Hamburg, Augsburg, the Free University of Berlin, and the Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany and the University of Montreal in Canada. He has also held a position at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut in Berlin, Germany and was a technical adviser for the Basalt Waste Isolation Project studying the groundwater system of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the state of Washington. He has published numerous research papers and books and given talks throughout North America and Europe as well as being a consultant in the area of mathematical modeling for a number of firms. His research has been in the areas of both applied and pure mathematics and classical and continuum mechanics. He has worked extensively with engineers on all aspects of fluid flow.
