Patrick J. Lynett

American coastal engineer

Patrick J. Lynett is an American coastal engineer and Shea Chair Professor in the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Southern California.[1] He works in the area of coastal impacts due to extreme natural events.

He graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. (1997), M.E. (1998), and Ph.D (2002). He taught at Texas A&M University from 2002-2010, and spent a fellowship year at Princeton University in 2011. He is the Secretary of the Coastal Engineering Research Council[2] and is the Editor of the Coastal Engineering Proceedings.[3] He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010.

Awards

Works

  • "Observations by the International Tsunami Survey Team in Sri Lanka", Science, June 2005
  • "Coastal Engineering Proceedings - 2014", ISBN 978-0-9896611-2-6

References

  1. ^ USC Civil Engineering
  2. ^ American Society of Civil Engineers Coastal Engineering Research Council
  3. ^ Coastal Engineering Proceedings
  4. ^ ASCE Huber Prize Winners
  5. ^ Patrick J. Lynett - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  6. ^ Coastal engineering professor receives Army award

External links

  • "Tsunami Waves Amplified by Buildings", livescience
  • "Long-Buried New Jersey Seawall Spared Coastal Homes From Hurricane Sandy's Wrath", National Science Foundation
  • "Researchers to study threat of tsunamis triggered by underwater landslides", NPR
  • "Patrick J. Lynett", Coastal Engineering @ USC