COASTAL HAZARDS @ VIRGINIA TECH

News & Announcements

Ph.D. Research

Applications for Ph.D. research in coastal hazards will be considered. Students applying to either Civil & Environmental Engineering [1] or Geosciences must have an undergraduate and/or masters degree in engineering, geosciences, the physical sciences, applied mathematics, or related field. To apply:
  1. Pre-application inquiry: Send PDF copies of your CV and transcripts (unofficial acceptable) to Jen Irish (jirish@vt.edu) and Robert Weiss (weiszr@vt.edu).
  2. Application: Select the appropriate button below to apply to either the Geosciences (Weiss advisor) program or the Civil & Environmental Engineering (Irish advisor) program. 
[1] Students without an undergraduate or masters degree in engineering who pursue a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering may need to complete additional coursework. Read more here.

Undergraduate Research

Undergraduates at Virginia Tech interested in coastal hazards research are welcome to contact Jen Irish (jirish@vt.edu) and/or Robert Weiss. Junior standing and familiarity with programming are preferred.

News & Highlights

Welcome New Students
Coastal Hazards @ VT is pleased to welcome five new students to our group this year: Ph.D. students Jun-Whan Lee and Anmol Haque, M.S. students Codi Wiersma and Kristine Mosuela, and undergraduate scholars Emma Helfrich and Sunil Divakar.

Jen Irish Elected ASCE Fellow
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​Credits: Background photo courtesy of Sadatsugu Tomizawa (Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Graph (center) modified from Humbyrd et al. 2009 (J. Waterw. Port C.-ASCE) .

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