- Congratulations to Tao Xiang for successfully passing his qualifying exam and advancing to PhD candidacy, May 2024.
- Ph.D. student Tao Xiang presents his research at the Geo-Congress in Vancouver, Canada, Feb. 24-28, 2024.
- Ph.D. student Alireza Mirghafouri presents his research at the AGU Fall meeting in San Francisco, Dec. 11-18, 2023.
- Dr. Farhadzadeh and collaborators received a new NSF award. The project summary can be found here, August 2022.
- Dr. Farhadzadeh and collaborators received a new NSF award. The project summary can be found here, May 2022.
- CHERL was featured on the Stony Brook University webpage, January 2022.
- Congratulations to CHERL’s undergrad research assistant Ephraim Bryski for being selected as December’s URECA Researcher of Month.
- Dr. Farhadzadeh gives a seminar at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. The seminar entitled: “Storm–induced seiching in a lake and its impact on beach morphology”, October 11, 2021
- Congratulations to Dr. Deniz Velioglu Sogut, a former lab member, for starting a new career as an Assistant Professor at the Florida Institute of Technology, September 2022.
- Dr. Farhadzadeh and collaborators received two NSF awards. The projects summaries can be found here and here. July 2021.
- Congratulations to Kyle Kern for graduating with a master’s degree. The title of his research was “Probabilistic Analysis of Storm Surge in the New York City Harbor and Surrounding Areas”, April 2021.
- Congratulations to Alexander Chow for graduating with a master’s degree. The title of his research was “A Study of Coastal Flooding Impacts on Flow in Lower Hudson River”, April 2021.
- Congratulations to Erdinc Sogut for successfully defending his dissertation entitled “Wave and Current Interactions with Sharp-edged Beachfront Structures on Rigid and Erodible Berms”, April 2021.
- Dr. Farhadzadeh and Dr. Atkinson of the University at Buffalo will be giving a webinar on September 30 at 11 am. The talk is entitled: “Coastal Resiliency and Morphodynamic Responses to Storm Surge and Seiche in Eastern Lake Erie”The flyer and registration link: GLAA Webinar Flyer 9.30
- Drs. Farhadzadeh and Bokuniewicz, in collaboration with New York State Sea Grant, organized a workshop entitled: “Erosion and Recession of Coastal Bluffs: Characterizing erodability of bluff materials under various land and sea-based conditions”, August 2020.
- Congratulations to Mahsa Ghazian Arabi who successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled “Experimental Study of Recession of Predominantly Sandy Bluffs and the Influence of Soil Strength on Erosion Processes “, August 2020.
- Congratulations to Shima Kasaei who successfully defended her Master’s thesis entitled “Probabilistic Analysis of Debris Motion in Steady State Currents”, July 2020.
- Congratulations to Undergraduate Research Assistant, Peter Davis, who received the SBU 2020 Academic Excellence Award. Peter will start his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in fall 2020″, June 2020.
- Ph.D. student Mahsa Ghazian Arabi presents at Geo-Congress 2020. The title of her presentation was: “Erosion and Recession of Beach-Bluff System of Low Fine Content Due to Wave and surge Actions“, Feb. 2020.
- Ph.D. student Mahsa Ghazian Arabi presents her paper at AGU Fall Meeting 2019. The title of her presentation is: “Initiation of erosion of cohesionless and cohesive soil mixtures: Effects of density and fine content on the erosional behavior of soil”, Dec. 2019.
- Dr. Farhadzadeh gives a seminar at Rutgers University. The seminar entitled: “Effects of Building Arrangement on Flow and Pressure Fields Generated by Waves Interacting with Beachfront Buildings”, November 6, 2019.
- Dr. Farhadzadeh gives a webinar at Bechtel Corporation on the hydrodynamics of coastal flood flow in developed coasts, October 16, 2019.
- Dr. Farhadzadeh gives a webinar at Bechtel Corporation on the effects of seiche on Eastern Lake Erie shore evolution, September 18, 2019.
- CHERL Undergrad Research Assistant, Peter Davis, featured on the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences’ website, Nov. 2019.
- Dr. Farhadzadeh’s proposal was selected for funding by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Sea Grant Program. The project will deal with bluff erosion with a particular focus on Long Island and Great Lakes bluff shorelines, September 2019.
- CHERL Undergrad Research Assistant, Ephraim Bryski, presents his research at URECA’s undergraduate research symposium. His research entitled “Analyzing Flood-borne Debris Motion Using Image Processing”, April 2019.
- CHERL alumnus, John DeFrancisci, receives SBU’s 2019 Undergraduate Recognition Award. Congratulations, John!, April 2019.
- Dr. Farhadzadeh receives Great Lakes Research Consortium (GLRC) small grants award for his project entitled “Eastern Lake Erie Shore Erosion, Sediment Transport, and Depositions under a Changing Climate”, April 2019.
- CHERL’s undergraduate research assistants, Peter Davis, junior, and Ephraim Bryski, freshman, were selected to participate in the NSF’s 2019 Natural Hazards Engineering Infrastructures-Research Experience for Undergraduates (NHERI-REU) Summer Program.
Peter will perform research activities at the University of California San Diego’s Large High-Performance Outdoor Shake Table. Ephraim will participate in research at the Oregon State University’s O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory. Congratulations to both of them!, March 2019. - The CHERL team publishes a collaborative paper in Journal of Coastal Engineering, Feb. 2019.
- Dr. Farhadzadeh receives Minghua Zhang Early Career Faculty Innovation/ the Macrae Cooper fund award, Dec. 2018.
- Dr. Farhadzadeh Chairs a session entitled “Dune Erosion and Evolution” at 36th International Conference on Coastal Engineering in Baltimore, July 30-August 3, 2018.
- Ph.D. students, Mahsa Ghazian and Erdinc Sogut, present their research at 36th International Conference on Coastal Engineering (ICCE2018) in Baltimore, July 30- August 3, 2018.
- Dr. Farhadzadeh organized and Chaired a session entitled “Coastal Resilience” at 61st Annual Conference on Great Lakes Research (IAGLR 2018) at the University of Toronto June 18–22, 2018.
High school WISE students learn about research on coastal and hydraulic engineering topics.
- Dr. Farhadzadeh gives a talk on Lake Erie’s morphodynamics and renewable energy potentials at University at Buffalo, October 27, 2017.
- Mahsa Ghazian Arabi wins Honorable Mention for Stony Brook’s The Innovators of Tomorrow Video Contest.
- Mahsa presented a poster at the Clean Tech Competition.
