Organizing Committee:

  • Dr. Nickitas Georgas, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ
  • Professor Michael Piasecki, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
  • Dr. Richard Signell, US Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA
  • Dr. David Schwab, NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI
  • Professor Malcolm L. Spaulding, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI

Conference Coordinator

  • Joseph Pittle, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

Advisory Committee:

  • Dr. Frank Aikman, NOAA, National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD
  • Dr. Jesse Feyen, NOAA, National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD
  • Professor Scott Hagen, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
  • Dr. Guoqui Han, Environmental Sciences Division, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, St. Johns, NL, Canada
  • Dr. Jeff Ji, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, Reston, VA
  • Dr. Billy Johnson, Computational Hydraulics and Transport, Vicksburg, MS
  • Professor Nikolaos Katopodes, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  • Professor Jin Lin, East China Normal University Estuarine and Coastal Research, Shanghai, China
  • Professor Rick Luettich Jr., University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Morehead City, NC
  • Professor Wilbert Lick, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
  • Professor Ehab Meselhe, University of Louisiana-Lafayette, Lafayette, LA
  • Dr. Roger Proctor, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Liverpool, UK
  • Dr. Jinyu Sheng, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Professor Y. Peter Sheng, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
  • Dr. McAllister Sisson, Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, Gloucester Pt., VA
  • Dr. Peter E. Smith, US Geological Survey, Sacramento, CA
  • Dr. Craig Swanson, Applied Science Associates, Inc., Narragansett, RI
  • Dr. Roy A. Walters, Victoria, BC, Canada
  • Professor Chin Wu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
  • Dr. Zhaoqing Yang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Seattle, WA
  • Dr. Eduardo Yassuda, ASA South America, San Paolo, Brazil
  • Professor Gour Tsyh Yeh, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
  • Professor Chin Wu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI