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Meet the principal investigator who directs the Coastal Processes Research Group, and the program history that shaped it.

Dr. Gary A. Zarillo
Principal investigator
Dr. Gary A. Zarillo
Professor, Department of Ocean Engineering and Marine Sciences · Florida Institute of Technology

His research interests include coastal and estuarine processes, numerical modeling, tidal inlets, sediment transport, barrier islands, and coastal resiliency.

Education  Ph.D., University of Georgia · M.S. and B.S., University of Rhode Island
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Edwin A. Link Building, Room 251 · (321) 674-7378 · zarillo@fit.edu

Program heritage

Dr. Lee Harris
Dr. Lee Harris
Founder of the Sebastian Inlet monitoring program · Florida Institute of Technology

The late Florida Tech professor who initiated the group's data-collection program at Sebastian Inlet in 1996, beginning with the installation of oceanographic instrumentation. His work spanned ocean engineering, coastal engineering, and physical oceanography. Sensors for weather monitoring were added at the end of the north jetty in 1997.

Collaborators & co-authors

Recent group publications have been co-authored with M. A. Habib, M. A. Di Ciccio, J. A. Rosario-Llantín, I. Watts, S. Youn, and S. A. Ramos. They are listed here as co-authors on the group's published record, not as a current roster.

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