Dr. Mark Stacey

Biography

Mark Stacey is the Henry Joyce Miedema Chair in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on environmental fluid mechanics with an emphasis on estuaries and coastal oceans. Over the past decade, his work has expanded to encompass the physics of sea level rise, tidal estuaries, and the interactions between human infrastructure and resilient communities along estuarine shorelines. Dr. Stacey has received multiple prestigious awards, including the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and the Fofonoff Award from the American Meteorological Society. His investigations primarily employ numerical modeling, field observations, and theoretical analyses to assess how climate change, particularly sea level rise, precipitation changes, and storm impacts, affects coastal infrastructure and the ecosystems of communities. Specific research initiatives include modeling the feedback mechanisms of shoreline alterations and environmental processes due to climate change, as well as investigating the survival functions of marshes and other shoreline features. Dr. Stacey aims to contribute to the development of viable adaptation pathways for coastal communities, integrating community perspectives to reflect regional cross-disciplinary interdependencies.

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