Patrick J. Lynett Explained

Patrick J. Lynett is an American coastal engineer and Shea Chair Professor in the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Southern California.^[1] He works in the area of coastal impacts due to extreme natural events.

He graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. (1997), M.E. (1998), and Ph.D (2002). He taught at Texas A&M University from 2002-2010, and spent a fellowship year at Princeton University in 2011. He is the Secretary of the Coastal Engineering Research Council^[2] and is the Editor of the Coastal Engineering Proceedings.^[3] He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010.

Awards

2013 American Society of Civil Engineers Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize^[4]
2010 Guggenheim Fellowship^[5]
2008 Commander's Award for Public Service given by the United States Department of the Army^[6]

Works

"Observations by the International Tsunami Survey Team in Sri Lanka", Science, June 2005
"Coastal Engineering Proceedings - 2014",

External links

"Tsunami Waves Amplified by Buildings", livescience
"Long-Buried New Jersey Seawall Spared Coastal Homes From Hurricane Sandy's Wrath", National Science Foundation
"Researchers to study threat of tsunamis triggered by underwater landslides", NPR
"Patrick J. Lynett", Coastal Engineering @ USC

Notes and References

http://cee.usc.edu/faculty-staff/faculty-directory/patrick-lynett.htm USC Civil Engineering
https://www.asce.org/templates/membership-communities-committee-detail.aspx?committeeid=000000884745 American Society of Civil Engineers Coastal Engineering Research Council
https://journals.tdl.org/icce/ Coastal Engineering Proceedings
http://www.asce.org/templates/award-detail.aspx?id=625&all_recipients=1 ASCE Huber Prize Winners
http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/patrick-j-lynett Patrick J. Lynett - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
http://chemical.tees.tamus.edu/media/11993/02-29.php#story_1 Coastal engineering professor receives Army award