CCS Director Candidate Talk: Dr. Nina Stark

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Nina Stark is the faculty lead of the Coastal and Marine Geotechnics research group at the University of Florida. She is an internationally recognized expert for the development of innovative geotechnical site characterization methods in coastal environments for civil and naval applications. She is also known for her work of understanding the geomechanics of sediment dynamics, including in response to coastal and riverine extreme events. She has led multiple interdisciplinary teams overseeing coastal and riverine extreme event reconnaissance, impact mitigation, and community resilience in response to six hurricanes and two record river flood events.

Dr. Stark received her MS in Geophysics in 2007 from the WWU Muenster, Germany and her PhD in Marine Geotechnics in 2011 from the University of Bremen, Germany. She worked as a postdoc at the University of Bremen (2011-2012) and at Dalhousie University, Canada (2012-2013). She was an assistant professor from 2013-2019 and associate professor from 2019-2023 in the Geotechnical Engineering program at Virginia Tech. She joined the University of Florida as an associate professor in 2023. Dr. Stark received the NSF CAREER Award in 2018, the ONR Young Investigator Award in 2018, and led the SERDP MR Project of the Year in 2022.

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