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URL:https://www.eng.ufl.edu/news-events/events/ccs-director-candidate-talk
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SUMMARY:CCS Director Candidate Talk: Dr. Nina Stark
DESCRIPTION:Nina Stark is the faculty lead of the Coastal and Marine Geotec
 hnics research group at the University of Florida. She is an international
 ly recognized expert for the development of innovative geotechnical site c
 haracterization methods in coastal environments for civil and naval applic
 ations. She is also known for her work of understanding the geomechanics o
 f sediment dynamics\, including in response to coastal and riverine extrem
 e events. She has led multiple interdisciplinary teams overseeing coastal 
 and riverine extreme event reconnaissance\, impact mitigation\, and commun
 ity resilience in response to six hurricanes and two record river flood ev
 ents.\n\nDr. Stark received her MS in Geophysics in 2007 from the WWU Muen
 ster\, Germany and her PhD in Marine Geotechnics in 2011 from the Universi
 ty of Bremen\, Germany. She worked as a postdoc at the University of Breme
 n (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 receive
 d the NSF CAREER Award in 2018\, the ONR Young Investigator Award in 2018\
 , and led the SERDP MR Project of the Year in 2022. \n\nMore about Nina St
 ark’s Research Group:\nhttps://faculty.eng.ufl.edu/coastal-marine-geotec
 hnics/\n\nJoin via Zoom:\nhttps://ufl.zoom.us/j/96054059849\n
CATEGORIES:Faculty Search
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