{"id":15124,"date":"2015-03-09T21:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T01:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/?p=15124"},"modified":"2025-06-11T12:33:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T17:33:16","slug":"remembering-dr-robert-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/essie\/remembering-dr-robert-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Dr. Robert Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15134\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15134\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15134\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2015\/03\/cce_dean_robert_bob_2011.jpg-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Dr. Robert Dean\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Robert Dean<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Professor Emeritus Robert George Dean passed away last weekend, surrounded by his family. He was 84. Dr. Dean was known around the world for his coastal engineering research and beach nourishment techniques. After teaching at several universities, including MIT, he made his home at UF in 1966. He became\u00a0a\u00a0graduate research professor in 1982 and then chair of the UF Department of Coastal &amp; Oceanographic Engineering in 1992. He retired in 2003, but maintained his research, coming in to the college often, even on weekends, as is fondly recalled by many, including Dr.\u00a0Kirk Hatfield, director of UF&#8217;s Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure &amp; Environment (ESSIE) which now houses the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bob was an exceptional mentor and role model to many of us at UF and really around the world,\u201d recalls Hatfield. \u201cAs a member of the National Academy of Engineering, he was always smart, clever, insightful, and thoughtful.\u00a0He greatly enjoyed research, was devoted to pushing back the boundaries of science, and took great delight in teaching others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When UF\u2019s research publication <a href=\"http:\/\/explore.research.ufl.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Explore Magazine<\/a> debuted in 1996, an article detailing Dr. Dean\u2019s work was among the first stories written.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBob Dean was \u2018Dr. Coastal Engineering.\u2019\u00a0 He was famous worldwide for his knowledge, and his mentorship of many students\u00a0who became the new experts,\u201d said Win Phillips, University of Florida\u2019s executive chief of staff, who knew and worked closely with Dean for several decades.\u00a0\u201cThe State of Florida, the nation, and a good bit of the world benefitted from his sage advice.\u00a0 He was a gentleman and a scholar that will be missed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Dean and his wife started the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uff.ufl.edu\/giving-opportunities\/006239-bob-and-phyllis-dean-fellowship-in-coastal-engineering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bob &amp; Phillis Dean Fellowship in Coastal Engineering<\/a> through the UF Foundation to help support the academic growth of coastal and oceanographic engineering students. (In\u00a0lieu of flowers, his family has asked that friends contribute to this fund as well).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more about Dr. Dean\u2019s life in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legacy.com\/obituaries\/gainesville\/obituary.aspx?n=robert-g-dean&amp;pid=174298051&amp;fhid=6305\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gainesville Sun<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/06\/us\/robert-g-dean-restorer-of-beaches-dies-at-84.html?_r=1&amp;referrer=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDr. Dean was known around the world for his coastal engineering research and beach nourishment techniques.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2592,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-templates\/single-sidebar-none.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[77,31,47,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cce","category-essie","category-in-memoriam","category-stories"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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