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Coastal disasters due to extreme weather and tsunami events cost thousands of lives and properties over the past decades. Climate change and rising sea level pose greater challenges to worldwide coastal communities, requiring more efficient strategies to mitigate natural hazards and enhance coastal resilience.

Engineering (gray) infrastructure, despite being heavily used due to the ease of installation and relatively sufficient expertise, is costly to maintain and lacks the adaptability to changing climate. Alternatively, green infrastructure serves as a natural barrier and conserves the ecosystem. However, more quantitative studies are still in demand for their practical application. To maximize coastal protection and other co-benefits, an optimized arrangement utilizing both gray and green infrastructures is proposed while warrants further investigation.

Accordingly, my current research is to study coastal processes and understand how different elements in a coastal environment intertwine with each other in short-term extreme weather events and the long-term changing climate. I aim to establish an integrated approach to evaluate the dynamic interactions among waves, sediments and gray/green infrastructures over different time frames, providing a better solution to the reduction of wave disasters and coastal erosion, and climate change adaptation for future coastal planning and management.