News – Ning Lin

News-2017

Jun 042017

June 2017 – Siyuan Xian receives Mary and Randall Hack ’69 Award from Princeton Environmental Institute. Congratulations!

June 2017 – Adam Hatzikyriakou graduates with PhD in CEE. Adam will join Exponent as an Associate Engineer. Well done and congratulations!

News-2016

May 262016

Dec. 2016 – Ning Lin receives an NSF CAREER Award.
Nov. 2016 – Jie Yin returns to China and becomes an Associate Professor at East China Normal University. Congratulations!
Sep. 2016 – Sanne Muis joins the group as a visiting student from VU University Amsterdam. Welcome!
August 2016 – Dr. Haiwei Xu joins the group as a visiting scholar from Zhejiang University, China. Welcome!
June 2016 – Alexis Bachas graduates with M.S. in CEE. Alexis will pursue a MBA at London School of Economics. Congratulations!
June 2016 – As a part of our NSF Hazards SEES project, we co-organized a workshop on “Current Flood Insurance Policy and Potential Improvements” at the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania, June 9th, 2016.
June 2016 – Siyuan (Henry) Xian receives Princeton’s PEI-STEP fellowship. Congratulations!
May 2016 – Ning Lin receives Princeton’s Howard B. Wentz, Jr. Junior Faculty Award for excellence in teaching and scholarship.

News-2015

Mar 152015

Dec 2015 – Dr. Benjamin Schenkel joins us as a Postdoctoral Associate. Ben was a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University at Albany, SUNY, and he received his PhD in Atmospheric Science from the Florida State University. Welcome!
Sep 2015 – Shaun Stojak and Kevin Tresselt join the group to work on their senior thesis. Welcome!
Aug 2015 – We receive multi-year NSF Hazards SEES grant to study hurricane hazards and risk (9/1/2015-8/31/2019; $2.7 million). The project will be centered at Princeton and strongly connected to GFDL, MIT and UPenn (subawards). The PI is Ning Lin, and the Co-PIs are James Smith, Kerry Emanuel, Howard Kunreuther, Thomas Knutson, Guy Nordenson, Gabriel Vecchi, and Michael Oppenheimer.
July 2015 – Ning Lin is reappointed by New York City Mayor de Blasio to the third New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC3), which will provide the best available climate science to inform the City’s resiliency planning. After Hurricane Sandy in 2012, Lin was appointed by Mayor Bloomberg to NPCC2.
July 2015 – Ning Lin is selected to speak on forecasting natural disasters at NAE’s 2015 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, to be held on September 9-11, at the National Academies’ Beckman Center in Irvine, Calif.
June 2015 – Eric Shullman receives W. Taylor Thom, Jr. Prize. Awarded to a senior in the area of Geological Engineering who has a strong academic record and who has written an outstanding thesis. Well done Eric!
April 2015 – Talea Mayo receives Assistant Professorship in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering at University of Central Florida, to start in August 2015. Congratulations Talea!
Mar.2015 – Daniel Chavas receives Assistant Professorship in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue University, to start in Jan. 2016. Congratulations Dan!
Mar. 2015 – Our SCR project presents an exhibition on March 13-15, Brooklyn, NYC.

News – 2014

Oct 092014

Dec. 2014 – Our paper “Evaluating flood resilience strategies for coastal megacities,” 2014, Science, receives the prestigious Lloyd’s Science of Risk Prize (top prize in the climate change category).
Dec. 2014 – Our Structures of Coastal Resilience (SCR) project is reported as a cover story in Discovery, Princeton’s annual research magazine contains novel research findings, feature articles, books and awards from University researchers.
Nov.2014 – Eric Shullman is named as one of two Princeton “J. Rich Steers Awardees” by the New York City Post of the Society of American Military Engineers (S.A.M.E.) for the academic year 2014-2015. Congratulations!
Nov. 2014 – Dr. Jie Yin joins us as a one-year visiting scholar from China. He is an Associate Professor in Physical Geography in Zhejiang Gongshang University. Welcome!
Oct. 2014 – Our paper “Heightened hurricane surge risk in northwest Florida revealed from climatological-hydrodynamic modeling and paleorecord reconstruction,” 2014, J. Geophys. Res-Atmos., is highlighted in Research Spotlight of EOS, Transactions American Geophysical Union.
Sep. 2014 – Adam Hatzikyriakou receives the Sherred Fellowship in Structural Engineering. Congratulations!
Sep. 2014 – Ariel Sanders and Eric Shullman join the group to work on their senior thesis. Welcome!
Aug. 2014 – Renzhi Jing joins the group as a PhD student. She joins us from Peking University, China, where she received B.S. in Atmospheric Science. Welcome!
Aug. 2014 – Alexis Bachas joins the group as a Master’s student. He joins us from University of London, England, where he received B.S. in Civil Engineering. Welcome!

News – 2013

May 162013

Dec. 2013 – Our paper “Low-probability flood risk modeling for New York City,” 2013, Risk Anal, receives best paper award from Society of Risk Analysis.
Nov. 2013 – Dr. Talea Mayo joins the group as a Postdoctoral Associate. She joins us from UT-Austin, where she received PhD in Applied Mathematics. Welcome!
Nov. 2013 – Dr. Daniel Chavas joins the group as a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow. He joins us from MIT, where he received PhD in Atmospheric Science. Welcome!
Sep. 2013 – Bradley Howard and Jason Adleberg join the group to work on their senior thesis. Welcome!
Aug. 2013 – Siyuan (Henry) Xian joins the group as a PhD student. He joins us from the University of Hong Kong, China, where he received B.S. in Civil Engineering with Minor in Finance. Welcome!
Aug. 2013 – PhD student Adam Hatzikyriakou joins the group. He received B.S. in Civil Engineering from Columbia University. Welcome!
June 2013 – Margaret Owensby presents her senior thesis at the11th International Conference on Structural Safety & Reliability (ICOSSAR 2013), Columbia University, as one of the very few undergraduate presenters. Well done!
May 2013 – Lauren Tauscher receives Senior Thesis Award. Congratulations!
April 2014 – Our Sandy damage survey is reported as a feature story in Princeton Alumni Weekly by Anna Azvolinsky, who interviewed us on site (Ortley Beach, NJ).

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