Patrick J. Lynett is an American coastal engineer and Shea Chair Professor in the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Southern California.[1] He works in the area of coastal impacts due to extreme natural events.
He graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. (1997), M.E. (1998), and Ph.D (2002). He taught at Texas A&M University from 2002-2010, and spent a fellowship year at Princeton University in 2011. He is the Secretary of the Coastal Engineering Research Council[2] and is the Editor of the Coastal Engineering Proceedings.[3] He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010.
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- 2013 American Society of Civil Engineers Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize[4]
- 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship[5]
- 2008 Commander's Award for Public Service given by the United States Department of the Army[6]
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- "Tsunami Waves Amplified by Buildings", livescience
- "Long-Buried New Jersey Seawall Spared Coastal Homes From Hurricane Sandy's Wrath", National Science Foundation
- "Researchers to study threat of tsunamis triggered by underwater landslides", NPR
- "Patrick J. Lynett", Coastal Engineering @ USC