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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  • "Observations by the International Tsunami Survey Team in Sri Lanka", Science, June 2005
  • "Coastal Engineering Proceedings - 2014", ISBN 978-0-9896611-2-6

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