Maitane Olabarrieta

Maitane Olabarrieta is a professor at the civil and coastal engineering department and an associate director of the Center for Coastal Solutions. Her research interests cover diverse oceanographic processes related to coastal hazards: flooding, erosion and transport of contaminants. Her main research goal is to improve the predictive capabilities of coastal hazards using numerical models: transport of pollutants, erosion and flooding during extreme events and long-term coastal morphodynamic changes.