About

Dr. Bret Webb is a Professor of Coastal Engineering in the Department of Civil, Coastal, and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Alabama. Dr. Webb has more than 20 years of experience as a civil/coastal engineer including considerable time in both consulting and academia. Dr. Webb is a licensed professional engineer (AL, FL) and is recognized by the Academy of Coast, Ocean, Port, and Navigation Engineers as a Board Certified Coastal Engineer (BC.CE). 

Dr. Webb’s area of research and professional practice deals with coastal resilience. Within that broad topic, he focuses on resilience of the built environment to extreme events and climate change, and on the resilience benefits provided by natural and nature-based features. Dr. Webb has more than 50 publications and has given close to 100 technical presentations on coastal resilience topics. Some of those publications include guidance documents for the US Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration; the Transportation Research Board; and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Dr. Webb's work has been featured in the National Climate Assessment, President Obama's Climate Action Plan, White House reports, and testimonies before Congress.