Principal Investigator
Affiliations:
Associate Professor, Chair of the Master's Program in Earth Sciences; Area of Territories and Cities, School of Applied Sciences and Engineering, EAFIT University, Colombia.
Affiliated Scientist, INSTAAR, University of Colorado Boulder, USA.
Member, Water Resources Permanent Technical Commission, Sociedad Antioqueña de Ingenieros y Arquitectos (SAI).
Member, Water Resources Engineering Permanent Technical Commission, Sociedad Colombiana de Ingenieros (SCI).
Academic Background:
Postdoctoral studies / Physical Geography (coastal morphodynamics), Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Ph.D. Geosciences / Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering (processes geomorphology / coastal physical oceanography), University of Florida, USA, 2018
M.Sc. Earth Sciences (coastal geomorphology), Universidad EAFIT, Colombia, 2013
B.Sc. Civil Engineering (coastal engineering), Universidad EAFIT, Colombia, 2009
Research interests:
General: Earth and planetary surface processes, landscape mechanics, global change.
Specific: Morphodynamics of tropical rivers and coasts (fluvial, delta, and estuarine morphodynamics; relative sea-level change; nearshore hydrodynamics; short- and long-term coastline/shoreline change).
(Check a longer CV here -in Spanish-)
Researchers
Ing. Esp. Daniel Alvira-Reyes (MSc student in Earth Sciences) // morphodynamics of rivers and coasts of NW South America
Alumni
Geol. Ana M. Pérez-Hincapié, M.Sc. (M.Sc. in Earth Sciences, EAFIT University) // Morphodynamics of mountainous landscapes in the Holocene
Geol. Julian Naranjo-Vesga, M.Sc., Ph.D. (Ph.D. in Earth Sciences, EAFIT University) // submarine morphodynamics in tectonic margins.
Ing. Esteban Ramos-Chavarriaga, M.Sc. (M.Sc. in Earth Sciences, EAFIT University) // data-driven nearshore morphodynamics.
Geol. Juanita Vargas-Londono (B.Sc. in Geology, EAFIT) // morphology of Martian deltas.
Geol. Juan L. Restrepo-Munoz (B.Sc. in Geology, EAFIT) // morphodynamics of the Sinu delta.
Geol. Angie L. Cuervo-Cano (B.Sc. in Geology, EAFIT) // quantitative classification of Caribbean deltas morphology.
Ing. Ánderson Amaya-Saldarriaga (B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, EAFIT) // analytical modeling of estuarine dynamics.
Antrop. Erika C. Acevedo-Mejía, M.Sc., Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Fellow in Territories and Cities) // environmental anthropology of landscape change.
Collaborators