The OC Coastline: Beach Erosion & Our Changing Shoreline

Brett Sanders

Chancellor’s Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urban Planning and Public Policy

UC Irvine

Brett Sanders is a Chancellor’s Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urban Planning and Public Policy, with primary expertise in flooding and erosion risks and response measures. He earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.S. and PhD in Civil Engineering at the University of Michigan emphasizing environmental fluid mechanics and computational methods.  He currently serves as Director of the UC Irvine Climate Collaboration, an initiative that unites interdisciplinary faculty teams with external partners to address urgent climate, resilience and sustainability challenges in Orange County, California and beyond.

Dr. Sanders is a Fellow of the Engineering Mechanics Institute of ASCE, the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE, the International Association for Hydro-Environment Research, and the Faculty Academy for Teaching Excellence. He also serves as an Advisor to the California Coastal Commission on wetland restoration, an Advisor to the California Ocean Science Trust and California Department of Insurance on flood risk modeling, and Chair of the Orange County Climate Resiliency Task Force. He was recognized as one of the Most Influential People in Orange County by the OC Register.

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