John & Mary Louise Riley Bodega Marine Laboratory Seminar Series:
Dr. Bonnie Ludka: "Wave-driven changes in beach sand levels"
About the Speaker:
Dr. Ludka is a coastal scientist with a background that spans physics,
oceanography, geology, data science and engineering. They are interested
in how coastal physical processes interact with environmental
management and ecological functioning, on time scales of storms to
decades. Her team uses fieldwork, data analysis and modeling to help
build more resilient coasts. Dr. Ludka has a B.S. in Physics from James
Madison University and a Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography from Scripps
Institution of Oceanography. She has held postdoctoral positions at the
Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics at Scripps and in the
Coastal Engineering Department at Delft University of Technology in the
Netherlands. They also were a California Sea Grant fellow at the
California Coastal Commission. Now she is an assistant professor in the
Geology Department at San Jose State.
For more information about the Bodega Marine Laboratory, please visit
http://marinescience.ucdavis.edu 