Celso M. Ferreira, PhDAppendix D / Celso Ferreira CV / page 3 of 36 II. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES A. Publications and Presentations i. Dissertation The influence of coastal wetlands on hurricane

Appendix D / Celso Ferreira CV / page 1 of 36

Celso M. Ferreira, PhD Assistant Professor

Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering

George Mason University

Fairfax VA 22030

Ph: 1-703-993-1782, Fax: 1-703-993-9790

[email protected]

http://water.vse.gmu.edu

I. PERSONAL INFORMATION

A. Education

Ph.D. Civil Engineering August 2012

Texas A&M University

M.S. Environmental Engineering March 2007

Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

M.E. Basic and Applied Hydrology August 2006

Centro de Estudios y Experimentación de Obras

Públicas (CEDEX), Spain

B.S. Civil Engineering August 2003

Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

B. Employment & Appointments

i. Academic

George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 2012 – present

Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental

and Infrastructure Engineering

o Assistant Professor

United States Geological Survey, Reston, VA 2012 – present

National Research Program

o Associate Researcher

Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 2016

School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences; Department

of Geophysics

o Visiting Scholar

Chungnam National University, Yuseong-gu Daejeon, Korea 2016 – present

International Water Resources Research Institute

o Affiliated Research Professor

mailto:[email protected]

http://water.vse.gmu.edu/


Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 2008 – 2012

Department of Civil Engineering

o Graduate Research Assistant, 2010-2012

o Graduate Teaching Assistant, 2008-2010

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 2005

Hydrology and Water Resources Department, Center for Sustainability of Semi-Arid

Hydrology and Riparian Areas (SAHRA) and the Udall Center for Public Policy

o Visiting Researcher

Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, 2004 – 2007

Department of Environmental Engineering

o Graduate Research Assistant

Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France, 2003

Department of Systèmes Energétiques & Environnement

o Visiting Researcher

ii. Engineering Practice

AEM Corporation, Reston, VA 2015

o Consultant on extreme weather impacts to transportation

infrastructure

Environmental Systems Research Institute - ESRI, Redlands, CA 2008

o Internship, Development team of ArcHYDRO, GeoRAS

and GeoHMS

DHI Water and Environment, Madrid, Spain ` 2006

o Engineering internship, Storm water engineering

Santa Catarina State Water Agency, Florianopolis, Brazil 2007-2008

o Manager Engineer

GEOSUSTENTAVEL Environment and Engineering, Florianopolis 2003-2008

o Brazil, Co-Founder and Engineer

DHI Water and Environment, Nantes, France ` 2003

o Undergraduate internship, Loire river sediment budget studies


II. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

A. Publications and Presentations

i. Dissertation

The influence of coastal wetlands on hurricane surge and damage with application to

planning under climate change, PhD dissertation, Texas A&M University, August 2012

Advisor: Dr. Francisco Olivera and Dr. Jennifer L. Irish.

ii. Book chapters

[1] Schnebele, E., Oxendine, C., Cervone, G., Ferreira, C. M. and Waters, N. (2015) “Using

non-authoritative sources during emergencies in urban areas” In Helbich, M., Arsanjani, J.

J. and Leitner, M. (Eds.), Geotechnologies and the Environment Volume 13,

Computational Approaches for Urban Environments, Ch. 14, pp. 337-361. Springer

International Publishing, Switzerland. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-11469-9_14

iii. Articles in refereed journals (underline students and *post-doctoral co-authors)

[21] Glass, E., Garzon, J. L., Lawler, S., *Paquier, E. and Ferreira, C. M. (2017) “Potential of

marshes to attenuate storm surge water level in the Chesapeake Bay” Limnology and

Oceanography, Accepted DOI: 10.1002/lno.10682 Springer publication (NL) and the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (Journal Impact Factor: 3.383)

[20] Habete, D. and Ferreira, C.M. (2017) “Potential impacts of future sea level rise and land

use change on the special flood hazard areas and associated flood risks" Natural Hazards

Review 18 (4) 04017017-1-11 DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000262 American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) publication (US) (Journal Impact Factor: 1.293)

[19] Borga, M., Tanyu, B. F., Ferreira, C. M., Garzon, J. L., and Onufrychuk, M. (2017) “A

geospatial framework to estimate depth of scour under buildings due to storm surge in

coastal areas” Natural Hazards 87(3) 1285-1311 DOI: 10.1007/s11069-017-2817-3 Springer publication (NL), co-published with the Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and

Mitigation of Natural Hazards (Journal Impact Factor: 1.746)

[18] *Paquier, A. P., Haddad, J., Lawler, S. and Ferreira, C. M. (2016) “Quantification of the

attenuation of storm surge components by a coastal wetland of the U.S. Mid Atlantic”

Estuaries and Coasts, 40 (4) 930-946 DOI:10.1007/s12237-016-0190-1 Springer publication (NL), co-published with the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (Journal Impact

Factor: 2.659)

[17] Deb, M. and Ferreira, C. M. (2016) “Potential impacts of the Sunderban mangrove

degradation on future coastal flooding in Bangladesh” Journal of Hydro-environment

Research, in press DOI: 10.1016/j.jher.2016.11.005 Elsevier publication (NL) (Journal Impact Factor: 1.719)

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-11469-9_14

http://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/%28ASCE%29NH.1527-6996.0000262

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11069-017-2817-3


http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570644316303616


[16] Lawler, S., Haddad, J. and Ferreira, C. M. (2016) “Sensitivity considerations and the

impact of spatial scaling for storm surge modeling in wetlands of the mid-Atlantic region”

Ocean and Coastal Management (134) 226-238 DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2016.10.008

Elsevier publication (NL) (Journal Impact Factor: 1.696)

[15] Garzon, J. L. and Ferreira, C. M. (2016) “Storm surge modeling in large estuaries:

sensitivity analyses to parameters and physical processes in the Chesapeake Bay” Journal

of Marine Sciences and Engineering 4(3)45 DOI:10.3390/jmse4030045 MDPI open access publication (CH) (Journal Impact Factor: new journal)

[14] Garzon, J.L., Ferreira, C. M., Dalrymple, R. A., and Guikema, S.D. (2016) “Efficient

integration of a storm surge model into a multidisciplinary agent based model framework”

Journal of Coastal Research (75) 1082-1086 DOI: 10.2112/SI75-217.1 Coastal Education and Research Foundation (US) (Journal Impact Factor: 0.980)

[13] Deb, M. and Ferreira, C. M. (2016) “Simulation of cyclone induced storm surges in the

low lying delta of Bangladesh using coupled hydrodynamic and wave model

(SWAN+ADCIRC)” Journal of Flood Risk Management, in press DOI: 10.1111/jfr3.12254 The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) and John Wiley & Sons (US)

(Journal Impact Factor: 1.377)

[12] Habete, D. and Ferreira, C.M. (2016) “Impact of Forecasted Land Use Change on Design

Peak Discharge at Watershed and Catchment Scales: Simple Equation to Predict Changes"

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 21(7) 1-10 DOI:10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0001384 American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) Publication (US) (Journal Impact Factor: 1.624)

[11] Tonn, G. L., Guikema, S. D., Ferreira, C. M. and Quiring, S. M. (2016) “Hurricane Isaac:

A Longitudinal Analysis of Storm Characteristics and Power Outage Risk” Risk Analysis

36(10) 1936-1947 DOI: 10.1111/risa.12552 Society for Risk Analyses (SRA) publication (Journal Impact Factor: 2.366)

[10] Haddad, J., Lawler, S. and Ferreira, C. (2016) “Assessing the relevance of wetlands for

storm surge protection: a coupled hydrodynamic and geospatial framework” Natural

Hazards 80 (2) 838-861 DOI: 10.1007/s11069-015-2000-7 Springer publication (NL), co-published with the Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and

Mitigation of Natural Hazards (Journal Impact Factor: 1.746)

[9] Wright, M., Ferreira, C. M., Houck, M. and Giovannettone, J. (2015) “The relationship

between Monte Carlo estimators of heterogeneity and error for daily to monthly time steps

in a small Minnesota precipitation gauge network” Water Resources Research 51(7) 5161-

5176 DOI: 10.1002/2014WR015399 American Geophysical Union (AGU) publication (Journal Impact Factor: 3.709)

[8] Wright, M., Houck, M. and Ferreira, C. M. (2015) “Discriminatory power of

heterogeneity statistics with respect to error of precipitation quantile estimation” Journal

of Hydrologic Engineering 20(10) 1-11 DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-

5584.0001172#sthash.LA5gmjFJ.dpuf American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) Publication (US) (Journal Impact Factor: 1.624)

[7] Deb, M. and Ferreira, C. M. (2015) “Planform channel dynamics and hazard assessment

of a highly sinuous river in the north-eastern zone of Bangladesh” Environmental Earth

Sciences 73(10) 6613-6623 DOI: 10.1007/s12665-014-3884-3 Springer publication (NL) (Journal Impact Factor: 1.765)


http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/4/3/45

http://www.jcronline.org/doi/abs/10.2112/SI75-217.1?code=cerf-site

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jfr3.12254/abstract

http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0001384#sthash.VXZYLo6K.dpuf

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/risa.12552/full


http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2014WR015399/abstract

http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0001172

http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0001172



[6] Wright, M., Ferreira, C. M. and Houck, M. (2014) “Evaluation of heterogeneity statistics

as reasonable proxies of the error of precipitation quantile estimation in the Minneapolis-

St. Paul region” Journal of Hydrology (513) 457-466 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.03.056 Elsevier publication (NL) (Journal Impact Factor: (Journal Impact Factor: 3.043)

[5] Ferreira, C. M., Irish, J. and Olivera, F (2014) “Quantifying the potential impact of land

cover changes due to sea-level rise on storm surge on lower Texas coast bays” Coastal

Engineering (94) 102-111 DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2014.08.011 Elsevier publication (NL) (Journal Impact Factor: 2.841)

[4] Ferreira, C. M., Irish, J. and Olivera, F (2014) “Uncertainty in hurricane surge simulation

due to land cover specification” Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans 199(3) 1812-

1827 DOI: 10.1002/2013JC009604 American Geophysical Union (AGU) publication (Journal Impact Factor: 3.44)

[3] Ferreira, C. M., Irish, J. and Olivera, F (2014) “ArcStormSurge: Integrating GIS and

hurricane storm surge" Journal of the American Water Resources Association 50 (1) 219-

233 DOI: 10.1111/jawr.12127 John Wiley & Sons (US) published on behalf of the American Water Resources Association (Journal Impact

Factor: 1.659)

Before joining Mason:

[2] Irish, J. L., Frey, A. E., Rosati, A. E., Olivera, F., Dunkin, L. M., Kaihatu, J. M., Ferreira,

C. M. and Edge, B. L. (2010) “Potential implications of global warming and barrier island

degradation on future hurricane inundation” Ocean and Coastal Management 53(10)645-

657 DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2010.08.001 Elsevier publication (NL) (Journal Impact Factor: 1.696)

[1] Frey, A. E., Olivera, F., Irish, J. L., Dunkin, L. M., Kaihatu, J. M., Ferreira, C. M. and

Edge, B. L. (2010) “The impact of climate change on hurricane flooding inundation,

population affected and property damages” Journal of the American Water Resources

Association 46(5) 1049-1059 DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2010.00475.x John Wiley & Sons (US) published on behalf of the American Water Resources Association (Journal Impact

Factor: 1.659)

Under review:

[2] Habete, D. and Ferreira, C. M. (2017) “Impact of Projected Precipitation and Land Use

Changes on the Design Peak Discharge and Special Flood Hazard Area.” Journal of

Hydrologic Engineering, under review American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) Publication (US) (Journal Impact Factor: 1.624)

[1] Garzon, J. L., Ferreira, C. M. and Padilla-Hernandez, R. (2017) “Evaluation of weather

forecast systems for storm surge modeling in the Chesapeake Bay” Ocean Dynamics,

under review Springer publication (NL) (Journal Impact Factor: 1.892)

iv. Articles in refereed conference proceedings


http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037838391400163X

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013JC009604/abstract

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jawr.12127/abstract


http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1752-1688.2010.00475.x/full


[4] Reilly, A., Guikema, S., Garzon, J. L. and Ferreira, C. M. “Quantification of evolving

regional vulnerability to hurricanes” 16th European Safety and Reliability (ESREL),

Glasgow, Scotland, September 25-29, 2016. DOI: 10.1201/9781315374987-40

[3] Haddad, J., *Paquier, A .E., Lawler, S. and C.M. Ferreira “Wetlands as a nature-based

coastal defense: a numerical modeling and field data integration approach to quantify

storm surge attenuation for the Mid-Atlantic region” OCEANS ’15 MTS/IEEE

Washington D.C., October 19-22, 2015. DOI: 10.23919/OCEANS.2015.7404359

[2] Irish, J. L., Ferreira, C., Resio, D. T. and Olivera, F. “Future Tropical Cyclone Flooding

Probability and Risk Assessment: Considerations for Sea-level Rise and Climate Change”

33rd International Conference on Coastal Engineering ICCE 2012, Santander, Spain, July

1-6, 2012. DOI: 10.9753/icce.v33.management.7

[1] Irish J., Ferreira, C. Udoh I., Olivera, F., Song Y. and Chang, K. “Rapid probabilistic

hurricane surge and damage forecasting using surge response functions” 32nd

International Conference on Coastal Engineering ICCE 2010, Shangai, China, June 30-

July 5, 2010. DOI: 10.9753/icce.v32.currents.20

v. Articles in unrefereed journals

[2] Ogashawara, I., Curtarelli, M., P. and Ferreira C.M. (2013) “The use of optical remote

sensing for mapping flooded areas” International Journal of Engineering Research and

Applications 3(5)1956-1960 DOI: unavailable

[1] Brown, S., Ferreira, C. M. (2013) “Agent-Based Modeling of Urban Tropical Green

Infrastructure Investment" International Journal of Sustainable Tropical Design Research

and Practice 6(2)1-13 DOI: unavailable

vi. Invited lectures and presentations

[9] Ferreira, C. M. (2016) “Storm surge and wave attenuation by wetlands and coastal

marshes in the Chesapeake Bay” Stanford University Institute for Computational and

Mathematical Engineering (ICME) Seminar Series, Palo Alto, CA, April 19.


marshes in the Chesapeake Bay” Stanford University SIGMA Research Seminar, Palo

Alto, CA, February 9.


marshes in the Chesapeake Bay” 14th International Workshop on Wave Hindcasting &

Forecasting & Scientific and Technical Symposium on Storm Surges, Key West, FL,

November 13.

doi:%2010.1201/9781315374987-40

doi:%2010.23919/OCEANS.2015.7404359

https://journals.tdl.org/icce/index.php/icce/article/view/6690

https://icce-ojs-tamu.tdl.org/icce/index.php/icce/article/view/1232

http://www.ijera.com/papers/Vol3_issue5/LL3519561960.pdf

http://www.frsb.upm.edu.my/dokumen/FKRSE1_127-474-1-PB.pdf


[6] Ferreira, C. M. (2015) “Storm surge attenuation in Chesapeake Bay Wetlands” Maryland

Emergency Management Association Annual Symposium, Ocean City, MD, June 28.

[5] Ferreira, C. M. (2014) “Application of ADCIRC + SWAN to assess geospatial potential

of wetlands to attenuate storm surge and hurricane flooding in the Chesapeake Bay” 2nd

International workshop on the application of fluid mechanics to disaster reduction: Cyclone

(hurricane/typhoon/extra-tropical) modeling and damage assessment, Sendai, Japan,

March 16.

[4] Ferreira, C. M. (2013) “The influence of coastal wetlands on hurricane surge and damage

with application to planning under climate change” Resources for the Future (RFF),

Washington, DC, March 13.

[3] Ferreira, C. M. (2013) “The influence of coastal wetlands on hurricane surge and damage

with application to planning under climate change” United States Geological Survey

(USGS) National Research Program (NRP) Seminar Series, Reston, VA, March 8.

[2] Ferreira, C. M. (2013) “The first year of an assistant professor” Virginia Tech,

Blacksburg, VA, September 13.

[1] Ferreira, C. M. (2012) “The influence of coastal wetlands on hurricane surge and

damage with application to planning under climate change” National Atmospheric and

Oceanic Administration (NOAA), Silver Springs, MD, November 22.

vii. Conference presentations

[60] Rezaie, A. M., Ferreira, C. M. and Walls, M. (2017) “Valuing the protective ecosystem

services of natural and nature based features: building resiliency in Virginia” American

Water Resources Association (AWRA) National Capital Region Symposium, Washington,

DC, April 7. (Podium presentation)

[59] Lanza, B., Shultz, C. and Ferreira, C M. (2017) “Quantifying impacts of upstream

reservoirs on the Potomac river due to consumptive use” American Water Resources

Association (AWRA) National Capital Region Symposium, Washington, DC, April 7.

(Poster presentation)

[58] Maldonado, S., Suckale, J. and Ferreira, C. M. (2016) “Investigation of vegetation-

induced drag parameterizations for natural and nature-based extreme events coastal

protection in the Chesapeake Bay” American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting,

San Francisco, CA, December 14. (Poster presentation)

[57] Lunghino, B., Suckale, J., Fringe, O., Maldonado, S., Ferreira, C. M., Marras, S. and

Mandel, T. (2016) “Effects of spatial variability in marshes on coastal erosion under storm

conditions” American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA,

December 14. (Poster presentation)

[56] Rezaie, A. M., Ferreira, C. M. and Walls, M. (2016) “Future flood inundation and

damages from storm surge in the coast of Virginia and Maryland with projected climate

change and sea level rise scenarios” American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting,



[55] Omeara, K., Zaitchik, B. and Ferreira, C.M. (2016) “HIGHER GROUND: Leveraging

Baltimore’s topography to increase social and climate resiliency” Society for Risk

Analysis Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, December 14. (Podium presentation)

[54] Melick, K., Fu, Z., Igusa, T., Garzon, J.L. and Ferreira, C.M. (2016) “Identification of

critical storms conditions for hurricane-induced coastal surge in the Mid-Atlantic Region”

Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, December 14. (Podium

presentation)

[53] Bigalbal, A., Lanza, B., Keller, L., Jigme, T. and Reznicek, E., *Paquier, A.E. and

Ferreira, C. M. (2016) “Challenges in field data acquisition and processing for wetland

characterization and hydrodynamic measurements” American Water Resources

Association (AWRA) National Capital Region Symposium, Washington, DC, April 8.


[52] *Paquier, A.E., Haddad, J., Lawler, S. and Ferreira, C.M. (2016) “Field study of

hydrodynamics modification by a coastal wetland of the US Mid-Atlantic.” American

Water Resources Association (AWRA) National Capital Region Symposium, Washington,

DC, April 8. (Podium presentation)

[51] Walls, M and Ferreira, C. M. (2016) “Valuing the protective services of natural lands on

the coast” Social Coast Forum (NOAA), Charleston, SC, February 10. (Podium

presentation)

[50] Haddad, J., *Paquier, A.E., Lawler, S. and C.M. Ferreira (2015) “Wetlands as a nature-

based coastal defense: a numerical modeling and field data integration approach to

quantify storm surge attenuation for the Mid-Atlantic region” OCEANS MTS/IEEE

Washington, DC, October 21. (Podium presentation)

(This is the presentation of the article listed in section iv. [3])

[49] Haddad, J., *Paquier, A.E., Lawler, S. and C.M. Ferreira (2015) “Quantifying storm surge

attenuation by wetlands: Integration of field monitoring for numerical model calibration”

14th International Workshop on Wave Hindcasting & Forecasting & Scientific and

Technical Symposium on Storm Surges, Key West, FL, November 12. (Podium

presentation)

[48] Haddad, J., Lawler, S. and C.M. Ferreira (2015) “A hydrodynamic modeling and

geospatial framework for assessing the relevance of coastal wetlands for storm surge

protection” Solutions to Coastal Disasters & Coastal Structures American Society of Civil

Engineering (COPRI/ASCE), Boston, MA, September 11. (Podium presentation)

[47] Lawler, S., Haddad, J., Garzon, J., Deb, M. and Ferreira, C. (2015) “Designing nature-

based coastal defenses: A modeling approach to identify critical properties of Back Bay

systems” Solutions to Coastal Disasters & Coastal Structures American Society of Civil

Engineering (COPRI/ASCE), Boston, MA, September 11. (Poster presentation)

[46] Lawler, S., Haddad, J., Garzon, J., Deb, M. and Ferreira, C. (2015) “Application of

ADCIRC + SWAN to assess geospatial potential of wetlands to attenuate storm surge and

hurricane flooding in the Chesapeake Bay” 2nd International workshop on the application

of fluid mechanics to disaster reduction: Cyclone (hurricane/typhoon/extra-tropical)

modeling and damage assessment, Sendai, Japan, March 16. (Podium presentation)

[45] Lawler, S., Haddad, J., Garzon, J., Deb, M. and Ferreira, C. (2015) “Evaluation of the

spatial and temporal impacts of protected wetlands on surge induced flooding in the


Chesapeake Bay region: modeling and field measurements” EWRI World Environmental

& Water Resources Congress, American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE), Austin,

TX, May 21. (Podium presentation)

[44] Garzon, J., Lawler, S., Haddad, J., Deb, M. and Ferreira, C. (2015) “Integrating

physically-based numerical modeling of hurricane storm surge to an agent based

framework for coastal resilience and planning” EWRI World Environmental & Water

Resources Congress, American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE), Austin, TX, May

20. (Podium presentation)

[43] Brown, S., Behera, Pradeep, Ferreira, C. M. and Houck, M. (2015) “To green or not to

green: modeling an incentive-based program for green infrastructure investment on

private property” American Water Resources Association (AWRA) National Capital

Region Symposium, Washington, DC, April 10. (Podium presentation)

[42] Haddad, J and Ferreira, C. (2015) “A Geospatial Framework for Characterizing the

Integration of Wetlands, Storm Surge Flooding and Critical Infrastructure in the

Chesapeake Bay” American Water Resources Association (AWRA) National Capital

Region Symposium, Washington, DC, April 10. (Podium presentation)

[41] Deb, M., and Ferreira, C. (2015) “Assessment of Coastal Vulnerability to Storm Surge

Hazards in the Bay of Bengal Region: A case study for Bangladesh” American Water

Resources Association (AWRA) National Capital Region Symposium, Washington, DC,

April 10. (Podium presentation)

[40] Garzon, J., Lawler, S., Haddad, J., Deb, M. and Ferreira, C. (2015) “Integrating rivers

discharge into coastal flooding modeling along the Baltimore harbor” American Water

Resources Association (AWRA) National Capital Region Symposium, Washington, DC,

April 10. (Podium presentation)

[39] Ferreira, C., Da Silva, A. L., Nunes, A., Haddad, J. and Lawler, S. (2014) “The Mason

Water Data Information System (MWDIS): Enabling data sharing and discovery at George

Mason University” American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting. San Francisco,

CA, December 15. (Poster presentation)

[38] Neupane, S. R. and Ferreira, C. M. (2014) “Killer cold waves in Nepal: possible causes

in Nepalgunj” Annual American Water Resources Association (AWRA) Conference,

Tysons Corner, VA, November 5. (Podium presentation)

[37] Brown, S., Ferreira, C. M. and Houck, M. (2014) “To Green or Not to Green: Modeling

an Incentive-based Program for Green Infrastructure Investment” Annual American

Water Resources Association (AWRA) Conference, Tysons Corner, VA, November 5.

(Podium presentation)

[36] Haddad, J. and Ferreira, C. M. (2014) “Wetlands and Hurricanes: A geospatial

perspective on the potential of wetlands to reduce storm surge impact to critical

infrastructure” Annual American Water Resources Association (AWRA) Conference,

Tysons Corner, VA, November 4. (Podium presentation)

[35] Lawler, S., Deb, M., Ferreira, C. M.(2014) “Assessing the role of Chesapeake Bay

wetlands in attenuation of storm surges using coastal circulation model and real-time data

collection” Annual American Water Resources Association (AWRA) Conference, Tysons

Corner, VA, November 6. (Podium presentation)


[34] Deb, M., Lawler, S., Ferreira, C. (2014) “Reducing hurricane flood risk: Quantifying

wetlands storm surge attenuation rate in the Chesapeake Bay region” American

Geophysical Union (AGU) Science and Policy Conference, Washington, DC, June 16.


[33] Lawler, S., Deb, M. and Ferreira, C. (2014) “Monitoring storm surge: hydrodynamic

processes in coastal and estuarine wetlands” EWRI World Environmental & Water

Resources Congress, American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE), Portland, OR, June


[32] Deb, M., Lawler, S. and Ferreira, C. (2014) “Coastal storm surge mitigation: analysis

and modeling of Chesapeake Bay wetlands” EWRI World Environmental & Water

Resources Congress, American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE), Portland, OR, June


[31] Lawler, S., Deb, M. and Ferreira, C. (2014) “Storm surge attenuation in Chesapeake Bay

wetlands: analysis and modeling” American Water Resources Association (AWRA)

National Capital Region Symposium, Washington, DC, April 4. (Podium presentation)

[30] Deb, M., Lawler, S. and Ferreira, C. (2014) “Application of Unstructured mesh,

SWAN+ADCIRC model to evaluate the role of wetlands in attenuating storm surges,

Chesapeake Bay region” American Water Resources Association (AWRA) National

Capital Region Symposium, Washington, DC, April 4. (Podium presentation)

[29] Lawler, S., Deb, M. and Ferreira, C. (2014) “Evaluating the role of emergent wetlands in

the Chesapeake Bay region to attenuate storm surge” 7th National Summit on Coastal and

Estuarine Restoration and the 24th Biennial Meeting of the Coastal Society, Annapolis,

MD, November 1. (Podium presentation)

[28] Deb, M., Lawler, S. and Ferreira, C. (2014) “Assessment of the role of wetlands in the

attenuation of storm surges using coastal circulation model (ADCIRC) in the Chesapeake

Bay region” Chesapeake Modeling Symposium, Annapolis, MD, May 28. (Podium

presentation)

[27] Lawler, S., Deb, M. and Ferreira, C. (2013) “Coastal storm surge mitigation: analysis

and modeling of Chesapeake Bay wetlands?” American Geophysical Union (AGU) Ocean

Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, HI, February 25. (Poster presentation)

[26] Lawler, S., Deb, M. and Ferreira, C. (2013) “A high density storm surge monitoring

network: Can we better understand hurricane flooding attenuation by wetlands?”

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 9.


[25] Wright, M., Ferreira, C. M. and Houck, M. (2013) “Parallelizing R code for the

evaluation of heterogeneity statistics in precipitation frequency analysis” American

Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 9. (Poster

presentation)

[24] Wright, M., Ferreira, C. M. and Houck, M. (2013) “Evaluating regional heterogeneity

statistics as reasonable proxies of the error of precipitation quantile estimation” American


presentation)


[23] Ogashawara, I., Curtarelli, M. P. and Ferreira, C. (2013) “Hurricane coastal flood

analysis using multispectral images” American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting,


[22] Scolese, D., Pham, K., Ferreira, C. and Tanyu, B. (2013) “Evaluation of the HAZUS-MH

model to predict flood damage along the New Jersey coast after Hurricane Sandy” AGU

Science Policy Conference, Washington, DC, June 24. (Poster presentation)

[21] Martin, A. and Ferreira, C. (2013) “Potential impacts of hurricane flooding in the

national capital region: what if hurricane sandy made landfall in the Chesapeake Bay?”

AGU Science Policy Conference, Washington, DC, June 24. (Poster presentation)

[20] Wright, M., Ferreira, C. and Houck, M. (2013) “Evaluation of heterogeneity statistics as

reasonable proxies of the error of precipitation quantile estimation in the Minneapolis-St.

Paul region” AGU Science Policy Conference, Washington, DC, June 24. (Poster

presentation)

[19] Wright, M., Ferreira, C. and Houck, M. (2013) “Regional frequency analysis of rainfall

using gauge and satellite data: improving accuracy of estimation for gauged and un-

gauged sites” American Water Resources Association (AWRA) National Capital Region

Symposium, Washington, DC, April 5. (Podium presentation)

[18] Ferreira, C. M. (2013) “From hurricanes to coastal flood maps: A GIS approach” ESRI

International User Conference, San Diego, CA, July 9. (Podium presentation)

[17] Ferreira, C., Irish, J. L. and Olivera, F. (2012) “Potential effects of SLR and land-cover

changes on hurricane surge and damage” American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2012 Fall

Meeting. San Francisco, CA, December 4. (Poster presentation)

[16] Irish, J. L., Ferreira, C., Resio, D. T., and Olivera, F. (2012) “Future Tropical Cyclone

Flooding Probability and Risk Assessment: Considerations for Sea-level Rise and Climate

Change” International Conference on Coastal Engineering (ICCE), Santander, Spain, July


(This is the presentation of the article listed in section iv. [2])

[15] Ferreira, C., Olivera, F. and Irish, J. L. (2012) “Integration of High Performance

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to GIS “ESRI International User Conference, San

Diego, CA, July 21. (Podium presentation)

[14] Ferreira, C., Irish, J. L. and Olivera, F. (2012) “Potential impact of climate change on

hurricane flooding in coastal bays" EWRI World Environmental & Water Resources

Congress, Albuquerque, NM, May 21. (Podium presentation)

[13] Ferreira, C., Olivera, F. and Irish, J. L. (2012) “Integration of GIS and Hurricane Coastal

Flooding" EWRI World Environmental & Water Resources Congress, Albuquerque, NM,

May 22. (Podium presentation)

[12] Ferreira, C., Irish, J. L. and Olivera, F. (2011) “Impact of sea level rise on the attenuation

of hurricane storm surge by wetlands in Corpus Christi, TX.” American Geophysical

Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 6. (Poster presentation)

[11] Ferreira, C., Irish, J. L. and Olivera, F. (2011) “Numerical modeling of the impact of

wetlands on hurricane storm surge in coastal bays” Community Surface Dynamics

Modeling System (CSDMS) Meeting, Boulder, CO, October 28. (Poster presentation)


[10] Ferreira, C., Olivera, F. and Djokic, D. (2011) “Development of DEMs from LiDAR data

for Watershed Delineation" ESRI International User Conference, San Diego, CA, July 12.

(Podium presentation)

[9] Ferreira, C., Irish, J. and Olivera, F. (2011) “ArcStormSurge: Geodatamodel for hurricane

storm surge and ADCIRC GIS interface" ESRI International User Conference. San Diego,

CA, July 12. (Podium presentation)

[8] Ferreira, C., Olivera, F. and Irish, J. (2011) “The Role of Wetlands in Reducing Hurricane

Related Coastal Flooding: Can Wetlands Help Reduce Coastal Disasters Damage in

Corpus Christi, TX?" Solutions to Coastal Disasters & Coastal Structures American

Society of Civil Engineering (COPRI/ASCE), Anchorage, AK, June 25. (Poster

presentation)

[7] Ferreira, C., Olivera, F. and Irish, J. (2011) “Quantification of hurricane surge damage

in Corpus Christi, Texas, as a function of wetland characteristics with application to

restoration and climate change" EWRI World Environmental & Water Resources

Congress, Palm Springs, CA, May 23. (Podium presentation)

[6] Ferreira, C., Irish, J. and Olivera, F. (2011) “Integrating Geographical Information

Systems and ADCIRC for hurricane storm surge modeling" ADCIRC Model Workshop,

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, April 19. (Poster presentation)

[5] Ferreira, C., Udoh I., Olivera, F. and Irish, J. L. (2011) “Scaling hurricane surge for

hazard assessment” 2011 Texas A&M Supercomputing Annual Users Meeting, College

Station, TX, May 2. (Podium presentation)

[4] Ferreira, C., Olivera, F. and Djokic, D. (2010) “Evaluation of terrain datasets for LiDAR

data thinning and DEM generation for watershed delineation applications" American


presentation)

[3] Ferreira, C., Irish, J. Olivera, F (2010) " The influence of coastal wetlands on hurricane

surge in Corpus Christi, TX" American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San

Francisco, CA, December 14. (Poster presentation)

[2] Ferreira, C., Olivera, F. and Djokic, D. (2010) "Terrain Datasets: How good are they?"

American Water Resources Association (AWRA) GIS Specialty Conference, Orlando, FL,

March 29. (Podium presentation)

[1] Ferreira, C., Olivera, F., and Djokic, D. (2010) “Development of large topographic

datasets for hydrologic applications" EWRI World Environmental & Water Resources

Congress, Providence, RI, May 13. (Podium presentation)

viii. Researcher statistics*

[2] Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=v6f8mFEAAAAJ&hl=en)

h-index:6 / i10-index: 4 / Total citations: 126

Citations per year: 7 (2011) / 9 (2012) / 12 (2013) / 14 (2014) / 14 (2015) / 37 (2016) /

23 (2017)

[1] Research Gate (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Celso_Ferreira2)

RG Score: 21.27

* Last updated on July 2017

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=v6f8mFEAAAAJ&hl=en

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Celso_Ferreira2


B. Contracts and Grants

i. Current/past support: (Total: $3,776,000 / Celso Ferreira’s share: $ 871,833)

Grant No Sponsors Total Grant

Amount ($)

Amount allocated

to Dr. Ferreira ($)

9 US DOI 440,000 360,000

8 NSF 3,000,000 260,000

7 4-VA 20,000 20,000

6 Jeffress Trust 100,000 45,000

5 Dominion Foundation 46,000 46,000

4 Jeffress Trust 100,000 100,000

3 Dominion Environmental; 25,000 12,500

2 4-VA 20,000 20,000

1 Dominion Foundation 25,000 8,333

Grand Total ($) 3,776,000 871,833

[9] GMU Award Number: 203469

Sponsor Award Number: 43932

Sponsor: US Department of the Interior (DOI) & National Fish and

Wildlife Foundation (NFWF)

Project title: Quantifying storm surge attenuation by wetlands

Start date: January 2015 (3 years duration)

PI: Celso Ferreira

Co-PIs: Jud Harvey and Jay Choy (USGS)

Total awarded: $440,000

Celso Ferreira’s share: $360,000 (Sub-award to USGS $80,000)

[8] GMU Award Number: 203112 / 203794

Sponsor Award Number: 1331399

Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)

Project title: Hazards SEES Type 2: In hot water and harm's way:

modeling to promote regional resilience to repeated heat

waves and hurricanes

Start date: September 2013 (5 years duration)

PI: Seth Guikema (University of Michigan)

Co-PIs: Robin Dillon-Merril (Georgetown University), Celso

Ferreira (George Mason University), Tony Dalrymple

(Johns Hopkins University, Margaret Walls (Resources for

the Future), Katie O’Meara (Maryland Institute College of

Art), Benjamin Zaitchik (Johns Hopkins University),

Brooke Anderson (Colorado State University) and Tak

Igusa (Johns Hopkins University)

Total awarded: $3,000,000

Celso Ferreira’s share: $260,000 (Sub-award to GMU)

https://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/secretary-jewell-announces-102-million-in-coastal-resilience-grants-to-help-atlantic-coast-communities-protect-themselves-from-future-storms

https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=129307



Sponsor Award Number: N/A

Sponsor: 4-VA: Universities Collaborating to Achieve Virginia's

Goals for Higher Education

Project title: SurgeNOW: Enabling real-time extreme weather coastal

flooding forecasts in the Chesapeake Bay

Start date: May 2017 (1 year duration)

PI: Celso Ferreira


[6] GMU Award Number: N/A


Sponsor: Jeffress Trust Awards Program in Interdisciplinary

Research

Project title: Evaluating the potential of bio-inspired soils to enhance

nature based coastal resiliency systems by combining

experimental and computational methods

Start date: August 2017 (1 year duration)

PI: Burak Tanyu (George Mason University)

Co-PIs: Celso Ferreira and Liza Durant (George Mason

University)


Celso Ferreira’s share: $45,000



Sponsor: Dominion Higher Education Partnership

Project title: The insider’s view of the storm: A mobile extreme weather

monitoring unit to integrate the Civil Engineering

Laboratory at George Mason University


PI: Celso Ferreira




Sponsor: Jeffress Trust Awards Program in Interdisciplinary

Research

Project title: Protecting Virginia from hurricane storm surge with

wetlands ecosystems: can nature help to reduce hurricane

flood risk?

Start date: 2013 (2 years duration)

PI: Celso Ferreira




Sponsor: Dominion's Environmental Stewardship grants program

Project title: Stormwater in HD: Monitoring the Chesapeake Bay water

https://hria.org/tmf/jeffress/


quality one site at a time


PI: Celso Ferreira

Co-PIs: Viviana Maggioni (George Mason University)





Sponsor: 4-VA: Universities Collaborating to Achieve Virginia's

Goals for Higher Education

Project title: The Mason Water Data Information System (MWDIS):

empowering data sharing and discovery at George Mason

University and beyond

Start date: February 2015 (1 year duration)

PI: Celso Ferreira

Co-PIs: Paul Houser (George Mason University) [Mason Water

Forum outreach collaborator]





Sponsor: Dominion's Environmental Stewardship grants program

Project title: Cast the Net - An Adaptive Wireless Environmental

Sensor-Web for Stormwater


PI: Viviana Maggioni (George Mason University)

Co-PIs: Celso Ferreira and Paul Houser (George Mason

University)




ii. High Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud Computing Resources Awards (Total

awards 3,206,802 SUs and estimated value of $123,191)

Grant No Sponsors Computational

Hours (SU)

Estimated Value

($)

7 NSF 1 742,1605 12,894

6 NSF 1 607,136 21,016

5 Microsoft Research2 ------- 20,000

4 NSF1 900,000 35,918

3 NSF1 614,006 24,504

2 NSF1 222,000 8,859

1 NSF1 121,500 ---

Grand Total 3,206,802 $ 123,191

[7] Sponsor Award Number: BCS130009 (renewal – new application)

Sponsor: NSF Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery

Environment (XSEDE)

Project title: Numerical simulation of coastal flood hazards: natural and

nature-based features and coastal resilience

Start date: July 2017 (1 year duration)

PI: Celso Ferreira

Total awarded (SU3): 46,385 Stampede II node hours5 or equivalent to 742,160

SU

Total awarded ($4): $ 12,894



Environment (XSEDE)

Project title: Numerical simulation of coastal flood hazards: natural and

nature-based features and coastal resilience

Start date: July 2016 (1 year duration)

PI: Celso Ferreira

Total awarded (SU3): 607,136 SU

Total awarded ($4): $ 21,016

[5] Sponsor Award Number: N/A

Sponsor: Microsoft Research. Program: Microsoft Azure for

Research

Project title: CDI - Importance of mangroves in attenuating storm surge

and coastal flooding in Bangladesh: Can nature increase

resilience under climate change

Start date: February 2015 (1 year duration)

PI: Celso Ferreira

Total awarded: $20,000 of Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing




Environment (XSEDE)

Project title: Modeling storm surge in the Chesapeake Bay and beyond:

evaluating coastal inundation hazards and defenses

Start date: January 2015 (1 year duration)

PI: Celso Ferreira

Total awarded (SU3): 900,000

Total awarded ($4): $35,918

[3] Sponsor Award Number: BCS130009


Environment (XSEDE)

Project title: Protecting Virginia from hurricane storm surge with

wetlands ecosystems: can nature help to reduce hurricane

flood risk?

Start date: September 2013 (1 year duration)

PI: Celso Ferreira



[2] Sponsor Award Number: BCS120008


Environment (XSEDE)

Project title: Hurricane storm surge modeling in the Chesapeake Bay

area


PI: Celso Ferreira



[1] Sponsor Award Number: ENG150030


Environment (XSEDE)

Project title: CEIE 690 - Coastal Flood Hazards


PI: Celso Ferreira


Total awarded ($4): N/A (Graduate class teaching allocation)

Notes: 1 The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE)

allocation provides access to computing, visualization, and/or storage resources as

well as extended support services at XSEDE service provider (SP) sites. In

general, XSEDE follows the guidelines described in the current NSF Grant

Proposal Guide. XSEDE allocations are decided on a competitive process.

2 Microsoft Research competitive proposals for the Microsoft Azure for Research

Award.

3 Computational and visualization services in XSEDE are allocated and charged

in Service Units (SUs). SUs are defined locally on each system, with conversion

https://www.xsede.org/overview

https://azure4research.azurewebsites.net/proposal/

https://azure4research.azurewebsites.net/proposal/


factors among systems.

4 Service Units (SUs) estimated cost is provided by XSEDE at the time of the

award.

5 Stampede II Node hours estimated cost is provided by XSEDE at the time of the

award.

iii. External Student Grants and Fellowships (Total: $5,000)



Sponsor: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

(NOAA) Virginia Sea Grant

Project title: Integrated Coastal and Economic Models for Valuing the

Protective Ecosystem Services of Natural and Nature Based

Features: Building Resiliency in Virginia


Student applicant: Ali Rezaie

PI: Celso Ferreira

External Mentor: Margaret Walls (Resources for the Future)



C. Research Honors and Recognitions

After joining Mason

[2] Finalist of the Mason Emerging Researcher Award in 2016

[1] ASCE Outstanding Reviewer 2012 for the Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Prior to joining Mason

National Awards

[6] 1st Place Student Technical Paper Competition, Graduate Division at the 2011 World

Environmental and Water Resources Congress, Palm Springs, California, from the

Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) of the American Society of Civil

Engineers (ASCE).

[5] Richard A. Herbert Memorial Education Scholarship, Graduate Division, from the

American Water Resources Association (AWRA) (2009-2010).

[4] Best student oral presenter award for the 2010 American Water Resources Association

(AWRA) GIS Specialty Conference. Orlando, Florida.

[3] 2nd Place Student Poster Competition at the 2011 Solution to Coastal Disasters

Conference, Anchorage Alaska, from the Coasts, Oceans, Ports and Rivers Institute

(COPRI) of theAmerican Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

[2] Travel grant awardee for the 2010 ESRI International User Conference Student

Assistantship Program.

[1] PHI KAPPA PHI Honors Society Love of Learning Award (2011).

State of Texas Awards

[3] The John B. Hawley Memorial Fellowship of the Texas Section of the American Society

of Civil Engineers (ASCE) (2010-2011).

[2] South Central Arc User Group (SCAUG) Research Scholarship (2011).

[1] Texas Water Resources Institute TWRI Mills Scholarship (2009-2010).

Texas A&M University Awards

[15] Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Doctoral-Level Research. The Zachry

Department of Civil Engineering. Texas A&M University (2012).

[14] Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award. The Zachry Department of Civil

Engineering. Texas A&M University (2009).

[13] James C. Nagle Memorial Fellowship, The Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at

Texas A&M University (2011-2012), (2010-2011), (2008-2009).

[12] Rollins Family Fellowship for Civil Engineering Education, The Zachry Department of

Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University (2011-2012).


[11] Bechtel Foundation Services Scholarship, The Zachry Department of Civil Engineering

at Texas A&M University (2011-2012).

[10] Tim Kramer Fellowship, The Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M

University (2010-2011).

[9] Jaster-Quintanilla Fellowship in Sustainability, The Zachry Department of Civil

Engineering at Texas A&M University (2010-2011).

[8] Department Head Doctoral Fellowship, The Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at

Texas A&M University, (2009-2010).

[7] Fellow of the Graduate Teaching Academy – GTA of Texas A&M University.

[6] 1st Prize Session Winner, 2010 Student Research Week, Texas A&M University.

[5] 2st Prize Taxonomy Winner, 2010 Student Research Week, Texas A&M University.

[4] 1st Prize Taxonomy Winner, 2009 Student Research Week, Texas A&M University.

[3] Environmental Health and Safety Department Safety Recognition, 2009 Student Research

Week, Texas A&M University.

[2] FLOWREP – Future Leaders of Water Resources Professoriate. Four year PhD

Fellowship from the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering.

[1] Association of Former Students and Office of Graduate Studies Travel Award (2011).

Other Awards

[4] The Netherlands Fellowship Programmes 2007 - NFP. (Complete short courses

fellowship).

[3] Spanish International Cooperation Agency – AECI. Fellowship BECAS-MAE (Complete

ME fellowship).

[2] National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development – CNPQ, Brazil.

(Complete MS fellowship).

[1] ROTARY INTERNATIONAL – Exchange Student Program in Australia 1994.


D. Editorships, Editorial Boards, Journal Reviewing Activities

Reviewer for:

[28] Computers and Fluids published by Elsevier

[27] Climate Risk Management published by Elsevier

[26] Natural Hazards published by Springer

[25] Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk published by Taylor and Francis Online

[24] Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure published by Taylor and Francis Online

[23] Journal of Geophysical Research published by the American Geophysical Union

(AGU)

[22] Applied Geography published by Elsevier

[21] Journal of Hydrologic Engineering published by the American Society of Civil

Engineers (ASCE)

[20] Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering published by the

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

[19] Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management published by the American

Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

[18] Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering published by the American Society of Civil

Engineers (ASCE)

[17] Coastal Engineering published by Elsevier

[16] Journal of Hydrology published by Elsevier

[15] Monthly Weather Review published by the American Meteorological Society (AMS)

[14] Coastal Engineering Journal published by World Scientific

[13] Risk Analysis published by the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA)

[12] International Journal of Geo-Information published by the International Society for

Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)

[11] Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) published by the

American Water Resources Association (AWRA)

[10] Weather, Climate and Society published by the American Meteorological Society

(AMS)

[9] Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences published by the European Geosciences

Union

[8] Environmental Fluid Mechanics published by Springer

[7] Journal of Marine Science and Engineering published by the Multidisciplinary Digital

Publishing Institute

[6] Climate Dynamics published by Springer

[5] Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, published by Springer


[4] Earth’s Future, published by the American Geophysical Union (AGU)

[3] Ocean Dynamics, published by Springer

[2] JAMES – Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, published by the American

Geophysical Union (AGU)

[1] Environmental Monitoring and Assessment published by Springer


III. TEACHING AND ADVISING

A. Courses Taught over Last 5 Years

[1] CEIE340 Water Resources Engineering

Student evaluation

Term # Students Question 15 Dept. Mean Question 16 Dept. Mean

Spring 2013 44 4.93 4.31 4.83 4.16

Fall 2013 50 4.78 4.32 4.60 4.24

Spring 2014 36 4.86 4.35 4.71 4.24

Fall 2014 39 4.94 4.51 4.81 4.35

Spring 2015 31 4.44 4.50 4.19 4.35

Fall 2015 44 4.66 4.50 4.66 4.39

Fall 2016 51 4.81 4.70 4.77 4.53

Spring 2017 41 4.80 4.52 4.69 4.40

[2] CEIE 641 Water Resources Engineering I: Principles and Practice

Student evaluation


Fall 2013 7 4.86 4.32 4.83 4.24

Fall 2016 24 4.89 4.70 4.89 4.53

[3] CEIE 690 Flood Hazards Engineering (new course developed that did not exist at GMU)

Student evaluation


Fall 2014 15 4.62 4.51 4.62 4.35

[4] CEIE 690 Coastal Flood Hazards (new course developed that did not exist at GMU)

Student evaluation


Fall 2015 15 4.92 4.50 4.92 4.39

Summary of Teaching Evaluations

Student evaluation

Term Total #

Students

Question 15 Dept. Mean Question 16 Dept. Mean

Overall 397 4.8 4.5 4.7 4.3

* Question 15: My overall rating of the teaching (student) - out of 5 points

* Question 16: My overall rating of this course (student) - out of 5 points


[5] Individualized Undergraduate Research Classes (tailored to advance specific individual

research students)

[7] CEIE 498 Coastal Flood Hazards

Student: Khristine Mosouela

Spring 2017

[6] CEIE 395 Mentored Research in Civil and Environmental Engineering

Student: Alayna Bigalbal

Spring 2017

[5] CEIE 395 Mentored Research in Civil and Environmental Engineering

Student: Beverly Lanza

Fall 2016

[4] CEIE 498 Watershed Response Analysis

Student: Jana Haddad

Summer 2014

[3] CEIE 498 Human Activities & Water Cycle

Student: Santosh Neupane

Summer 2014

[2] CEIE 498 Applied Bridge Scour

Student: Seth Lawler

Summer 2013

[1] CEIE 498 Hurricane Storm Surge Modeling

Student: Amelia Martin

Fall 2013

[6] Individualized Graduate Directed Reading for Research (tailored to advance specific

individual research students)

[15] CEIE 796 Flood Control & Simulation

Student: Selina Sumi

Spring 2017

[14] CEIE 796 UAV Applications in Hydrology

Student: Sherwin Zahirieh

Spring 2017

[13] CEIE 796 Advanced Hydraulics

Student: Selina Sumi

Fall 2016

[12] CEIE 796 Coastal Ecosystem Services


Student: Ali Rezaie

Fall 2016

[11] CEIE 796 Research Project in Civil Engineering


Fall 2016

[10] CEIE 796 Government Oversight of Capital Project

Student: Erin Powel

Fall 2016

[9] CEIE 796 Precipitation and Hydrometer Processes


Fall 2016

[8] CEIE 796 Storm Tides and Waves

Student: Juan Hervas

Spring 2016

[7] CEIE 796 Advanced Applications in Hydrodynamic modeling

Student: Jana Haddad

Spring 2016

[6] CEIE 896 Advanced Hydrologic Modeling

Student: Ryan Cook

Summer 2015

[5] CEIE 896 Advanced Hydrology

Student: Daniel Habete

Spring 2015

[4] CEIE 896 Advanced Hydrological Instrumentation

Student: Maryam Zavareh

Spring 2015

[3] CEIE 896 HPC in Coastal Engineering

Student: Mithun Deb

Spring 2015

[2] CEIE 896 High Performance Computing


Spring 2015

[1] CEIE 896 Hurricane Storm Surge Modeling

Student: Juan Hervas

Fall 2014


B. Teaching/Advising Awards

[1] 2017 George Mason University Mason Student as Scholars (OSCAR) Mentoring

Excellence Award

C. Advising (non-research)

[3] 3 hours weekly for undergraduate curriculum and general advising

Fall 2012 to Spring 2015

[2] 4 hours weekly during mandatory advising term - for undergraduate curriculum and general

advising


[1] 2 hour sessions weekly during summer for undergraduate curriculum and general advising


D. Student groups

[1] Theta Tau Engineering Society

Academic advisor from Fall 2014 to present

E. Advising undergraduate research

i. Mason Student as Scholars (OSCAR) Undergraduate Research Scholars Program

(URSP)

Total awarded to students under my supervision $32,000

[13] Melissa Rossi

Title: Growing VEGGIE: Creating self-sufficient irrigation systems for the smart city and

beyond

Spring 2017

Total awarded $2,000

[12] Tirik Ford

Title: An open source geospatial framework for the Mason Campus storm water system

Spring 2017


[11] Tyler Miesse

Title: The Protective role of coastal marshes during extreme storm events

Spring 2017


[10] Alayna Bigalbal

Title: Nature-based engineering for coastal resilience: Can wetlands prevent shoreline


erosion from storm surge

Spring 2017


[9] Kevin Diner

Title: On the Road to Restoring Fairfax County Streams: Accessing the Credibility of the

Chesapeake Bay Program's TSS rate

Spring 2017


[8] Beverly Lanza

Title: Investigating upstream reservoir storage impacts on mitigating upstream

consumptive use of water (In collaboration with the Potomac River Authority)

Fall 2016


[7] Sherwin Zahirieh

Title: Evaluating the impacts of campus development on the Mason watershed: Are Low

Impact Development practices working?

Fall 2015


[6] Nadia Ahamadi

Title: George Mason's stormwater system and extreme events: Can we walk during the

rain?

Spring 2015


[5] Chris Nelson

Title: Watershed delineation using real high resolution data; Challenges and

Opportunities

Spring 2014


[4] Jana Haddad

Title: The Mason Educational Watershed: Implementing a high resolution hydrological

monitoring network

Summer 2014


[3] Santosh Neupan

Title: Killer Cold Waves in Nepal: Possible Causes In Nepalgunj

Summer 2014


[2] Seth Lawler

Title: Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry applications to stream bank erosion and

bridge scour monitoring in the Difficult Run Watershed

Summer 2013



[1] Amelia Martin

Title: Potential Impacts of Hurricane Flooding in the National Capital Region: What if

Hurricane Sandy Made Landfall in the Chesapeake Bay?

Fall 2013


ii. Mason Student as Scholars (OSCAR) Research Assistant Program

[1] Tirik Ford

Title: Sharing Hydrologic Data: Integrating the Mason Water Data Information System

with the CUAHSI HIS

Fall 2016 & Spring 2017

Total awarded: ongoing

iii. Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) from Research Grants

[11] Dan Bentley

Title: Real time flood sensing and monitoring

Funding from DOI/NFWF.

Spring 2017

[10] Tyler Miesse

Title: Quantifying storm surge attenuation by wetlands


Spring 2017

[9] Elisabetta Iannetti

Title: Quantifying storm surge attenuation by wetland


Spring 2017

[8] Kristine Mosouela



Spring 2016

[7] Alayna Bigalbal



Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Summer 2016 and Fall 2016

[6] Beverly Lanza



Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Summer 2016 and Fall 2016


[5] Lora Baungartner

Title: The Mason Water Data Information System (MWDIS): Empowering Data Sharing

and Discovery at George Mason University and Beyond

Funding from Virginia 4VA Program.

Summer 2015 and Fall 2015

[4] Lindsey Kellar




Summer 2015 and Fall 2015

[3] Shahriar Sabadasar




Fall 2015

[2] Evan Reznicek



Fall 2015

[1] Tenzin Jigme



Fall 2015


F. Graduate Research Advising as major advisor (*co-advised)

(Student’s and postdoctoral fellows’ presentations are listed on section II, vii.)

i. Completed

Postdoctoral Fellows

[1] Eleonore Paquier


Funding from DOI/NFWF; 2016

(See section II, iii., [18] for publication)

Ph.D.

[2] Daniel Habete

Dissertation title: Impacts of nonstationarity on watershed hydrologic and floodplain

hydraulic analyses: climate change and urbanization; 2017

Currently: Fairfax County Storm Water Division

(See section II, iii., [20], [12] and submitted [2] for publications)

[1] Michael Wright*

Dissertation title: Evaluation of heterogeneity statistics for hydrological regional frequency

analysis; 2014

*Co-advised with Dr. Mark Houck

Currently: USACE

(See section II, iii., [9], [8] and [6] for publications)

M.S.

[4] Seth Lawler

Topic: Sensitivity considerations and the impact of spatial scaling for storm surge modeling

in wetlands of the mid-Atlantic region; 2016

Currently: PhD student at Mason and Dewberry Engineer


[3] Jana Haddad

Topic: A hydrodynamic modeling and geospatial framework for assessing the relevance of

storm surge protection provided by wetlands: An application to the Virginia Chesapeake Bay

region; 2016

Currently: PhD student at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill


[2] Mariam Borga*

Topic: A Geospatial Framework to Estimate Depth of Scour under Buildings Due To Storm

Surge in Coastal Areas; 2016

*Co-advised with Dr. Burak Tanyu

Currently: Engineer at ECS Engineering Consulting Services



[1] Mithun Deb

Topic: Climate change and coastal flooding in Bangladesh; 2015

Currently: PhD student at University of Delaware

(See section II, iii., [17] and [13] for publications)

ii. In progress

Ph.D. Students

PhD Candidates (Passed proposal defense)

[8] Juan Luis Hervas Garzon

Title (tentative): Observations and numerical modelling of coastal storms-induced hazards. A

step forward in the implementation of natural solutions for coastal protection at the

Chesapeake Bay; Exp.: Spring 2018

(See section II, iii., [14] and [15] for publications)

[7] Richard Weisman

Title (tentative): Effects of source water conditions on the formation of disinfectant

byproducts in potable drinking water plants in the Shenandoah river watershed; Exp.: Spring

2019

[6] Seth Brown*

Title (tentative): To Green or Not to Green: Modeling an Incentive-based Program for Green

Infrastructure Investment; Exp.: Spring 2017

Co-advised with Dr. Mark houck

(See section II, v., [1] for publication)

PhD Students (Passed qualifying exam)

[5] Ali Rezaie

Title (tentative): Evaluating flood protection services from natural ecosystems; Exp.: Spring

2019

[4] Selina Sumi

Title (tentative): Real time flood forecasting in the urban watersheds; Exp.: Spring 2019

[3] Erin Powell

Title (tentative): To replace or not replace: Optimal resources allocation of water distribution

infrastructure; Exp.: Spring 2019

PhD Students

[2] Seth Lawler

Title (tentative): Real time flood forecasting in tidal areas; Exp.: Spring 2019


[1] Arslaan Khalid

Title (tentative): Real time flood forecasting in the Potomac River; Exp.: Spring 2019

MS Students

[2] Juliana Cuomo

Title (tentative): Dams infrastructure resilience in the US; Exp.: Spring 2019

[1] Sherwin Zahirieh

Title (tentative): Application of UAVs for DEM development and vegetation hydrodynamic

characteristics processing in coastal areas; Exp.: Spring 2019


G. Extension Activities

High school students mentoring

[9] Pavani Ravella

2017 Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology Mentorship Program

Title: Mobile phone APP development for real time flood forecasting

[8] Sam Dasari

2017 Mason Aspiring Scientists Summer Internship Program

Title: Implementing the FEWS system for flood forecasting

[7] Rachel Li


Title: TBD

[6] Arvind Govinday


Title: TBD

[5] Christine Wang

2016 Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology Mentorship Program

Title: Storm surge real time forecast system for the Chesapeake Bay

[4] Emma Glass


Title: Storm flood attenuation in the Chesapeake Bay

(See section II, iii., submitted [4] for publication)

[3] Brian Ross


Title: Mason watershed stormwater modeling

[2] Christine Zhao


Title: GIS based real time flood warning systems

[1] Numan Khan


Title: IoT flood sensors

H. Dissertation and Thesis Committees

i. PhD

Yashar Alimohammadlou: Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering (GMU)

Nicholas Gardner: Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering (GMU)

Wondwosen Ali: Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering (GMU)


Kim Elliot: Systems Engineering (GMU)

Holly E. Horton: Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Earth Sciences (GMU)

ii. Masters

Trevor Mackessy-Lloyd: Geography and GeoInformation Science (GMU)

IV. SERVICE

A. Professional

i. Professional registration

[1] Passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam on 4/17/2010 from the Texas Board

of Professional Engineers

[2] Registered Engineer in Brazil since 2003. (171 registered projects with the Brazilian

Engineering Board (CREA/CONFEA).

ii. Membership in professional organizations

Member of:

[6] American Geophysical Union (AGU)

[5] American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE)

[4] Environmental and Water Resources Institute (IWRE-ASCE)

[3] Coasts, Oceans, Ports and Rivers Institute (COPRI-ASCE)

[2] American Water Resources Association (AWRA)

[1] International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS)

iii. Committee memberships and offices

[3] Member of the of the Coastal and Estuarine Hydroscience Committee of the Coasts,

Oceans, Ports and Rivers Institute (COPRI-ASCE)

[2] Treasurer of the American Water Resources Association (AWRA) National Capital Region

for 2014-2015

[1] Member of the Technology Committee from the American Water Resources Association

(AWRA)

iv. Reviewing activities for agencies

[7] National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR)


[6] Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NOW)

Sustainable Deltas 2017

[5] National Science Foundation (NSF)

Infrastructure Management and Extreme Events (IMEE)

Division of Earth Sciences

International research Experiences for Students (IRES)

Ocean Sciences

[4] National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Ecological Effects of SLR Program

[3] Louisiana’s Coastal Master Plan

RESTORE Act Center of Excellence for Louisiana 2017

[2] Texas Sea Grant / National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

[1] Mid-Atlantic Transportation Sustainability Center (MATS-UTC)

2017 Coastal Infrastructure Resilience

2016 Coastal Infrastructure Resilience

v. Other Professional Service

[6] Selected to attend the National Science Foundation (NSF) Methods of Disaster Research

Workshop

[5] American Geophysical Union (AGU) Natural Hazards Focus Group Coordinator for the

Outstanding Student Presentation Awards (OSPA) 2013.

[4] Session moderator at the 2014 American Water Resources Association National Capital Region

Symposium

[3] Co-organized the Town hall: “Exploring Careers in Natural Hazards” for the American

Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2013.

[2] Session moderator at the 2015 American Water Resources Association National Capital Region

Symposium

[1] Session moderator at the World Environmental & Water Resources Congress 2015, American

Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE), Austin, Texas.

B. University

i. CEIE Department

[3] Department search committee for tenure-track positions in Geotechnical Engineering and

Construction Engineering in 2016-2017.

[2] CEIE 785 and CEIE 800 Graduate Student Seminars, Fall 2012 and Spring 2013


[1] Department Faculty meetings minute taker for Fall 2012 and Spring 2013

ii. Volgenau School of Engineering (VSE)

[1] Member of the computing committee, Fall 2012 to present

iii. George Mason University

[1] Member of the Student Scholarly Activities Committee for 2014-2015

Documents

Celso M. Ferreira, PhDAppendix D / Celso Ferreira CV / page 3 of 36 II. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES A. Publications and Presentations i. Dissertation The influence of coastal wetlands on hurricane