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Jul 02, 2025 Our research on predicting extreme water levels in the U.S. Atlantic Coast has been featured by CNN.
Jun 02, 2025 Our research on predicting extreme water levels in the U.S. Atlantic Coast has been featured by FOX weather.
May 02, 2025 Md. Shadman Sakib has been selected to participate in the National Water Center Innovators Program - Summer Institute sponsored by CUAHSI and CIROH.
Apr 02, 2025 Dr. Muñoz participated in the EGU 2025. We collaborate with researchers from Belgium and Ecuador to advance operational hydrology in data-scarce mountainous areas using machine learning. See the abstracts 1, and 2.
Mar 15, 2025 Our work on predicting extreme water levels associated with cyclones has been published in Water Resources Research. Congratulations Samuel for your first PhD article!
Mar 02, 2025 Dr. Muñoz collaborated to the editorial of “Spatiotemporal modeling and assessment of water-related multi-hazards” Thanks to the authors who submitted their research to the special collection!
Dec 02, 2024 The CoRAL lab attended the American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference for the first time! We hold a session in digital twins, and presented five research works involving Natural Hazards and Ocean Sciences.
Nov 27, 2024 Dr. Muñoz presented the work “Predicting the Evolution of Extreme Water Levels with Deep and Transfer Learning Techniques” in the CMCC-FOCCUS International Workshop, Lecce, Italy.
Oct 08, 2024 Dr. Muñoz presented the work “Advancing Compound Flood Modeling with Hybrid Approaches: An Integrated Modeling Perspective” in the CCPO-ICAR Seminar Series organized by Old Dominion University.
Sep 02, 2024 Dr. Muñoz presented the work “Quantifying Cascading Uncertainty in Compound Flood Modeling with Linked Process-based and Machine Learning Models” in the 2024 AWRA, UCOWR, NIWR Joint Water Resources Conference in St. Louis.
Jul 02, 2024 The CoRAL lab, in collaboration with colleagues, will be hosting an AGU24 session on “NH026: Hybrid Modeling and Digital Twin Systems for Flood Hazard Prediction and Risk Assessment at Different Spatial Scales”.
Jun 15, 2024 Our recent article on “Quantifying Cascading Uncertainty in Compound Flood Modeling with Linked Process-based and Machine Learning Models” has been published in the Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS) journal.
May 02, 2024 Chris Mansky has successfully defended his master thesis “A Machine Learning-based Approach to Predicting Waterborne Disease Outbreaks Caused by Hurricanes”.
Mar 01, 2024 Our work on “Inter-Model Comparison of Delft3D-FM and 2D HEC-RAS for Total Water Level Prediction in Coastal to Inland Transition Zones” is featured as the top cited article in 2022-2023.
Nov 02, 2023 Samuel Daramola will present his research at the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024, which will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Oct 02, 2023 Dr. Muñoz gives a talk in the 3rd International Workshop on Waves, Storm Surges, and Coastal Hazards. University of Notre Dame, Indiana.
Sep 02, 2023 Chris Mansky joins the CoRAL Lab this Fall 2023 to pursue a master degree in Civil Engineering.
Aug 02, 2023 Md. Shadman Sakib has been awarded the Pratt Graduate Fellowship.
May 16, 2023 Md. Shadman Sakib will join the CoRAL Lab this Fall 2023 to pursue a doctoral degree.
May 02, 2023 Samuel Daramola has been selected to participate in the National Water Center Innovators Program - Summer Institute sponsored by CUAHSI and NOAA.
Mar 31, 2023 Dr. Muñoz is awarded with the 2023 Faculty Mentorship Grant.
Mar 16, 2023 Dr. Muñoz gives a talk in the 2023 Georgia Water Resources Conference. University of Georgia, GA.
Feb 02, 2023 Dr. Muñoz is a co-editor of the research topic “Spatiotemporal Modeling Assessment of Water-related Multi-hazards” in Frontiers in Water.
Dec 02, 2022 Samuel Daramola has been selected to participate in the next Team Science training sponsored by Virginia Sea Grant and the National Science Foundation.
Aug 15, 2022 Samuel Daramola has been awarded the G. V. Loganathan Memorial Fellowship.
Aug 02, 2022 Dr. Muñoz is co-leading the AGU session NH007: Compound, Consecutive, and Cascading Events:Challenges for Risk Assessment and Management of Multihazards. Chicago, IL.
Jul 02, 2022 Samuel Daramola will join the CoRAL Lab this Fall 2022 to pursue a doctoral degree.