The Coastal Risks & Engineering (CoRE) Lab is part of the Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering Department and National Center for Integrated Coastal Research (UCF Coastal) at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA. 

Research in the CoRE Lab mainly focuses on connecting engineering and various science disciplines (e.g., oceanography, hydrology, meteorology, climatology) to better understand the vulnerability of coastal societies, built infrastructure, and fragile ecosystems under climate change conditions. We study changes in coastal sea levels (mean and extreme), ocean waves, and freshwater flows and the associated impacts to support the development of sustainable and resilient adaptation strategies.

Some of the topics we work on are:

• Changes in sea level, storm surges, ocean waves, precipitation, and river discharges
• (Coastal-)Engineering design concepts
• Compound events
• Sustainability of human-natural systems in coastal zones
• Extreme value analysis
• Climate adaptation and resilience
• Integrated coastal vulnerability and risk assessment
• Stochastic and numerical modelling of tides, storm surges, waves, and river flows
• Multi hazards
• Coastal processes and hydrodynamics