Email: bbeaudr000@citymail.cuny.edu

Research Title: Remote Sensing of Flood Risk and Water Quality in a Vulnerable Urban Coastal System

Her research aims to link remote sensing of flood risk and extreme inundation events in heavily urbanized coasts to remote sensing of key coastal hazards that severely impact ecosystem health, human health, and quality of life. Among the main objectives of this work are to analyze change in land use/cover over the Long Island subregion to better distinguish the change in impervious surfaces as it relates to flood risk; apply, for the first time, the HYDRAFloods tool to monitor flood extent in the heavily urbanized NYC-Long Island Sound region by incorporating in‐situ tide gauge measurements; and link extreme flood events to changes in coastal water quality using medium and high resolution sensors. Data from this project will help the scientific community and the Long Island community further understand the environmental factors affecting flooding in this area, its impact on key ecosystem processes and water resources, and can assist managing authorities to improve management of coastal hazards.