OceanExpert ID: 60349
Dr. Deborah Ann VILLARROEL-LAMB
Lecturer
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Quick Info
Work Location
St. Augustine Campus
The University of The West Indies
St. Augustine
Trinidad & Tobago
Nationality
Trinidad and Tobago
Email(s)
Profile URL
Persistent Digital Identifiers (UIDs)
ORCID: 0000000283049082
Highest Degree
PhD
Job Type
Teaching/Education
Research
Technical Advice & Consulting
Research
Technical Advice & Consulting
Subject Area
Marine and Coastal Engineering
Activities
Dr. Deborah Villarroel-Lamb specializes in the numerical modelling of coastal engineering processes, including ocean hydrodynamics, coastal morphology, coastal structural response and impact. She has developed specialized numerical models to investigate the physical processes that occur along a coastline, such as wave transformation, wave breaking, undertow currents, energy dissipation and sediment transport. Dr. Villarroel-Lamb has also gained experience in the assessment and design of coastal structures. She is also adept at using a number of commercially available numerical tools to support these various types of analyses.
Sea regions of study
Caribbean Sea
North Atlantic Ocean
North Atlantic Ocean
Skills
- Modelling of coastal processes
- Design of Coastal Structures
- Sediment transport modelling in the coastal zone
- Model development of long-term beach morphology
- Natural hazard assessment
- Modelling shoreline position due to changes in
water levels - Statistical modelling
- Discrete particle modelling
- Sustainable engineering in coastal zone
management - CFD Modelling of fluid flow
Working language(s)
English
Citation(s)
Last Updated: 2023-07-27