About

Dr. Dylan McNamara

Professor, UNC Wilmington

  • (2006) Ph.D. Oceanography, Scripps Inst. of Oceanography
  • (1999) M.S. Physics, San Diego State University

Grants

  • NSF Collaborative Proposal, Prospects and limitations of predicting a potential collapse of the AMOC, National Science Foundation, $284,446, 2024 – 2027
  • CoPe RCN – Collaboratory for Coastal Adaptation over Space and Time (C-Coast), National Science Foundation, $15,000, 2018 – 2022
  • Cooperative Agreement – The Dynamics of Coastal Community Stability, U.S. Geological Survey, $24,000, 2020 - 2021
  • Climate Change Adaptation in a Coupled Geomorphic-Economic Coastal System, National Science Foundation, $1,490,000, 2017 – 2022
  • Reefs in Space and Time (RIST) A Cross-Cutting Program to Document and Predict Trajectories of Coral Reefs Using New Spatial Data Technologies, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – CIOERT, $213,196, 2106 – 2019
  • Machine Learning and Forecasting of Coral Reef Images, University of California - San Diego, $14,750, 2015 - 2016
  • Wave and Rip Current Model Validation in North Carolina, North Carolina Sea Grant, $20,000, 2015 - 2016
  • Building a Coastal Resilience Network on the Eastern Shore of Virginia to Catalyze Integrated, Science-Based Hazard Mitigation Actions, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation via subcontract from The Nature Conservancy, $44,000, 2014 – 2015
  • The Reefs Tomorrow Initiative, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation via subcontract from UCSD/SIO, $180,000, 2013 - 2016
  • Collaborative Proposal, Coastal Geomorphic Consequences of Wave Climate Change, National Science Foundation, $90,191, 2011 - 2014
  • Collaborative Proposal, Modeling New Behaviors Emerging from Coupling Physical Coastal Processes and Coastal Economies, National Science Foundation, $107,035, 2010 - 2013

Awards

  • James F. Merritt Million Dollar Club UNCW

Students and mentoring

  • Zachary Williams, UNCW (Postdotoral Scholar., 2021)
  • Yoan Eynaud, UCSD/SIO (Postdotoral Scholar., 2018)
  • Kenneth Ells, UNCW (Postdotoral Scholar., 2015)
  • Eli Lazarus, Duke University (Postdotoral Scholar., 2010)
  • John Holloway, UNCW (M.S., 2018)
  • John Whitley, UNCW (M.S., 2016)
  • Nick Cortale, UNCW (M.S., 2016)
  • Andrew Whitley, UNCW (M.S., 2014)
  • Zachary Williams, UNCW (M.S., 2012)
  • Matt Fair, UNCW (B.S. Honors, 2018)
  • John Holloway, UNCW (B.S. Honors, 2015)
  • Derek Grimes, UNCW (B.S. Honors, 2014)
  • Kurt Baker, UNCW (B.S. Honors, 2013)
  • Iain Joseph, UNCW (B.S. Honors, 2011)
  • Zachary Williams, UNCW (B.S. Honors, 2010)
  • Chelsea Hopkins, UNCW (B.S. Honors, 2010)

Sponsors