Research Associate Professor in Ocean Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology
Dr. Philip Orton is a Research Associate Professor of ocean engineering at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. He earned his PhD in physical oceanography from Columbia University, and has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles on coastal physical oceanography, storm surges, flood risk assessment, air-sea interaction, sediment transport, and coastal meteorology. He is a member of the NYC Panel on Climate Change, was appointed by New Jersey’s Governor to serve on the New Jersey Wetlands Mitigation Council, and is a contributing author for the upcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report. He is presently the lead PI on a National Science Foundation funded four-university team that has demonstrated how urbanization of estuaries through port dredging and wetland landfill development has worsened extreme event and nuisance flooding at many locations.