CEE Ph.D. student Christine Blackshaw has been selected as a recipient of the 2024 School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) Award for Excellence. This prestigious honor is awarded to advanced graduate students within SEAS who have performed at the highest level as scholars and researchers..

Christine’s research is on compound hurricane and heatwave hazard modeling and applications. She has published a paper on J. of Geophysical Research-Oceans., where she innovatively combined machine learning, climatology-hydrodynamic modeling, and pelohurricane records to reconstruct historical and prehistorical hurricane datasets, to support long-term projections of hurricane activity in the future. Christine is currently working on two manuscripts: one on coupling WRF modeling, compound flood modeling, and urban climate modeling to simulate hurricane flooding and heatwave compound hazards and one on hurricane track modeling using high frequency environmental winds as the driver. Christine has also led undergraduate students and high school interns to develop a website to display real-time hurricane hazard forecasting and a web interface for determining design wind speeds in future climates for the US East and Gulf coasts.