Research Expertise and Interest
coastal climate change and adaptation, interaction between environmental processes and built infrastructure and social systems, local/regional interdependence
Research Description
Mark Stacey is the Henry and Joyce Miedema Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering and former Department Chair at UC Berkeley. Stacey’s research and teaching focus on environmental fluid mechanics, with an emphasis on estuaries and the coastal oceans. In the past decade, his research has expanded into the physics of sea level rise in tidal estuaries, including interactions with human infrastructure and the resilience of communities along estuarine shorelines. He also received the prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award and the Fofonoff Award from the American Meteorological Society.
In the News
UC Berkeley Leads New Assessment of Bay Area Climate Impacts
Rising seas: A new look at resilient infrastructure
We know that our changing climate will bring rising sea levels to the Bay Area. But do we know how to handle it?
Quantifying Nature’s Aquatic Requirements
Pescadero Estuary, located an hour south of San Francisco, is a coastal habitat under intense pressure from several interest groups, some human, others wild. And the estuary’s endangered fish species need specific seasonal water regimens and salinity levels to survive.