Rogers Institute for Environmental and Spatial Analysis. He earned his B.A. from La Salle University, M.S. from Temple University, Ph.D. from George Mason University, and was a postdoctoral scholar with the National Park Service at Assateague Island National Seashore. He specializes in coastal geology along the U.S. Atlantic coast, studying the effects of intense storms, tidal inlet life-cycles, and barrier island evolution.