Sönke, Dangendorf

David and Jane Flowerree Professsor

School or College
School of Science and Engineering

Biography

Sönke Dangendorf is an Assistant Professor in the Department of River-Coastal Science and Engineering. Dr. Dangendorf has more than 12 years of experience researching mean and extreme sea levels, ocean tides, and storm surges and the impact on coastal flooding. He previously held positions as an “Akademischer Rat” at the University of Siegen, Germany, and as an Assistant Professor for Ocean and Earth Science at the Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. Dr. Dangendorf was a contributing co-author to the Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and is currently a member of the NASA sea level science team. Dr. Dangendorf serves as an Editor of the Nature journal Scientific Data.