Alejandra Ortiz
Adjunct Assistant Professor

- aortiz4@ncsu.edu
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Dr. Ortiz is interested in coastal evolution during rising sea levels. Dr. Ortiz uses numerical modeling, remote sensing, lab-based physical modeling, and fieldwork to better understand how different coastal environments are changing over the next 100 years (and have already changed). Some of her previous work has involved the investigation of the processes driving large-scale land loss on the Mississippi Delta, understanding how atolls and reef islands form and evolve, and looking at the interactions and feedbacks between vegetation and coastal evolution (ecogeomorphology).
Research Website
Education
B.A.
2010
Geosciences and Classical Civilizations
Wellesley College
M.S.
2012
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Ph.D.
2015
Marine Geology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Publications
';Grants
- Gulf Research Program Early-Career Research Fellowship for Alejandra Ortiz: Quantifying the primary processes driving land-loss on the Mississippi River Delta Plain
- National Academy of Sciences(9/01/18 - 8/31/20)
- Quantifying Interior Coastal Marsh Loss along North Carolina at Mackay Island and Roanoke Marsh
- NCSU NC Space Grant Consortium(7/01/17 - 4/01/18)