
Thomas Thelen
@coasthelen
Coastal engineer studying sunny day flooding and its impacts on coastal communities | Grad student @NCStateCCEE | @UWMadison alum
go.ncsu.edu/sunny
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15-12-2021 14:24:36
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This one was a true team effort! Katherine Anarde @acgold Lauren Grimley Thomas Thelen Emma Rudy Srebnik Ryan Neve. And thanks to @CassieFreund for the coverage x.com/Coastal_Review…

Students and researchers gathered in Fitts-Woolard Hall’s Incubator Lab this week to build a new round of sensors for Sunny Day Flooding Project, with a goal of measuring, modeling and understanding the impacts of chronic shallow flooding in coastal North Carolina communities.





Coastal flooding tonight in Carolina Beach, NC. All roads were under 6-12” of water throughout the town. Lee Haywood NWS Wilmington, NC Dwayne Thompson Nick Craig


Coastal flooding at high tide tonight in Carolina Beach, NC. Roads were turned into rivers and the ground was fully submerged. Hard to see at night but saltwater is everywhere. Lee Haywood NWS Wilmington, NC Scotty Powell Visit Carolina Beach, NC



After an incredibly hard push by Christine M Baker Dr. Matt Ware Thomas Thelen, with support from Joe Long, UNCW N.C. Coastal Reserve UNCW_CMS, the stereo cams are up! Get ready for a year of MasonBEAST: Beach Evolution Assessment using Stereo Technology on Masonboro Island. So tired, so proud.


Excited to share Sunny Day Flooding Project project research on Measuring and Assessing the Impacts of Chronic Coastal Roadway Flooding to Inform Adaptation as part of this panel!



CCEE's Katherine Anarde received funding to study chronic flood risk in underserved coastal communities in NC & HI. The project will incorporate community workshops, measurements of flooding/flood models to identify key vulnerabilities/impacts. loom.ly/FT54G4o 📷: NOAA


For today's Colors of the Southeast, we share a photo featuring #GlobalChange Research Fellow Thomas Thelen, Thomas Thelen. Learn more about Thomas and his work in coastal flooding through his Researcher Spotlight 👉 secasc.ncsu.edu/2023/11/29/res… 📍 Carolina Beach, NC


The Washington Post Ray Whitehouse Niko Kommenda Emily Wright Monica Ulmanu We also were drawn to tell this story in this way, in part, due to the unique research being done by Katherine Anarde Dr. Miyuki Hino and other colleagues to document the land-based drivers of chronic floods. Check out their work at Sunny Day Flooding Project: tarheels.live/sunny/


Want to do a deeper dive on what's driving floods in Carolina Beach? Check out this preprint from the Sunny Day Flooding Project team to see how tides, wind, and rain atop SLR compound to exacerbate flooding. The short version: wind matters more than you might think doi.org/10.31223/X5PT2N

My first lead-author paper “Wind and rain compound with tides to cause frequent and unexpected coastal floods” is live! Check out the link below to see how Sunny Day Flooding Project team is measuring and modeling the different drivers of chronic coastal flooding: doi.org/10.1016/j.watr…