Ryan Mieras

Asst. Professor | Coastal Engineering | UNCW

Fanatic of Hurricanes, MATLAB, Rubik's cubes, Dogfish Head beer, Texas BBQ, and a good label maker.

GO SPURS GO

[Ryan Mieras @CoastalProf]

🚨 Latest pub is out related to the REALDUNE/REFLEX experiment!

These are the most highly-resolved field measurements of active dune face erosion DURING storm impact, that I am aware of.

https://t.co/zw1jHE8Cl5

Credit to whole REALDUNE/REFLEX team and collaborators!

[Ryan Mieras @CoastalProf]

🚨SHARE WIDELY🚨 The abstract submission deadline has been EXTENDED for YCSECA 2025, the best conference for young coastal scientists and engineers!!! It will be held in the beautiful coastal city of Wilmington, NC this summer.

https://t.co/6jy5cB2BS8

[Ryan Mieras @CoastalProf]

@hurricanetrack @foxweather @NWSWilmingtonNC INCREDIBLE and stark visual of large beach cusps that you'd never see so well without the snow there.

[Mark Sudduth @hurricanetrack]

Snow covered Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina.

@foxweather @NWSWilmingtonNC

[Ryan Mieras @CoastalProf]

SEEKING Ph.D. STUDENT ASAP!!! Full details in image 🙌

Project summary here: https://t.co/A0k4lXFmwU

Deadline to apply for priority consideration is Febraury 15, 2025.

Reach out to email listed in image for more info.

[Ryan Mieras @CoastalProf]

@elonmusk how do I turn off all push notifications from you? I never signed up for that. Thank you.

[Ryan Mieras @CoastalProf]

CAN YOU FIND DOUG, from Liberty Mutual?! In the annual Halloween party/lecture in Fluid Mechanics at UNCW

[Katherine Anarde @anardeeek]

I am advertising a two-year postdoc related to remote sensing of chronic coastal floods. The position will be jointly at UNC Chapel Hill in the Global Hydrology Lab and in my research group, the Coastal Hazards Lab at North Carolina State University: https://t.co/iI1yobLOHd

[Ryan Mieras @CoastalProf]

Somebody tell me I'm wrong.... #HurricaneMilton (left) is the Evil twin of 2016 Hurricane Matthew (right)... 🤷

[Ryan Mieras @CoastalProf]

CORRECTION: at 905 am EDT, an update was issued, bumping max sustained winds from 125 mph to 150 mph!

Meaning, a 25 hr increase of... wait for it... 90 mph!

ALMOST 3x THE RAPID INTENSIFICATION REQUIREMENT! #HurricaneMilton 😳😳😳

[Ryan Mieras @CoastalProf]

#HurricaneMilton went from a 'measly' 991 mbar and 60 mph, to 945 mbar and 125 mph, in just 24 hrs--an increase of +65 mph! 😳😳😳

That's nearly double the requirement for "rapid intensification," which is +35 mph in 24 hrs.

[Ryan Mieras @CoastalProf]

CORRECTION: at 905 am EDT, an update was issued, bumping max sustained winds from 125 mph to 150 mph!

Meaning, a 25 hr increase of... wait for it... 90 mph!

ALMOST 3x THE RAPID INTENSIFICATION REQUIREMENT! #HurricaneMilton 😳😳😳

[Ryan Mieras @CoastalProf]

#HurricaneMilton went from a 'measly' 991 mbar and 60 mph, to 945 mbar and 125 mph, in just 24 hrs--an increase of +65 mph! 😳😳😳

That's nearly double the requirement for "rapid intensification," which is +35 mph in 24 hrs.

[Ryan Mieras @CoastalProf]

When 2 students from your Fluid Mechanics class are boarding a plane and send you pics of the plane's Pitot tubes, one day after your lecture on the Bernoulli equation, stagnation points, and Pitot tubes! 😇

Celebrate the small teaching wins the most! 🥳

[Ryan Mieras @CoastalProf]

@hurricanetrack Hurricanes like Matthew in NC (and MANY Others, even "only tropical storms") are MOST memorable for their inland flooding.

Remeber the FOUR impacts from tropical systems, and then act #SWIFT

Surge
Wind
Inland Flooding
Tornados

[Ryan Mieras @CoastalProf]

@hurricanetrack Excellent points Mark!

Keep in mind for Florida, a LARGE portion of the west/nature coast experienced RECORD surge on record. Category also doesn't account for "size"

Texans all remember Ike in '08, which had 20+ ft of surge but was "only" a Cat 2 landfall

[Ryan Mieras @CoastalProf]

This marks the 1st EVER deployment of a Sentinel tower on a beach (Cedar Key, FL) before a hurricane. HUGE credit to the team at Univ of Florida (& many others across the USA) who put in years of work to make this happen! What a milestone! 👏👏👏

#HurricaneHelene #neer

[Ryan Mieras @CoastalProf]

Installing the continuoisly-scanning 3D LIDAR at Cedar Key, FL yesterday.

Ultimately decided to stand down and remove it. This elevation was 20 ft above sea level, which had potential to be under water from surge and waves...wasn't worth the risk. 😔

#HurricaneHelene #NEER

[Ryan Mieras @CoastalProf]

✌️Two sentinel towers loaded and ready for deployment. First stop: Cedar Key, FL

[Ryan Mieras @CoastalProf]

The classic "your route may be affected by Hurricane Warning message" from Google Maps when doing a rapid response coastal deployment #neer #TropicalStormHelene

[Ryan Mieras @CoastalProf]

In Gainesville, FL ready for a massive deployment of wave gauges, lidars, wind towers, and much more tomorrow ahead of #TropicalStormHelene Stay tuned!

@NHERIDesignSafe @NHERI_RAPID @NinaStark18