Erica Harris is a Coastal Scientist at AECOM in Seattle, where she specializes in nearshore processes, coastal hazards, and analyzing the role of climate change on coastal environments. She has experience performing coastal hazards analyses, risk and vulnerability assessments, and flood and erosion analyses. Before moving to Seattle, Erica worked at AECOM in Oakland, and she is very interested in incorporating some of the lessons learned working on these issues in the Bay Area to Washington State.

Erica earned her Bachelor’s Degree in GIS and Spatial Analysis at Ohio State University, and her Master’s in Coastal Oceanography with a focus on coastal hazards at Oregon State University.