George Kaminsky is a Coastal Engineer with the Washington State Department of Ecology with 25 years of applied research experience in coastal engineering and morphodynamics. George oversees the Coastal Monitoring & Analysis Program (CMAP) at Ecology, a group that conducts beach and bluff morphology monitoring around the State using boat-based topographic lidar, multibeam sonar, and RTK-GPS. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Washington, and holds a PhD in Marine Science from the University of Sydney, an MSc in Oceanography from University of Washington, and a BSc in Ocean Engineering from Florida Institute of Technology.