Jeff Parsons is a coastal scientist at Herrera with nearly 20 years of experience working with coastal physical processes and their interaction with the built environment. Dr. Parsons brings an interdisciplinary approach to the solution of complex environmental problems by drawing on his diverse background in civil engineering, geology, and oceanography. He has worked extensively with coastal hazard and climate change issues for his entire career. This has included modeling tsunami inundation and incident wave fields, identifying coastal geomorphic changes, interpreting past climate change and coastal hazards from the sedimentary record, and estimating future sea level rise. He maintains an affiliate appointment in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington.