Thomas Wahl is an associate professor in the UCF Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering. He earned his doctoral degree in civil engineering in 2012 at the University of Siegen, Germany. Afterward, he became a postdoctoral scholar at the College of Marine Science at the University of South Florida. Before joining UCF in 2017, he was a Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow of the European Union at the University of Southampton.

• Li, S., Wahl, T., Piecuch, C., Dangendorf, S., Thompson, P., Enríquez, A., & Liu, L. (2023). Compounding of sea-level processes during high-tide flooding along the U.S. coastline. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128,


• Li, S., Wahl, T., Fang, J., Liu, L., & Jiang, T. (2023). High-tide flooding along the China coastline: Past and future. Earth’s Future, 11, e2022EF003225.  https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF003225


• Dangendorf, S., Hendricks, N., Sun, Q., Klinck, J., Ezer, T., Frederikse, T., Calafat, F., Wahl, T., Törnqvist, T.E. (2023). Acceleration of U.S. Southeast and Gulf Coast Sea-Level Rise Amplified by Internal Climate Variability, Nature Communications. 14, 1935 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37649-9


• Kim, T., Villarini, G., Kim, H., Jane, R., Wahl, T. (2023). On the Compound Hazards Associated with Water Quantity and Quality, Journal of Environmental Quality, 00, 1– 12. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeq2.20458.


• Rashid, M. M., Wahl, T., Villarini, G., & Sharma, A. (2023). Fluvial flood losses in the contiguous United States under climate change. Earth’s Future, 11, e2022EF003328. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF003328.


• Morim J., Wahl, T., Vitousek, S., Santamaria, S., Young, I., Hemer, M. (2023). Understanding uncertainties in extreme wave events for contemporary and future climates, Science Advances, Vol 9, Issue 2, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ade3170.


• Calafat, F.M., Wahl, T., Tadesse, M.G., Sparrow, S.N. (2022). Trends in Europe storm surge extremes match the rate of sea-level rise, Nature, 10.1038/s41586-022-04426-5