NorthWest Research Associates

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Joan Oltman-Shay, PhD

Joan Oltman-Shay, PhD
President, Senior Research Scientist, Director - Seattle, WA


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Research interests: Science Research in Nearshore Processes. Since graduating from Scripps in 1986, she has spent much of her technical career performing field and model studies of nearshore (shoreline to nominally 10m depth) wave and current dynamics and the interplay with sediment- and morpho-dynamics. e-mail: j[dot]oltman[dot]shay[at]nwra[dot]com