Dr. Duncan M. FitzGerald is a Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Boston University with expertise in coastal processes, stratigraphy, and morphodynamics. He received his MS in geological oceanography at Texas A&M and his PhD in geology at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. He is a marine geologist who studies sediment exchange, hydrodynamics, and coastal evolution of marshes, estuaries, river deltas, barrier islands, and tidal inlets. His three major research themes are presently focused on the coastal response to accelerating sea-level rise, the impact of major storms along the Louisiana coast, and climatic and oceanographic controls on strand plain development in Brazil. His textbook on coastal geology is used nationally and internationally. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and recently was awarded the Shepard Medal. He has received numerous teaching awards at Boston University.