Marissa YATES

Chercheur LHSV

Joined the laboratory in 2011

Education

• HDR at Université Paris-Est, Margne-La-Vallée, France, 2020
• PhD in Coastal Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA, 2009
• B.S. Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 2003

Fields of interest

Coastal oceanography, nonlinear wave propagation, wave breaking, coastal morphodynamics, littoral evolution

Research projects

• Modeling nonlinear and dispersive wave propagation, modeling wave breaking in fully nonlinear potential flow models
• Experimental measurements of wave breaking statistics and wave loads on structures
• Equilibrium modeling of shoreline evolution
• Estimating the impacts of climate change on shoreline evolution

Teaching

• Ecole des Ponts ParisTech (3rd year students):
  • Coastal and Port Project
• ENSTA ParisTech (3rd year students, class shared with the WAPE and STEEM IP-Paris Masters):
  • Sea States, Wave Propagation, and Ocean Wave Energy
  • Coastal Engineering, Anchors, and Cables

Students and postdocs

• Sunil Mohanlal (thesis co-advisor), 2020-2023
• Marc Igigabel (thesis co-advisor), 2022
• Teddy Chataigner (thesis director, co-advised + post-doc co-advisor), 2018-2021, 2022
• Cécile Raoult (thesis co-advisor), 2014-2017
• Mathieu Gervais (post-doc co-advisor), 2015
• Christos Papoutsellis (post-doc co-advisor), 2017
• Bruno Simon (post-doc co-advisor, at the l'IRPHE/ECM), 2018-2019
• Philip Balitsky (post-doc co-advisor Cerema/FEM Projet ANR-FEM DiMe), 2020-2021

Publications

• Sunil Mohanlal, Jeffrey Harris, Marissa Yates, Stephan Grilli. Unified depth-limited wave breaking detection and dissipation in fully nonlinear potential flow models. 2022. ⟨hal-03609388⟩
• Pushpa Dissayanake, Marissa Yates, Serge Suanez, France Floc'H, Knut Krämer. Climate change impacts on coastal wave dynamics at Vougot Beach, France. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, MDPI, 2021, 9 (9), pp.1009. ⟨10.3390/jmse9091009⟩. ⟨hal-03339586⟩
• Jennifer Montaño, Giovanni Coco, Teddy Chataigner, Marissa Yates, Nicolas Le Dantec, et al.. Time-scales of a dune-beach system and implications for shoreline modelling. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, American Geophysical Union/Wiley, In press. ⟨hal-03367000⟩
• Jennifer Montaño, Giovanni Coco, Teddy Chataigner, Marissa Yates, Nicolas Le Dantec, et al.. Time-scales of a dune-beach system and implications for shoreline modelling. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, American Geophysical Union/Wiley, In press. ⟨hal-03339778⟩
• Pushpa Dissayanake, Marissa Yates, Serge Suanez, France Floc'H, Knut Krämer. Climate change impacts on coastal wave dynamics at Vougot Beach, France. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, MDPI, In press. ⟨hal-03339586⟩
• Teddy Chataigner, Marissa Yates, Nicolas Le Dantec, Serge Suanez, France Floch, et al.. Equilibrium modeling of current and future beach evolution: Vougot beach, France. International Conference on Coastal Engineering 2020, Oct 2020, Online, United States. pp.17, ⟨10.9753/icce.v36v.sediment.17⟩. ⟨hal-03097547⟩
• Cécile Raoult, Michel Benoit, Marissa Yates. Development and validation of a 3D RBF-spectral model for coastal wave simulation. Journal of Computational Physics, Elsevier, 2019, 378, pp.278-302. ⟨10.1016/j.jcp.2018.11.002⟩. ⟨hal-02121215⟩
• Christos Papoutsellis, Marissa Yates, Bruno Simon, Michel Benoit. FULLY NONLINEAR MODELING OF NEARSHORE WAVE PROPAGATION INCLUDING THE EFFECTS OF WAVE BREAKING. 36th Int. Conf. Coastal Eng. (ICCE'2018), Jul 2018, Baltimore, United States. ⟨10.9753/icce.v36.waves.78⟩. ⟨hal-02121179⟩
• Bruno Simon, Christos Papoutsellis, Michel Benoit, Marissa Yates. Comparing methods of modeling depth-induced breaking of irregular waves with a fully nonlinear potential flow approach. Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy, Springer, 2019, ⟨10.1007/s40722-019-00154-7⟩. ⟨hal-02395358⟩
• Christos Papoutsellis, Marissa Yates, Bruno Simon, Michel Benoit. Modelling of depth-induced wave breaking in a fully nonlinear free-surface potential flow model. Coastal Engineering, Elsevier, 2019, 154, pp.103579. ⟨10.1016/j.coastaleng.2019.103579⟩. ⟨hal-02332720⟩
• Christos Papoutsellis, Marissa Yates, Bruno Simon, Michel Benoit. FULLY NONLINEAR MODELING OF NEARSHORE WAVE PROPAGATION INCLUDING THE EFFECTS OF WAVE BREAKING. Proc. 36th Int. Conf. Coastal Eng. (ICCE'2018), Jul 2018, Baltimore, France. pp.78, ⟨10.9753/icce.v36.waves.78⟩. ⟨hal-02121156⟩
• Cécile Raoult, Michel Benoit, Marissa Yates. Development and validation of a 3D RBF-spectral model for coastal wave simulation. Journal of Computational Physics, Elsevier, 2019, 378, pp.278-302. ⟨10.1016/j.jcp.2018.11.002⟩. ⟨hal-02121215⟩
• Cécile Raoult, Michel Benoit, Marissa Yates. Développement d’un modèle numérique non-linéaire et dispersif pour la propagation des vagues en zone côtière. Revue Paralia, Editions Paralia CFL, 2018, 11, pp.n01.1 - n01.14. 〈10.5150/revue-paralia.2018.n01〉. 〈hal-01822104〉
• Michel Benoit, Cécile Raoult, Marissa Yates. Analysis of the linear version of a highly dispersive potential water wave model using a spectral approach in the vertical. Wave Motion, Elsevier, 2017, 74, pp.159 - 181. 〈10.1016/j.wavemoti.2017.07.002〉. 〈hal-01784630〉
• Clara Lemos, France Floc’h, Marissa Yates, Nicolas Le Dantec, Vincent Marieu, et al.. Equilibrium modeling of the Beach Profile on a Macrotidal Embayed Beach. Troels Aagaard, Rolf Deigaard, David Fuhrman. Coastal Dynamics 2017, Jun 2017, Helsingor, Denmark. http://coastaldynamics2017.dk/onewebmedia/057_Lemos_Clara.pdf, pp.760-771, 2017, Proceedings of Coastal Dynamics 2017. 〈http://coastaldynamics2017.dk/index.html〉. 〈hal-01580926〉
• Cécile Raoult, Michel Benoit, Marissa Yates. Validation of a fully nonlinear and dispersive wave model with laboratory non-breaking experiments. Coastal Engineering, Elsevier, 2016, 114, pp.194 - 207. 〈10.1016/j.coastaleng.2016.04.003〉. 〈hal-01784660〉
• André Doria, R.T. Guza, William O 'Reilly, Marissa Yates. Observations and modeling of San Diego beaches during El Niño. Continental Shelf Research, Elsevier, 2016, 124, pp.153-164. 〈10.1016/j.csr.2016.05.008〉. 〈hal-01784648〉
• Marissa Yates, Michel Benoit. Accuracy and efficiency of two numerical methods of solving the potential flow problem for highly nonlinear and dispersive water waves. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Wiley, 2015, 77, pp.616-640. 〈10.1002/fld.3992〉. 〈hal-01143724〉
• Gonéri Le Cozannet, Manuel Garcin, Marissa Yates, Déborah Idier, Benoit Meyssignac. Approaches to evaluate the recent impacts of sea-level rise on shoreline changes. Earth-Science Reviews, Elsevier, 2014, 138, pp.47-60. 〈10.1016/j.earscirev.2014.08.005〉. 〈hal-01060689〉
• Gonéri Le Cozannet, Manuel Garcin, Thomas Bulteau, Carola Mirgon, Marissa Yates, et al.. An AHP-derived method for mapping the physical vulnerability of coastal areas at regional scales. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, European Geosciences Union, 2013, 13, pp.1209-1227. 〈10.5194/nhess-13-1209-2013〉. 〈hal-00823386〉
• Marissa Yates, Gonéri Le Cozannet, Manuel Garcin, Emilie Salai, Patrice Walker. Multidecadal Atoll Shoreline Change on Manihi and Manuae, French Polynesia. Journal of Coastal Research, Coastal Education and Research Foundation, 2013, 29 (4), pp.870-882. 〈10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-12-00129.1〉. 〈hal-00790723〉
• Marissa Yates, R. Guza, W C O 'Reilly. Equilibrium shoreline response: Observations and modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research, American Geophysical Union, 2009, 114 (C9), pp.9014 - 9014. 〈10.1029/2009JC005359〉. 〈hal-01785296〉