Dr. Thomas Herrington is the associate director of the Urban Coast Institute at Monmouth University and serves as the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium Resilient Communities and Economies Specialist. Dr. Herrington has 30 years of experience in coastal resilience and hazard mitigation research, including the monitoring and analysis of coastal system changes to storm surge and wave impacts, and the analysis of Nature and Nature Based Features for ecosystem restoration and community resilience.
Tom is a past pro-bono scientist with the American Geophysical Union Thriving Earth Exchange, where he worked with coastal community members on the co-production of actionable science to address climate change driven increases in nuisance tidal flooding.
Prior to joining Monmouth, Dr. Herrington was the director of the ocean engineering graduate program at Stevens Institute of Technology and the director of the New Jersey Coastal Protection Technical Assistance Service, where he developed and evaluated coastal protection systems for New Jersey. He has authored or coauthored over 100 journal, outreach and technical publications in the field of coastal and ocean engineering. Tom presently co-coordinates the New Jersey Coastal Resilience Collaborative and is a research team member of a NSF funded research coordination network focused on future climate change-driven coastal population displacement. Dr. Herrington serves on the Board of Directors of the American Shore & Beach Preservation Association, the Jersey Shore Partnership, and the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium.