Dr. Celso Ferreira is an Associate Professor in the Civil, Infrastructure and Environmental Engineering Department at George Mason University and leads the Mason Flood Hazards Research Lab. Dr. Ferreira holds a PhD from Texas A&M University in Civil Engineering specializing in water resources and coastal engineering and is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Maryland. His current research interests are associated with water related extreme weather hazards and their impacts on civil engineering infrastructure and societies. His work is focused on flood hazards from coastal, riverine, and urban environments and includes real time flood forecasting, monitoring storm surges, and supporting incoporation of natural systems into coastal flood defenses. Dr. Ferreira has ample experience leading instrument deployment for hydrodynamic and wave data collection during extreme events measuring storm surge and coastal flooding during several hurricanes that impacted the Chesapeake Bay. His work investigating the capacity of natural areas to attenuate waves is providing scientific and technical evidence for the adoption of green infrastructure as a resilient form of coastal defense. Dr. Celso Ferreira has authored over 50 technical publications and his research is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Interior (DOI), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Department of Defense (DOD), the US Coastal Research Program (USCRP), the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) and several private organizations. He has more than 18 years of experience working on consulting projects related to water resources, environmental and coastal engineering in the US and Brazil. He was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and was an Associate Researcher at the USGS National Research Program. Dr. Ferreira is currently part of the author team for the 5th National Climate Assessment Coastal Effects Chapter with the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP).