{"id":663,"date":"2024-07-08T13:25:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T17:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/civil-environmental\/?post_type=person&#038;p=663"},"modified":"2025-10-16T16:45:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:45:55","slug":"tess-doeffinger","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.citadel.edu\/civil-environmental\/faculty-staff\/tess-doeffinger\/","title":{"rendered":"Tess Doeffinger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-bio\">Bio<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Tess Doeffinger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering at The Citadel and Senior Climate Fellow at the Near Center for Climate Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-degrees\">Degrees<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ph.D. Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, 2020<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>M.S. Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Management, Carnegie Mellon University, 2012<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>B.S. Aerospace Engineering, minor International Relations, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, 2011<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-courses\">Courses<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Intro to Environmental Engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Intro to Engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Water Security Under Climate Change<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hydrology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-expertise\">Expertise<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Climate change decision making<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Water-related risk<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Coastal adaptation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-scholarship-amp-service\">Scholarship &amp; Service<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Since starting at The Citadel, Professor Doeffinger has helped out our local community, both on-campus and off-campus in many different ways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>ASCE Sustainable Solutions Competition<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ALERT Program<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SCORE (South Carolina Oyster Recycling &amp; Enhancement)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Waves for Women<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Charleston Waterkeepers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Senior Climate Fellow<\/strong>, NEAR Center for Climate Studies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Board Member<\/strong>, SC Sea Grant Consortium&#8217;s Coastal Resilience Program<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Associate Editor<\/strong>, <em>Climate Risk Management<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Journal Reviewer<\/strong>, <em>Discover Sustainability, Environmental Management, Local Environment<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Grant Reviewer<\/strong>, National Academics of Sciences, Engineering &amp; Medicine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-publications\">Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Doeffinger, T.\u00a0and Siders, A.R. \u201cA proposed method for evaluating historical adaptation pathways of coupled natural-human systems,\u201d Environmental Science and Policy, 163. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1462901124003034?via%3Dihub\">doi.org\/10.1016\/j.envsci.2024.103969<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Doeffinger, T.\u00a0\u201cHistorical adaptation pathways: the case of Folly Beach, South Carolina,\u201d Journal of Ocean and Coastal Management, 261. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0964569124004757?via%3Dihub\">doi.org\/10.1016.j.ocecoaman.2024.107490<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wood, T., Laughton, S., &amp; Doeffinger, T. 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