Antonia Sebastian

Assistant Professor
Director, UNC Sustainable Triangle Field Site
(919)966-4553
324 Mitchell Hall, CB#3315
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Curriculum vitae (CV)
Education
B.S. Rice University, 2011
Ph.D. Rice University, 2016
Research Interests
Applied Hydrology and Water Resources
Research and Activities
My group is participating in several large federally-funded projects, including the following: The NOAA-funded Climate Adaptation Partnership (CAP) Carolinas Collaborative on Climate, Health, and Equity (C3HE) (https://climate.ncsu.edu/homepage/c3he/#:~:text=Since%20forming%20in%20the%20fall,a%20just%20and%20equitable%20way.) The DHS-funded Coastal Resilience Center (https://coastalresiliencecenter.unc.edu/about-us/) The NSF-funded Convergence Accelerator Dynamics of Extreme Events People and Places (DEEPP) Hub (https://deepp.cpc.unc.edu/) We also engage in policy-relevant research for community stakeholders and state agencies through established organizations like: |
Selected Publications
Juan, A., Gori, A.*, Sebastian, A. (2020) Comparing floodplain evolution in channelized and unchannelized urban watersheds in Houston, Texas. Journal of Flood Risk Management, doi: 10.1111/jfr3.12604. Sebastian, A., Gori, A.*, Blessing, R., van der Wiel, K., Bass, B. (2019) Disentangling the relative impacts of human and environmental change on catchment response during Hurricane Harvey. Environmental Research Letters, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ab5234. Mobley, W.+, Sebastian, A.+, Highfield, W.E., Brody, S.D. (2019) Estimating Flood Extent during Hurricane Harvey using Maximum Entropy in a Hazard Distribution Model. Journal of Flood Risk Management, doi: 10.1111/jfr3.12549. +these authors contributed equally to this work Couasnon, A.A.*, Sebastian, A., Morales-N´apoles, O. (2018) A copula-based approach for modeling stochastic boundary conditions in a coastal catchment: An application to the Houston Ship Channel, Texas. Water (Special Issue: Copulas in Hydrology), 10(9), 1190-1209. doi: 10.3390/w10091190. Lendering, K.T.+, Sebastian, A.+, Jonkman, S.N., Kok, M. (2018). Guidelines for assessing the performance of flood adaptation innovations within a risk-based framework. Journal of Flood Risk Management, doi: 10.1111/jfr3.12485. +these authors contributed equally to this work Paprotny, D., Sebastian, A., Morales-N´apoles, O., Jonkman, S.N. (2018). Trends in European flood losses over the past 150 years. Nature Communications, doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-04253-1. Blessing, R., Sebastian, A., Brody, S.D. (2018). Flood Risk Delineation in the U.S.: How much loss are we capturing? ASCE Natural Hazards Review, doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000242. Van Oldenborgh, G.J., Van der Wiel, K., Sebastian, A., Singh, R., Arrighi, J., Otto, F., Haustein, K., Li, S., Vecchi, G., Cullen, H. (2017). Attribution of the extreme rainfall from Hurricane Harvey, August 2017. Environmental Research Letters, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa9ef2. Sebastian, A., Dupuits, E.J.C., Morales-Napoles, O. (2017). Applying a Bayesian Network based on Gaussian Copulas to Model the Hydraulic Boundary Conditions for Hurricane Flood Risk Analysis in a Coastal Watershed, Coastal Engineering, doi: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2017.03.008.