Karyn has served as the Project Director on many large scale, multi-disciplinary coastal restoration and inlet management projects in the Florida, North and South Carolina and the Turks and Caicos Islands and throughout the Caribbean and South America. She received the Moffatt-Nichol Harbor and Coastal Engineering Annual Award of Excellence and she is board certified as an expert (Diplomate) in Coastal Engineering by the Academy of Coastal, Ocean, Port and Navigation Engineers (ACOPNE). Her career has been dedicated to projects addressing large-scale, complex physical and environmental challenges locally and internationally.