Malcolm Spaulding Email & Phone Number

Provide consulting services and expert witness testimony on a range of coastal modeling issues including: inundation and wave modeling for flood inundated areas, integrated system for oil blowout modeling for the Deepwater Horizon and hypothetical spills, advancement of oil spill modeling, (including effects of ice), search and rescue modeling, and water quality modeling.

Kingston, Ri, Us

Dr. Spaulding is Professor Emeritus, Ocean Engineering at the University of Rhode Island (URI) and Principal, Spaulding Environmental Associates (SEA), LLC. He served for 40 yrs on the faculty and over a decade as department chair. He was the Founder and first Director, University of Rhode Island’s Center of Excellence in Undersea Technology (2007 to 2012). He was founding President of the Northeast Regional Association for Coastal Ocean Observing Systems (NERACOOS) serving in that role from 2008 to 2014. He founded Applied Science Associates (ASA) Inc in 1979 and served in various leadership and technical roles through 2014. Dr. Spaulding specializes in numerical modeling of near shore and coastal processes of estuarine, coastal and continental shelf regions to include hydrodynamics, waves, sediment transport and pollutant (oil) transport, fate, and effect. In recent years he has been very actively involved in offshore renewable energy development, including energy extraction devices and siting of hydrokinetic and wind farms. He served as Senior Advisor to the Ocean Special Area Management Plan (SAMP) to assist in siting of offshore wind facilities in RI coastal waters and played a similar role for land based wind energy development in the RI Renewable Energy Siting Partnership (RI RESP). He currently serves as a senior advisor to RI Beach SAMP and is leading an effort called STORMTOOLS to make state of art modeling systems available to support coastal and riverine flooding in the presence of sea level rise. Dr. Spaulding served on the National Research Council’s Marine Board and liaison to the Ocean Studies Board from 1996 to 2001 and has been a member of numerous NRC committees including those on heavy oil spills, naval engineering education, environmental studies programs to support offshore energy development, transfer of naval technology to the commercial sector, and risk assessment of oil barge spills in Buzzards Bay.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering And Applied Mechanics

Master’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering And Applied Mechanics