Congratulations to Maria Winters who was awarded an Outstanding Students Abstract Award at the 2022 International Conference on Coastal Engineering (ICCE) for her abstract “Observation and Numerical Modeling of a Dune Overwash and Breaching Event”. Her abstract was ranked among the top 5% of all student abstracts submitted to the conference and was one of nine student awards.

The award was bestowed on behalf of the Coastal Engineering Research Council of the Coastal Ocean Port and River Institute and Local Organizing Committee of the 37 th International Conference on Coastal Engineering in Sydney, Australia, 2022.