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Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering

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Johnson

Victoria (Tori) Johnson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

  •  Phone:  410-293-6458
  •  Fax:  410-293-2219
  •  E-mail: vjohnson@usna.edu
  •  337 Rickover Hall

Research Interests

Natural and nature-based features/Engineering with Nature; Coastal resilience; Natural hazards; Wave-structure interaction; Field-based damage assessments; Physical modeling; Coastal Engineering

Education & Training

Professional Experience

  • Associate Professor, Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, USNA, 2022 - Present
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, USNA, 2017 - 2022
  • Postdoctoral Research Scholar, School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Oregon State University, 2016 - 2017
  • Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame, 2011 - 2016
  • Geotechnical Engineering Intern, Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc., May 2011 - July 2011

Professional Memberships & Registration

Awards

  • Field monitoring to inform BUDM project on Scotch Bonnet wetlands at the Wetlands Institute, NJ, US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), W25PHS32555958, 2022-2024
  • Corrosion Validation of Engineering Solutions for Sea Spray Aerosol Control, Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) (DoD), 2024-2027
  • Experimental Investigation of Wave, Surge, and Tsunami Transformation over Natural Shorelines, National Science Foundation (NSF) Award No. 1825080, 2018
  • Shoreline Wave Attenuation by Mangroves and Marshes, US Army Corps of Engineers, 2018 - 2021
  • Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW) Fellowship, National Science Foundation (NSF), 2014
  • Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award, University of Notre Dame, 2014
  • Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2013
  • David P. Simpson Coastal Engineering Scholarship, Coast & Harbor Engineering, Inc., 2013
  • Notebaert Fellowship Recipient, University of Notre Dame, 2011

Professional & Community Service

  • Editorial Board, Coastal Engineering, and reviewer for various academic journals

Research & Publications

  • Libby, M., Tomiczek T., Cox, D.T., and Lomónaco, P. (2025) Green-Gray Connections: Coupled Equations of Wave Attenuation and Structural Response for Engineering Design of Hybrid Infrastructure. Coastal Engineering, in press.
  • Corwin, E., Reguero, B.G., McKay, S.K., Piercy, C.D., Pontee, N.I., Tomiczek, T., Jameson, T., Bledsoe, B.P., Narayan, S., Sridharan, V.K. (2025). Nature-based Design Standards: Past, Present, and Future. ASCE OPEN: Multidisciplinary Journal of Civil Engineering. In press.
  • Van Dang, H., Tomiczek T., Park, H., Shin, S., and Cox, D.T. (2025) Wave Hydrodynamics and Attenuation in Idealized Mangrove Forest: Large-Scale Physical and Numerical Modeling. Coastal Engineering, 201 (2025) 104809. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2025.104809
  • Van Dang, H., Tomiczek, T., Park, H., Ha, T., Shin, S., and Cox, D. (2025). Investigation on Flow Hydrodynamics and Structural Impacts in the Built Environment Protected by Idealized Mangrove Forest: Experimental and Numerical Approaches. Ocean Engineering, 335 (2025), 121576. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2025.121576
  • Reidenbach, M.A., Li, M., Rose, K., Tomiczek, T., Morris, J., Palinkas, C., Staver, L.W., Nardin, W., Gray, M., Lee, S., Sutton-Grier, A., and Hruska, A. (2025). Performance evaluation of Natural and Nature-Based Features (NNBF) for coastal protection and co-benefits. Annual Reviews Marine Science, In Press.
  • Doyle, K. Tomiczek, T., Cox, D., and Lomónaco, P. (2025). A Design Equation for Wave Uplift Forces on Elevated Structures. Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering, 151 (4) https://doi.org/10.1061/JWPED5.WWENG-2270
  • Bredes, A., Tso, G., Gittman, R.K., Narayan, S., Tomiczek, T., Miller, J.K., and Morris, R.L. (2024). A 20-year systematic review of wave dissipation by soft and hybrid nature-based solutions (NbS). Ecological Engineering, 209(2024), 107418. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2024.107418
  • Libby, M., Tomiczek T., Cox, D.T., and Lomónaco, P. (2024) The sum of the parts: Green, gray, and green-gray infrastructure to mitigate wave overtopping. Coastal Engineering, 194 (2024). 104615. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2024.104615
  • Tomiczek T., Mitchell, W.T., Lomonaco, P., Cox, D.T., and Kelty, K. (2024) Prototype-scale laboratory observations of wave force reduction by an idealized mangrove forest of moderate cross-shore width. Ocean Engineering, 310 (2024). 118740. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2024.118740
  • O’Donnell, K., Tomiczek T., Higgins, A., Muñoz, S.E., and Scyphers, S. (2024) Stakeholder driven sensor deployments to characterize nuisance flood inundation and duration in Key West, Florida. AGU Earth’s Future, 12 (7). E2023EF003631. doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EF003631
  • Laun, A., Mazzuchi, T., Sarkani, S., and Tomiczek T. (2023) Resilience as property value rebound: analysis of expanded datasets from Hurricanes Ike and Irma. Natural Hazards Review, 24(4). doi: https://doi.org/10.1061/NHREFO.NHENG-13
  • Van Dang, H., Park, H., Shin, S., Tomiczek T., Cox, D.T., Lee, E., Lee, D., and Lomonaco, P. (2023) Physical model comparison of gray and green mitigation alternatives for flooding and wave force reduction in an idealized urban coastal environment. Coastal Engineering, 184 (2023). doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2023.104339
  • Morgado, Y., Areu-Rangel, O.S., Silva, R., Miyashita, T., Mori, N., and Tomiczek, T. (2023). Using the SPRC methodology to assess tsunami risk in Zihuatanejo, Mexico. Coastal Engineering Journal. 2023. 10.1080/21664250.2023.2172992
  • Figlus, J., McKee Smith, J., Tomiczek, T., and McFall, B. (2022). Editorial: Natural and Nature-Based Features for Flood Risk Management. Frontiers in the Built Environment. 8 (2022) https://doi.org/10.3389/fbuil.2022.1128508
  • Velasquez-Montoya, L., Wargula, A., Nangle, J., Sciaudone, E.J., Smyre, E., and Tomiczek T. (2022). Hydrodynamics of a tidal inlet under gray to green coastal protection interventions. Frontiers in Earth Science. 10:991667. doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.991667.
  • Velasquez-Montoya, L., Wargula, A., Tomiczek, T., Sciaudone, E.J., and Smyre, E. (2022). Modeling the hydrodynamics of a tidal inlet during bay-side storms. Estuarine, Coastal, and Shelf Science. 280 (2023) 108145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2022.108145
  • Tomiczek T., Helgeson, J., Sutley, E.J., Gu, D., Hamideh, S., and Crawford, S. (2022) A framework for characterizing uncertainty factors in post-disaster structural performance assessment data. Natural Hazards Review. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000604.
  • Ostrow, K., Guannel, G., Biondi, E.L., Cox, D.T., and Tomiczek T. (2022) State of the Practice and Engineering Framework for Using Emergent Vegetation in Coastal Infrastructure. Frontiers in the Built Environment. 8:923965. doi: 10.3389/fbuil.2022.923965.
  • Mori, N., Satake, K., Cox, D., Goda, K., Catalan, P.A., Ho, T-C., Imamura, F., Tomiczek, T., Lynett, P., Miyashita, T., Muhari, A., Titov, V., and Wilson, R. (2022). Giant tsunami monitoring, early warning, and hazard assessment. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, doi: 10.1038/s43017-022-00327-3.
  • Tomiczek T, Sciaudone, E.J., Velasquez-Montoya, L., Smyre, E., Wargula, A., Fawcett, K., and Torres, J.B. (2022) Investigation of barrier island highway and marsh vulnerability to bay-side flooding and erosion. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022, 10, 734. doi:10.3390/jmse10060734.
  • O’Donnell K.L., Tomiczek T. and Scyphers S.B. (2022) Resident Perceptions and Parcel-Level Performance Outcomes of Mangroves, Beaches, and Hardened Shorelines After Hurricane Irma in the Lower Florida Keys. Environ. Sci. 10:734993. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.734993
  • Velásquez-Montoya, L., Davies, A.R. Guth, P., Tomiczek, T., Laun, A., Wargula, A., Henderson, G., Steppe, C., and Wallendorf, L. (2022). The Oktober Flut: An anomalous extreme high-water event in Annapolis, MD, USA, October 2021. Shore and Beach, 90 (1), 27-38.
  • Kelty, K.,  Tomiczek, T., Cox, D.T., Lomonaco, P., and Mitchell, W. (2022). Prototype-scale physical model of wave attenuation through a mangrove forest of moderate cross-shore thickness: LiDAR-based characterization and Reynolds scaling for engineering with nature.  Front. Mar. Sci. 8:780946. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.780946
  • Tomiczek, T. , Wargula, A., O’Donnell, K., LaVeck, V., Castagno, K.A., and Scyphers, S. Vessel-generated wake attenuation by Rhizophora mangle in Key West, FL. (2022).  ASCE Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering. 148 (3). doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)WW.1943-5460. 0000704.
  • Castagno, K.,  Tomiczek, T., Shepard, C., Beck, M., Bowden, A., O’Donnell, K., and Scyphers, S. (2021). Resistance, resilience, and recovery of salt marshes in the Florida Panhandle following Hurricane Michael.  Scientific Reports. 2021 (11) 20381. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1038/ s41598-021-99779-8 .
  • Tomiczek, T. Wargula, A., Lomonaco, P., Goodwin, S., Cox, D.T., Kennedy, A.B., Lynett, P. (2020). Physical model investigation of mid-scale mangrove effects on flow hydrodynamics and pressures and loads in the built environment.  Coastal Engineering, 162 (2020), DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j. coastaleng.2020.103791
  • Tomiczek, T., O’Donnell, K., Furman, K., Webbmartin, B., and Scyphers, S. (2020). Rapid Damage Assessments of Shorelines and Structures in the Florida Keys after Hurricane Irma.  Nat. Haz. Rev. 21 (1), doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000349.
  • Tomiczek, T ., Wyman, A., Park, H., and Cox, D.T. (2019). Modified Goda Equations to Predict Pressure Distribution and Horizontal Forces for Design of Elevated Coastal Structures.  J. Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)WW.1943-5460. 0000527.
  • N. Elko, C. Dietrich, M. Cialone, H. Stockdon, M. Bilskie, B. Boyd, B. Charbonneau, D. Cox, K. Dresback, S. Elgar, A. Lewis, P. Limber, J. Long, C. Massey, T. Mayo, K. McIntosh, N. Nadal-Caraballo, B. Raubenheimer, T. Tomiczek, and A.  Wargula, “ U.S. Coastal Research Program: Advancing the Understanding of Storm Processes and Impacts,”  Shore and Beach (Volume 87), 2019
  • Sipes, S.N., Tomiczek, T., Mouring, S.E., Professor, Comparison of Experimental and Theoretical Wave Forces on Elevated Structures, International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers Conference and Symposium , Honolulu, HI, USA, 2019
  • Huang, M., Kennedy, A.B., Tomiczek, T., Westerink, J., Solitary wave impacts on vertical and overhanging near-coast structures,  Coastal Engineering Journal (Volume 60), 2018
  • Van De Lindt, J.W., Peacock, W.G., Mitrani-Reiser, J., Rosenheim, N., Deniz, D., Dillard, M., Tomiczek, T.,  Koliou, M., Graettinger, A., Crawford, S., Harrison, K., Barbosa, A., Tobin, J., Helgeson, J., Peek, L., Memari, M., Sutley, E., Hamideh, S., Gu, D., Cauffman, S., and Fung J.,  Community Resilience-Focused Technical Investigation of the 2016 Lumberton, North Carolina Flood: Multi-Disciplinary Approach,  NIST Special Publication 1230, 2018
  • T. Tomiczek, H. Park, A. Wyman, D. Cox, P. Lomonaco, and J. Van De Lindt, "Application and Modifications of Design Formulae for Impulsive Wave Forces on Elevated Coastal Structures," 7th International Conference on the Application of Physical Modeling in Coastal and Port Engineering and Science (COASTLAB), Santander, Spain, May 2018
  • H. Park, T. Do, T Tomiczek, D. Cox, J. Van De Lindt, "Numerical Modeling of Non-Breaking, Impulsive Breaking, and Broken Wave Interaction with Elevated Coastal Structures: Laboratory Validation and Inter-Model Comparisons," Ocean Engineering (Volume 158), 2018
  • A. Kennedy, N. Mori, T. Yasude, T. Shimozono, T. Tomiczek, A. Donahue, T. Shimura, and Y. Imai, "Extreme Block and Boulder Transport Along a Cliffed Coastline (Calicoan Island, Philippines) During Super Typhoon Haiyan," Marine Geology (Volume 383), 2017
  • Y. Zhang, A. Kennedy, T. Tomiczek, W. Yang, W. Liu, and J. Westerink, "Assessment of Hydrodynamic Competence in Extreme Marine Events through Application of Boussinesq-Green-Naghdi Models," Applied Ocean Research (Volume 67), 2017
  • H. Park, T. Tomiczek, D. Cox, J. Van De Lindt, and P. Lomonaco, "Experimental Modeling of Horizontal and Vertical Wave Forces on an Elevated Coastal Structure," Coastal Engineering (Volume 128), 2017
  • T. Tomiczek, A. Kennedy, Y. Zhang, M. Owensby, M. Hope, N. Lin, and A. Flory, " Hurricane Damage Classification Methodology and Fragility Functions Derived from Hurricane Sandy's Effects in Coastal New Jersey," Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering (Volume 143), 2017
  • T. Tomiczek, A. Prasetyo, N. Mori, T. Yasuda, and A. Kennedy, " Effects of a Macro-Roughness Element on Tsunami Wave Amplification, Pressures, and Loads: Physical Model and Comparison to Japanese and US Design Equations," Coastal Engineering Journal (Volume 59), 2016
  • T. Tomiczek, A. Prasetyo, N. Mori, T. Yasuda, and A. Kennedy, " Physical Modelling of Tsunami Onshore Propagation, Peak Pressures, and Shielding Effects in an Urban Building Array," Coastal Engineering (Volume 117), 2016
  • Y. Zhang, A. Kennedy, T. Tomiczek, A. Donahue, and J. Westerink, " Validation of Boussinesq-Green-Naghdi Modeling for Surf Zone Hydrodynamics," Ocean Engineering (Volume 111), 2015
  • T. Tomiczek, A. Kennedy, and S. Rogers, " Collapse Limit State Fragilities of Wood-Framed Residences from Storm Surge and Waves During Hurrican Ike," Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering (Volume 140), 2014
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