Dr. Bodge earned his doctoral degree in Engineering Mechanics, Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering Specialty, under Dr. Robert Dean at the University of Florida. He also earned a master's degree in Civil and Ocean Engineering from the University of Delaware, and a bachelor's degree with honors in Aerospace and Ocean Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. As the senior engineer with Olsen Associates, Inc., since 1986, Dr. Bodge performs engineering, design, permitting, construction management, and research functions related to projects involving wave dynamics, coastal processes, beach nourishment, marinas and waterfront resorts, piers and bulkheads, coral reef restoration, economics of shore protection, and coastal navigation and management.

Recent design work of Dr. Bodge has included numerous beach restoration projects throughout the southeastern United States and the Caribbean, small-craft marinas and docks, inlet stabilization, nearshore disposal of dredged material, structural repair of coral reefs damaged by ships, stabilization of artificial reefs, and reclamation of lagoons and salt ponds. His quantitative research efforts include the extent of inlet impacts on adjacent shorelines; numerical, field and laboratory study of the distribution of longshore sediment transport across the surf zone; development of patented instrumentation to measure storm surge fluctuations and ocean wave direction; and technical review of Federal research in sediment transport, including sections of the U. S. Army Coastal Engineering Manual, for which Dr Bodge is the author of the chapter on Sediment Management at Inlets and Harbors. His work has also included the development and pioneering application of various numerical models of wave refraction, littoral transport, and storm impacts to oceanfront development; and, is best known for innovative designs of structurally-stabilized beach improvements. Additionally, Dr. Bodge has conducted numerous site-specific studies of inlet hydrodynamics, marina flushing, beach erosion and littoral impacts of coastal structures, dredge-plume dispersion relevant to naval archaeological excavations; and, routinely provides technical liaison between the government and coastal communities.

Having participated in and directed a wide variety of beachface and nearshore field operations, Dr. Bodge's experience includes over 3000 hours in sediment transport investigations, severe storm monitoring, underwater and sub-aerial equipment installation and data collection, current measurement, all types of beach survey operations, and site evaluation. His expertise also includes the design and development of oceanographic instrumentation, as well as analytic, site-specific, field and laboratory studies of coastal sediment transport. In addition, he has authored over forty papers in coastal processes, has presented numerous technical papers at professional conferences, including an invited address to the Institute of Civil Engineers, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the American Soc. of Civil Eng.'s Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering.

Dr. Bodge is also an adjunct faculty member of Jacksonville University and regularly teaches courses in Physical Oceanography and Marine Geology. He is a member of several engineering honor societies and the American Society of Civil Engineers, and is a registered Professional Engineer in the States of Florida and Hawaii.

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