Join us on October 25 at 5:00pm for a PechaKucha featuring Civil and Environmental Engineering’s three newest faculty members: Frances Davenport, Antônio Alves Meira Neto, and Ryan Smith. The presentation will be followed by a graduate student social with refreshments. A PechaKucha is a Japanese-style presentation with 20 slides shared for 20 seconds each. Presenters…Read more
In an article published by Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, CSU professors Mazdak Arabi and Shrideep Pallickara advocate for a broader scope in monitoring droughts to include the resulting impacts of droughts. With satellite imaging and improved modeling, drought monitoring now has the capacity to produce near real-time data. Yet, that data focuses on the immediate…Read more
Designated planning agencies responsible for ensuring compliance with clean water regulations often struggle to compile and analyze the necessary data spread across disparate state and federal sources. One Water Solutions Institute intervened by introducing agencies to the efficiencies of the Catena Analytics and eRAMS platform.
PhD student Mohammad Teymouri has received a $35,000 fellowship from the Portland Cement Association. Each year, the association grants two U.S. graduate students a fellowship to research topics related to the decarbonization of the cement industry. Teymouri is in his third year of the PhD program in Civil Engineering and Construction Management. The program is…Read more
The Environmental Fluid Mechanics Journal has published a special issue on turbulence and mixing in stratified flows. Professor Karan Venayagamoorthy served as editor for the issue which includes twelve papers, half of which focus on stratified turbulence and mixing research performed in labs and simulations, with the second half focused on field-scale observations and simulations in natural…Read more
The concurrent occurrence of hot and dry weather events, known as compound dry-hot extreme (CDHE) events, poses a significant risk to the health of both humans and the environment. In their research published by Nature Communications journal, postdoctoral researcher Mahshid Ghanbari and Professor Mazdak Arabi analyze the impact of climate change and urban development on…Read more
Groundwater is a critical yet finite resource. When groundwater is excessively pumped for its many uses (drinking, irrigation, etc.), the surrounding land area can sink, known as land subsidence, causing permanent groundwater storage loss. Prof. Ryan G. Smith and colleagues have developed a new model to map subsidence globally for the first time. They published…Read more
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) invited Professor John van de Lindt to discuss his new book, Resilient and Sustainable Buildings. CEE professors Hussam Mahmoud and Bruce Ellingwood contributed as chapter co-authors, and van de Lindt served as lead editor for the book. The text examines four NSF projects pertaining to resilient and sustainable structures,…Read more
The New York Times’ article “‘Monster Fracks’ Are Getting Far Bigger. And Far Thirstier.” references research by CEE professors Kenneth Carlson and Tiezheng Tong. The article demonstrated the impact on U.S. aquifers by fracking activity by large oil and gas wells, using “astonishing volumes of water.” Carlson and Tong’s research found hydraulic fracturing in arid…Read more
Assistant Professor Antônio Alves Meira Neto was named a 2022 Outstanding Reviewer by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) for his work with the Water Resources Research journal. The AGU, established in 1919 by the National Research Council, is a leading association in earth and space sciences. Meira joined the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department in the…Read more