PhD student selected for Thornton Tomasetti Student Innovation Fellowship Civil engineering PhD student Kimia Yousefi Anarak has been selected for the Thornton Tomasetti Student Innovation Fellowship of $5,000 for her research submission “Trajectory modeling of windborne debris in the turbulent urban wind field.” She plans for this research to serve as the foundation of her…Read more
Steep flume used to test removable grout seams On Friday, July 14, the CEE Hydraulics Laboratory used an outdoor steep flume at the Engineering Research Center to test grout seams used in the installation of articulating concrete blocks (ACBs) revetment systems. This hydraulic testing is being performed for a global consulting company to provide design…Read more
Associate Professor Peter Nelson did not plan to research wildfires when he accepted a faculty position with CSU in 2012. Yet, a few months before his faculty position began, the High Park fire in Larimer County would change that. Nelson was in Italy at the University of Genoa serving as a National Science Foundation postdoctoral…Read more
Two CEE faculty earn global recognition from IAHR Professor Pierre Julien and Associate Professor Peter Nelson will each receive an honorable mention at the 40th World Congress of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) in Vienna next month. Julien was awarded second place for the 2023 M. Selim Yalin Lifetime Achievement Award.…Read more
Professor Hussam Mahmoud has been awarded a three-year, $2.7 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for expanding his model predicting wildfire progress through a community.
The cover of the June 2023 edition of Nature Water features research by Associate Professor Tiezheng Tong and PhD student Yiqun Yao entitled “Electrodialytic crystallization to enable zero liquid discharge.” Wastewater with high salinity has typically required the use of evaporation or freezing to crystalize the salt thereby removing it from the water, but the process…Read more
Nick Christensen, a first-year PhD student working with Ryan Morrison’s lab, has been named a Fellow of the Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center (CASC). Southwest CASC’s mission is to “…develop actionable science and implementable climate adaptation solutions in partnership with natural and cultural resource managers, policy makers, Native Nations, and researchers across the Southwest.” This…Read more
The 2023 edition of Colorado State University RESEARCH magazine features the work of Hussam Mahmoud and his research group, in the article “Confronting the Climate Crisis: CSU meets a global challenge head-on with research, engagement, and students.” The new issue, which focuses on the theme of resilience, is out now in digital format, and will…Read more
Associate Professor Ryan Morrison and coauthors Ellen Wohl and Richard Knox of the Department of Geosciences received the news that their paper, “A river ran through it: Floodplains as America’s newest relict landform” was selected by faculty in the Warner College of Natural Resources for this year’s Outstanding Publication award. WCNR Dean Alonso Aguirre called…Read more
Along active faults like the San Andreas Fault in California, monitoring stations detect where subtle lateral movements happen – or don’t. If most of the fault keeps shifting, but one area remains still, it can be a sign that pressure is building there. That growing pressure will eventually be released in an earthquake, and scientists…Read more