Join CEE Emeritus Professor Thomas Sale and Assistant Professor Ryan Smith for the Subsurface Water Storage Symposium on February 22 and 23 at the CSU Spur Campus. Attendance is free, but registration is recommended as space is limited.

The 2024 Annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) Hydrology Days event will be held April 16-17 on the CSU Fort Collins campus. Hydrology Days provides a unique opportunity for students, faculty, and practitioners to engage in a wide range of water-related interdisciplinary research topics. The event includes a wide variety of sessions led by faculty, staff, and industry practitioners.

CEE Assistant Professor Ryan Smith discussed the causes and implications of subsidence, the sinking of land due to groundwater pumping, on an Arizona news broadcast by channel ABC15. Arizona experiences some of the worst subsidence in the country, a typically permanent change to the landscape and to the groundwater supply. Smith and his team developed…Read more

CSU and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering are well-represented at the U.N. COP28 climate conference in Dubai. The Rocky Mountain Collegian published an article featuring the work of the School of Global Environmental Sustainability and of CEE professor Hussam Mahmoud. Mahmoud is leading a collaborative event in his role as co-chair of NASEM’s…Read more

CSU alum Geoff Chao has been named President of the Southeast Asian Geotechnical Society (SEAGS). The society promotes collaboration between geotechnical associations across Southeast Asia. In the announcement of his election to the position, Chao was praised by the society for an “outstanding dedication, extensive expertise, and unwavering commitment to SEAGS.” Chao earned his M.S.…Read more

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

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