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.
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van de Lindt discusses earthquakes and resilience in The Conversation
John van de Lindt published an article in The Conversation on why earthquakes can be so destructive to structures particularly in developing countries and what communities can do moving forward to build resilience.
New CEE faculty member proud to contribute to department’s long history of hydrology
Meet Assistant Professor Antônio Alves Meira Neto
Generations of civil engineering students to benefit from ASCE ExCEEd Teaching Workshop
For the first time in its 24-year history, the prestigious ExCEEd Teaching Workshop from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) was held on the CSU campus in Fort Collins.
Guo awarded $2.3 million from Dept of Energy for solar tracker resilience
A CSU civil engineer has received a U.S. Department of Energy grant to help solar trackers – the structures that enable solar panels to follow the path of the sun – withstand high winds and wind-related natural disasters.
Smith awarded NSF grant for groundwater study in southwest Utah
NSF has awarded CSU Assistant Professor Ryan G. Smith a $328,981 grant to study how subsidence, or the sinking of land area from the removal of groundwater, affects long-term water availability in southwest Utah.
Moore Foundation $2.7 million grant expands groundbreaking CSU Civil Engineering wildfire model
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.
Stewarding the Ogallala Aquifer: CSU leads groundswell of research, outreach for combating water crisis
Associate Professor Ryan Bailey and his team helped develop a comprehensive integrated model to inform Ogallala Aquifer management and support conservation of this vitally important resource.
Sandcastle engineering – a geotechnical engineer explains how water, air and sand create solid structures
Associate Professor Joe Scalia uses sandcastles in the classroom to explain how interactions of soil, water and air make it possible to rebuild landscapes after mining metals critical to the energy transition.
Neil Grigg recalls Spring Creek Flood’s devastation, Colorado State University’s contributions to recovery
Professor Neil Grigg says the 25th anniversary of the Spring Creek Flood is “a good reminder of the central nature of our work in hydrology, stormwater infrastructure, risk assessment, and urban planning. We should be reminding the public (and ourselves) about such risks, and feeling good about our roles in finding solutions.”