Sentences with phrase «civil and environmental engineering at»

For the past 24 years, Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford, has been developing a complex computer model to study air pollution, energy, weather and climate.

«It's absolutely not true that we need natural gas, coal or oil — we think it's a myth,» said Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University.

This is how Costas Synolakis, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Southern California, described the situation in Italy and elsewhere in Europe in «Why Young Buildings Failed in Old Towns,» a Dot Earth post published shortly after the L'Aquila disaster:

Amanda Sain, right, works with Andrea Dietrich, left, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech.

«My colleagues in India were showing off some of their rooftop solar installations, and I was blown away by how dirty the panels were,» said Michael Bergin, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke University and lead author of the study.

«What didn't go in is regulating as if you left out 164 nations,» James Corbett, a professor of marine science and policy as well as civil and environmental engineering at the University of Delaware, said in an interview.

The work fed off research published in 2015 that looked at stream gauges in the central United States, said Gabriele Villarini, an associate professor in civil and environmental engineering at the university and a co-author of the new paper with Louise Slater.

Geiger and Salvo plan to collaborate with Aaron Packman, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, on studying urban metabolites in Chicago.

«If you can't turn the well so it goes along the shale formation and a lot of the well is exposed to the gas, you can't get the gas out economically,» says Anthony Ingraffea, a hydraulic fracturing expert and professor of civil and environmental engineering at Cornell University.

«The research indicates that this is a source of methane that should not be ignored,» said Michael Celia, the Theodore Shelton Pitney Professor of Environmental Studies and professor of civil and environmental engineering at Princeton.

«All you need is air and water» to create acid mine drainage, said Ron Cohen, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Colorado School of Mines who has been involved in mine remediation internationally.

The findings, the result of microscopic analysis of bacteria inside microfluidic devices, were made by MIT postdoc Roberto Rusconi, former MIT postdoc Jeffrey Guasto (now an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Tufts University), and Roman Stocker, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT.

Angela Bielefeldt * is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder.

«Maintenance of Traffic for Innovative Geometric Designs Work Zones,» recently was published in the Transportation Research Record, Praveen Edara, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at MU, and Tim Kope and Amir Khezerzadeh, students in the MU College of Engineering, co-authored the paper.

William Rhoads, Rebekah Martin and Siddhartha Roy are students in civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Study co-author David Rosenberg, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at USU, says if refuge managers implement the model's recommendations, they could nearly double the area of productive wetland habitat using existing resources.

«For this study, GRACE served as a unique tool that provided information on water volume changes directly from space, and corroborated the water balance estimates,» said Hyongki Lee, a co-author of the study and a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Houston.

These latecomers to the research scene, called anammox bacteria, are the subject of a new study led by Daniel Noguera and Katherine McMahon, professors of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

«This is pushing coal off the grid,» said Daniel Cohan, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Rice University.

Stephen H. Levine, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Tufts University School of Engineering, developed the computer model to rapidly compare the predicted efficacy of vasectomy (vs. castration) and hysterectomy (vs. ovariohysterectomy).

«We are considering extreme cases,» said Ning Lin, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Princeton.

The study, co-authored by Dichtel, Damian Helbling, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Cornell University, and members of their research groups at Northwestern and Cornell, recently was published by the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Now, a team of researchers including Elie Bou - Zeid an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Princeton who experienced the storm while in Lebanon, have found a more likely cause for the unprecedented storm — it was not human conflict, but a combination of climatic factors and unusual weather.

A dust storm that blanketed seven nations in the Middle East in late summer 2015 was caused by climate factors and unusual weather, not human conflict in Syria, concluded researchers including Elie Bou - Zeid, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Princeton.

«If everyone has the same information, then there may be an overreaction,» says Moshe Ben - Akiva, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Zhang, who is a research assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northwestern, came up with the initial idea.

González, who ultimately accepted a tenure - track position in civil and environmental engineering at MIT, says her experience is not unusual, especially among physicists doing network science, few of whom end up working in physics departments.

Under the existing system in the United States, poor cities and towns get the water they can afford, which may not be safe or clean, said Marc Edwards, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech.

«Certainly it is a very good antimicrobial product,» says Zhiqiang Hu, a civil and environmental engineer at the University of Missouri — Columbia, who is studying the safety of silver nanoparticles.

C o - author Mitchell Harley, a civil and environmental engineer at the University of New South Wales, Australia, says: «Coastlines of the Pacific are particularly dynamic as they are exposed to storm waves generated often thousands of miles away.

There are big plans in store for PureMadi, says project leader James Smith, a civil and environmental engineer at U.Va:

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John Dabiri, a professor of civil and environmental and mechanical engineering at Stanford, says the ocean surface is relatively poorly sampled and there is a need for low - cost ways to collect data.

The idea of a new standard is a step in the right direction but has limits, said Mike Blackhurst, who recently accepted an assistant professor position at the University of Texas, Austin, in civil, environmental and architectural engineering.

«There is overwhelming scientific evidence that the characteristics of extreme rainfall under climate change are going to be different,» said Praveen Kumar, a professor of civil and environmental engineering (CEE) at Illinois and project leader on the study.

«Our model's not saying the water would have definitely overtopped the levees at Cairo,» said UCI professor and chair of civil & environmental engineering Brett Sanders, an author of the study led by UCI graduate student Adam Luke.

He is the Joseph Cummings Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.

«What we found was sort of surprising,» said Andres Clarens, a civil and environmental engineering professor at the University of Virginia and lead author of the paper.

«To balance funding between the backlog and climate adaptation, bridge managers will need robust data on collapse risk,» said lead author Madeleine M. Flint, an assistant professor of civil & environmental engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

«It seems to have worked for at least one of the congeners studied,» says Tim Mattes, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and corresponding author on the paper, published in the journal Ecological Engineering.

«The same calculations can be included in stream network models, which would allow researchers to better quantify the impacts of nitrate pollution at local, continental and even global scales,» said co-author Morvarid Azizian, a postdoctoral scholar in civil & environmental engineering at UCI.

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At the time of the study, Wolz was majoring in biology and civil and environmental engineering.

«Unfortunately, the phosphorus in human waste is only about 10 percent» of mined phosphate rock, explains David A. Vaccari, director of civil, environmental and ocean engineering at the Stevens Institute of Technology.

«HiRISE gives us 0.3 - meter [one - foot] resolution on the ground, so we can combine those orbital images with ground images to identify rocks from the orbiter and the ground,» Ron Li, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and geodetic science, explained at a recent American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.

But look at another map, said Sritharan, the Wilkinson Chair in Iowa State University's College of Engineering, a professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering and the interim assistant dean for strategic initiatives.

For an understanding of how nuclear plant safety is assessed and will likely be evaluated moving forward, Scientific American spoke with Najmedin Meshkati, a professor of civil, environmental, industrial and systems engineering at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering in Los Angeles.

«The [employment] opportunities are endless — it's almost a frontier mentality,» asserts Dara Entekhabi, water foundations professor in civil / environmental engineering at MIT, and member of the National Academy of Sciences committee on Opportunities in Hydrologic Sciences.

Carlos Sun, an MU professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Yi Hou a doctoral student at Mizzou, co-authored the study.

MIT civil and environmental engineer Elfatih Eltahir studied readings from NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and found that — statistically at least — there is a seesaw effect in rainfall between the Amazon and the Congo river basins.

«The sensing skin could be used for a wide range of structures, but the impetus for the work was to help ensure the integrity of critical infrastructure such as nuclear waste storage facilities,» says Dr. Mohammad Pour - Ghaz, an assistant professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering at NC State and co-author of a paper describing the work.