Sentences with phrase «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.

Daniel Cohan, a professor of environmental engineering at Rice University, said a carbon tax would be more appropriate to let all technologies compete.

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:

Jenna Jambeck, an assistant professor of environmental engineering at the University of Georgia and lead author of the study, said the amount of plastic that entered the oceans in the year measured, 2010, might be as little as 4.8 million metric tons or as much as 12.7 million.

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

«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.

«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.

The study, led by Pierre Gentine, associate professor of earth and environmental engineering at Columbia Engineering and at the Earth Institute, is published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

«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 [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.

After water purification, one of the most important regulating services of páramo... environments is flood control,» said Daniel Ruiz, an associate professor of environmental engineering at Antioquia School of Engineering and researcher at Columbia University's International Research Institute for Climate and Society.

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.

«This innovative gas separation platform provides large surface areas while eliminating a number of operational issues, including corrosion, evaporative losses, and fouling,» said Ah - Hyung (Alissa) Park, the chair in applied climate science and associate professor of Earth and environmental engineering at Columbia University, who was not involved in the research.

«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.

Now, with a new paper in the Journal of Applied Physics, from AIP Publishing, Bejan and Marcelo Errera, a professor of environmental engineering at the Federal University of Paraná in Brazil, make another fundamental contribution to physics.

«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.

But she and co-investigator Jean Hunter, professor of biological and environmental engineering at Cornell, decided to go the opposite route: They suspected that diversity could work just as well, and that it could provide benefits in problem - solving and crew cohesion.

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.

Houston, it turned out, had focused on controlling the wrong emissions from the wrong sources to lower its ozone levels, says Daniel Cohan, an associate professor of environmental engineering at Rice University.

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

«We can now calculate a turbulence «speed limit» for nitrate removal in any stream,» said lead author Stanley Grant, a professor of civil & environmental engineering at the University of California, Irvine.

«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.

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.

«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.

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.

Asa - Awuku, an associate professor of chemical and environmental engineering at the CE - CERT, said agencies that oversee prescribed burns should consider these findings when they predict the likely impact of prescribed burning of forest fuels in areas subjected to chronic air pollution.

«The problem is that there is not really any good, objective water quality test» that can easily be performed in remote areas of developing countries, says Stephen Gundry, professor of environmental engineering at the University of Bristol who co-authored the WHO Bulletin paper.

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

Better engines for the climate On average, about 85 percent of the particle matter emitted from diesel trucks is black carbon, said Christopher Frey <, a professor of environmental engineering at North Carolina State University.

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.

He completed a Ph.D. in environmental engineering at the University of Washington in 1991.

Yanran Li, PhD, a former postdoctoral scholar who's now an assistant professor of chemical and environmental engineering at the University of California - Irvine, and postdoctoral scholar Sijin Li, PhD, share lead authorship.

(I studied environmental engineering at Purdue).

«As a parent that frequents the BPD with my kids, I have great concern about this proposal,» said John Arnish who works as an environmental engineer at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago.

«We're absolutely packed, the crowd is massive, well beyond expectations,» says Stuart Khan, an environmental engineer at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, told Science by phone.

«This cholera organism is well established in the Haitian environment and is likely there to stay,» says Daniele Lantagne, an environmental engineer at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, who does relief work in Haiti and investigated the United Nations» role in the outbreak.