Sentences with phrase «says civil and environmental engineer»

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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 here is, we can design something very flexible so that you can change it using external controls,» said Wang, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

«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.

«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.

So I initially thought there was no way drones could compete with trucks on carbon dioxide emissions,» said senior author Anne Goodchild, a UW associate professor of civil and environmental engineering.

«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.

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

We aimed to develop an analytical method that would be as broad as possible,» said Damian Helbling, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering.

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

Gabriele Villarini, UI associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and corresponding author on the paper, says researchers honed in on predicting the impacts of tropical cyclones because that information is generally more useful than typical forecasts that predict how many storms are expected in a season.

«Coral reefs are referred to as rain forests of the sea,» said Marcelino, a research assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering.

«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.

«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.

«Agriculture rarely gets considered for air pollution control strategies,» said Cohan, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering.

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.

«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.

«In the past, engineers have tended to make decisions as though every flood has just a single cause, for example unusually heavy rainfall or an extreme ocean water level,» says Dr Seth Westra, Senior Lecturer in the School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering.

«Our results show that subtle features such as this junction configuration have a significant impact on thermal transport,» said Shahsavari, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and of materials science and nanoengineering.

«With agriculture and urbanization, Canada has lost a huge portion of its wetlands, which have had a number of environmental impacts,» said Nandita Basu, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering.

«Previous studies have relied on reproducing the conditions of a stagnant plumbing system within a lab setting,» said co-author and civil and environmental engineering professor Wen - Tso Liu.

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.

«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.

«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.

«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 Environmental Studies and professor of civil and environmental engineering environmental engineering at Princeton.

«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 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.

«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.

«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 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.

«Civil and environmental engineers will have to handle whatever society hands to us,» Alizadeh Fard says.

About 18 percent of all human - made carbon dioxide emissions — or nearly 8.5 billion tons each year — comes from the burning of forests, savannahs and wood chips for fuel, said Mark Jacobson, a civil and environmental engineering professor at Stanford and the study's main author.

«A lot of the infrastructure in this country needs to be re-built,» says Gardner, University of New Hampshire associate professor of civil engineering and director of the Environmental Research Group.

Thomas Homer - Dixon Trudeau Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Toronto Feng Hsu Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Mark Jacobson Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University David Keith Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy, University of Calgary Geoffrey Landis Glenn Research Center, NASA Jane C. S. Long hydrogeologist and geotechnical engineer Michael MacCracken Climate Institute, Washington, DC John C. Mankins Sunsat Energy Council / Managed Energy Technologies Michael E. Mann Earth System Science Center, Pennsylvania State University Gregg Marland International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Mark Nelson Institute of Ecotechnics, Santa Fe, NM Darel Preble Space Solar Power Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology Gregory H. Rau Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz Steve Rayner Said Business School, Oxford, UK Kim Stanley Robinson Author, «Forty Signs of Rain» Gregory Dennis Sachs Alternative Power Program, US Merchant Marine Academy Thomas Schelling (Nobel laureate) Department of Economics, University of Maryland Michael Schlesinger Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign Steven E. Schwartz Brookhaven National Laboratory, Department of Energy John Turner National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Department of Energy Tyler Volk Department of Biology, New York University Tom M. L. Wigley National Center for Atmospheric Research Steven C. Wofsy School of Engineering and Applied Science / Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Harvard University Lowell Wood Hoover Institution / Stanford University

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.

«The finding that shocks us is that when it comes to how much [nitrogen dioxide] a person breathes, it's still race that matters,» said senior author Julian Marshall, professor of civil and environmental engineering, in a press release.

«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.

«Ocean dynamics are directly connected to global climate through interactions with the atmosphere,» says John Dabiri, professor of civil and environmental engineering and of mechanical engineering at Stanford University and senior author of the paper in Nature.

«Converting to wind, water and sunlight is feasible, will stabilize costs of energy and will produce jobs while reducing health and climate damage,» said Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering.

«There is a pattern with increasing frequency of flood events from North Dakota south to Iowa and Missouri and east into Illinois, Indiana and Ohio,» says Iman Mallakpour, UI graduate student in civil and environmental engineering and lead author on the paper.

«It's not that big floods are getting bigger, but that we have been experiencing a larger number of big floods,» says Gabriele Villarini, UI assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and corresponding author on the paper, published Feb. 9 in the advance online edition of the journal Nature Climate Change.

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

«Normally, we want to discourage these gases from forming,» said Craig Criddle, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford.

«This could be just the beginning of impact on these areas,» said Jennifer Jacobs, professor of civil and environmental engineering.