Environmental, Water Resources, and Coastal Engineering Seminar Series Virtual seminar link: https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/92010077484?pwd=aFlOQmp5dHVKMmNnK0w0Qi9hREJWdz09 Abstract: Weather and climate conditions impact energy infrastructure operations in numerous and critical ways. For example, heating and cooling energy demands are dependent on temperatures, and the productivity of wind and solar generation farms are subject to surface wind and cloud cover conditions.…

Environmental, Water Resources, and Coastal Engineering Seminar Series Virtual seminar link: https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/92010077484?pwd=aFlOQmp5dHVKMmNnK0w0Qi9hREJWdz09 Abstract: Sanitation systems fail globally at high rates. Researchers and practitioners attribute causes of sanitation success and failure to numerous factors that include both technical and non-technical issues. A comprehensive understanding of what leads to sanitation failure, and how to achieve sanitation success,…

Environmental, Water Resources, and Coastal Engineering Seminar Series In-person: Fitts-Woolard Hall 2331 Virtual seminar link: https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/92010077484?pwd=aFlOQmp5dHVKMmNnK0w0Qi9hREJWdz09 Abstract: Extreme weather events are costly, deadly, uproot people from their homes, and can have devastating effects on human life, health and the economy. They are also a natural part of variability in our climate and play a role…

Environmental, Water Resources, and Coastal Engineering Seminar Series In-person: Fitts-Woolard Hall 2331 Virtual seminar link: https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/92010077484?pwd=aFlOQmp5dHVKMmNnK0w0Qi9hREJWdz09 Abstract: Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) is a global initiative focusing on improving community access to clean water and sanitation, particularly to the millions of the people in resource poor regions of the world. On September 25th 2015, 193…

Environmental, Water Resources, and Coastal Engineering Seminar Series In-person: Fitts-Woolard Hall 2331 Virtual seminar link: https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/92010077484?pwd=aFlOQmp5dHVKMmNnK0w0Qi9hREJWdz09 Abstract: Reactive organic carbon is emitted to the atmosphere as a relatively small number of molecules and compound classes, which undergo sunlight-drive oxidation processes to form a dynamic and complex mixture of thousands of compounds. The physical and chemical…

Social equity has been a term that has gained more attention over the past five years, but what exactly does it mean and how does it apply to the civil engineering profession? This lecture by Mitchell Silver (FAICP, Hon. ASLA) will unpack the Code of Ethics of The American Society of Civil Engineers and the…

Environmental, Water Resources, and Coastal Engineering Seminar Series Virtual seminar link: https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/96075468552?pwd=RlZvb2x2YmM3c25KQWdRaXNEdVhUUT09 Abstract: Long-term exposure to outdoor fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is attributable to over 4 million deaths each year. Understanding the sources of PM2.5 pollution in a given location can help to inform the development of effective air pollution control policies. Leveraging recent advances…

Environmental, Water Resources, and Coastal Engineering Seminar Series Virtual seminar: https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/96075468552?pwd=RlZvb2x2YmM3c25KQWdRaXNEdVhUUT09 Abstract: Membrane distillation (MD), a hybrid thermal-membrane desalination technology, has recently received tremendous interest as a sustainable technology for the treatment of hypersaline brines. MD is tolerant to higher salinity than reverse osmosis (RO) and capable of leveraging low-grade thermal energy such as waste…

Environmental, Water Resources, and Coastal Engineering Seminar Series Virtual seminar: https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/96075468552?pwd=RlZvb2x2YmM3c25KQWdRaXNEdVhUUT09  An overview of California’s 2020 mobile source strategy in the off-road sector Abstract: The California Air Resources Board (CARB) 2020 Mobile Source Strategy (MSS) is a strategy document that illustrates the technology mixes needed to reduce emissions from California’s transportation sector. This includes cars,…

Abstract: Aquatic vegetation alters the flow and sediment mobility within and around them, shaping coastal environments in the long term. Improved sediment transport relations for vegetated flows become fundamental for predicting sediment transport rates through aquatic coastal ecosystems. We investigate suspended sediment transport under flow-vegetation hydrodynamics in oscillatory boundary layers. We conduct experiments in a…