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SUMMARY:EWC Seminar: Waves Through Aquatic Vegetation: Flow-Vegetation Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport
DESCRIPTION: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 U-shaped oscillatory tunnel using optical techniques\, including 2D and 3D particle image velocimetry. We explore how aquatic plants change the near-bed and in-canopy hydrodynamics from the single-plant scale to the vegetation patch scale. For a single plant\, we study the effect of vegetation morphology (shape and biomechanics) on the turbulence characteristics. We focus on the vegetation drag at the canopy top and near the bed to explore the flow-vegetation hydrodynamics. For sediment experiments\, we evaluate the impact of vegetation on the suspended sediment transport mechanisms. These various boundaries inform for a better assessment of the role of aquatic vegetation as eco-engineers in wave-dominated environments.\n\nBio: Jorge San Juan is a postdoctoral associate at St. Anthony Falls Laboratory in the Department of Civil\, Environmental\, and Geo-Engineering at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. His research focuses on coastal eco-hydraulics\, eco-morphodynamics\, and experimental methods. Dr. San Juan completed his B.S. (2012) at the University of Cartagena (Colombia) in civil engineering. He received his M.S. (2016) and Ph.D. (2021) from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in Water Resources Engineering and Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is one of the co-founders of the Latinx/Latin American Academic (LLAmA) Talks initiative and an active member of Geolatinas.\n\nZoom link: go.ncsu.edu/ewcseminar 
URL:https://ccee.engr.it/event/ewc-seminar-waves-through-aquatic-vegetation-flow-vegetation-hydrodynamics-and-sediment-transport/
LOCATION:Raleigh\, NC\, United States
CATEGORIES:Appear On Homepage,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220211T115000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220211T134000
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SUMMARY:EWC Seminar by Liang Liu (CARB):  An overview of California’s 2020 mobile source strategy in the off-road sector
DESCRIPTION:Environmental\, Water Resources\, and Coastal Engineering Seminar Series \nVirtual seminar: https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/96075468552?pwd=RlZvb2x2YmM3c25KQWdRaXNEdVhUUT09 \n An overview of California’s 2020 mobile source strategy in the off-road sector \nAbstract: 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\, trucks\, trains\, ships\, aircraft\, and all other on-road and off-road equipment. The MSS explores technologies for California to meet its various clean air goals including federal ambient air quality standards\, community risk reduction\, and ambitious mid- and long-term climate change targets. This presentation focuses on the control strategy in the off-road sector. Off-road covers a wide range of sectors including locomotives\, ocean-going vessels\, commercial harbor craft\, construction and mining\, lawn and garden\, aircraft and many other industries. Off-road engines are significant sources of air pollutants such as nitrogen oxides (NOx)\, reactive organic gases (ROG)\, and diesel particulate matter (PM). Off-road has surpassed on-road vehicles as the largest source of statewide NOx emissions in 2017. As the regulations for off-road equipment tend to follow those for on-road vehicles by a few years\, the relative contribution of emissions from off-road equipment is expected to continue to grow\, absent additional controls. \nBiography: Dr. Liu received her bachelor’s degrees in environmental science and Economics from Peking University in Beijing. She went on to receive her master’s and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois. Her Ph.D. work focuses on air emissions from mobile sources and the overall health and climate impacts from freight transportation. Dr. Liu currently works for the California Air Resources Board (CARB) in the Mobile Source Branch\, specifically in the Off-Road Diesel Analysis Section. Her work mainly includes development of off-road emission inventories and rule measures to support CARB’s air quality\, public health\, and climate goals.
URL:https://ccee.engr.it/event/ewc-seminar-by-liang-liu-carb-an-overview-of-californias-2020-mobile-source-strategy-in-the-off-road-sector/
LOCATION:Raleigh\, NC\, United States
CATEGORIES:Appear On Homepage,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220204T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220204T134000
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SUMMARY:EWC Seminar by Kofi Christie (Princeton): Membrane distillation for high salinity brine management: Scaling and energy efficiency
DESCRIPTION:Environmental\, Water Resources\, and Coastal Engineering Seminar Series \nVirtual seminar: https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/96075468552?pwd=RlZvb2x2YmM3c25KQWdRaXNEdVhUUT09 \nAbstract: 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 heat and geothermal energy. However\, several fundamental aspects need to be addressed to achieve resilient MD systems for industrial applications. In this seminar\, I will present and discuss two of such aspects from the perspectives of process optimization. First MD performance is constrained by inorganic fouling from mineral growth\, or scaling\, due to the increased concentration over time of sparingly-soluble feed water constituents. Accordingly\, careful control of the driving force for feed water concentration (i.e.\, the vapor pressure gradient across the hydrophobic membrane) has been used to improve the robustness of MD performance. Recently we discovered that an equivalent trans-membrane vapor flux (i.e.\, the rate of vapor transferred through the membrane per unit area) can be achieved at varying feed water temperatures by separately controlling the vapor pressure on the opposite side of the membrane. Such control has enabled the investigation of the thermodynamic state of the nucleating minerals at the interface between the feed water and the membrane. Second\, MD is highly competitive to RO when lowgrade thermal energy is applied efficiently. I will present findings that elucidate the nuanced variations in energy efficiency definitions when varying heat sources and operational configurations are applied. Our work highlights the importance of determining whether the integration of low-grade thermal energy will minimize the costly high-grade energy to maintain the process or maximize the usage of the greatest amount of latent heat upon feed recycling. At the conclusion of the seminar\, I will also discuss the prospects and research needs associated with MD to improve environmental sustainability at the water-energy nexus. \nBiography: Dr. Kofi Christie is a postdoctoral research associate in the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment as well as the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University. Dr. Christie grew up in Atlanta\, GA and received his B.S. degree from Morehouse College in 2014\, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 2016 and 2020\, respectively. He worked with Prof. Shihong Lin for his doctoral dissertation\, where he sought to advance water treatment and desalination technologies for high-salinity wastewater. His thesis focused on expanding our understanding of membrane distillation through module-scale thermodynamic analysis and elucidation of the causes and effects of inorganic fouling on membrane surfaces. At Princeton University\, Dr. Christie is working in the WET (Water & Energy Technologies) Lab of Prof. Z. Jason Ren. Dr. Christie’s work explores the intersection of membrane separation and crystal nucleation to sustainably recover solid and liquid resources from wastewater streams associated with coal-fired power plants. Additionally\, Dr. Christie works under the mentorship of Rodney Priestley\, Pomeroy and Betty Perry Smith Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering. He is the recipient of several academic and professional awards\, including the National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation Corps Grant (2020)\, the Princeton Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship (2020)\, the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2015)\, and the IBM-Vanderbilt Graduate Fellowship (2014).
URL:https://ccee.engr.it/event/ewc-seminar-by-kofi-christie-princeton-membrane-distillation-for-high-salinity-brine-management-scaling-and-energy-efficiency/
LOCATION:Raleigh\, NC\, United States
CATEGORIES:Appear On Homepage,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220128T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220128T134000
DTSTAMP:20260424T144109
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SUMMARY:EWC Seminar by Erin McDuffie (virtual); Environmental Science at the Interface of Policy: Sources of Air Pollution\, Public Health Impacts\, and Lessons Learned from a Year in D.C.
DESCRIPTION:Environmental\, Water Resources\, and Coastal Engineering Seminar Series \nVirtual seminar link: https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/96075468552?pwd=RlZvb2x2YmM3c25KQWdRaXNEdVhUUT09 \nAbstract: 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 in air quality modeling\, emission inventories\, remote sensing\, and public health data\, our interdisciplinary team conducted a comprehensive assessment of air pollution sources and the attributable disease burden across over 200 countries and sub-national regions. Our study approach provides results with consistent coverage across each country\, and for the first time\, also quantifies the global health impact of multiple individual fuel types\, including coal and solid biomass. Results reveal that dominant sources of PM2.5 vary both between and within each country and identify multiple options for improving air quality in the most polluted regions. Fossil fuels alone contribute to 27% (1 million deaths) of the total global PM2.5 disease burden. Combined with the PM2.5 pollution from residential biomass combustion\, results suggest substantial public health benefits from replacing traditional energy sources. In this presentation\, I will first focus on the study methods\, the main results\, and their policy relevance. In the second part\, I will discuss the life of this work outside of the final manuscript\, as well as general lessons learned about engaging in policy after working for over a year (from home) as a science policy fellow in Washington\, D.C. \nBiography: Dr. Erin McDuffie earned her Ph.D. (2018) in Atmospheric Chemistry from the University of Colorado Boulder. During graduate school Erin worked as a member of the NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory\, with a focus on atmospheric field measurements of reactive nitrogen oxides and ozone. After graduate school\, Erin made the jump to global atmospheric modeling and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Dalhousie University in Halifax\, Nova Scotia. Erin is currently a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow\, with a joint appointment as a visiting research associate at Washington University in St. Louis. Her interests lie in integrating and aligning scientific and policy perspectives to better understand the impacts of human activity on atmospheric processes and feedbacks on human health and the environment.
URL:https://ccee.engr.it/event/ewc-seminar-by-erin-mcduffie-virtual-environmental-science-at-the-interface-of-policy-sources-of-air-pollution-public-health-impacts-and-lessons-learned-from-a-year-in-d-c/
LOCATION:Raleigh\, NC\, United States
CATEGORIES:Appear On Homepage,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220124T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220124T170000
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CREATED:20220110T203803Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture: How Can Civil Engineers Advance Social Equity? with Mitchell Silver
DESCRIPTION: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 American Institute of Certified Planners pervious and revised versions to understand the aspirational values that drives each profession and pivot to an in-depth presentation on the meaning of equity\, diversity access and inclusion with examples on how it can be applied to the built environment. \nJoin via Zoom! \nLink: https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/94130431276?pwd=cTFHV3Nsa1Iwb09zZ1FqZlpHaEpDdz09 \nMeeting ID: 941 3043 1276 Passcode: 899057
URL:https://ccee.engr.it/event/mitchell-silver-mcadams-inclusive-urban-development/
LOCATION:Raleigh\, NC\, United States
CATEGORIES:Appear On Homepage,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211112T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211112T134000
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SUMMARY:EWC Seminar by Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz (Virginia Tech): A little goes a long way – the outsize influence of small chemical differences in a complex atmosphere
DESCRIPTION:Environmental\, Water Resources\, and Coastal Engineering Seminar Series \nIn-person: Fitts-Woolard Hall 2331 \nVirtual seminar link: https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/92010077484?pwd=aFlOQmp5dHVKMmNnK0w0Qi9hREJWdz09 \nAbstract: 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 transformations of each organic compound is dictated by physicochemical properties that depend critically on the molecular structure of the molecule. However\, little work has examined the prevalence of compounds that differ only in their molecular structure (i.e.\, isomers)\, or the extent to which ignoring structure degrades understanding of the sources\, transformations\, and fates of organic compounds in the atmosphere. This presentation will examine the prevalence of isomers in the atmosphere\, where they come from\, and the extent to which knowing their structures matters in understanding the atmosphere. Observations of biogenic organic carbon in central Virginia will be presented\, with a focus on the dominant and variable role of isomers that are low in abundance by high in reactivity. The prevalence of isomers formed in the oxidation of these compounds will then be examined using a combination of novel instrumentation and chemical modeling. Finally\, the physicochemical properties of isomers in these oxidation product mixtures will be compared to quantitatively understand differences in their atmospheric transformations. Together these approaches will provide insight into the role of structure in the competition between different atmospheric processes\, and the consequent fate of a molecule. \nBiography: Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. He completed\nhis PhD at the University of California\, Berkeley\, after which he spent two years as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT. He is originally from the East Coast\, growing up in Maryland and completing his undergraduate at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. He currently lives in Blacksburg\, VA with his wife and two young kids\, where he spends his free time trying to keep the deer and groundhogs from eating everything in their garden.
URL:https://ccee.engr.it/event/ewc-seminar-by-gabriel-isaacman-vanwertz-virginia-tech-a-little-goes-a-long-way-the-outsize-influence-of-small-chemical-differences-in-a-complex-atmosphere/
LOCATION:Fitts-Woolard Hall\, 915 Partners Way\, Raleigh\, NC\, 24606\, United States
CATEGORIES:Appear On Homepage,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211105T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211105T134000
DTSTAMP:20260424T144109
CREATED:20211101T192517Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211101T192733Z
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SUMMARY:EWC Seminar by Kyana Young (Wake Forest University): The use of advanced oxidation treatment processes to support the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal #6
DESCRIPTION:Environmental\, Water Resources\, and Coastal Engineering Seminar Series \nIn-person: Fitts-Woolard Hall 2331 \nVirtual seminar link: https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/92010077484?pwd=aFlOQmp5dHVKMmNnK0w0Qi9hREJWdz09 \nAbstract: 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 world leaders committed to seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) to end extreme poverty\, fight inequality and injustice\, and address climate change by 2030. Of these seventeen goals\, the sixth goal focuses on water quality\, water availability\, and sustainable water practices. A public health perspective\, related to the availability and access to safe drinking water\, provides a pathway to explore low energy\, high efficacy treatment options for underserved communities. This talk will focus on the application of advanced oxidation treatment processes as an impetus to resolving various drinking water contamination issues for a diverse spectrum of communities. \nBiography:Dr. Kyana Young is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at Wake Forest University. Dr. Young received her doctorate in Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Her research focuses on water treatment\, water quality\, and public health\,\nwhere her work has included water treatment technology projects in Haiti\, Sierra Leone\, China\, India\, and Hong Kong. Dr. Young\, served as an executive editor for the United Nations Educational\, Scientific\, and Cultural Organization – Michigan State University Global Water Pathogen Project. She is currently the co-chair of the Water and Health Committee with the American Public Health Association. Dr. Young is also the co-Director of the Girls as Citizen\nScientists program\, which provides the opportunity for girls in Forsyth County to explore the connections between environmental health and public health.
URL:https://ccee.engr.it/event/ewc-seminar-by-kyana-young-wake-forest-university-uncovering-the-effects-of-extreme-events-on-carbon-energy-and-water-budgets/
LOCATION:Fitts-Woolard Hall\, 915 Partners Way\, Raleigh\, NC\, 24606\, United States
CATEGORIES:Appear On Homepage,Seminars
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211022T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211022T134000
DTSTAMP:20260424T144109
CREATED:20211018T202608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211019T012341Z
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SUMMARY:EWC Seminar by Lauren Lowman (Wake Forest University): Uncovering the effects of extreme events on carbon\, energy and water budgets
DESCRIPTION:Environmental\, Water Resources\, and Coastal Engineering Seminar Series \nIn-person: Fitts-Woolard Hall 2331 \nVirtual seminar link: https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/92010077484?pwd=aFlOQmp5dHVKMmNnK0w0Qi9hREJWdz09 \nAbstract: 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 in maintaining healthy ecosystems. The purpose of this talk is to quantify the impact of extreme events on regional carbon\, energy and water budgets. Using high-resolution land-surface hydrology models\, plant hydraulics models\, and predictive phenology models\, we simulate how vegetation canopies respond to changes in atmospheric and soil conditions as a result of extreme events. Specific applications of the coupled hydrology-phenology modeling framework include understanding the sensitivity of montane cloud forests to changes in microclimate\, assessing the role that vegetation water use strategies play in the evolution of flash drought events\, and quantifying the impacts of wildfires in humid climates on the carbon and energy budgets. A key finding is that the magnitude of the change in the carbon cycle as a result of these extreme events are similar\, while the governing processes may be vastly different. This work highlights the need to understand how vegetation processes modulate carbon\, energy\, and water fluxes towards the goal of managing and maintaining healthy ecosystems. \nBiography: Lauren Lowman is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Department at Wake Forest University and has served in this role since 2018. She received a Ph.D. and M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering with a focus in Hydrology and Fluid Dynamics from Duke University\, and a B.A. in Public Policy Studies from Duke University. Her research investigates how extreme events affect overall ecosystem health\, productivity\, and sustainability using numerical models\, geospatial data analysis\, and field experiments. She is passionate about developing and sharing inclusive teaching practices in STEM fields and received a 2020 Engineering Unleashed Fellowship from the Kern Family Foundation to support this work (hiddenSTEMwfu.edu | @hiddenSTEMfigs on Twitter & Instagram).
URL:https://ccee.engr.it/event/ewc-seminar-by-lauren-lowman-wake-forest-university-uncovering-the-effects-of-extreme-events-on-carbon-energy-and-water-budgets/
LOCATION:Raleigh\, NC\, United States
CATEGORIES:Appear On Homepage,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T134000
DTSTAMP:20260424T144109
CREATED:20210927T182153Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211011T175856Z
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SUMMARY:EWC Seminar by Sherri Cook (University of Colorado Boulder): Integrating Sustainability and Resilience to Support Sustained and Universal Sanitation Access
DESCRIPTION:Environmental\, Water Resources\, and Coastal Engineering Seminar Series \nVirtual seminar link: https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/92010077484?pwd=aFlOQmp5dHVKMmNnK0w0Qi9hREJWdz09 \nAbstract:\nSanitation 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\, is imperative to prioritize the use of limited resources. To this end\, first\, I will discuss how sanitation sustainability is currently measured and identify improvements to current approaches. Next\, I will discuss a new approach created by my research group that harmonizes current efforts and better supports context-specific sustainability assessments. This will include opportunities for improving measurements of environmental and human well-being\nassociated with sanitation access and quality. Finally\, a case study of sanitation systems in a hazard-prone area will be evaluated to improve the understanding of the understudied area of sanitation resilience. The overarching goal of this set of works is to progress towards sustained global sanitation coverage and access that is both sustainable and resilient. \nBiography: Dr. Sherri Cook is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Michigan\, and her B.S. in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech. Dr. Cook’s research and teaching interests include the design and implementation of sustainable and resilient water\, sanitation\, and civil systems. Her research group is currently investigating biological treatment technologies for water reuse\, recovering resources (such as energy and nutrients) from organic solid wastes\, and developing sustainability frameworks to identify the most appropriate implementations of existing technologies and to set sustainability targets for technology development\, especially for PFAS water remediation and water reuse treatment technologies.
URL:https://ccee.engr.it/event/ewc-seminar-by-sherri-cook-sanitation-in-resource-limited-communities-do-we-need-better-data-better-technologies-or-better-decisions/
LOCATION:Raleigh\, NC\, United States
CATEGORIES:Appear On Homepage,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210924T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210924T134000
DTSTAMP:20260424T144109
CREATED:20210908T021452Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210921T134412Z
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SUMMARY:EWC Seminar by David Farnham: Climate-related risks and opportunities for 21st century energy systems.
DESCRIPTION:Environmental\, Water Resources\, and Coastal Engineering Seminar Series \nVirtual seminar link: https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/92010077484?pwd=aFlOQmp5dHVKMmNnK0w0Qi9hREJWdz09 \nAbstract: 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. Transitioning to a low-carbon energy system\nand relying more on wind and solar power generation is likely to increase our energy system’s dependence on weather conditions. This potential increased exposure to variable weather conditions presents a new set of challenges and opportunities for energy system planners and operators to design adaptive\, reliable\, and resilient systems. In this talk I will highlight work that quantifies weather- and climate-related risks and opportunities for an evolving energy system. I will also present a statistical modeling tool for grid planning to understand the risks of undersupply in wind and solar generation scenarios and an applied modeling effort to provide a rough estimate of the economic cost effectiveness of a globally interconnected wind and solar powered electricity grid. \nBiography: David Farnham combines earth science\, data science\, and systems analysis to (1) identify vulnerabilities of our water and energy infrastructure to climate variability and climate change\, (2) quantify climate hazards to these critical infrastructure systems\, and (3) conduct research that supports efforts to design and operate adaptive and resilient\nengineered water and energy systems that limit exposure to climate risks and make use of the opportunities presented by nature. David is a postdoctoral research fellow at Carnegie Science and the Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University working with Dr. Ken Caldeira. David is an engineer and applied scientist who investigates climate risk to critical water and energy infrastructure. David holds a PhD from the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University where he studied under the advisement of Dr. Upmanu Lall.
URL:https://ccee.engr.it/event/ewc-seminar-by-david-farnham-carnegie-institute/
LOCATION:Raleigh\, NC\, United States
CATEGORIES:Appear On Homepage,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210917T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210917T134000
DTSTAMP:20260424T144110
CREATED:20210819T165832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210903T191515Z
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SUMMARY:EWC Seminar by Keith Little: Introduction to Open-Source\, Generic Environmental F&T Software
DESCRIPTION:Environmental\, Water Resources\, and Coastal Engineering Seminar Series \nVirtual seminar link: https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/92010077484?pwd=aFlOQmp5dHVKMmNnK0w0Qi9hREJWdz09
URL:https://ccee.engr.it/event/ewc-seminar-by-keith-little-introduction-to-open-source-generic-environmental-ft-software/
LOCATION:Raleigh\, NC\, United States
CATEGORIES:Appear On Homepage,Seminars
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210903T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210903T134000
DTSTAMP:20260424T144110
CREATED:20210819T161634Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210903T165825Z
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SUMMARY:EWC Seminar by Colette Heald (MIT): How Reactive Organic Carbon Fuels Atmospheric Chemistry
DESCRIPTION:Environmental\, Water Resources\, and Coastal Engineering Seminar Series \nVirtual seminar link: https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/92010077484?pwd=aFlOQmp5dHVKMmNnK0w0Qi9hREJWdz09 \nAbstract: Organic molecules in the atmosphere play a major role in the production of secondary pollutants such as ozone and particles. These\, in turn\, are central to some of the major environmental issues of our times (climate change\, air pollution). Despite the vital role that these species play in our global environment\, our understanding has been hampered by the complexity of this class of species and a fractured approach to studying their chemical evolution. In this talk\, I’ll discuss the overall role of reactive organic carbon (ROC) in tropospheric chemistry\, as well as recent progress and remaining challenges in understanding this role. I will also use field measurements from the CalNex\, SOAS\, and ATom field campaigns to contrast the abundance and role of ROC in terms of OH reactivity\, ozone\, and secondary organic aerosol production. \nBiography: Colette L. Heald is the Germeshausen Professor of Civil and Environment Engineering & Earth\, Atmospheric\, and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She received her undergraduate degree in Engineering Physics from Queen’s University in Canada in 2000\, and her PhD in Earth and Planetary Science from Harvard University in 2005. She held the NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California Berkeley from 2006-2007. Prof. Heald heads the Global Atmospheric Composition and Chemistry Modeling Group at MIT. Her primary research interests are the interactions between the biosphere and atmosphere and the evolution and impacts of atmospheric particles. She has published over 100 papers in the peer-reviewed literature. Colette is currently a member of the Advisory Committee on Geosciences for the National Science Foundation\, the Science Community Committee for NASA’s ACCP mission\, and an elected representative of the Atmospheric & Hydrospheric Sciences Section of AAAS. In 2015\, she was awarded the James B. Macelwane Medal for early career contributions to the geosciences. She is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
URL:https://ccee.engr.it/event/ewc-seminar-by-colette-heald-mit/
LOCATION:Raleigh\, NC\, United States
CATEGORIES:Appear On Homepage,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210423T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210423T134000
DTSTAMP:20260424T144110
CREATED:20210420T031114Z
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SUMMARY:EWC Seminar by Michael Kleeman: Future Energy\, Air Pollution\, and Environmental Justice in California
DESCRIPTION:Environmental\, Water Resources\, and Coastal Engineering Seminar Series \nVirtual seminar link: https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/96156963811?pwd=QVRwSmlRZ1lqWm1xL0JVcG9RWC9Zdz09 \nAbstract: California’s commitment to reduce GHG emissions by 80% in the year 2050 will profoundly transform the energy systems in one of the world’s top 10 economies. In addition to helping reduce climate change\, the adoption of low carbon energy sources will improve air quality. California currently has well-known Environmental Justice issues in which some socio-economic classes are exposed to increased levels of air pollution. This study will examine how that Environmental Justice problem will change along different possible energy futures. Exposure estimates will be discussed for both fine (PM2.5) and ultrafine (PM0.1) particulate matter under six different energy scenarios. Benefits to public health will be categorized by socio-economic class and the potential to reduce disparities will be discussed. \nBiography: Michael Kleeman has degrees in Mechanical Engineering (University of Waterloo) and Environmental Engineering Science (California Institute of Technology). He has been a faculty member in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Davis for 22 years. Professor Kleeman’s research is focused on urban and regional air quality problems using a wide variety of measurement and modeling approaches. Recent areas of interest include the adoption of new energy sources and the resulting impacts on air quality.
URL:https://ccee.engr.it/event/ewc-seminar-by-michael-kleeman-future-energy-air-pollution-and-environmental-justice-in-california/
LOCATION:Raleigh\, NC\, United States
CATEGORIES:Appear On Homepage,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210416T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210416T134000
DTSTAMP:20260424T144110
CREATED:20210413T172054Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210413T172054Z
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SUMMARY:EWC+COPRI Seminar by Ali Abdolali: Advances in the Unstructured WAVEWATCH III within Earth System Modeling Framework
DESCRIPTION:Environmental\, Water Resources\, and Coastal Engineering + Coasts\, Oceans\, Ports and Rivers Institute Seminar Series \nVirtual seminar link: https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/96156963811?pwd=QVRwSmlRZ1lqWm1xL0JVcG9RWC9Zdz09 \nAbstract: The recent advancements in the spectral wave model WAVEWATCH III (WW3) have extended its capability for large scale and nearshore applications. The domain decomposition parallelization with the optional implicit scheme makes WW3 a powerful tool to efficiently\nresolve complex shorelines and high-gradient wave zones\, incorporating dominant physics in complicated coastal zones such as wave breaking\, wave-current interaction\, bottom friction and scattering\, wave-vegetation interaction and nonlinearity (Abdolali et al. 2020). These new capabilities allowed us to run WW3 on a suite of ensemble members on unstructured grids with very high nearshore resolutions for uncertainty analysis (Abdolali et al. 2021). The model is compatible with community-based coupling infrastructure (NEMS) to facilitate two-way coupling with ocean circulation models and hydrological models for simulating Hurricane storm surge and waves (Bakhtyar et al. 2020 and Moghimi et al. 2020). Here we present an overview of the recent advances in the WW3 model in terms of improvements in the nearshore physics and computational efficiency. A couple of real case applications on large-scale numerical domains with high-resolution coastal refinement during stormy conditions will be shown. A summary of model computational scalability will be given on various scales. \nReferences: \nAbdolali A.\, Roland\, A.\, Van Der Westhuysen\, A.\, Meixner\, J.\, Chawla\, A.\, Hesser\, T.\, Smith\, J.M. and M. Dutour Sikiric (2020)\, Large-scale Hurricane Modeling Using Domain Decomposition Parallelization and Implicit Scheme Implemented in WAVEWATCH III Wave Model\, Coastal Engineering\, 157\, 103656\, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2020.103656 \nAli Abdolali\, Andre van der Westhuysen\, Zaizhong Ma\, Avichal Mehra\, Aron Roland and Saeed Moghimi (2021) Evaluating the Accuracy and Uncertainty of Atmospheric and Wave Model Hindcasts During Severe Events Using Model Ensembles\, Ocean Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10236-020-01426-9 \nBakhtyar\, R.\, Maitaria\, K.\, Velissariou\, P.\, Trimble\, B.\, Mashriqui\, H.\, Moghimi\, S.\, Abdolali\, A.\, Van der Westhuysen\, A.J.\, Ma\, Z.\, Clark\, E.P. and Flowers\, T. (2020). A new 1D/2D Coupled Modeling Approach for a Riverine‐Estuarine System under Storm Events: Application to Delaware River Basin. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans\, 125\, e2019JC015822. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015822 \nMoghimi\, S.; Van der Westhuysen\, A.; Abdolali\, A.; Myers\, E.; Vinogradov\, S.; Ma\, Z.; Liu\, F.; Mehra\, A.; Kurkowski\, N. Development of an ESMF Based Flexible Coupling Application of ADCIRC and WAVEWATCH III for High Fidelity Coastal Inundation Studies. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2020\, 8\, 308. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse8050308 \n  \nBiography: Ali completed his Ph.D. and then was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Delaware\, where he worked on wetland circulation and tsunamigenic induced acoustic-gravity waves in the open ocean and arctic zones. Ali has served as a scientist at NOAA since 2016. During 10 years of his experience\, Ali has worked on Coastal Hazards (Tsunamis\, Hurricanes & Storm Surges)\, Tsunami Early Warning Systems\, Nearshore hydrodynamics (Coastal Morphodynamics & Wetland hydrodynamics)\, Elastic Earth – Compressible Ocean interaction\, Climate Change\, and Sea Level Rise\, Compressible Fluids\, Underwater Acoustics and Renewable Oceanic Wave Energy. His methodology for early detection of tsunamis via underwater acoustic signals attracted the media and scientific community and was published in prestigious journals like Nature and Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Currently\, he is the lead of wave model development at NCEP and the code manager for WAVEWATCH III where he prepares the plans and strategies of future code developments. He is involved with the wave-surge coupling developments for the COASTAL Act and Alaska Coastal Ocean Forecast System (ALCOFS) projects and UFS Weather and GFSv16 developments.
URL:https://ccee.engr.it/event/ewccopri-seminar-by-ali-abdolali-advances-in-the-unstructured-wavewatch-iii-within-earth-system-modeling-framework/
LOCATION:NC
CATEGORIES:Appear On Homepage,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210319T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210319T134000
DTSTAMP:20260424T144110
CREATED:20210318T181706Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210318T181706Z
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SUMMARY:EWC Seminar by Lutz Ahrens: An overview of treatment techniques for removal of PFASs in water - A Swedish perspective
DESCRIPTION:Environmental\, Water Resources\, and Coastal Engineering Seminar Series \nVirtual seminar link: https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/96156963811?pwd=QVRwSmlRZ1lqWm1xL0JVcG9RWC9Zdz09 \nAbstract: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) have received increasing attention both in politics and science during the recent decade. PFASs are extremely persistent\, and potentially bioaccumulative and toxic. PFASs affect the environment through the use of aqueous firefighting foam (AFFF) at fire training facilities at airports and waste facilities such as wastewater treatment plants and landfills and have been discovered in high concentrations in drinking water in Sweden and around the world. However\, cost-efficient treatment and\nremediation techniques are lacking. The overall aim of our research is to develop next generation treatment techniques of PFASs in landfill leachate\, wastewater\, stormwater\, and groundwater. In our research group\, different types of treatment techniques are evaluated in laboratory- and pilot-scale including approaches using immobilization/stabilization (i.e. granular activated carbon (GAC)\, anion exchange (AIX))\, separation (i.e. nanofiltration (NF)\, electrodialytic remediation\, phytoremediation\, foam fractionation)\, and destruction (i.e. electrochemical\, biological treatment). Overall\, improvements are needed in separation and destruction treatment technologies to improve their effectiveness for the broad suite of PFASs to become viable treatment options in the future. \nBiography: Lutz Ahrens is an Associate Professor of Environmental Chemistry in the Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala\, Sweden. He joined the university in 2012 after two postdoctoral research experiences in Germany and Canada and after receiving his PhD degree in 2009 in Germany. Dr. Ahrens’ research program focuses on the detection and remediation of emerging organic contaminants\, such as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
URL:https://ccee.engr.it/event/ewc-seminar-by-lutz-ahrens-an-overview-of-treatment-techniques-for-removal-of-pfass-in-water-a-swedish-perspective/
LOCATION:NC
CATEGORIES:Appear On Homepage,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210316T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210316T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T144110
CREATED:20210310T183752Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210310T183752Z
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SUMMARY:Strategic Planning for your Job Search
DESCRIPTION:The Civil Engineering Graduate Student Association (CEGSA) is organizing the Strategic Planning for your Job Search\, on Tuesday\, March 16th at 4:00 PM. Dr. Jason Cramer who is the founder of the CareerWell program at UNC\, as well as the A2i program at NCSU will present various strategies such as Personal Branding\, Networking\, Resume Writing\, Interviewing\, and many others for your job search. The flyer and the Zoom link are attached herewith.\n\nLooking forward to seeing you at the seminar\,\n\nThanks\,\nCEGSA \n\nZoom link: 919 4550 9490\nPasscode: 664090
URL:https://ccee.engr.it/event/strategic-planning-for-your-job-search/
LOCATION:NC
CATEGORIES:Appear On Homepage,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210312T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210312T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T144110
CREATED:20210308T194233Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210308T194246Z
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SUMMARY:EWC Seminar by Nadine Kotlarz: Monitoring for SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Raleigh wastewater solids as a means of community-wide COVID-19 infection surveillance
DESCRIPTION:Environmental\, Water Resources\, and Coastal Engineering Seminar Series \nVirtual seminar link: https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/96156963811?pwd=QVRwSmlRZ1lqWm1xL0JVcG9RWC9Zdz09 \n\nAbstract: SARS-CoV-2 infected individuals shed the virus in stool. Therefore\, analyzing municipal wastewater is an emerging strategy to track SARS-CoV-2 infections at the community level. We measured SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations in primary solids from the Raleigh wastewater treatment plant\, which serves approximately 500\,000 people\, during the COVID-19 pandemic. SARS-CoV-2 RNA was detectable in all solids samples analyzed using direct RNA extraction followed by reverse transcriptase droplet digital PCR targeting two regions of the virus nucleocapsid gene (N1 and N2). SARS-CoV-2 N1 and N2 concentrations in primary solids correlated positively and significantly with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 case counts in the sewershed. Our data suggest that wastewater surveillance can be used to track COVID-19 infections at the community level. \nBiography: Dr. Nadine Kotlarz is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biological Sciences at NC State University\, and a member of NC State’s Center for Human Health and the Environment. Dr. Kotlarz received her PhD in Environmental Engineering in 2017 from University of Michigan. Her work lies at the interface of engineering and public health\, with a focus on characterizing microbial and chemical contaminants in engineered water systems\, and communicating scientific results to the public. In April 2020\, Dr. Kotlarz teamed up with Drs. Francis de los Reyes and Angela Harris to monitor for SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Raleigh wastewater\, and to evaluate this strategy as a means of tracking COVID-19 infection trends at the community level.
URL:https://ccee.engr.it/event/ewc-seminar-by-nadine-kotlarz-monitoring-for-sars-cov-2-rna-in-raleigh-wastewater-solids-as-a-means-of-community-wide-covid-19-infection-surveillance/
LOCATION:NC
CATEGORIES:Appear On Homepage,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210219T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210219T134000
DTSTAMP:20260424T144110
CREATED:20210209T163631Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210209T163715Z
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SUMMARY:EWC Seminar by Andrea Cominola\, TU Berlin: From individual end uses to communities. What do smart meter data reveal about water use behaviors?
DESCRIPTION:From individual end uses to communities. What do smart meter data reveal about water use behaviors?\nAndrea Cominola\, Assistant Professor and head of the Smart Water Networks group at the Einstein Center Digital Future and the Technische Universität Berlin\n \nCCEE Environmental\, Water Resources\, and Coastal Engineering Seminar Series\n12:50-1:40\nFriday\, February 19\, 2021\nPlease join us virtually at\nhttps://ncsu.zoom.us/j/96156963811?pwd=QVRwSmlRZ1lqWm1xL0JVcG9RWC9Zdz09\n \nAbstract:\nOver the last three decades\, the development of smart water meter trials and the rise of “digital water” have enabled the collection and analysis of water demand data at increasingly higher spatial and temporal resolutions with advanced metering infrastructure and powerful data analytics. Knowledge on the determinants and patterns of water demand for different consumers can support the design of customized demand management strategies. Yet\, the large-scale collection of water consumption data at high spatial and temporal resolution is hampered by several uncertainties\, including privacy issues\, sensor battery duration\, unclear business models\, benefits for water utilities and water consumers\, and the actual implications for environmental sustainability. In this talk\, we will first analyze the development of advanced metering infrastructure in the global context. Second\, we will show how water consumption data at different spatial and temporal scales\, coupled with advanced data analytics\, can be used to improve our understanding of water usage behaviors\, from individual end uses to communities\, with demonstrative case studies in the USA\, Australia\, and Europe. Finally\, results from recent studies demonstrating how smart meter-based feedback and user engagement can foster long-term water conservation will be critically analyzed.\n\nShort bio:\nAndrea Cominola is an Assistant Professor and head of the Smart Water Networks group at the Einstein Center Digital Future and the Technische Universität Berlin (Germany). He received his PhD in Information Technology at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) for his dissertation on modelling residential water consumers’ behavior using smart meter data. He holds a M.Sc. and a B.Sc. in Environmental and Land Planning Engineering from Politecnico di Milano. He has been visiting PhD candidate at the Watershed Sciences Center and Center for Water-Energy Efficiency of UC Davis (CA – USA). His research is focused on different aspects of digital water\, hydroinformatics\, and related data mining and machine learning applications to advance the digitalization of water/energy utilities\, support water efficiency and conservation\, and consumer engagement. Research topics include intelligent water metering\, behavioral modelling\, urban water/energy demand modelling and management\, water efficiency and conservation\, modeling of water distribution networks and coupled human-environment systems\, and leakage/anomaly detection. He is author of 13 scientific publications in peer-reviewed international journals\, 2 book chapters\, 47 publications/presentations in international conferences\, and reviewer for several international journals. He serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management (ASCE) and of the ICE’s Water Management journal. Born and raised in Italy\, Andrea currently lives in Berlin (Germany) and is looking forward to being able to travel again.
URL:https://ccee.engr.it/event/ewc-seminar-andrea-cominola-tu-berlin/
LOCATION:NC
CATEGORIES:Appear On Homepage,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201113T134500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201113T144500
DTSTAMP:20260424T144110
CREATED:20201109T172106Z
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SUMMARY:Computing and Systems Colloquium - Energy Systems Modeling with High Performance Computing Resources: Joe DeCarolis
DESCRIPTION:Climate change coupled with rapid technological innovation is driving large scale change in the global energy system. Computer models of the energy system – referred to as energy optimization system models – provide a way to examine future energy system evolution\, test the effects of proposed policy\, and explore the role of future uncertainty. Modeling the whole energy system is computationally intensive and requires large input datasets. In addition\, in order to deliver insights that are robust to large future uncertainties\, it is necessary to iterate the model many times under different scenario assumptions. \nIn this talk\, Dr. Joseph DeCarolis\, Professor in the Department of Construction\, Civil\, & Environmental Engineering at NC State\, will highlight ongoing work using Tools for Energy Model Optimization and Analysis (Temoa)\, an open source energy system optimization model developed at NC State that is designed to conduct rigorous uncertainty analysis and make use of high-performance computing resources.
URL:https://ccee.engr.it/event/computing-and-systems-colloquium-energy-systems-modeling-with-high-performance-computing-resources-joe-decarolis/
LOCATION:NC
CATEGORIES:Appear On Homepage,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201103T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201103T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T144110
CREATED:20201103T162823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201103T162823Z
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SUMMARY:OpenSees Seminar - Dr. Michael H Scott\, Hosted by CEGSA
DESCRIPTION:Civil Engineering Graduate Student Organization (CEGSA) has invited Dr. Michael H Scott to share his expertise with us on the 4th of November at 6 pm EST.  Dr. Scott is a Professor of Structural Engineering in the School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Oregon State University and a developer of the OpenSees finite element software framework.\nHe will give a virtual presentation on OpenSees and its structural applications. There will be some allotted time for any of your questions about OpenSees. \nYou can find the zoom link below.\nhttps://ncsu.zoom.us/j/96247296424 \nHope to see you all there! \nCEGSA\n\n\n\nTopic: OpenSees Seminar – Dr. Michael H Scott\nTime: Nov 4\, 2020 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://ncsu.zoom.us/j/96247296424 \nMeeting ID: 962 4729 6424
URL:https://ccee.engr.it/event/opensees-seminar-dr-michael-h-scott-hosted-by-cegsa/
LOCATION:NC
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201020T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201020T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T144110
CREATED:20201005T144531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201005T144531Z
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SUMMARY:Energy Systems Modeling with High Performance Computing Resources: Joe DeCarolis
DESCRIPTION:Climate change coupled with rapid technological innovation is driving large scale change in the global energy system. Computer models of the energy system – referred to as energy optimization system models – provide a way to examine future energy system evolution\, test the effects of proposed policy\, and explore the role of future uncertainty. Modeling the whole energy system is computationally intensive and requires large input datasets. In addition\, in order to deliver insights that are robust to large future uncertainties\, it is necessary to iterate the model many times under different scenario assumptions. \nIn this talk\, Dr. Joseph DeCarolis\, Professor in the Department of Construction\, Civil\, & Environmental Engineering at NC State\, will highlight ongoing work using Tools for Energy Model Optimization and Analysis (Temoa)\, an open source energy system optimization model developed at NC State that is designed to conduct rigorous uncertainty analysis and make use of high-performance computing resources. \nThe Research Computing series is a forum for information sharing about high-performance computing\, deep learning\, parallel computing\, and other relevant topics. This talk is being offered in conjunction with Energy Week. \nTo register for this event click here. Registrants will receive a zoom link prior to the event.
URL:https://ccee.engr.it/event/energy-systems-modeling-with-high-performance-computing-resources-joe-decarolis/
LOCATION:NC
CATEGORIES:Appear On Homepage,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200416T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200416T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T144110
CREATED:20200413T141554Z
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SUMMARY:PAASE Webinar : Francis de los Reyes
DESCRIPTION:This week\, our own Dr. Francis de los Reyes will share a webinar about “Fate of SARS-CoV-2 in water and wastewater.”  An abstract and bio are included below.  This webinar is part of the Philippine-American Academy of Science & Engineering.  You can register for the webinar at this link: \nhttps://bit.ly/FdelosReyes \nPlease join us on this Thu Apr 16 at 8pm ET. \nTitle: Fate of SARS-CoV-2 in water and wastewater \nAbstract: What are the risks of getting COVID19 in water? In our bathrooms and toilets? This talk will summarize the latest peer-reviewed literature on the survival of SARS-CoV-2 in drinking water\, natural waters\, fecal material\, sewage\, and through wastewater treatment processes. What are the knowledge gaps\, and how do we best protect ourselves given what is known about this virus. \nBio: Dr. Francis L. de los Reyes III is a Professor of Civil\, Construction\, and Environmental Engineering\, University Faculty Scholar\, Associate Faculty of Microbiology\, and Training Faculty of Biotechnology at North Carolina State University. He is the Faculty Lead of the Global WASH Cluster. His research focuses on environmental biotechnology/engineering\, and water and sanitation in under-resourced countries.  He is a TED Fellow and has received awards for research\, teaching\, and service from WEF\, AAEES\, AEESP\, PAASE (Philippine-American Academy of Scientists and Engineers)\, RELX\, NC State University\, Iowa State University\, and the University of the Philippines. He is an international consultant on wastewater treatment\, sanitation technologies\, and molecular biotechnology.
URL:https://ccee.engr.it/event/paase-webinar-francis-de-los-reyes/
LOCATION:Raleigh\, NC\, United States
CATEGORIES:Appear On Homepage,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200228T134500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200228T150000
DTSTAMP:20260424T144110
CREATED:20200225T195811Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200225T195911Z
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SUMMARY:Computing and Systems Colloquium: Python Mini-workshop
DESCRIPTION:On Friday February 28th\, the C&S group will have a Python mini-workshop for faculty and students. This will include Python examples ranging from data processing to GUI creation.\n\nThe session will be informal and will focus on exhibiting the capabilities of a few powerful Python packages.\n\nPlease join us and bring your laptop so you can follow along with the examples. You can find the examples that will be discussed at this repository.\n\nIf you do not have Python installed\, please install it via the link below.\nDownload Python 3.7 version\n\nhttps://www.anaconda.com/distribution/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you have any questions beforehand\, please feel free to ask John Baugh (jwb@ncsu.edu) or Lucas Ford (lcford2@ncsu.edu)\,\nwho are happy to help.\n\nRefreshments will be served.
URL:https://ccee.engr.it/event/computing-and-systems-colloquium-python-mini-workshop/
LOCATION:Mann 323\, 2501 Stinson Drive\, Raleigh\, NC\, 27675\, United States
CATEGORIES:Appear On Homepage,Seminars,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191206T134500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191206T143000
DTSTAMP:20260424T144110
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SUMMARY:C & S Colloquium: Dr. Sankar Arumugam
DESCRIPTION:Title: Design and Adaptation under a changing world – Opportunities for Synthesis and Convergence Research\n\nAbstract: One of the critical concerns in using climate change projections for design and adaptation is in the uncertainty and variability in the projections depending on the emission scenarios.  It has been shown that this uncertainty in the projections  is at its minimum  over the near-term (10-30 years)\, which is a critical time scale for infrastructure planning. In this sabbatical talk\, I present a methodology for revising USGS flood frequency analysis – a federally mandated procedure for designing spillways and bridges – using near-term climate change projections. Working with the USGS scientists on a federal highway project also highlighted how flood information is viewed and interpreted across disciplines\, thereby necessitating the need for synthesis for flood frequency analyses under various thresholds of change.  Such synthesis also needs to promote a convergence approach on quantifying the potential flood risk from the societal perspective. Towards this\, I will present potential opportunities for convergence research within NSF and other agencies and  will also discuss ongoing initiatives on urban flooding from the NSF funded convergence accelerator (C-ACCEL) project.\n\nBio: Dr. Sankar Arumugam is a Professor and University Faculty Scholar in the Department of Civil\, Construction\, and Environmental engineering at NCSU. Sankar spent the sabbatical at the USGS headquarters in Reston (VA) and also at the USGS John Wesley Powell Center for Synthesis and Analyses at Fort Collins (CO).  He also collaborated with the UCAR scientists on performing a review of methodologies on sub-seasonal to seasonal streamflow forecasting at Boulder\, CO.
URL:https://ccee.engr.it/event/c-s-colloquium-dr-sankar-arumugam/
LOCATION:Mann 323\, 2501 Stinson Drive\, Raleigh\, NC\, 27675\, United States
CATEGORIES:Appear On Homepage,Seminars
GEO:35.7852401;-78.6692049
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191118T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191118T163000
DTSTAMP:20260424T144110
CREATED:20191115T150159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191115T150241Z
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SUMMARY:CE 2050 Faculty Seminar: Dr. Abhinav Gupta
DESCRIPTION:Title: Role of Civil Engineering in improving sustainability\, resiliency\, and growth of nuclear energy\n\n\nAbstract: Civil Engineers play a significant role in the sustainability and safety of existing nuclear power plants as well as in the design and construction of advanced reactors. Structural safety assessments are key to ensuring resiliency of not only the concrete containment and other buildings but also the mechanical and electrical systems. Engineers continue to work on improving the resiliency of these large complex systems against natural hazards such as earthquakes\, hurricanes\, and floods. In addition\, the plant systems exhibit fairly significant thermal and vibration fatigue\, flow assisted corrosion\, and ageing related degradation during their lifetimes. All of these aspects require innovative solutions based on the concepts of structural mechanics\, innovative materials\, geotechnical engineering\, fluid-structure interactions\, computational fluid dynamics\, non-destructive testing\, health monitoring\, etc. In recent decades\, nuclear industry has led the development of risk-informed design and decision making approaches for operational as well as licensing decisions. This requires appropriate characterization of uncertainties in our understanding of physical phenomenon and in our models that are used to represent them. Some of the most recent research has focused on developing risk-informed methodologies for verification and validation of advanced simulation tools and on developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) based solutions to assist with the design and construction of advanced reactors which are truly being designed as cyber-physical systems. Nuclear industry has also struggled with managing the cost and schedules of constructing new large-sized plants throughout the developed countries. Recent research aims to address this aspect through an integrated virtual design and construction platform that uses the power of digital and thermal imaging. Presently\, more than a quarter of North Carolina’s electricity comes from nuclear and at national level this largest source of carbon-free electricity generation contributes about 20% to our consumption.
URL:https://ccee.engr.it/event/ce-2050-faculty-seminar-prof-abhinav-gupta/
LOCATION:Mann 323\, 2501 Stinson Drive\, Raleigh\, NC\, 27675\, United States
CATEGORIES:Appear On Homepage,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191101T134500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191101T150000
DTSTAMP:20260424T144110
CREATED:20191101T140754Z
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SUMMARY:C&S Colloquium: Amir Mazrooei and Sudharshana Mukhopadhy
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Amir Mazrooei (post-doctoral associate\, CCEE) and Ms. Sudharshana Mukhopadhy (PhD Candidate\, CCEE) will discuss software tools developed by CCEE for hydroclimatological geospatial analyses.  Refreshments will be provided. Details follow. \n  \nGeospatial Analyses using GrassGIS: A Global Assessment Of ET fluxes Impacted By Anthropogenic Land Cover Changes \nDr. Amir Mazrooei   \nGrass GIS is a fully functional software that can handle many different geo-spatial analyses tasks such as vector processing\, image and raster analyses\, and database creation. Unlike ESRI’s ArcGIS\, Grass is open source and can be compiled and executed in Linux environments which makes it much easier in terms of bash scripting\, and much faster to conduct large-scale analyses. In this C&S seminar\, as part of my ongoing research about the human influence on natural hydroclimatic conditions\, I would present how urbanization affects evapotranspiration (ET) flux rates in a global scale\, resulting in urban heat islands. We would see a demo of the quantitative analysis of remotely sensed data through Grass GIS\, along with the post-processing and visualization of the results using R. \nA geo-processing tool for co-locating the dependency of critical infrastructure with hydrologic information network \nMs. Sudharshana Mukhopadhy  \n \nUnderstanding the interactions between the natural environment and physical infrastructure is critical for sustainable development. Most water infrastructure such as reservoirs\, dykes\, wastewater treatment plants depend on river conditions and other infrastructure (e.g.\, power system)\, but the nature of the river network introduce a cascading interdependency between the regional riverine system and their infrastructure. We have begun to address this by developing an R package\, River-Infrastructure Cascade (RIC) and demonstrating it for referencing the reservoirs with respect to streamgage network over the entire Coterminous United States (CONUS). I will discuss our systematic approach of combining multiple layers of topographic information of infrastructures with high resolution National Hydrographic Dataset (NHDPlusv2) over the Colorado River Basin (CRB)\, and I will illustrate our methods of handling different conditions along the river network – such as river junctions (e.g. divergences\, convergences or both)\, boundary of watershed\, isolated network and coastlines or end of a stream reach.
URL:https://ccee.engr.it/event/cs-colloquium-amir-mazrooei-and-sudharshana-mukhopadhy/
LOCATION:Mann 323\, 2501 Stinson Drive\, Raleigh\, NC\, 27675\, United States
CATEGORIES:Appear On Homepage,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190927T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190927T160000
DTSTAMP:20260424T144110
CREATED:20190923T202232Z
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SUMMARY:Kappe Lecture 09/27 : Dr. Nancy Love
DESCRIPTION:Our EWC seminar on this Fri Sep 27 will feature Dr. Nancy Love from the Univ of Michigan\, who will discuss: “Environmental Engineering and Science Academic Scholarship in Service to Society: Our Role and Responsibility.”  An abstract is included below.  This is a special seminar as part of the AAEES Kappe Lecture Series\, and so we will meet at a special time and place — please join us in Mann 307 from 3-4pm. \nTitle: Environmental Engineering and Science Academic Scholarship in Service to Society: Our Role and Responsibility \nSpeaker: Dr. Nancy Love\, University of Michigan \nAbstract: Academic scholarship in environmental engineering and science is most often associated with research around environmental science and technology – research that often involves physical or computational experiments – and sometimes occurs in nature or with full-scale engineered systems. Our discipline also has a growing contribution around the scholarship of learning and teaching\, which has driven pedagogical advancements to the betterment of students and the organizations that hire them. A third wave of scholarship in the environmental engineering and science discipline that is seeing rapid growth relates to community-engaged research\, learning and outreach. An increasing number of colleges are advocating that faculty and students do more work in service to society; in this way\, universities are helping to motivate the third wave. Community-engaged work takes various forms\, from research in partnership with communities\, service-learning oriented courses\, and professional outreach through institutions (e.g.\, civic organizations\, professional associations). Many faculty and students undertake this third kind of scholarship with good intentions; however\, they have typically received little to no training for it\, and few to no processes\, standards or certification methods are in place that explicitly focus on ensuring our work in communities is done in a manner that is respectful\, mutually beneficial and does no harm. During this talk\, I will review the history and status of standards\, ethics codes and other methods that are designed to protect the public while allowing for valid modes of public scholarship in service to society\, with an emphasis on environmental engineering and science academia. I will use case studies to highlight exemplary projects that met the community and academic goals in a mutually beneficial way. I will close with recommendations that highlight needs as our discipline more fully embraces scholarship in service to society.
URL:https://ccee.engr.it/event/kappe-lecture-09-27-dr-nancy-love/
LOCATION:Mann 307\, Raleigh\, NC\, United States
CATEGORIES:Appear On Homepage,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190927T134500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190927T150000
DTSTAMP:20260424T144110
CREATED:20190923T144042Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190923T144042Z
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SUMMARY:Computing and Systems Colloquium: Python Intro and Installfest - Dr. John Baugh
DESCRIPTION:On Friday the C&S group will have an “installfest” for faculty and students that includes an interactive introduction to the Python programming language.\n\nThe session will be informal and will focus on getting started with the language and tools\, and answering some very basic questions to get you going.\n\nPlease join us and bring your laptop. If you download and install Python ahead of time (using the link below)\, you’ll be a step ahead:\n\nDownload Python 3.7 version\nhttps://www.anaconda.com/distribution/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you have any questions beforehand\, please feel free to ask John Baugh (jwb@ncsu.edu)\,\nwho is happy to help.\n\nRefreshments will be served.
URL:https://ccee.engr.it/event/computing-and-systems-colloquium-python-intro-and-installfest-dr-john-baugh/
LOCATION:Mann 323\, 2501 Stinson Drive\, Raleigh\, NC\, 27675\, United States
CATEGORIES:Appear On Homepage,Seminars,Training
GEO:35.7852401;-78.6692049
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190923T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190923T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T144110
CREATED:20190921T152308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190921T152358Z
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SUMMARY:18th annual Paul Zia Distinguished Lecture
DESCRIPTION:18th annual Paul Zia Distinguished Lecture will held from 3:00 to 5:00 PM at Stewart Theater in Talley Student Union\, NCSU Main Campus. We are proud to feature presenters Dr. Yang Jiang\, PE\, SE Principal Engineer of HNTB; and Dr. Mike Wongkaew\, PE\, SE\, Associate Vice President and National Tunnel Practice Lead of HNTB; with a special welcome by Linea Laird\, PE of WSP USA. \nThe presenters will discuss various topics related to the design and construction the 2-mile double-decker tunnel under downtown Seattle\, including the design and construction of the 57.5-ft diameter tunnel and owner considerations for the $3.3 billion project. \nThe lecture is free and open to the public. 2 PDHs will be available. Following the lecture\, all professional attendees are invited to stay for a cocktail reception sponsored by WSP USA. For more details and registration information please visit https://zialecture.com.
URL:https://ccee.engr.it/event/18th-annual-paul-zia-distinguished-lecture/
LOCATION:Stewart Theater\, Raleigh\, NC\, United States
CATEGORIES:Appear On Homepage,Networking,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190923T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190923T134000
DTSTAMP:20260424T144110
CREATED:20190828T142524Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190828T142557Z
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SUMMARY:Seminar : Dr. Chris Frey
DESCRIPTION:Title: Regulatory Rollback at EPA Ignores Science and Threatens Public Health \nSpeaker:  Dr. Chris Frey\, Professor\, NCSU Department of Civil\, Construction\, and Environmental Engineering \nSponsored by Forestry and Environmental Resources Seminars\, 12:50 – 1:40 pm\, in Biltmore Hall 2010
URL:https://ccee.engr.it/event/seminar-dr-chris-frey/
LOCATION:Biltmore 2010\, Raleigh\, NC\, United States
CATEGORIES:Appear On Homepage,Seminars
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