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…

2022 Structural Engineering and Mechanics Graduate Research Symposium This annual event is “engineered" to highlight the amazing research you all do here in CCEE at NCSU! In lieu of the ongoing pandemic, the SEM Symposium will again be held virtually (Zoom meeting info below). Please register for the symposium (attending or presenting) by January 21st…

Following the Microbes in Maputo, Mozambique: The Maputo  Sanitation Trial  Speaker: Drew Capone, Ph.D., Post-Doc, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill Summary: The Maputo Sanitation (MapSan) Trial is a controlled before-and-after evaluation of a shared onsite  sanitation intervention in urban Maputo, Mozambique. Intervention compounds (i.e., clusters of  households) received a pour flush to septic tank system…

Speaker: Mike Gwyn, PE Owner and President Gwyn Consulting Services, Inc.

Environmental, Water Resources, and Coastal Engineering Seminar Series Fitts-Woolard Hall 2331 An Engineer Talks About Poop (Alternatively, Challenges and Opportunities in Global Sanitation) Abstract: Most people don’t think about or don’t want to think about what happens to human waste- fecal material. Where do we poop, where does it go? This is a big, global…

Environmental, Water Resources, and Coastal Engineering Seminar Series Fitts-Woolard Hall 2331 Air quality challenges in Northern South America: From the synoptic to the micro scale Abstract: The processes shaping air pollution span many spatial scales. In the large and densely populated cities of Latin America, one of the most rapidly urbanizing areas in the world,…

Environmental, Water Resources, and Coastal Engineering Seminar Series Fitts-Woolard Hall 2331 Using Data Analytics and Learning to Attenuate Inequities in Engineering Classrooms: A Teacher-Scholar Approach