Challenges and Inovations Seminar Series
Carcinogens in Drinking Water: From Natural Precursors to Disinfection Byproducts in the Home
David Reckhow
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Thursday, September 8, 2011
3:30 p.m.
138 DeBartolo Hall
Battery Park City
Edward Fitzpatrick
Retired, President of Fitzpatrick Construction
Thursday, September 15, 2011
3:30 p.m.
138 DeBartolo Hall
Quo Vadis Wavewatch III: A Career in Living on the Beach
Hendrik L. Tolman
Physical Scientist, NCEP/EMC/Marine Modeling and Analysis Branch, NOAA
Thursday, September 29, 2011
138 DeBartolo Hall
Unraveling the Mysteries of Tornadoes: The Quest for Safer Communities
Fred L. Haan, Jr.
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Thursday, October 6, 2011
138 DeBartolo Hall
Light Water Reactor Severe Accident R&D at Argonne Related to the Nuclear Accident in Japan
Mitchell T. Farmer
Section Manager, Engineering Development Laboratories, Nuclear Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Thursday, October 27, 2011
138 DeBartolo Hall
Earthquakes, Hurricanes and other Disasters: A View from Space
Ronald T. Eguchi
President and CEO, ImageCat, Inc., Long Beach, CA
Thursday, Novemeber, 10, 2011
138 DeBartolo Hall
Building Hoover Dam
Paul Giroux, P.E., M.ASCE
District Quality Manager, Kiewit Infrastructure West Co.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
138 DeBartolo Hall
Environmental Fluid Dynamics Seminar Series
Fluid dynamics and morphometric based approaches for city management and sustainability
Silvana Di Sabatino
University of Lecce, Italy
Tuesday September 6th, 2011
11:00 a.m.
258 Fitzpatrick
Hydrologic Controls on Soil Nutrients: the role of soil moisture, stoichiometry and topography
Amilcare Porporato
Duke University
Tuesday September 13th, 2011
11:00 a.m.
258 Fitzpatrick
Experimental study of the initial stages of wind waves' spatial evolution
Dan Liberzon
Tel Aviv University/University of Notre Dame
Tuesday September 20th, 2011
11:00 a.m.
258 Fitzpatrick
High-resolution nearshore wave and flow modeling: infrastructure, numeric and physics
Andre Van der Westhuysen
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Tuesday September 27th, 2011
11:00 a.m.
258 Fitzpatrick
The Challenge of Fully-Predictive Hydrologic Models Supported by Observations:
Recent Experiences and Prospects in Semiarid Systems
Enrique Vivoni
Arizona State University
Monday October 3rd, 2011
3:00 p.m.
The Oak Room, 2nd floor of South Dining Hall
Carbon storage: caught between a rock and climate change
Herbert Huppert
University of Cambridge
UK Fellow of Royal Society London;
Member of US National
Academy of Sciences.
Murdy Family Lecture
Tuesday October 11, 2011
11:00 a.m.
The Oak Room
The City of Chicago's Science-Driven Sustainability Initiatives
Lyndon Valicenti
City of Chicago
Tuesday October 25th, 2011
11:00 a.m.
258 Fitzpatrick
The Role of Physical Modeling in Understanding Environmental Flows
Don Boyer
Arizona State University
Tuesday November 1st, 2011
11:00 a.m.
258 Fitzpatrick
Near-Inertial Poincare Waves in Lake Michigan: Observations and Consequences
Carey Troy
Purdue University
Tuesday November 8th, 2011
11:00 a.m.
258 Fitzpatrick
Fractional Calculus in Hydrology and Geophysics
Mark Meeschaert
Michigan State University
Tuesday November 15th, 2011
11:00 a.m.
258 Fitzpatrick
Development of Reliable Hydrologic Data Sets in Difficult Environments: Case Studies from Benin, West Africa
Dr. Stephen E. Silliman
2011 Darcy Lecturer
Thursday, January 20, 2011
4:00 p.m.
118 DeBartolo Hall
Hydraulics In The Time Of Cholera: The Chicago River, Lake Michigan and Public Health
Marcelo H. Garcia
University of Illinois-Urbana
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
11:00 a.m.
258 Fitzpatrick Hall
Challenges and Inovations Seminar Series
The Engineering Profession - Leadership in Motion
Bud Ahern
Retired Senior Executive, CH2M HILL Ltd.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
3:30 p.m.
129 DeBartolo
Hurricane Winds: Inside the Storm and at the Laboratory
Kurtis Gurley
Associate Professor, Civil and Coastal Engineering, University of Florida
Thursday, February 3, 2011
3:30 p.m.
129 DeBartolo
Evolutionary Dynamics and Ecophysiology of Microbial Reductive Dehalogenation
Dr. Alfred Spormann
Stanford University
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
4:00 p.m.
120 DeBartolo Hall
The Power of the Sea: Tsunamis, Storm Surges, Rogue Waves, and Our Quest to Predict Disaster
Bruce Parker
Retired Chief Scientist of the National Ocean Service in NOAA, Director of the Coast Survey Development Lab, Director of the World Data Center for Oceanography; Presently Visiting Professor, Center for Maritime Systems, Stevenson Institute of Technology
Thursday, February 24, 2011
3:30 p.m.
129 DeBartolo
Reaching Beyond 1 Kilometer: Nakheel Super Tall Tower
Ahmad Rahimian, Ph.D., PE, SE
President, WSP Cantor Seinuk Structural Engineers
Bart Sullivan, PE
Vice President, Director, Middle East, WSP Cantor Seinuk Structural Engineers
Thursday, March 31, 2011
3:30 p.m.
129 DeBartolo
Engineering Great Architecture
Dave Eckmann
Principal, Magnusson Klemencic Associates
Thursday, April 7, 2011
3:30 p.m.
129 DeBartolo
The Quest for Pure Water…From Atoms to Oceans
Harry F. Ridgway
Consulting Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
Director, AquaMem Consultants, Rodeo, New Mexico
Thursday, April 14, 2011
3:30 p.m.
129 DeBartolo
2010
Challenges and Innovations Seminar Series
Integrated Water and Resource Management for Increased Urban
Sustainability: Cities of the Future
Glen T. Daigger, Ph.D., PE, BCEE, NAE
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer,
CH2M HILL
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
4:30 p.m.
129 DeBartolo Hall
Important Design Considerations for a Modern Office Tower
Robert McNamara, Founding Principal
McNamara/Salvia Inc. Consulting Engineers, Boston
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
4:30 p.m.
129 DeBartolo Hall
Design and Construction of Earth Retaining Structures
Dennis Murphy, Retired President
Kiewit Engineering Company
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
4:30 p.m
129 DeBartolo Hall
Battling the Bad Vibes: Fluid-Structure Interaction Phenomena in the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry
Michael Tognarelli, Ph.D.
Floating Systems and Risers Engineer
Deepwater Facilities Technology, BP America, Inc.
Wednesday, Febfruary 24, 2010
4:30 p.m.
129 DeBartolo Hall
Small Scale Structures in Coastal Flows: Observations and Modeling
Philippe Fraunie
University of Toulon, France
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
12:00-1:00 p.m.
258 Fitzpatrick Hall
The Outfall Sewer Story
Edward B. Fitzpatrick Jr., PE, Retired, President
Fitzpatrick Construction
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
4:30 p.m.
129 DeBartolo Hall
Global Climate Change, Sea Level Rise and the Sustainability of our
Nation’s Beaches
Robert G. Dean, ScD, NAE
Graduate Research Emeritus
Civl and Coastal Engineering Department
University of Florida
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
4:30 p.m.
129 DeBartolo Hall
Philosophy of Structural Engineering for the Burj Dubai – The World’s Tallest Structure
Lawrence Novak, SE, SECB, Leed AP
Director, Engineered Buildings
Portland Cement Association, Skokie, IL
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
4:30 p.m.
129 DeBartolo Hall
Haiti Earthquake: Lessons Learned and Hope for the Future
Tracy Kijewski-Correa
Associate Chair and Linbeck Associate Professor, Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences, University of Notre Dame
Alexandros Taflanidis
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences, University of Notre Dame
Thursday, September 2, 2010
3:30 p.m.
138 DeBartolo
Five Decades of Tall Buildings Design: Historical and Engineering Perspectives from Fazlur Kahn’s Era
to Present
Joseph Colaco, NAE
President, CBM Engineers Inc.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
3:30 p.m.
138 DeBartolo
Engineering in 2030: How the Engineering Profession is Changing
Jorg Imberger, NAE Foreign Associate
Professor of Environmental Engineering,
Director, Centre for Water Research, University of Western Australia
Thursday, September 23, 2010
3:30 p.m.
138 DeBartolo
Lessons Learned about Offshore Production Facilities in Recent Hurricanes
Robert Gilbert
Brunswick-Abernathy Professor in Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
Thursday, October 7, 2010
3:30 p.m.
138 DeBartolo
Assessing the Impact of Future Sea Level Rise and Climate Change on Hurricane Flood Level Statistics
Jen Irish
Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
Thursday, October 28, 2010
3:30 p.m.
138 DeBartolo
Bigger is Better: The Multiple Benefits of Modularization in Heavy Industrial Construction
and Maintenance
Shaun A. Sipe, P.E.
Vice President of Organizational Development,Barnhart Crane & Rigging
Thursday, November 4, 2010
3:30 p.m.
138 DeBartolo
Huffing and Puffing and Blowing It Down: Can we mitigate damage to houses in severe
storms?
Gregory Kopp
Professor, University of Western Ontario
Thursday, November 18, 2010
3:30 p.m.
138 DeBartolo Hall
Environmental Fluid Dynamics Seminar Series
Small Scale Structures in Coastal Flows: Observations and Modeling
Philippe Fraunie
Director, Laboratoire de Sondages Electomagnetiques de l'Environnement Terrest;
CNRS; and University of Toulon, France
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
12:00-1:00 p.m.
258 Fitzpatrick Hall
Jets, Wakes and Dipolar Eddies in Stratified Fluids:
Laboratory experiments, theoretical modeling and possible applications
Sergey Voropayev
University of Notre Dame
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
12:00-1:00 p.m.
258 Fitzpatrick Hall
Coupled Waves and Storm Surge in Southern Louisiana
Casey Dietrich
University of Notre Dame
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
12:00-1:00 p.m.
258 Fitzpatrick Hall
Air Entrainment into Partially Filled Branching Pipes
Jeffrey A. Brown - Senior Engineer
Arizona Public Service
Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
12:00-1:00 p.m.
258 Fitzpatrick Hall
Vertical Contraction Scour
Dennis Lyn,
Professor of Civil Engineering
Purdue University
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
12:00-1:00 p.m.
258 Fitzpatrick Hall
Carbon Dioxide Dispersion in the Ocean, with Applications to Carbon Sequestration
Gil Stegan, Vice President (Rtd)
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
3:00-3:30 p.m.
302 Cushing Hall
Multi-phase flow Interactions in Rapidly Filling Sewer Systems
Steven Wright
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Michigan
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
12:00-1:00 p.m.
258 Fitzpatrick Hall
Remote Sensing of the Environment
Jonathan Malay
President-Elect, American Meteorological Society
Director, Civil Space & Environment Programs, Lockheed Martin Corp. Washington Operations
Tuesday, May 4th,
12:00 noon
138 DeBartolo Hall
The Large Lakes Observatory and an example of lake research: Paleoenvironmental records from Lake Qinghai, China.
Steven M. Colman
Professor of Geological Sciences
Director, Large Lakes Observatory
University of Minnesota, Duluth
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
11:00- noon
Notre Dame Room, 202 Lafortune Student Center
Risk Assessment of Windborne Debris and Hurricane Storm Surge:
Two Applications of Poisson Theory
Ning Lin
Postdoctoral Fellow,
MIT Dept of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
11:00-12:00 noon
258 Fitzpatrick Hall
Dr. Eliezer Kit,
Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tel Aviv University
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
11:00-12:00 noon
258 Fitzpatrick Hall
Dr. Diogo Bolster,
University of Notre Dame
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
11:00-12:00 noon
258 Fitzpatrick
Jorg Imberger
Professor of Environmental Engineering,
Director, Centre for Water Research
University of Western Australia
Tuesday, September 21st,
11:00 am
Notre Dame Room, 202 LaFortune Student Center
Long Waves Through Emergent Vegetation
Dr. Chiang Mei,
Ford Professor of Engineering Emeritus, MIT
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
11:00-12:00 noon
258 Fitzpatrick
Specifics of Ocean Turbulence Influenced by Topography
Dr. Iossif Lozovatsky,
University of Notre Dame
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
11:00-12:00 noon
258 Fitzpatrick
Development of New Tools for Urban Fluid Mechanics: A Travel Report from a Long Journey
Dietmar Rempfer
MMAE Dept., IIT Chicago
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
11:00-12:00 noon
258 Fitzpatrick
Theoretical and numerical modeling of two-phase flows of environmental importance
Fabian Bombardelli
University of California, Davis
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
11:00-12:00 noon
258 Fitzpatrick
Modeling the Chemical Composition of the Atmosphere of Our Planet in a Changing Climate: Mathematical and Physical Challenges
Mauricio Santillana
Jim Henson Fellow,
Harvard University
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
11:00-12:00 noon
258 Fitzpatrick
A New Model for Turbulent Dispersion
Benoit Cushman-Roisin
Thayer School of Engineering
Dartmouth College
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
11:00-12:00 noon
258 Fitzpatrick
Water, Energy and Insatiable Human Demands- A Call for Creative and Responsive Stewardship
Bryan W. Karney
Associate Dean, Applied Science and Engineering
University of Toronto
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
11:00-12:00 noon
258 Fitzpatrick
Thin Shear Layers - The Key to Turbulence Structure
Professor J.C.R. Hunt, FRS
(Lord Hunt of Chesterton)
Professor of Climate Physics,
University College London, UK
Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
11:00-12:00 noon
258 Fitzpatrick
Surge, Waves and Damage During Hurricane Ike
Andrew Kennedy
University of Notre Dame
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
11:00-12:00 noon
258 Fitzpatrick
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar Series
Transport Phenomena of Chemotactic Bacteria: Diffusion and Dispersion
In Porous Media
Dr. Roseanne Ford
University of Virginia
Thursday, March 4, 2010
4:00 p.m.
208 DeBartolo Hall
Inventories and Triggers of Biogenic Nitrous Oxide from Biological Wastewater
Treatment Processes
Dr. Kartik Chandran
Asst. Professor and Director CUBES Program Columbia University
Thursday, March 18, 2010
4:00 p.m.
208 DeBartolo Hall
Groundwaters Associated with Coalbed Methane: Geochemistry and Environmental Issues
Dr. James Drever
University of Wyoming
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
3:00 p.m.
214 DeBartolo Hall
Nutrient Removal Upgrades in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Dr. Charles Bott
Hampton Roads Sanitation District
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Thursday, April 15, 2010
4:00 p.m.
258 Fitzpatrick Hall
Predicting Pathways and Rates of Biochemical Reactions with Geomaterials
Alan T. Stone
Professor
Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering
Whiting School of Engineering
John Hopkins University
Thursday, April 22, 2010
4:00 p.m.
208 DeBartolo Hall
High-Rate Autotrophic Nitrogen Removal in a Novel Biofilm Geometry:
Bridging Microbial Ecology and BioReactor Technology
Barth F. Smets
Professor of Environmental Microbiology, Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, DK
Eshbach Visiting Scholar, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, IL
4:00 p.m.
119 DeBartolo Hall
Where did Martian Water Go?
Dr. Carrick M. Eggleston, Ph.D
Department of Geology and Geophysics
Friday, October 1, 2010
3:30 p.m.
116 DeBartolo Hall
Need and Challenge of Alternative Water Sources for Use in Electric Power
Geologic Sequestration of CO2: Evaluating and Monitoring Seal Rock
David Dzombak
Carnegie-Mellon University
Thursday, October 14, 2010
11-Noon
127 Nieuwland Science Hall
Emergent Environmental Issues and Potential Solutions for Produced Water Management
During Hydraulic Fracturing of Shale for Natural Gas Production
Dr. Kelvin Gregory, Ph.D
Carnegie-Mellon University
Friday, November 5, 2010
3:00 p.m.
207 DeBartolo Hall
Big World, Unlimited Opportunities: A Veteran Engineer’s Journey of Four Decades in Industry
Calvin Chien, Ph.D
DuPont Fellow, DuPont Company
Thursday, November 11, 2010
3:45 p.m.
131 DeBartolo Hall
Legacy Contaminants in Soils-Their Nature, Properties and the Risk they Pose
Dr. Eric Suuberg
School of Engineering
Brown University
Friday, December 3, 2010
3:30 p.m.
213 DeBartolo Hall
Edison Lecture Series
Mr. Jonathan Malay,
President-elect of the American Meteorological Society and Director of Civil Space & Environment Programs in Lockheed Martin Corporation Washington Operations
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
12-1:00 p.m.
138 DeBartolo Hall
Structures Seminar Series
Integral Design of Controlled Resilient Structures
Dr. Andrei M. Reihorn, Ph.D, P.E.
Clifford C. Furnas Eminent Professor (of Structural Engineering)
University at Buffalo-The State University of New York
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
4:30 p.m.
117 DeBartolo Hall
Morphological Complexity of Material Microstructures: From Stochastic Models to Fracture Estimation
Kazimierz Sobczyk, Ph.D
Dr. Habil Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Institute of Fundamental Technological Research
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
3:30 p.m.
117 DeBartolo Hall
Effect of Vertical Earthquake Ground Motion on Reinforced Concrete Structures
Dr. Amr S. Elnashai, Ph.D
Bill and Elaine Hall Endowed Professor
Head Department Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
University of Illinois
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
4:30 p.m.
117 DeBartolo Hall
On predicting long-term loads for utility-scale onshore and offshore wind turbines
Dr. Lance Manuel
Fluor Centennial Teaching Fellow in Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
4:30 p.m.
356A Fitzpatrick Hall
The Flight of Wind-Borne Debris in Extreme Wind Storms
Dr. Gregory Kopp, Ph.D
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
4:30 p.m.
210 DeBartolo Hall
Assessment and Refinements of Conditional Mean Spectrum
Erol Kalkan
U.S. Geological Survey
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
4:30 p.m. 209 DeBartolo Hall
2009
Design of Deepwater Offshore Production Systems
A.N. WIlliams
P&TD Hull Manager
SBM Atlantia
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Structural Design Innovation: Russia Tower and Other Tall Collaborations
Robert A. Halvorson, SE, PE, FASCE, FIStructE
Principal
Halvorson and Partners
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Options for Improving Recovery from Inland Brackish Water Desalination Systems
Desmond F. Lawler
University of Texas-Austin
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Challenges of Surge and Wave Modeling for Pacific Islands
Jane McKee Smith
Research Hydraulic Engineer, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory
U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Validating the Seismic Performance of Self-Centering Steel Frames Using Hybrid Simulations
Richard Sause, P.E.
Director, Advanced Technology for Large Structural Systems (ATLSS) Center
Joseph T. Stuart Professor of Structural Engineering, Lehigh University
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Numerical Modeling of Nonlinear Surface Waves From Deep to Shallow Water
Q. Jim Chen
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Phytoremediation: Concept and Science of Plant-Based Pollution Control for the Real “Green” Future
Louis Licht, P.E.
President
Ecolotree, Inc.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Building a 6-Mile Long Submarine: Large Diameter Tunneling Below the Water Table in Portland, Oregon
Bill Mariucci
Area Manager-Underground District
Kiewit Construction Company
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Physiology of Bacterial Biofilms
Philip S. Stewart
University of Montana
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Microbial Transformation of Actinides
Toshihiko Ohnuki
September 18, 2009
The Comforts of Ignorance and the Benefit of Arrogance-
Lessons of the Failure Kind for the Practioner
2009 Richard H. Jahns Distinguished Lecturer
Dr. Edmund Medley
September 16, 2009
Intelligent Integrated Microfluidic-Molecular Recognition and Catalysis in Single Nanopores and Nanopores Arrays
Dr. P.W. Bohn
University of Notre Dame
September 3, 2009
Recent Advances in Tracking Nutrient Sources in the Mississippi River Basin: Implications for Managing Gulf of Mexico Hypoxi
Richard B. Alexander
Research Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey
February 25, 2009
Design and Construction of Drilled Shafts
Dennis Murphy
Retired, President of Kiewit Engineering Company
March 25, 2009
Design of Deepwater Offshore Floating Oil and Gas Production Platforms
A.N. Williams
Atlantia Offshore Limited, Houston, Texas
April 1, 2009
Inovation in Infrastructure for Disaster Mitigation
Don Resio
Senior Scientist, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Engineer Research and Development Center
April 15, 2009
Groundwater System Responses to Paleoclimatic Changes During Late Pleistocene, Black Mesa Basin, Arizona
Chen Zhu
Indiana University
January 22, 2009
The Role of Consulting Engineers in Two Major Projects: Minneapolis/St. Paul LRT Project and Chicago Dan Ryan Construction Project
Richard Wolsfeld, PE AICP
President, AECOM Transportation
February 4, 2009
The Audacity of Green, Building in the Obama Era
Mike McNally
President and CEO, Skanska USA Inc.
Elizabeth J. Heider, AIA Leed AP
Senior Vice President Preconstruction, Skanska USA Building Inc.
February 11, 2009
2008
Characterization of Biogeochemical Processes Following Sediment Capping: Redox Zone Development and Microbial Colonization
Joseph Hughes
Georgia Institute of Technology
December 4, 2008
The Influence of Microbial Ecology and Physiology in the Biotransformation of Pharmaceuticals in Wastewater
Nancy Love
University of Michgan
December 11, 2008
Structure in Motion–Design and Construction of Stadiums with Retractable Roofs and Playing Fields
Larry Griffis, Structures Division, Senior Principal
Walter P. Moore
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Microbial Communities in Chloraminated Drinking Water Distribution Systems
Daniel Noguera
University of Wisconsin
November 20, 2008
Ethics of Resource Utilization
Daniel Lynch
MacLean Professor of Engineering Sciences
Dartmouth College
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Adventures in the Structures, Properties, and Environmental Impact of Actinide Materials
Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt
Auburn University
Monday, October 27, 2008
Land Reclamation Maasvlakte 2 at the Port of Rotterdam
Mathijis van Ledden, Ph.D.
Vice President, Coastal and Rivers
Haskoning Inc.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Still Oxides Run Deep: Results from an Fe Isotope Tracer Experiment
Michelle M. Scherer
The University of Iowa
Thursday, October 30, 2008
World of Trouble: Voyaging Through Stressed Ecosystems
H.J.S. Fernando
Center for Environmental Fluid Dynamics
Arizona State University
Friday, October 31, 2008
Exploring Subsurface Contaminant Fate and Transport Processes at Multiple Scales
Philip M. Jardine
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Uniquely Constructed Bridges
Dave Lamoureux, P.E.
Design Engineer
Kiewit Engineering
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Offshore Wind Farms
Vagner Jacobson
Vice President
Offshore Technology, DHI
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Building the Brooklyn Bridge
Paul Giroux
Sr. Project Engineer
Kiewit Pacific Co.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Burj Dubai, the World’s Tallest Structure
Ahmad Abdelrezaq, S.E
Executive Vice President, Samsung Corporation
Highrise and Structural Engineering Division
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Innovative Transportation Solutions for the Central Puget Sound Region
Joseph P. Gildner, P.E.
Deputy Executive Director
Sound Transit-Link Light Detail
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Geochemical Controls on Microbial Fe (III) Oxide Reduction Kinetics
Eric E. Roden
Department of Geology and Geophysics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Hydrology as a “Driver” of Headwater Catchment Processes
Roy C. Sidle
Disaster Prevention Research Institute
Kyoto University, Japan
Friday, April 18, 2008
Foundation Problems in Sinking Cassions for the Tacoma Narrows Expansion
Dennis Murphy
Vice President
Kiewit Corporation
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Tunnel and Resevoir Plan
A major sanitary and flood control project in Chicago-109 miles of huge underground tunnels under the city of Chicago-one of the largest rock tunnel bores on record
James Lindell
Senior Vice President
MWH Americas, Inc.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Forces and Anchoring of Caissons for the Tacoma Narrows Bridge
Dennis Murphy
Vice President
Kiewit Corporation
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Trump Tower
Jeremy Kirk
Structural Engineer
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
Thursday, March13, 2008
Tsunamis
Tony Dalrymple
Willard and Lillian Hackerman Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
John Hopkins University
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Perdido Development Project
Dale Snyder
Shell Oil
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Structural Health Monitoring (SHM):
From Machine Maintenance to Machine Intelligence
M.M. Reda Taha
Assistant Professor & Regents’ Lecturer
Department of Civil Engineering
University of New Mexico (UNM)
Monday, February 11, 2008
2007
High Temperature Oxide Melt Solution Calorimetry: Classical Method for Modern Challenges
Tatiana Shvareva
University of California/Davis
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Multihazard Performance-Based Approach for Progressive Collapse Analysis
Mehrdad Sasani
Department of Civil Engineering
Northeastern University
Monday, December 3, 2007
Mixed Cultures to Generate Bioenergy from Waste
Lars Angenent
Dept. of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering
Washington University in Saint Louis
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Environmental Implications and Applications of Nanotechnology: Fullerene-Bacterial Interactions
Pedro J. Alvarez
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Rice University
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Mitigation of the Surface Fault Rupture Hazard
Jonathan D. Bray, Ph.D., P.E.
University of California, Berkeley
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
The Mass Transfer Performance of Membranes in Biologcally Active Environments
Michael J. Semmens
Department of Engineering
University of Minnesota
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Smart Sensing Technology: A New Paradigm for Structural Health Monitoring
B.F. Spencer, Jr
.Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Friday, October 26, 2007
Progressive CollapseResistance of RC Structures
Mehrdad Sasani
Department of Civil Engineering
Northeastern University
Monday, October 29, 2007
Novel Microsensors for Water Pollution Control
Paul L. Bishop
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of Cincinnati
Thursday, November 1, 2007