Day: January 29, 2024

Kelp is on the Way: How Seaweed Will Help Us to Keep Enjoying our Coastal Environments

It is now well known that planting more trees can help heal the environment. However, the catch is that only so many trees can be planted. Thus, Professor Kristen Davis and her team at the UCI Coastal Dynamics Laboratory have taken the dive into our oceans to assess the environmental benefits of nurturing other types…Continue Reading Kelp is on the Way: How Seaweed Will Help Us to Keep Enjoying our Coastal Environments

Onto a New Chapter at Chapman

Dr. Ariane Elizabeth Jong-Levinger is now an established Doctor of Philosophy in Civil and Environmental Engineering from UCI, having just completed her dissertation titled “Estimating Post-Fire Hazards: Model Formulation Parameterization and Applications” in July 2023. In 2016, she earned her B.S. in Environmental Science and Policy from Chapman University in Orange, CA. Before jumping into…Continue Reading Onto a New Chapter at Chapman

What do Bathtubs have to do with Multimodal Traffic Data?

Transportation is so integrated into our lives that it feels simple, but when we try to take a closer look to make improvements, we realize how complicated it is. One person who wrestles with this complexity is Professor Wenlong Jin. As Professor Jin says, before you can define a solution, you must first define problems…Continue Reading What do Bathtubs have to do with Multimodal Traffic Data?

Microscopic Research: Here are the PFAS P-facts on Environmental Cleanup

The earliest known life forms on Earth are thought to be microbes and fast-forward 3.7 billion years later these organisms still inhabit the Earth alongside us. Microbes have evolved to survive through any and all conditions: freezing and blazing environments? Yes; pH of battery acid? Also yes; Radioactive waste sites? Definitely, they are there. Today,…Continue Reading Microscopic Research: Here are the PFAS P-facts on Environmental Cleanup

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UCI Students walking in the park

Thank you for visiting the CEE Newsletter page. Here you can keep up to date with what is happening on campus, from faculty research to both graduate and undergraduate student life. Keep up with us on other platforms as well, such as: Facebook @ UC Irvine Civil & Environmental Engineering LinkedIn @ UC Irvine Civil…Continue Reading Welcome!

Get to Know Elisa Borowski!

UCI is making a move to improve transportation by welcoming Professor Elisa Borowski (she/they) as an Assistant Professor to the CEE department! Professor Borowski defended their dissertation on accessing crowdsourced, social, and shared resources in December 2022 under Dr. Amanda Stathopoulos’s Mobility and Behavior Lab at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. As a winner of…Continue Reading Get to Know Elisa Borowski!