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Author:

Yocum, Rebeka

Title:

Socialization of Safety: An Investigation into the Impact Socioeconomic Factors Have on Crash Frequency, Severity, Risk, and Cost in Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

transportation safety
crash frequency
crash severity
crash risk
crash cost
statistical analysis
socioeconomics

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Committee Members:

Eric Donnell, Major Field Member
S. Ilgin Guler, Major Field Member
John Hughes, Outside Unit & Field Member
Vikash Gayah, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zeng, Yi Xuan

Title:

hydraulics and performance evaluations of fish passages based on computational fluid dynamics and individual-based methods

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

fish passage design
fish behavior
individual-based model (IBM)
biased random walk model.
rock weirs
realistic rock weir modeling
numerical modeling

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Committee Members:

Xiaofeng Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Margaret Byron, Outside Unit & Field Member
Peggy Johnson, Major Field Member
Lauren McPhillips, Major Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Li, Bing

Title:

Model development and application on coupled hyporheic exchange flux in river-hyporheic zones

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Hydrology
hyporheicFoam
Hyporheic exchange flux
OpenFOAM
Transient storage model
mass transfer coefficient
hyporheic zone
heterogeneous

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Committee Members:

Li Li, Major Field Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ying Pan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lauren McPhillips, Major Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Stewart, Bryn

Title:

From above and below: controls of external climate drivers and internal subsurface structure on catchment hydro-biogeochemistry

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

water quality
catchment
hydrology
biogeochemistry
reactive transport modeling
climate change
solute export
dissolved organic carbon
dissolved inorganic carbon

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Committee Members:

Elizabeth Boyer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Li Li, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xiaofeng Liu, Major Field Member
Nathaniel Warner, Co-Chair & Major Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Broyles, Lauren

Title:

Hydroclimatic Risks for Household Water Insecurity and the Household Water-Food Nexus

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

household water insecurity
environmental seasonality
climate change
Bangladesh
extreme weather events

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Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Anil Kumar Chaudhary, Outside Field Member
Emily Pakhtigian, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Asher Rosinger, Outside Field Member
Rachel Brennan, Co-Chair of Committee
Alfonso Mejia, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Clare Hinrichs, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Adhikari, Bishwodeep

Title:

Field evaluation of hydrological and pollutant retention performance of green stormwater infrastructures

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Green stormwater infrastructures
Bioretention
Metals
Base cations
De-icing road salt
Nature-based solutions
Nutrients
Infiltration basin
Soil chemistry

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Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Cibin Raj, Major Field Member
Shirley Clark, Outside Unit Member
Hong Wu, Outside Field Member
Lauren McPhillips, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Dennis, Lauren

Title:

Systems-Level Analyses of Water and Energy Security in a Changing Climate

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Water Security
Energy Security
Hydropower
Network Science
Decision-Relevant Analysis
Climate Change
Systems Analysis

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Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Karen Fisher-Vanden, Outside Unit Member
Hannah Wiseman, Outside Field Member
Alfonso Mejia, Co-Chair & Major Field Member
Caitlin Grady, Co-Chair, Major Member & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Boualavong, Jonathan

Title:

Energy-Rate Trade-offs in Electrochemical Carbon Capture

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

electrochemistry
carbon capture
separations
absorption
Gaussian process
adaptive sampling

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Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Li Li, Outside Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Outside Unit & Minor Member
Bruce Logan, Major Field Member
Christopher Gorski, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Mohammadpour, Paniz

Title:

Maximizing Human-Environmental Security by Analyzing the Food, Energy and Water Interconnections

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Food security
Water security
Energy security
Sustainable development goals
food production chain
food trade
nitrogen footprint
nitrogen budget
nitrogen loss
substance flow analysis
Nitrogen loss
Scenario analysis
Nitrogen management

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Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Cibin Raj, Major Field Member
David Abler, Outside Field Member
Caitlin Grady, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jason Kaye, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Pei, Te

Title:

Integrating Geotechnical Domain Knowledge Into Machine Learning for Slope Stability Predictions

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Slope Stability
Landslide Susceptibility Mapping
Machine Learning
Domain Knowledge
Physics-based model
Monotonicity

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Committee Members:

Chaopeng Shen, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tong Qiu, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ming Xiao, Major Field Member
Tieyuan Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair