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civil & environmental engineering

UC Irvine team says urban street networks, building density shape severity of floods

Researchers’ new analytical model can assess neighborhood-level hazards globally

Sunny Jiang, UC Irvine professor of both civil and environmental engineering and ecology and evolutionary biology sitting in front of a fountain holding a clear water bottle.

Navigating ocean waters

Sunny Jiang strives to understand the balance between human activities and coastal ecosystems

Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering Brett Sanders

Flood Watchers

UCI researchers sound the alarm on future Southern California deluge

UCI, national laboratory scientists probe carbon sequestration at the molecular level

Ultrathin films of water on metal-rich rocks convert CO2 into solid minerals

Undergraduate students in the Samueli Interdisciplinary Research in Pods program gather in the lobby of UCI’s Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building for a poster session to discuss their summer research projects.

UCI undergrads take a summer dive into research

SIRiPods students gain experience in framing questions, pursuing answers scientifically and presenting their findings

NASA grant supports UCI-led project to remotely monitor changes in beaches, dunes

New techniques to measure coastal topography will improve understanding of flood risk

Tirtha Banerjee, UCI assistant professor of civil & environmental engineering

NSF Recognizes Tirtha Banerjee with CAREER Award

Research will focus on the role of turbulent fluid mechanics in wildland fire behavior

Bhumi Tandel’s quest for sustainability

Scholarship recipient hopes to help improve the environment through engineering

NSF funds UCI project to study post-wildfire mudslides and flooding

Interdisciplinary researchers will examine infrastructure and public preparedness

Largescale wetlands construction seen as effective treatment for farm runoff

UCI, U. of Kansas and U. of Minnesota experts model Mississippi Basin water quality