Doctor of Philosophy Dissertations
A Sampling of PhD Dissertations in Civil & Environmental Engineering
Heng Xiao '09 "Experimental and Numerical Modeling of Wave-Induced Sediment Transport and Soil Responses"
Katherine Meierdiercks '09 "Hydrologic Response in Small Urban Watersheds: Analyses from the Baltimore Ecosystem Study"
Spencer Quiel '09 "Behavior and Analysis of Fire-Exposed Steel Bean-Columns That Develop Thermal Gradients"
Powell Draper '08 "Building for the Future: Evaluating the Current Viability of Thin Shell Concrete Structures"
Eric Egleston '08 "Biological, Chemical and Policy Aspects of the Relationship between Productivity and the Ocean Carbon Cylcle"
Alex Ntelekos '08 "Extreme Warm Season Thunderstorm Systems and the Urban Environment"
Nima Rahbar '08 "Bioinspired Design and Interfacial Failure of Biomedical Systems"
Hongbo Su '08 "An Evaluation of Retrieving Terrestrial Evapotranspiration from Remotely Sensed Data"
Junu Shrestha '07 "Effects of anthropogenic disturbances on the iron and nitrogen cycles in reparian wetland soils"
Asa K. Rennermalm '07 "Pan-Arctic land surface hydrology: patterns of change and global implications"
Sarah Gasda '07 "Numerical models for evaluating CO2 storage in deep saline aquifers: leaky wells and large-scale geological features"
Sujata Ray '07 "Microbiological responses and population-adaptation of chemical stress"
Michael J. Puma '06 "Space-time scaling properties of soil moisture and evapotranspirationin water-limited ecosystems"
Ninghui Liu '06 "Vibrations of piezoelectric plates without and with dissipation"
Julie Rose N. Javier '06 "Hydrometeorological analyses of extreme floods in urban and mountainous watersheds"
John Joseph Valenza ’05 “Mechanism for salt scaling”
Huilin Gao ’05 “Passive microwave remote sensing of surface soil moisture: methods, results, and applications”
Li Li ’05 “Scaling of geochemical reaction rates using pore-scale network modeling: an investigation of anorthite and kaolinite reaction kinetics”
Naomi Sue Hicks ’05 “The flood hydrology of small forested central Appalachian watersheds”
Shangping Xu ’05 “An investigation on the effects of herbaceous plants on the biogeochemistry of wetland sediments”
James Kevin Guest ’05 “Design of optimal porous material structures for maximized stiffness and permeability using topology optimization and finite element methods”
Jung H. Choi ’04 “The effect of plants on the dynamics of sulfur species and zinc in wetland sediments”
Hyun-Su Kim ’04 “Dynamics of aerobic and denitrifying bacterial strains during the biodegradation of toluene in a porous medium: experimental quantification and mathematical simulation”
Yu Zhang ’03 “Space-time variability of precipitation and hydrology of extreme floods”
Kristine Hansen Wammer ’03 “The effects of molecular structure on bacterial transformations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons”
Yi Ming '03 “Thermodynamic equilibrium of organic aerosols in the atmosphere”
Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis ’02 “A method to generate samples of two-phase random media”
James M. Tantalla ’02 “Spatial variability of material properties for slope stability analysis and fragility curve generation”
Weimin Shen ’02 “Fatigue of titanium alloys and intermetallics”
Wilasa Vichit-Vadakan ’02 “Measuring permeability, Young's modulus, and stress relaxation by the beam-bending”
Coral P. Fernandez-Illescas ’02 “Soil moisture dynamics and vegetation structure in water-limited ecosystems”
Wade T. Crow ’01 “The impact of land surface heterogeneity on the accuracy and utility of spaceborne soil moisture retrievals”
Rui Huang ’01 “Vibrations of piezoelectric crystal plates with thickness-graded material properties”
Vinita Saxena ’00 “Spatial variation of earthquake ground motion and development of bridge fragility curves”
Klaus Keller ’00 “Trace metal-carbon interactions in marine phytoplankton: implications on the cellular, regional, and global scale”
Rudolf J. Held ’00 “Pore-scale modeling of two-phase flow and mass transfer in porous media”
Christopher D. Knightes ’00 “Mechanisms governing sole-substrate and multi-substrate biodegradation kinetics of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons”
Derick G. Brown ’00 “Effects of nonionic surfactants on becterial transport through porous media”
Joseph Robert Stencel ’00 “Trace metals in water from crude oil: surfactant and humic acid enhanced partitioning”