Community Ecology, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning, Coastal Ecosystems, Ecosystem Resilience
Geotechnical centrifuge modeling, in situ testing of soils, laboratory instrumentation, concrete technology.
James Cahill is a lecturer and independent PI in Environmental Engineering Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2016. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Rockefeller University from 2017-2020. He has expertise in Population Genomics, Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics. His research focuses on applying genomic techniques to immediate challenges in species conservation, environmental monitoring and human health.
Structural analysis, vehicle impact simulation, heat and mass
transport in concrete, bridge engineering, 3-D Visualization,
numerical methods.
Structure-property-processing relationships of multiphase polymers, liquid crystalline polymers and thermosets, magnetic field processing of polymers, ionomers.
Traffic operations, signal control optimization, highway capacity analysis, and traffic simulation.
Christopher Ferraro specializes in the development sustainable, high-performance cement-based materials & carbon-dioxide produced as part of the construction involving portland cement concrete. The concrete materials research group conducts research on a wide variety issues and include efforts across cross disciplinary research efforts within civil engineering as well other departments including; Environmental, Materials, Industrial and Mechanical Engineering.
Methods: Pattern recognition, neural networks, fuzzy sets, computer vision, image and signal processing, mathematical morphology. Applications: Landmine detection, handwriting recognition, biomedical imaging, automatic target recognition, bioinformatics.
Wind engineering, random vibrations, reliability, non-Gaussian
simulation, structural dynamics.
