Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE)
- Ecosystem climate solutions
- Water resources
- Hydrology
- Effect of climate changes on storage and stabilization of soil organic matter
- Nano-scale biogeochemistry of iron oxides
- Erosion and terrestrial carbon sequestration
- Political ecology of land degradation and ownership
- Surface Water Quality
- Lake and Reservoir Management
- Mercury Cycling in Aquatic Ecosystems
- Natural Treatment Systems
- Surface water/groundwater interactions
- Watershed hydrology
- Forest management/water interactions
- Natural tracers for water movement
- Stakeholder engagement
- K-12 environmental education
- Design optimization of deep foundations
- Anomalies in drilled shafts
- Soil-structure interaction
- AI-based optimized models for sustainable and improved concrete
- Effects of extreme environmental and load conditions on concrete structures
- Risk-based decision-making
- Renewable energy (solar, wind and geothermal)
- Bio-based fuels and water desalination
- Carbon management and sequestration
- Energy efficiency
- Pollution prevention, multiphase flow and process control
- Seismic safety of marine structures
- Seismic analysis of bridges in fault-rupture zones
- Use of supplemental damping to improve seismic behavior of structures
- Performance-based seismic engineering of buildings
- Earthquake analysis and design of plan-wise asymmetric buildings and bridges
- Base isolation and energy dissipation devices
- Experimental methods in structural dynamics
- Studies on nonlinear behavior of structures
- Contaminant transport in aquatic systems
- Soil and groundwater remediation
- Development and use of environmental sensors
- Water and food security/biodiversity/ecosystem services
- Geospatial analytics
- Hyperspectral and satellite remote sensing
- Sensor networks in inland and coastal waters and wetlands
- Disturbance & Global Change Hydrology
- Integrated Modeling
- Nature-Based Climate Solutions (NbS)
- Remote Sensing
- Climate Change
- Sustainable construction materials
- Concrete and advanced cementitious composites
- Carbon dioxide capture and mitigation of environmental pollutants using construction materials
- Proactive and multifunctional properties of construction materials
- Thermal energy storage and energy-efficient building envelopes
- Sustainability and Resilience of Urban and Infrastructure Systems
- Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
- Interconnected Social-Ecological-Technological Systems (SETS)
- Systems Thinking and Risk Analysis under Uncertainty
- Water and wastewater treatment, especially land-based treatment systems
- Hazardous waste site remediation
- Large scale hydro-economic modeling for water management and policy analysis
- Water management for agricultural, environmental and urban uses
- Agricultural production adaptation to drought and climate change
- Sustainable agroecosystems for water and food security
- Water informatics, consumptive water use in agriculture using remote sensing
- Impact analysis using partial and general equilibrium models
- Food-Energy-Water Systems (FEWS)
- Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA)
- Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) in developing communities
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Integration of Anthropology and Engineering
- Science Policy
- Applied climate in agriculture
- Snow science
- Mountain hydrology
- Water resources
- Sensor networks
- Remote sensing
- Climate change
- Chemical transformations of pollutants in soils, surface and ground water
- Agroecology and Conservation Agriculture Planning and Implementation
- Climatic and Hydrological Change Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Strategies
- Ecosystem Service and Biodiversity Inventory, Assessment, and Restoration
- Geospatial Technologies (Geographic Information Systems / Remote Sensing);
- Informatics; Database Design and Data Mining
- Water and Watershed Management; Water Footprinting
- Solar power and renewable energy
- Elementary particle physics
- Non-imaging optics
- Pedagogic research
- Forensic engineering education and dissemination
- Recruitment, Retention and graduation of first generation and economically disadvantaged students
- Advanced materials to improve sustainability and resilience of civil engineering constructed facilities
- Structural health monitoring
- Computational and analytical models to predict mechanical behavior of adaptive and advanced materials
- Structural component and system-level testing
