Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE)
Raymond Chiao is a professor jointly in the UC Merced schools of Natural Sciences and Engineering. Previously, he was a professor for 38 years at UC Berkeley, where he earned international acclaim (including the Willis E. Lamb Medal and the Einstein Prize for Laser Science) studying nonlinear and quantum optics. At UC Merced, is pursuing a new line of groundbreaking research on gravitational radiation.
Associate Teaching Professor
COB 365
- Snow science
- Mountain hydrology
- Water resources
- Sensor networks
- Remote sensing
- Climate change
- Hydrology
- Snow and ice hydrochemistry
- Climate impacts on water resources
- Climate changes over polar ice sheets
Director, UC Solar
- Solar power and renewable energy
- Elementary particle physics
- Non-imaging optics
- Climate Change and Water Sustainability
- Climate Change and Hydrologic Extremes
- Watershed and Regional Scale Hydrologic Modeling
- Water Resources Sensitivity and Scenario Analysis
- Role of Vegetation Dynamics on Future Water Resources under Climate Change
- Agriculture and Forest Management Options for Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainability
- Application of Remote Sensing and LiDAR in Hydrologic Modeling and Natural Resources Evaluation and Management
Using a wide range of analytical methods (infra-red spectroscopy, electron microsocpy, x-ray absorption spectroscopy and mass spectroscopy), Professor Traina's group studies:
- Chemical transformations of pollutants in soils, surface and ground water
- Linkages between chemical form or speciation of particular pollutants and their relative toxicities in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems
- Roles of geoparticle surfaces and bacteria in pollutant fate
Current projects include the study of:
- Contaminants at Department of Energy waste sites (Cr, Pu and U)
- Role of Fe(II) and HSe- in transformations of nitroaromatic pesticides in wetlands
- Fate of pharmaceuticals in the surface waters of National Parks
- Contaminant transport in aquatic systems
- Soil and groundwater remediation
- Development and use of environmental sensors
- Air pollution engineering and science
- Release, transport, transformation, and fate of environmental air pollutants
- Impact of air pollutants in urban, rural and remote areas
- Chemistry and dynamics of organic and inorganic pollutants
- Stationary and mobile emission characterization and source marker determination
- Indoor air quality
- Air pollution dispersion modeling
- Global pollution and climate change
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