The Fall 2016 Civil and Environmental Engineering department newsletter is now available! Read here: https://www.cee.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/cee/2016-Fall-Newsletter.pdf
Meng Wang, Ph.D. Candidate in Assoc. Prof. Shaily Mahendra’s group, was recently awarded the 2016 Second Place MWH/AEESP Master’s Thesis Awards for his work on “Peroxidase Enzymes Packaged in Vaults as an Innovative Bioremediation Technology”. The...
Alexandra Polasko started at UCLA in Fall 2015 as a Ph.D student in Environmental Engineering under faculty advisor Dr. Shaily Mahendra. Recently Alexandra won the New England Biolabs Passion in Science 2016 award for the Environmental Stewardship category. The...
The chair of the UCLA civil and environmental engineering department is leading a U.S. team traveling to Italy this weekend to work with Italian scientists on research into the destructive earthquakes that hit in August. Jonathan P. Stewart, professor in the UCLA...
Saturday, October 6, 2018 The Rose Bowl, Pasadena Washington Huskies vs. UCLA Bruins The Annual UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Tailgate is coming up [...]
Towards Improved Hydrologic Forecasting and Hydropower Planning In Data-Scarce Regions Using Remote Sensing Akash Koppa Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, UCLA Tuesday, October 23, 12pm [...]
Save the date for our upcoming events! Annual Fall Conference will be October 22-25, 2018 at The Westin Mission Hills in Rancho Mirage, CA. #SUSTAINABILITY! 2 UCLA [...]
The title of my talk directly addresses one of the top four objectives for hydrology, “Quantify rates of snow accumulation, snowmelt, ice melt, and sublimation from snow and ice worldwide at scales driven by topographic variability.” Remote sensing of snow water equivalent has posed a difficult problem for four decades, so perhaps a more likely approach will be through measurement of depth and modeling of snow density.
