Jamie Leonard Featured: Bruin Engineer Makes Waves Researching Microplastics in LA River
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom Jamie Leonard ’20, M.S. ’21 started working to mitigate plastic pollution in high school, taking part in an initiative to replace her school’s plastic water bottles with metal ones. Now a UCLA Ph.D. student, she has her eye on microplastics —...
UCLA Institute for Carbon Management and Equatic to Build the World’s Largest Ocean-Based Carbon Removal Plant in Singapore
UCLA Samueli Newsroom Following the successful launch and operation of two pilots in Los Angeles and Singapore last spring, UCLA and its startup Equatic are scaling up for the next phase: a $20 million full-scale demonstration plant (“Equatic-1”) supported by...
Team led by UCLA CEE Professor Yousef Bozorgnia Awarded $3 Million Research Grant By CEC
UCLA civil and environmental engineering professor and Natural Hazards Risk and Resiliency Research Center (NHR3) director Yousef Bozorgnia heads a research project that was just awarded a $3 million contract by the California Energy Commission (CEC). The...
UCLA Graduate Student-Led Study Featured by JPL/NASA
Photo courtesy of I. Callejas A study entitled, “A GEE toolkit for water quality monitoring from 2002 to 2022 in support of SDG 14 and coral health in marine protected areas in Belize,” was featured on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)/ National Aeronautics and...
Professor Mekonnen Gebremichael Leads Water Research in East Africa
Photo courtesy of H. Gunther Water management practices are a key topic of interest for Mekonnen Gebremichael, a professor of the civil and environmental engineering department at UCLA. Curious as to how these practices vary from country to country, principal...
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. Student Published in Leading Journal
Photo courtesy of J. Stewart Timothy O'Donnell, a Ph.D. student advised by professor Jonathan Stewart, was part of a Lebanon-US team that investigated the impacts of the 2020 Beirut explosion on infrastructure within Beirut. Working with collaborators at the...
Study Led by UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Student Featured by NASA
In their article “California Fire Led to Spike in Bacteria, Cloudiness in Coastal Waters,” the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory highlights a new study led by a UCLA civil and environmental engineering student. The “eye-opening” study is led by Marisol Cira, a Ph.D....
C&EE Professor Scott Brandenberg Featured in Article on Levee Risk Assessment in the Delta
C&EE Professor Scott Brandenberg is featured in Robin Meadow's piece, Feature: First Field-based Assessment of Levee Risk in the Delta. In the article, Professor Brandenberg offers knowledge about the levee that surrounds Bacon Island in the central Sacramento-San...
C&EE PhD Student Studies Water Quality in Belize
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Ileana Callejas ’18, M.S. ’19 kept busy studying how the sudden drop in tourism was affecting the waters off the coast of Belize. Callejas is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in environmental engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of...