Department of Civil, Geological, and Environmental Engineering (CGEE)
Srijan Aggarwal
Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering | Water Environmental Research Center
ELIF 360
Research Interests:
- environmental engineering
- water and wastewater treatment systems
- biofilm mechanical properties and processes
- chemical herders for oil spill response
- air quality
Il-Sang Ahn
Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Duck 265
Research Interests:
- dynamic ratchetting in elastic-plastic materials
- application of nonlinear dynamics to earthquake engineering
- civil applications of Tire Derived Aggregate (TDA)
- long-term characteristics of concrete at cold temperatures
- thermo-mechanical behavior of lunar regolith under temperature cycling
David Barnes
Professor | Associate Dean, Research | Interim INE Director
Civil and Environmental Engineering | Institute of Northern Engineering
Duck 263
Research Interests:
- immiscible fluids in porous media
- contaminants in Freezing and Frozen Ground
- movement and fate of radionuclides and heavy metals in the environment
- contaminant hydrogeology
- contaminated soil and groundwater restoration
- water quality
- waste management and treatment
Nathan Belz
Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering | Alaska University Transportation Center
ELIF 128
Research Interests:
- driver behavior and traffic safety and operations
- roundabouts
- developing transportation solutions for rural areas
- applications of GIS in civil engineering
Margaret Darrow
Professor | Department Chair
Geological Engineering
ELIF 364
Research Interest:
- behavior of unfrozen water in frozen soils
- frost heaving
- soil physics
- slope stability in frozen ground
- thermal analysis of engineered structures over frozen ground
Augusto Cannone Falchetto
Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
ELIF 132
Research Interests:
- characterization and modeling of asphalt materials
- asphalt and waste materials recycling
- low temperature behavior of asphalt materials
Shishay Kidanu
Assistant Professor
Geological Engineering
Duck 309
Research Interests:
- engineering and environmental geophysics
- geophysics for mineral exploration
- GIS and remote sensing applications in geohazard analysis
- GIS-based multivariate geospatial analysis
Debasmita Misra
Professor
Geological Engineering | Water Environmental Research Center
Duck 307
Research Interests:
- geohydrology and geoenvironmental engineering
- ground water mechanics
- multiphase flow and transport in porous media
- reservoir characterization
- geostatistical analysis and inverse Modeling
- application of GIS to engineering and management
- remote sensing
- thermodynamics and heat transfer
Robert Perkins
Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Duck 253
Research Interests:
- oil spill-related engineering and ecological risk analysis
- toxicity of chemicals to marine species
- risk assessments, human health, and ecological effects in extreme environments
- risk communications and public acceptance of environmental and engineering projects
- practical project management and training
- transportation safety data
Jill Riddle
Office Manager
Department of Civil, Geological, and Environmental Engineering | Department of Mining and Mineral Engineering
Silke Schiewer
Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering | Water Environmental Research Center
Duck 269
Research Interests:
- innovative wastewater treatment
- biosorption processes for the removal of heavy metals from wastewater
- wastewater treatment using membrane-bioreactors
- membrane filtration processes for drinking water production
- fate of contaminants in the environment
- bioremediation of soils contaminated with hydrocarbons
Yuri Shur
Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering | Water Environmental Research Center
Duck 237
Research Interests:
- permafrost and ground ice
- permafrost related hazards
- thermal interaction of structures with permafrost
- design alternatives for buildings and pipelines in permafrost region
Svetlana Stuefer
Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering | Water Environmental Research Center
ELIF 362
Research Interests:
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cold region hydrology and water resources
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field measurements and modeling
-
seasonal snow cover and ice
-
streamflow
- precipitation
Horacio Toniolo
Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering | Water Environmental Research Center
Duck 259
Research Interests:
- sediment transport in rivers
- hydrology and hydraulics in cold regions
- river morphology
- reservoir sedimentation
- water use in cold regions
- turbidity currents
Emeriti
Leroy Hulsey
Professor Emeritus, Civil Engineering
Duck 243B
Research Interests:
- bridge engineering
- effects of temperature extremes on structural systems
Douglas Kane
Professor Emeritus, Civil Engineering
Research Interests:
- Groundwater hydrology
- snow hydrology, hydraulics
- water resources engineering
- cold regions hydrology
- fish hydraulics
- heat transfer
- climate change