Landmark Research Area - Institute for Sustainability Science and Engineering (ISSE)
This web site serves as a focal point for planning for a landmark research areas in sustainbility science and engineering. A planning group has been assembled that will represent the interests of a much broader array of faculty and researchers in the Colleges of Engineering, Geosciences, Architecture, Liberal Arts, amnd Science and the Bush School. Interested parties are asked to use these people as points of contact to communicate with the planning group. For more detail.............
SECTIONS OF THE PROPOSAL - Template; Merit and Impact; Multidisciplinarity; Synergies; Critical Mass; Space; Justification; Cost; Participants; CV's; Resources; and Bibliography
Extended Planning Group
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Mahlon "Chuck" Kennicutt II, Office of the Vice President for Research, Director of the Sustainable Development Program and Department of Oceanography; m-kennicutt@tamu.edu
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Chris Houser, Assitant Professor, Department of Geography; chouser@geog.tamu.edu
- Walter Peacock, Interim Executive Associate Dean; Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning; peacock@archone.tamu.edu
- Samuel Brody, Associate Professor Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Acting Director of Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center; sbrody@archone.tamu.edu
DWIGHT LOOK COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
- David Rosowsky, Professor and Department Head, Department of Civil Engineering - rosowsky@tamu.edu or drosowsky@civil.tamu.edu - Structural reliability, performance of wood structural systems subject to natural hazards loading, stochastic modeling of structural and environmental loads, probability-based codified design
EXPANDED GROUP - INVITATIONS EXTENDED
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Robin Autenreith, Professor, Environmental & Water Resources Engineering, Civil Engineering rautenrieth@civil.tamu.edu - Biological processes: water treatment, biodegradation and bioremediation of selected xenobiotic compounds, military wastes and petroleum products, bioavailability of contaminents in aqueous and soil environments.
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James Kaihatu, Assistant Professor, Coastal & Ocean Engineering, Civil Engineering jkaihatu@civil.tamu.edu - Ocean wave propagation; Nearshore nonlinear wave dynamics; Breaking waves; Nearshore circulation; Cohesive sediments; Data assimilation
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Francisco Olivera, Associate Professor, Environmental & Water Resources Engineering, Civil Engineering, folivera@civil.tamu.edu Application of geographic information systems (GIS) to water resources engineering.
BUSH SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICE
- Arnie Vedlitz, Director, Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy; avedlitz@bushschool.tamu.edu
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSTIY GALVESTON
- William Seitz, Associate Vice President for Research; seitz@tamug.edu
- Antonietta Quigg, Associaste Profresor, Department of Marine Biolog; quigga@tamug.edu
- Anna Armitage, Assistant Professor, Department of Marine Biology; armitaga@tamug.edu
OTHER PROGRAMS INVITED TO JOIN
- Center for Atmospheric Chemistry and the Environment (CACE)
- Land Mark - Texas A&M Renewable Energy Center, Hongcai Zhou, Chemistry
- Land Mark - Center for Uncertainty Quantification and Predictive Sciences Contact: Bani K. Mallick (bmallick@stat.tamu.edu)
SECTIONS OF THE PROPOSAL - TEMPLATE; Merit and Impact; Multidisicplinarity; Synergies; Critical Mass; Space; Justification; Cost; Participants; CV's; Resources; and Bibliography