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How Hurricane Helene Devastated Western North Carolina
CEE Distinguished Professor Auroop Ganguly and MES/CEE Associate Professor Samuel Muñoz explain how the devastating effects of Hurricane Helene reached parts of western North Carolina, an area ordinarily unaffected by extreme weather patterns.
Here’s Why Salt Water Is Invading the Mississippi and Whether It Will Happen More Often
MES/CEE Associate Professor Samuel Munoz was featured in the Scientific American article “Here’s Why Salt Water Is Invading the Mississippi and Whether It Will Happen More Often.”
How Low-Flow Events Are Affecting the Mississippi River
MES/CEE Associate Professor Samuel Muñoz’s research on “Mississippi River Low-Flows: Context, Causes, and Future Projections” was published in Environmental Research: Climate.
Predicting River Floods in New England
MES/CEE Associate Professor Samuel Muñoz is using satellite imagery and AI to develop a predictive model for river flooding in New England.
NSF CAREER Award To Improve Flood Hazard Assessments
MES/CEE Assistant Professor Samuel Muñoz received a $718,000 NSF CAREER Award for “Sedimentary Signatures of Large Riverine Floods To Constrain Risk and Build Resiliency.”
Atmospheric Rivers Can Lead to Massive Flooding and Deaths
MES/CEE Assistant Professor Samuel Munoz and CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly explain how atmospheric rivers can lead to devastating floods.
Are Volcanoes Impacted by Climate Change? Or Is It the Other Way Around?
MES/CEE Assistant Professor Samuel Munoz was featured in the Phys.org article “Are Volcanoes Impacted by Climate Change? Or Is It the Other Way Around?“
Using Natural Barriers To Help Prevent Flooding
For those areas devastated by Hurricane Ian, Northeastern experts encourage residents to build in natural buffers to protect against flooding when rebuilding.
Record Temperatures Impacting Health and Infrastructure
CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly and MES/CEE Assistant Professor Samuel Munoz have been predicting that climate change would lead to record-breaking temperatures that would affect people’s health and dangerous environmental conditions.
Investigating the Accumulation of Microplastics in the Environment
MES/CEE Assistant Professor Samuel Munoz, CEE Professor Edward Beighley, and MES/COS/CEE Professor Aron Stubbins were awarded a $530K NSF grant for “Evaluating Patterns and Controls on Microplastic Accumulation in Floodplains.”
Exploring the Dangers of Microplastics
MES/CEE Assistant Professor Samuel Munoz and MES/COS/CEE Professor Aron Stubbins are exploring how microplastics are accumulating in areas such as floodplains. Microplastics are everywhere, but their dangers largely remain a […]
NSF Backs Study of Mississippi River’s Response to Climate Change
MES/CEE Assistant Professor Samuel Muñoz was featured in the EurekaAlert article “NSF backs study of Mississippi River’s response to climate change“.
Using State-of-the-Art Simulations to Determine Climate Effects on the Mississippi River
MES/CEE Assistant Professor Samuel Muñoz, in collaboration with Rice University, was awarded a $700K NSF grant for “Evaluating the Past and Future of Mississippi River Hydroclimatology to Constrain Risk via Integrated Climate Modeling, Observations, and Reconstructions.”
Stubbins and Munoz Published in Science for Plastics in the Earth System
A research paper, titled, “Plastics in the Earth System” by Associate Professor Aron Stubbins, MES/COS/CEE, and Assistant Professor Samuel E. Muñoz, MES/CEE, was published in the journal Science.
Designing Storm Strength Simulations to Predict and Mitigate Coastal Flooding
MES/CEE Assistant Professor Samuel Muñoz and CEE/MES Professor Qin Jim Chen, in collaboration with Jeffrey Donnelly from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, were awarded a $590K NSF grant for “Morphodynamic simulations of coastal storms and overwash to characterize back-barrier lake stratigraphies.”
Studying Core Samples to Learn About Climate Patterns
MES/CEE Assistant Professor Samuel Muñoz is using sediment cores collected from the bottom of water sources that have compacted over thousands of years to help predict the future of our climate.
Reassessing Flood Management After Historic Flooding in Midwest
COS/CEE Assistant Professor Samuel Munoz answers questions about the recent record-breaking flooding in the Midwest.
2018 GRI Seed Grant Awardees
Congratulations to the four COE teams out of eight total receiving 2018 Seed Grant funding from the Global Resilience Institute (GRI). The resilience project topics range from coastal flooding prediction […]
Determining Effect of Climate on Mississippi River Flooding
MES/CEE Assistant Professor Samuel Munoz will be leading a $595K NSF grant for “Extreme floods on the lower Mississippi River in the context of late Holocene climatic variability” in collaboration with Liviu Giosan and Jeffrey Donnelly from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Zhixiong Shen from Coastal Carolina University.
River Engineering of the Mississippi Might Lead to Severe Flooding
MES/CEE Assistant Professor Samuel Munoz is researching how the re-engineering of the Mississippi River to straighten and channelize it has had the unintended consequences of increasing the risk of severe flooding.
New Faculty Spotlight: Samuel Munoz
Samuel Munoz joins the Civil and Environmental Engineering department in September 2017 as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in Marine and Environmental Sciences.