R. Edward Beighley
Professor & Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies,
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Affiliated Faculty,
Marine and Environmental Sciences
Office
- 427 Snell Engineering Center
- 617.373.3368
Research Focus
Hydrologic and hydraulic modeling; remote sensing of the hydrologic cycle; hydrologic impacts of climate and/or land use change; flood hazard and risk assessment
Education
- Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, 2001
- M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 1996
- B.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 1995
Honors & Awards
- 2017 COE Faculty Fellow
- 2014 selected as U.S. Hydrology Applications Lead for the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Satellite Mission
- 2013 Team Award for advancing worldwide understand of flood hazards, FM Global, Research Division
- 2009 San Diego State University President’s Top-25 Award for excellent contributions to the University
- 2006 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, New Investigator Award in Earth-Sun System Science
Professional Affiliations
- American Geophysical Union
- American Society of Civil Engineers
- Environmental and Water Resources Institute
Research Overview
Hydrologic and hydraulic modeling; remote sensing of the hydrologic cycle; hydrologic impacts of climate and/or land use change; flood hazard and risk assessment
Selected Research Projects
- Integrating Lateral Contributions and Longitudinal Controls Along River Reaches to Improve SWOT Discharge Estimates
- – Principal Investigator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, SWOT Science Team
- Integration of SWOT Measurements into Global Hydrologic Models
- – Co-Principal Investigator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, SWOT Science Team
- Collaborative Research: Re-evaluating Precipitation Extremes and Flood Hazard in the Wake of
Hurricane Harvey- – Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- D. Kim, H. Yu, H. Lee, E. Beighley, M. Durand, D.E. Alsdorf, E. Hwang, Ensemble Learning Regression for Estimating River Discharges using Satellite Altimetry Data: Central Congo River as a Test-Bed, Remote Sensing of Environment, 221, 2019, 741-755
- J. McCollum, R.E Beighley, Flood Frequency Hydrology with Limited Data for the Weser River Basin, Germany, ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 24(3), 2019
- R. Frasson, T. Pavelsky, M. Fonstad, M. Durand, G. Allen, G. Schumann, C. Lion, R.E. Beighley, X. Yang
Global Relationships Between River Width, Slope, Catchment Area, Meander Wavelength, Sinuosity, and Discharge, Geophysical Research Letters, 2019 - Y. Feng, E. Beighley, R. Raoufi, J. Melack, Y. Zhao, S. Iacobellis, D. Cayan, Propagation of Future Climate Conditions into Hydrologic Response from Coastal Southern California Watersheds, Climatic Change, 153(1-2), 2019, 199-218
Jul 20, 2020
Floating Wetlands: Cleaning Up the Charles River
CEE PhD student Max Rome, his advisor Professor Ed Beighley, and the Charles River Conservancy created about 700 square feet of man-made wetland floats near the Longfellow Bridge to provide shelter to algae-eating zooplankton which can prevent algae bloom.
May 07, 2019
CEE PhD Students Receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Two Northeastern Civil and Environmental Engineering PhD students, Cassandra Nickles and Katherine Vilardi, received 2019 Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF). This highly prestigious and selective program has historically awarded only 10% of applicants. According to the NSF, “Fellows are anticipated to become knowledge experts who can contribute significantly to research, teaching, and innovations […]
Apr 29, 2019
Faculty and Staff Awards 2019
Congratulations to all the winners of the faculty and staff awards, and to everyone for their hard work and dedication during the 2018-2019 academic school year. See Photo Gallery Faculty Fellow Matthew Eckelman, CEE Yongmin Liu, MIE Outstanding Teacher of First Year Engineering Students Joseph Depasquale, Chemistry Brian O’Connell, FYE Sumi Seo, Mathematics Matthew Webber, […]
Dec 06, 2018
Improving an Integral Boston Feature – The Charles River
Max Rome, PhD in Civil Engineering ’21, recently led a team of four who were awarded a grant from the inaugural Sasaki Foundation Design Awards.
Jan 25, 2018
College of Engineering Establishes New Major
The new Environmental Engineering major offered in Civil and Environmental Engineering was highlighted in The Huntington News article College of Engineering establishes new major.
May 03, 2017
Faculty and Staff Awards 2017
Congratulations to all the winners of the faculty and staff awards, and to everyone for their hard work and dedication during the 2016-2017 academic school year. Faculty Fellow Edward Beighley, CEE Yun Raymond Fu, ECE Tommaso Melodia, ECE Rising Star Staff Award Erin Schnepp, Undergraduate Academic Advising Carolina Venegas-Martinez, CEE Outstanding Teachers of First Year […]
Mar 30, 2017
2017 COE Faculty Fellows
Congratulations to this year’s class of COE Faculty Fellows: Ed Beighley, Raymond Fu, and Tommaso Melodia.
Aug 18, 2016
Beighley Awarded $651K NASA Grant
CEE Associate Professor Edward Beighley receives a $651K NASA grant for "Integrating lateral contributions and longitudinal controls along river reaches to improve SWOT discharge estimates".
Mar 20, 2014
Congratulations to recipients of the FY15 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants
19 COE faculty were recipients of FY15 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 11 different projects representing over $500K dollars of investment in research.
Aug 01, 2013
New Faculty Spotlight: Edward Beighley
Edward Beighley joins the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Fall 2013 semester as an Associate Professor. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Maryland, where he focused on quantifying the hydrologic […]