Civil Systems
CEAE's Amy Javernick-Will received the Pathfinder Award for her research improving disaster response in resource-limited communities.
Professor Abbie Liel's work focuses on finding new ways to design and assess structures to withstand extreme conditions, aiming to make them safer and more sustainable.
CEAE Professors Edith Zagona and Joseph Kasprzyk were interviewed by the Washington Post on CU Boulder's Colorado River forecasting tools.
Professor Evan Thomas is leading a CEAE team that, along with others, won a $160 million,10-year NSF Colorado-Wyoming Climate Resilience Engine to develop and commercialize climate-resilient technologies for monitoring, mitigating and adapting to climate impacts across the region and country.
CEAE's Rajagopalan Balaji was elected an ASCE fellow, a prestigious honor awarded to only three percent of the organization's members.
Seventy-five percent of incarceration facilities in the state are vulnerable to climate-related hazards, such as wildfires, extreme heat, floods or landslides, and many are ill-equipped to handle them, new research by Geotechnical Engineering Professor Shideh Dashti suggests.
CEAE researchers Edie Zagona and Joseph Kasprzyk met with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation commissioner on Colorado River modeling tools.
CEAE Professor Karl Linden became the department's new chair in January, succeeding interim chair Rich Regueiro at CU Boulder.
In this American Society of Civil Engineers article, Assistant Research Professor Brad Wham talks about the steps water utilities can take to protect their infrastructure from wildfires.