Ph.D. THESES
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Name |
Title of Dissertation |
Date |
| Nick Fang | A Dynamic Hydraulic Floodplain Map Prediction Tool for Flootd Alert in a Coastal Urban Watershed Considering Storm Surge Issues | May 2007 |
| Eliza Tsui | Performance of Nanostructured Metal Oxan Derived Ceramic Membranes for Fuel Cell Applications | May 2007 |
| Heather Shipley | Magnetite Nanoparticles for Removal of Arsenic from Drinking Water | April 2007 |
| Natalie Capiro | Evaluation of Fuel Ethanol Releases in a Pilog-Scale Aquifer Tank: Source Dynamics, NAPL Migration and Microbial Community Response | December 2006 |
| Rebecca Daprato | Population Dynamics of Tetrachloroethene Dechlorinating Consortia for Surfactant and Bioaugmenttion Remediation Applications | October 2006 |
| John Fortner | C60 in Water: Aggregation Characterization, Reactivity and Behavior | October 2006 |
| Xuekun Cheng | Nanoparticles: Absorption and Desorption of Organic Contaminants, and Transport in Soil. | May 2006 |
| Prasad Dharp | Real-Time Structural Damage Detection Using Interaction Matrix Formuation and Observers | May 2006 |
| Birnur Guven | A comprehensive study of urban gaseous and particulate air pollution in Houston, TX: Source apportionment and the emissions inventory assessment | May 2006 |
| Zhiling Li | Methods for Real-time Actuator-Sensor-Failure and Structural Damage Detection | May 2006 |
| Eleftheria Safiolea | Evaluation of Relative Hydrologic Effects of Land Use Change and Subsidence Using Distributed Modeling | May 2006 |
| Zhiwei Yue | Atmospheric Organic Fine Particulate Matter in Houston: Composition, Seasonality and Source Apportionment | May 2006 |
| Karen Pickering | Photochemistry and Environmental Applications of Water-soluble Fullerene Compounds | April 2005 |
| Jude Benavides | Advanced Methods For Improving The Lead-Time And Accuracy Of A Flood Alert System In An Urban Watershed | November 2004 |
| LiLi Cong | Sorption/Desorption of Aesenic to Nanometer Scale Magnetite | September 2004 |
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Nadathur, Varadarajan |
Time-frequency methods for semiactive structural control and identification |
Jan. 2004 |
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Stephanie Glenn |
Groundwater Modeling using NEXRAD-Generated Data & MODFLOW: Evaluating the Parameters of Rainfall & Recharge in a GIS Framework |
June 2002 |
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Sahasrabudhe, Sanjay |
Semi-active control of independently variable stiffness and damping structural systems: Analytical and Experimental Study |
Nov. 2001 |
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Volodymyr Tarabara |
Collision Efficiency of Colloidal Particles & Morphology of Deposits: Implications for Membrane Filtration |
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Maria Fidalgo |
Characteristics of Ceramic Membranes Derived from Metal-Oxide Nano-Particles |
Jan. 2001 |
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Farrukh Ahmad |
The Reactivity of Partially Reduced Metabolites of 2,4,6-Trinitrotuluene in Natural Systems |
April 2001 |
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Jianjun (Alan) Xiao |
Mineral Nucleation and Inhibition |
May 2000 |
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Laine Vignona |
Sorption and Reactivity of 1,1,2,2 Tetrachloroethene |
April 2000 |
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Cynthia Schmidt Carr |
Characterization of Tetrachloroethene-Dechlorinating Bacteria & Investigation into Their Ability to Enhance Removal Rates of Tetrachloroethene - Containing Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids |
April 2000 |
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Erin Devitt Mackey |
Fouling of Ultrafiltration & Nanofiltration Membranes by Dissolved Organic Matter |
June 1999 |
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Manar El-Beshry |
Evaluating the Predictive Capabilities of a Three- Dimensional Simulator (Vent 3D) Against the Performance of a Field-Scale Sal Vapor Extraction Operation |
May 1999 |
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Charles Nelson Neale |
Impacts of Unsaturated Zone Reaeration on the Bioattenuation of Organic Contaminants in Groundwater Systems |
Dec. 1999 |
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Wei Chen |
Impact of Irreversible Sorption on Sediment Quality |
Sept. 1999 |
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Greg Characklis |
Characterization of Particle Metals and Water Quality in Urban Runoffs |
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Loren Hopkins |
A Hydrogeologic Database for Stochastic Groundwater Modeling with Hydrogeologic Environment Ð Specific Applications |
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Stephen Friedfeld |
The Temperature & Ionic Strength Dependence of Solubility Product Constant of Ferrous Phosphonate |
April 1997 |
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Sandeep Sethi |
Transient Permeate Flux Analysis, Cost Estimation & Design Optimization in Crossflow Membrane Filtration |
April 1997 |
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Jim Engler |
Investigation of Membrane Filtration In a Rotating Disk Geometry: Use of Computational Fluid Dynamics & Laboratory Evaluation |
May 1997 |
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Denise Beckles |
The Biodegradation Patterns of Mixtures of the Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Naphthalene, Acenaphthene, & Fluoranthene in Sediments |
May 1997 |
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Margaret Hunter |
Alkalinity & Phosphorate Studies for Scale Prediction and Prevention |
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| Karen Duston | Bacterial Attatchment and Transport Through Porous Media; The Effects of Bacterial Cell Characteristics | May 1995 |
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Maged Hamed |
Reliability-based Uncertainty Analysis of Groundwater Contaminant Transport & Remediation |
Aug. 1995 |
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Anthony J. Gerbino |
The Adsorption of Diethylenetriaminepenta (Methylenephosphoric Acid) on Clay and Metal Oxide Surfaces. |
April 1994 |
|
Shankararaman Chellam |
Fluid Mechanics and Particle Transport in a Channel with One Porous Wall: Application to Membrane Filtration |
April 1991 |
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Srinivas Veerapaneni |
Filtration of Polydisperse Suspensions |
April 1991 |
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| Magnetite Nanoparticles for Removal of Arsenic from Drinking Water | April 2007 |



