Rice Unconventional Wisdom

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Ph.D. THESES

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

Nadathur, Varadarajan

Time-frequency methods for semiactive structural control and identification

Jan. 2004

Stephanie Glenn

Groundwater Modeling using NEXRAD-Generated Data & MODFLOW: Evaluating the Parameters of Rainfall & Recharge in a GIS Framework

June 2002

Sahasrabudhe, Sanjay

Semi-active control of independently variable stiffness and damping structural systems: Analytical and Experimental Study

Nov. 2001

Volodymyr Tarabara

Collision Efficiency of Colloidal Particles & Morphology of Deposits: Implications for Membrane Filtration

Maria Fidalgo

Characteristics of Ceramic Membranes Derived from Metal-Oxide Nano-Particles

Jan. 2001

Farrukh Ahmad

The Reactivity of Partially Reduced Metabolites of 2,4,6-Trinitrotuluene in Natural Systems

April 2001

Jianjun (Alan) Xiao

Mineral Nucleation and Inhibition

May 2000

Laine Vignona

Sorption and Reactivity of 1,1,2,2 Tetrachloroethene

April 2000

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

Erin Devitt Mackey

Fouling of Ultrafiltration & Nanofiltration Membranes by Dissolved Organic Matter

June 1999

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

Charles Nelson Neale

Impacts of Unsaturated Zone Reaeration on the Bioattenuation of Organic Contaminants in Groundwater Systems

Dec. 1999

Wei Chen

Impact of Irreversible Sorption on Sediment Quality

Sept. 1999

Greg Characklis

Characterization of Particle Metals and Water Quality in Urban Runoffs

Loren Hopkins

A Hydrogeologic Database for Stochastic Groundwater Modeling with Hydrogeologic Environment Ð Specific Applications

Stephen Friedfeld

The Temperature & Ionic Strength Dependence of Solubility Product Constant of Ferrous Phosphonate

April 1997

Sandeep Sethi

Transient Permeate Flux Analysis, Cost Estimation & Design Optimization in Crossflow Membrane Filtration

April 1997

Jim Engler

Investigation of Membrane Filtration In a Rotating Disk Geometry: Use of Computational Fluid Dynamics & Laboratory Evaluation

May 1997

Denise Beckles

The Biodegradation Patterns of Mixtures of the Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Naphthalene, Acenaphthene, & Fluoranthene in Sediments

May

1997

Margaret Hunter

Alkalinity & Phosphorate Studies for Scale Prediction and Prevention

Karen Duston Bacterial Attatchment and Transport Through Porous Media;  The Effects of Bacterial Cell Characteristics May 1995

Maged Hamed

Reliability-based Uncertainty Analysis of Groundwater Contaminant Transport & Remediation

Aug. 1995

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

Srinivas Veerapaneni

Filtration of Polydisperse Suspensions

April 1991

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  Magnetite Nanoparticles for Removal of Arsenic  from Drinking Water April 2007