Eric Jing Du, Ph.D., an associate professor of civil and coastal engineering within the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment, received an award from NASA’s Human Research Program to investigate teleoperation robot delays. NASA reports there are perceivable delays… Read More
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New Study Shifts the Focus to the Tropics on Ocean Deoxygenation
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A paper recently published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution (TREE) suggests a new approach is needed to study the depletion of oxygen in the ocean. The paper describes a need to shift our focus from temperate… Read More
UF NHERI Receives a Five-Year, $4.5 Million NSF Grant to Continue Wind Hazard Research and Expand K-12 Training Programs
Researchers in the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment (ESSIE) in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida received a $4.5 million cooperative agreement from the National Science Foundation (NSF). This funding is a renewal… Read More
Efficiently Disassembling End-of-Use Products
Sara Behdad, Ph.D., an associate professor of environmental engineering sciences within the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment (ESSIE), received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create human-robot collaboration (HRC) and improve the disassembly of… Read More
Major grant launches new project to advance global soil science
This article was written by Miles Grant and originally published on the Woodwell Climate Research Center website. Kathe Todd-Brown, Ph.D., an assistant professor of environmental engineering sciences, and her team will try to increase the availability of high quality data and… Read More
HaptX, Researchers To Build Full Body Exoskeleton
University of Florida researchers win grant to detect red tide toxins in air
This article was written by Karl Schneider and originally published on the Naples Daily News website. Myoseon Jang, Ph.D., an associate professor of environmental engineering sciences, and her team discovered that toxins in algal aerosol can be rapidly transformed in the… Read More
New Faculty Hires
The Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment (ESSIE) is excited to welcome four new faculty members. Sara Behdad, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences Dr. Behdad received her doctorate in Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering from the… Read More
Air-Tight Test: How a UF Duo Learned To Sample Aerosols For Viruses
Improving coastal restoration by temporarily imitating nature
This article was written by Radboud University and originally published on the ru.nl website. Christine Angelini, Ph.D., an associate professor of environmental engineering sciences, worked with a talented, international team to boost marsh and seagrass restoration success by mimicking emergent traits… Read More