CEE graduate students Casey Finnerty and Gabriel Lobo were selected to attend Tsinghua University's  first Student Forum on Climate Change.  

Based on essays submitted by students from the 12 universities that form the Global Alliance of Universities on Climate (GAUC),Tsinghua selected (through a blind two-stage referee process) these two students.

Results from the Oliver Wyman Forum’s inaugural Urban Mobility Readiness Index: How Cities Rank on Mobility Ecosystem Development  — a joint research effort with the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) at the University of California, Berkeley — were unveiled at the Oliver Wyman Forum: Data-driven Coalitions for Smart Mobility in Paris Nov. 26-27, 2019.

The NHERI SimCenter will host a workshop, “Simulation and Data Needs to Support Disaster Recovery Planning,” to engage stakeholders, users, and researchers to exchange ideas about simulation tools, data, and results needed for regional risk assessments. The workshop is on Jan. 30-31, 2020, 8:30-5:30 at UC Berkeley.

Jonathan Bray, Faculty Chair in Earthquake Engineering Excellence, delivered the 1^st Geotechnical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series at the University of Nevada Reno on Nov. 22, 2019.

He spoke on "Estimating Liquefaction-Induced Building Settlement." (see flyer pdf)
 

Professor Ashok Gadgil and his research team have devised a novel way to protect the millions of people who at risk from water pipes that leach lead.

The team found that when a low voltage power source, about 1V, is connected to a lead pipe filled with a harmless phosphate solution and to a conductive wire within the pipe, an insoluble lead phosphate layer rapidly forms on the inside surfaces of the pipe.

CEE PhD student Jes Parker, working in the lab of Professor Steve Glaser, is part of a team that is taking research on uneven areas on a fault (asperities) to a new level, studying fault mechanics at the nanoscale.

See At Fault (Berkeley Engineering, 10.25.19)

CEE alumna Barbara Simpson (CEE PhD 2018) is the principal investigator on a research project to be funded by a $1.25M grant from the US Department of Energy. 

The research team will simulate the combined and complex effects of wind and wave forces on turbines by conducting physical experiments and numerical models.

Dr. Barbara Simpson is an assistant professor of structural engineering at Oregon State University.

Professor James Rector provided geophysics expertise in an interview with KTVU News regarding Governor Gavin Newsom's recent moratorium on fracking projects in the state of California.

On Nov. 19, 2019 the Governor stopped the approval of new hydraulic fracturing in the state until the permits for those projects can be reviewed by an independent panel of scientists.
 

Watch interview.