Water Resources and Ecological Engineering - generating design by integrating monitoring, modeling, and management.
Dr. Ted Endreny, P.H., P.E.
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Office: 423 Baker Labs, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, NY 13210, 1+(315)470-6565, te@esf.edu
Nov 09: Jim Hassett's Hydrology and Hydraulics Lab is dedicated - so donate a few thousand to further the field in fluids and philosophy! As our students utilize the lab, Yang Yang is creating models to predict fluid transport and evaporation spatial heterogeneity in urban environments..
Oct 09: Welcome Water Year 2010! Our S6 MKII flume is flowing strong, and the River Table has a new groundwater drainage system attached. Mark Fabian and I have been fascinated with the scaling work on effective diffusion by O'Connor and Harvey, applying this to the Honduran Buena Vista reach. Tian Zhou has been representing flow wake zones and eddies in our meander bend, while Bangshuai Han is using MODFLOW and field data to examine river-groundwater interactions at meanders..
Sep 09: River Classification has a hard working group of students, demonstrating rigor in the field, and care with their weekly schedule of river measurements at Baltimore Brook. The Engineering Graduate students have created impressive professional websites and are enrolled in e-alerts for their peer-reviewed journals. Get ready for the 2010 Water Year!.
Jul-Aug 09: The hydraulics laboratory and sediment circulating flume have been updated with new features to advance our research. Exciting results of hydraulic jump at restoration structures and the impact on hyporheic exchange flow was completed using HEC-RAS, MODFLOW, and MODPATH, with help from Cameron Ackerman at USACoE and Richard Winston at USGS and his ModelMUSE..
Jun 09: Our proposal with Drs. Lautz and McGrath to examine the impacts of stream restoration on hyporheic exchange hydrology, chemistry, and macro-invertebrates has been funded by NSF. Grad students Mark Fabian, Tian Zhou and Yang Yang returned with excitement from conversation and exchange at the AGU Joint Assembly. Our Armfield flume has had its sand fully removed by Youl Han, and will be rehabilitated next month..
May 09: We've returned to the field with surveys of Labrador Creek meanders and the associated hydraulic gradients! Heading to the Binghamton Watershed Workshop and then AGU in Toronto. Amazed by the spring snowmelt damage of the Parshall flume and meander cutoffat Dr. Lautz Red Canyon Creek site.
Apr 09: At the Student Awards Banquet on April 18, the Distinguished Teacher Award, was "presented to Ted Endreny by the student body in appreciation for the outstanding service to the students of SUNY ESF". This is an award coordinated by the ESF Undergraduate Student Association, and was delivered by the Awards Committee Chair, Ms. Wu, and incoming USA President, Ms. Klate. My gratitude to ESF for advertising, "Choose your classroom", SUNY for challenging me to design the ecological engineering course in Honduras, fellow educators for demonstrating models in service learning, and ESF students for honest and compassionate mentoring.
Apr 09: Attention to the New Baker 106 Lab Space: Students and flume captured in recent Flume Video (Endreny hopeful of acting tips following this video debut, filmed by ESF News & Pubs). More news ... ESF Flume and related hydrology and hydraulics research featured in Armfield Fact File
Mar 09: Check out photos from our trip to Honduras, where Fito Steiner coordinated our establishing a nursery for the Honduran Emerald and its key habitat of the Very Dry Tropical Forest, we donated clothes to remote villages, and cleaned quintessential stretches of Caribbean beach.
Mar 09: Tian, Mark, Bangshuai, and Yang submitted abstracts to the spring AGU meeting in Toronto, on our watershed and river restoration work. Our ESF Chapter of Engineers without Borders and our ESF class of Ecological Engineering in the Tropics are researching Honduran water supplies and traveling in Honduras over Spring Break. Papers on Red Canyon Creek hydraulics and Spafford Creek nutrient fluxes are in preparation.
Feb 09: A water resources assessment of Cypriot qanat restoration was published by Ted Endreny and Dr. Gokcekus in Environmental Geology this month, and Mark Fabian is coordinating laboratory river table and flume experiments by undergraduates in Engineering Hydrology and Hydraulics (FEG340) while generating exciting analysis of his Honduras field data.
Jan 09: New results from our River Table experiments indicate river meander cut-offs involve a break in slope of the riparian groundwater table. We are working to gather more research funding to pursue these exciting results.
Dec 08: Weather is now recorded with our Campbell sensors and data logger from the 1st floor roof of Walters Hall, thanks to a collective effort from Physical Plant, graduate students, and Computer and Network Services.
Nov 08: Tian Zhou has FLOW3D and Fluent CFD models simulating meander bend hydraulics. Testing with total station survey for Spafford Creek.
Nov 08: Laura Lautz coordinates us in NSF EAR hyporheic exchange flow proposal. Integrating chemistry signals with hydraulics and macroinvertebrate health at restoration sites and in-channel structures.
Oct-Nov 08: Syracuse Center of Excellence requests our guidance on detecting ecological impacts of Flexi Pave for watershed restoration in Syracuse's Near West Side. Dr. I. Gitsov leading the laboratory tests of breakdown in atmospheric rain conditions, Dr. Jungho Im leading spectral radiometric tests of difference with asphalt, and Dr. Lindi Quackenbush testing for changes in connected impervious area.
Oct 08: Jill Crispell's paper on HEF in press at Hydrological Processes and our Green Infrastructure for Stormwater Investigation published in the journal Ecological Engineering