...design with theory, experiment, & analysis.

Dr. Ted Endreny, P.H., P.E.

Teaching
Mentoring

Professor, Department of Environmental Resources and Forest Engineering
Graduate Curriculum Coordinator and Operator of Engineering Hydraulics Lab
Trained in natural resources management, restoration, and water resources engineering.
Office: 423 Baker Labs, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, NY 13210, 1+(315)470-6565, te@esf.edu

Biographical Sketch: Ted's early experiences with water include creek walks with his family, fly fishing with his grandfather, and riparian wetland journeys with his dog. Ted received a B.S. in 1990 at Cornell University in Natural Resources, a M.S. in 1996 at North Carolina State University in Biological and Agricultural Engineering, and a Ph.D. in 1999 at Princeton University in Civil and Environmental Engineering. From 1990 to 1992 Ted served as a Peace Corps volunteer with the Honduran Forest Service working in the Capiro-Calentura National Park and Guaimoreto Lagoon Wildlife Reserve, and from 1992 to 1994 Ted worked as a research associate at the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, DC. Ted became a member of the SUNY ESF faculty in 1999, and was licensed as a Professional Engineer and Professional Hydrologist in 2002. Ted was trained by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in flood mitigation design in 2002 and by the Fish and Wildlife Service in fluvial geomorphological assessment and restoration in 2003. Ted teaches courses in Engineering Hydrology & Hydraulics, Ecological Engineering in the Tropics, River Form and Process, Open Channel Hydraulics, Hydro-Meteorology, and Graduate Research Methods, as well as provides regular graduate seminar series and guest lectures. Ted's research uses field instrumentation, laboratory hydraulic experiments, and computational modeling to examine coupled ecological-hydrological restoration of watershed and river systems, considering water quantity and quality. Support for this research has been awarded by agencies such as NSF, USDA, EPA, HUD, DoEd, and UNESCO. Awards and honors include: Cornell-Ford Foundation Undergraduate Research Scholarship (1989), Peace Corps Tropical Forestry Scholarship (1991), Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society (1996), Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society (1996), Xi Sigma Pi Forestry Honor Society (1996), EPA Graduate Fellowship (1995-1996), GTE Teaching Incentive Grant (1996-1999), NASA Graduate Student Research Scholarship (1997-1999), NSF/Carnegie Mellon Engineering Education Scholar (2000), SUNY Chancellor's Internationalization Award (2004), Fulbright Commission Sabbatical Award (2005-2006), and ESF USA Distinguished Teaching Award (2009). Ted serves as Graduate Curriculum Coordinator for his Department, manager of the Hassett Hydraulics and Hydrology Lab, representative to the ESF Council on Hydrologic Systems Science, and as an academic advisor to ESF's student chapters of Engineers without Borders and American Water Resources Association. Ted is an advisory board member for the Journal of River Basin Management and editorial board member for Hydrological Processes. Ted manages reporting of daily weather observations for SUNY ESF to the NOAA National Weather Service, and maintains a UCAR-sponsored NOAA River Forecast Center fluvial geomorphology training module.

News Updates

Jan 10: Our ESF Engineers without Borders students had a colorful trip to Buena Vista, Honduras, documenting many scenes! A history of recent trips is kept by ESF online.

Dec 09 - Jan 10: ESF students traveled to Buena Vista Honduras to advance our NSF CBET research project. These students are field checking a design for a sustainable community water supply. The design balances headwater stream low flow between human health needs and in stream ecosystem needs, such as hyporheic and riparian structure and function requirements. News from AGU - exciting river restoration analysis at U of Minnesota St. Anthony Falls Laboratory.

Dec 09: Students in River Form and Process are finding the Peter Wilcock's model for sediment transport works best to predict substrate movement in Baltimore Brook, Marcellus, NY. The research on hyporheic response to in-channel geomorphic controls of Erich Hester and Simon Doyle has motivated our exciting model and flume experiments on hydrologic jumps and hyporheic exchange.

Nov 09: Hello National Center for Earth-Surface Dynamics - 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, eventually part of iTree, to predict fluid transport and evaporation spatial heterogeneity in urban environments, and address urban heat island management.

Oct 09: Welcome Water Year 2010! Our S6 MKII flume is flowing strong, and the moveable bed model 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