Endreny in ESF's Environmental Resources Engineering

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CV | ResearchGate | Biographical Sketch: Theodore Endreny is Professor and Chair in the Department of Environmental Resources Engineering at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF). Professor Endreny is a professional hydrologist and registered professional engineer, received his Bachelor of Science degree in Natural Resources from Cornell University (1990), completed a 2 yr Peace Corps volunteer assignment in Honduras (1992), earned his Master of Science degree in Biological and Agricultural Engineering from North Carolina State University (1996), and earned his Doctoral degree in Water Resources Engineering from Princeton University (1999). Professor Endreny's research team develops software tools for restoration of natural resources and delivery of ecosystem services, in order to improve our world. The i-Tree tools are an important output from this work, strategically designing urban forests and rivers to remove pollution. Professor Endreny has taught courses in engineering hydrology and hydraulics, river restoration, and ecological engineering in the tropics. Professor Endreny was the recipient of a SUNY Chancellor's Internationalization Award (2004), a Fulbright Commission Research and Lecturer Sabbatical award to Cyprus (2005), the SUNY ESF Undergraduate Student Association Distinguished Teacher Award (2009), the US nomination for the IEEE GHTC Global Humanitarian Engineer of the Year (2013), the Fulbright Commission Distinguished Chair in Environmental Sciences at Parthenope University, Italy (2016), the Elsevier Atlas Award (September 2017), and Management Innovation Award for i-Tree Hydro from American Public Works Association NY Chapter (2017).

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2014: Ted is now tweeting updates and blogging stories. The monthly summaries he created will remain archived below, and new ones may emerge. Stay engaged!

Dec 2013: ERE was proud to host Dr. Christine Hatch of UMass Amherst as an invited speaker on climate change and river health, a topic for American Rivers. Speaking of rivers, check out HydroSHeDS - Hydrological data and maps based on Shuttle Elevation Derivatives at multiple Scales. Snow is falling and NOHRSC is monitoring - check out the 3D maps.

Nov 2013: A shout out to Focus Forward Films reporting on Kamen's water purification technology. Kudos to Dr. Fred Ogden of U Wyomingfor helping create GSSHA for watershed simulation. Great Lakes precipitation for the calendar year is comfortably above normal - well watered lakes!

Oct 2013: Time to revisit Building Resilience in New York, co-authored by SUNY Research Foundation's Tim Killeen, and consider the Rockefeller Foundation's list of 100 resilient cities Perhaps a guide toward resilience is the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure and the USACE pilots in climate change adaptation. The Honduran Lost City of Gold story presents ideas on how to leave and find clues of our efforts to build sustainable cities, even ones resilient to atmospheric rivers. As you read more about science - consider these 20 tips to interpret scientific claims.

Sep 2013: ERE alumnae Dr. Yang created an i-Tree model to predict spatial patterns of urban air temperature, published in JRG-Atmospheres. CMIP5 data of temperature based on representative concentration pathway 8.5w/m2 were used to show changes in ecologically critical terrestrial climate will be 10 times faster than any change in past 65 million years, according to Diffenbaugh and Field in the Science issue on climate change. In related news from NAE and NAS - we need a national sustainability policyto coordinate federal agencies. The NAP has recommended best practices in urban forestry to deliver ecosystem services.

Aug 2013: NYC and environs have a helpful OASIS GIS mapping tool. URBANSim uses such data to help in metropolitan planning. WARRSS is a USEPA procedure to assess river stability in rural and urban areas. SU's Dave Chandler has a new research group page on urban runoff monitoring. NY schooled Veronica Griffis is teaching River and Floodplain Hydraulics at MTU. Next Generation Science Standards may help our K-12 students advance this knowledge. The top 25 engineering featswere recently ranked and may inspire all students.

Jul 2013: Malcolm Gladwell writes about adaptive management and how Albert Hirschman saw the power of failure in his summer book review for the New Yorker; by engineers and geologists failing to correctly predict burden and cost of tunneling through Hoosac Mt they unintentionally accelerated US western expansion. Some other random connections - NAE's The Bridge published on the value of social sciences in maximizing public benefits of engineering; UW's Rebecca Neumann is revealing how plants regulate below-ground hydro-biogeochemistry, USGS' David Wolock has advanced i-Tree Hydro access to topographic indices and community-based simulation and USGS provides the Global Climate Change Viewer to analyze CMIP5 data; SIWI is preparing for the Sep 1-6 World Water Week in Stockholm; the US Global Change Research Program advanced the National Climate Assessment by convening Regional Town Halls; TNC has released its Coastal Resilience Tool and partnered with our team on a urban forest residence tool.

Jun 2013: Our i-Tree Hydro team is giving a webinar in Vermont's Green Infrastructure Initiative. NY DEC is similarly involved in GI for CNY. i-Tree can address water, energy, health and related issues of security, so perhaps the World Bank - Open Knowledge Repository will link to these i-Tree tools to help with global development! To make i-Tree tools most effective we use the TRACE model development approach. Megan Konar's group is addressing water and food security, looking at whether international trade mitigates or exacerbates the ecological impacts of climate change. More researcher is needed - the National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy has issued a call to action to protect ecosystems and the related services that support humans, communities and economies. Beyond i-Tree, some alternative models are promoted on Australia's eWater Toolkit and the US EPA's Menu of Best Management Practices. Back to ESF, our very own Joe Becker just published his MS research on ecosystem benefits of stream restoration!

May 2013: My students Yang, Zhou, and Han (working with Chu) have each had their papers accepted, one with revisions, into Water Resources Research, a leading journal in our field. They and others can predict their future research impact factor using the future h-index calculator developed in the Kording Lab. In an effort to remove gender barriers National Academies is working to improve the impact of women engineers and scientists. By addressing green technology our student research will advance the mission of Village Earth and remove development barriers. To inspire new engineers to continue these efforts, we are participating in the Genius Olympiad at SUNY Oswego this summer. I was inspired by Grace Napolitano's vision, published in AGU's EOS, for collecting hydrology data to inform policy decisions regarding our changing climate - including plans for: SNOTEL, NIWR, Landsat 8.

Apr 2013: Check out ICT4D who questions the development efficacy of information and communication technologies solutions. This site was featured in the Harvard Business Review late March technology and poverty blog. Susan Davis wrote the HBR blog, and is founder and CEO of BRAC USA, an affiliate to BRAC - the largest NGO in the world. She is the author of Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know. Finally, consider taking an Engineering for Change tour of their Webinars and News. On the domestic front, check out the EPA water tools and their announced stormwater calculator - it has lots of features similar to our i-Tree Hydro calculator design. I was inspired by the NRC 2012 report on science needs to create disaster resilience - we need integrated models that couple engineering, social science and natural science. Go team ESF!

Mar 2013: March brings news. AGU has its EAR to the Ground and has Earth Science Educator Opportunities from NESTA. Spring changes the seasonal climate, and then we have non-seasonal climate change data to ponder. Get national training from NTER to use these and other science data, and consider NREL BITES building transportation and electricity as an area to increase climate mitigation knowledge! Want to go back in time yet have future relevance - check out Steve Lohr on a real SimCity effort similar to what we do with i-Tree

Feb 2013: The 2013 World Water Week in Stockholm is in the planning stages and it is a good time to review their 2012 10 take away lessons by J. Weinberg still resonate: 1) unsolved food paradox; 2) solutions to sustainably intensify agricultural production; 3) opportunities in waste; 4) public-private partnerships for water stewardship; 5) early warning systems for flood management and climate change impacts; 6) water research thrives compared with other research disciplines; 7) advances in understanding the water-energy-food nexus; 8) global rush for land impacts water resources; 9) investments in clean water, sanitation and improved hygiene reduce malnutrition; and 10) collaboration is needed on all fronts - and is the agenda for 2013 WWW! Maplecroft is quantifying water security - trying to help the world with risk and responsibility. On the scientific research front - Lagrangian Coherent Structures help us predict the dispersal of pollutants from sources such as the 2010 Icelandic volcano eruption, the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2011 Fukushima reactor radioactive contamination. Great research (with a focus on geosciences?!) is coming to SUNY thanks installation of a new President of the Research Foundation of SUNY - Tim Killeen.

Jan 2013: The ERE course Ecological Engineering in the Tropics is scheduled to travel to Costa Rica March 8-18 2013, working with Rancho Mastatal. Some related development news - the One World Futbol Project has innovated the use of fluid pressure and gives kids an inflated soccer ball forever, globally; Worldwatch Institute is seeking support for Nourishing the Planet by optimizing the use of irrigation waters; the UN has been providing more guidance on delivering water security for humans and the environment; UNICEF has an update on progress toward the MDGs for 2012; the UN has a volunteer opportunity for you; and young professionals imagine how the nexus of water-energy-food-hygiene looks like with a mindmap for 2050. As we try to monitor water availability, we are grateful for the USGS GAGES-II tool for watershed data on nearly 10,000 gauges, the NHD-Plus toolfor digitizing and quantifying hydrography, and the EPA How's My Waterway toolfor public engagement.

Dec 2012: Discovery of 2012 - Higgs Boson. This news according to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Discovery of Higgs boson explains the acquisition and distribution of mass in the standard model of particle physics. The fundamental particles are quarks and leptons, and the force carriers are the W and Z bosons (mass), the photon (massless), and gluons. The Higgs boson remained a theoretical explanation for why the bosons had mass nearly 100 times that of the proton (composed of quarks) and the photon was massless. The recent CERN experiments with the ATLAS and CMS detectors with the Large Hadron Collider found a heavy boson with mass of 125 GeV (10^9 electronvolts), which was consistent with expectations for the Higgs boson. With Higgs boson in the bag, the search is on for extra-dimensions!

Nov 2012: Hurricane Sandy struck NJ in late October and generated flooding that destroyed property and life along the east coast with impacts felt throughout November. Sea level rise is contributing to coastal vulnerability. Meanwhile a vast interior section of the US is forecast to remain in a severe drought. Global weather hazards are equally devastating. To respond, we need to encourage our politicians and communities to work toward an effective and fair universal climate agreement at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Doha on 26 November – 7 December 2012.

Oct 2012: Syracuse hosted the Dalai Lama and the One World concert - a historic celebration of peace, music, and common ground Oct 10.

Sep 2012: Thinking about back to school at SUNY ESF! What inspires high school students to become freshman engineering majors? The American Society of Engineering Education PRISM magazine directed me to eGFI, a dynamic program to introduce engineering to K-12 students.

Aug 2012: Stockholm was the venue for World Water Week (WWW) and its ceremonies. Pepsi Co won the 2012 Stockholm Industry Award for water efficiency (16 billion liters conserved) and Dr. Colin Chartres, Director of the International Water Management Institute won the Stockholm Water Prize for their efforts to address food security through water management. Feeding a thirsty world is the theme of the Twitter about World Water Week 2012. Add energy to the mix, and the water-food-energy nexus was picked up by The Guardian and other news outlets. An open question at the WWW - should water be priced. Another nexus at WWW is water-sanitation-hygiene. At WWW you see many ways to get involved.

Jul 2012: Our i-Tree team of scientists has initiated a collaboration with USGS StreamStats to provide watershed delineation functions. The collaboration revealed new delineation functionality in the National Hydrography Database plus and access to land cover and soil cover maps via the National Map. Meanwhile AGU's EOS (see article or abstract) alerted us to the National Stream Morphology Data Exchange with exciting needs, challenges, and opportunities.

Jun 2012: Inspired by the National Academy of Engineering campaign, Engineers How are you Changing the Conversation to help attract more diverse students to our field and improve the quality of life for humanity. Also inspired by Adam Ward of the University of Iowa - his group of Sam Smidt and Joe Cullin, Laura Lautz's group of Maggie Zimmer and Ryan Gordon, and our research group of Ted, Mallory Wright, and Jesse Robinson basically went 72-hrs straight to improve water quality by using electrical resistivity and other sampling techniques to detect hyporheic exchange around natural and human-made river structures on Owego Creek (trib to the recovering Chesapeake Bay). To help inspire your dedication to the challenge of working for clean water, check out the USGS illustration of the volume of fresh water. If you like the clean water challenge or want another, consider the NAE Grand Challenge Scholars!

May 2012: The Stockholm International Water Institute reminds us it is time to plan water-based activities for this summer - including World Water Week 2012. Former SIWI director Anders Berntell now directs the Water Resources Group for the International Finance Corp within the World Bank Group. Kudos to the International Water Management Institute for innovations in enhancing water conservation to provide food security and environmental health - enough success to win the 2012 Stockholm Water Prize. Thinking about water, consider Rio+20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development this June 12-23; sustainable water management helps with issues of food production, energy supply, climate change, transboundary conflict, and business success. The Great Lakes - St. Lawrence River Water Resources Regional Council and Compactbrings together 2 countries, 2 provinces, and 8 states to manage our planet's largest freshwater supply for the planet, people, and prosperity.

Apr 2012: Graduate students Joe Becker and Mike Fay defended their MS thesis work this month! Graduate student Jesse Robinson and I were awarded an NSF REU to investigate transient storage differences between restored and non-restored rivers. Graduate student Yang Yang has submitted her surface diffusive wave hygrograph theory for journal review and is about to move to Illinois for a post-doc experience! Graduate student Tian Zhou has written two new manuscripts on the interface of hydraulics and hyporheic exchange and is heading to UW to support his partner as she completes a post-doc in Dennis Lettenmaier's lab! My colleague Stew Diemont and I have had our Copan Maya stormwater management research accepted for publication! More exciting news coming soon!

Mar 2012: The 2012 World Water Day at the United Nations was given the theme - The World is Thirsty Because We are Hungry. Of course, for hydrologists every day is Water Day! NSF's Doug James in AGU's EOS outlined steps to better balance basin-wide fluxes of water, chemicals, and energy. ERE's Mike Fay has finished his flume tests of the accuracy in vertical heat advection estimates of hyporheic flux. ERE's Joe Becker has finished his analysis of complications in measuring transient storage in river reaches with steering structures. As a shout out to another lab doing research that complements our ESF work - Brian Mc Glynn and fellow Montana State scientists conducted experiments quantifying hydrologic response to channel reconfiguration (e.g., steering structures).

Feb 2012: The National Research Council published, "Challenges and Opportunities in the Hydrological Sciences". The main research themes for the coming decade are: The Water Cycle (e.g. understanding changes in hydrologic fluxes given urban growth and climate change), Water and Life (e.g., understanding co-organization of topography, vegetation, subsurface biota, and hydrology over geomorphic time scales), and Clean Water for People and Ecosystems (e.g., understanding the movement of contaminants through an irregular and interconnected world). We appreciate the serious work its authors put forth, chaired by George Hornberger. The new interdisciplinary geosciences InTeGrate effort may help guide students toward these exciting research areas.

Jan 2012: The National Academy of Engineering addressed our Country's lack of a coordinated national water policy and issued a call (part of the White House Clean Water framework) for restoring and sustaining urban and rural water quality and efficiency through innovative partnerships and (science & engineering) practices so we protect human health and water resources enjoyment. These challenges are global, and the 6th World Water Forumkicks off in France this week. The World Water Assessment Program issued its 4th World Water Development Report - managing water under uncertainty and risk.

Dec 2011: The AGU fall meeting in San Francisco was a tremendous success. While there we heard from Hydrological Processes that our Tian Zhou had his paper on 3D analysis of meander hydrodynamics published (stunning graphics!) and Laura Lautz and I had our letter to the editor on reducing hyporheic exchange monitoring gaps published. The Stockholm International Water Institutesent a call for World Water Week abstracts. Trujillo, Honduras, the site of my Peace Corps work and home to ecologically critical mangroves and rain forests has been identified by the Economist as the site for a future Hong Kong like sovereign business center.

Nov 2011: The UNESCO Water News reminds us of the important work and research we need to pursue to deliver drinking water (and energy?) as a human right. Hopefully we can engage with UNESCO on these challenges.

Oct 2011: Students had an extraordinary camping trip in ESF's Adirondack property over Columbus Day weekend - view a photo. Our very own Tian Zhou had his paper on CFD modeling of river restoration hydraulics in a meander bend go to press at Hydrological Processes!

Sep 2011: Ted became Chair of the Department of Environmental Resources Engineering. Check out the ERE Blog for our news! Check out his current graduate advisee pages for recent research news!

Aug 2011: Our WRI funded Stream Team sampled for surface and subsurface transient storage in nearly 15 river reaches across NY - a blistering pace that yielded exciting information about river restoration impacts on hyporheic exchange! In Florida the EPA has set Numeric Nutrient Criteria, which may be a way to improve biological ecosystem response to TMDLS and meet water function targets. ESF's Adirondack Ecological Center hosts the Goodnow Mountain hike, and a sneak preview of the September National Geographicshows the hike was featured as epic beauty. This month my family cabin-camped in the ADK to enjoy the protected lakes and forests, and also shake-shacked in outer Cape Code to enjoy (e.g., Boogie Board!) the National Seashore.

Jul 2011: Fluid dynamics and sport was the general topic of conversation. Bicyclists peddled 3200 km in Le Tour de France this year - an event where bicyclists reduce drag by drafting others in the peloton or trim their own drag coefficient in the individual time trial. During the TDF Grenoble ITT physicists in the city were pursuing the Higgs particle - the boson a wee bit faster than TDF 2011 Champion Cadel Evans. Enjoy the summer - our students are reducing drag in lakes, rivers, and wet labs by being fluid! Next month I'll use their mentoring to reduce Department Chair drag and reach potential.

Jun 2011: Our student Jesse Robinson has won an EPA STAR Fellowship (and was honorable mention for the 2011 NSF GRFP!) for his stream restoration research. Four M.S. students (Jesse, Joe Becker, Mike Fay, and Hanh Chu) are working on our NYS WRI grant to assess how river restoration enhances stream functions. Summer reading ideas: the Economist documents a new geological era where humans are the primary agent of geological change (moving more soil per year in one mining project than all rivers per year) - the Anthropocene; EngineerGirl has posted winning essays from the challenge - Engineering and Human Service - Relief From a Disaster; National Academies Press is offering all PDF books, including best sellers, for free; Merritts classic Follow the Silt story as covered by the NY Times on how eastern US rivers are cutting through floodplains formed behind mill dams; and a Professor Menand in the New Yorker has a call of solidarity for teachers to academically challenge college students. Other summer news - June 17 was World Day to Combat Desertification.

May 2011: Register for the ESF and Army Corps of Engineers (via Dave Derrick) co-sponsored Stream Investigation, Stabilization & Design Workshop May 17-19 - print and mail. The Water Sanitation Portal is providing data and indicators on drinking water supply and sanitation for most African countries. The Extreme Precipitation in New York beta website confirms our estimate of 1.2 inches of rain in 15 minutes April 26 as a 50-yr return interval storm. NAE still lists water delivery as a grand engineering challenge and our ESF graduates are ready to engage this challenge!

Apr 2011: The International Office of Water has announced the Access to Information on the African Water Sector website to build water sector management capacity and the Performance Indicators for African Basin Organizations. Earth Day was celebrated globally and AAAS picked up on Green Education programs. Our ESF Walter's Hall weather monitoring has been re launched by Tyler Nowak and Pat McHale, so we are part of Myron Mitchell's group, Environmental Monitoring. ESF celebrated our Spotlight on Student Research with Yang, Tian, Bangshuai, Hanh, Jesse, Mike, Joe, and Dave all presenting their posters.

Mar 2011: Happy World Water Day! SUNY ESF students in Engineers without Borders were in Honduras to advance the Buena Vista community water supply and hydro-technology project. EWB was represented by Amanda B. and Joe B. of ESF, and Mark F. of Anchor QEA. This trip times well with World Water Day. Back in New York, drought analysis of tree-ring data from ~500 yr old trees has revealed record droughts that may exceed the 1981 drought that depleted nearly 70% of NYC's reservoir volume. On a lighter side, the AAAS has selected the an NSF funded "teach science in 1-minute" video, featuring Newton's Law of Gravitation. As the northern hemisphere tilted into spring the Sirocco winds awoke in northern African, which will mix earth-science sand storms and liberation politics.

Feb 2011: Activity in the Baker Hydraulics Lab is inspiring! Derek Crane, a PhD student with John Farrell's TIBS program has used the flume to test walleye egg retention given changes in flow hydraulics and substrate roughness. Nick Haas, an undergraduate working with the flume on hyphoreic exchange, has been accepted into the Argonne National Lab for summer research experience, working with Ben O'Connor. To cap it off, Water Resources Research has published our 2 papers on how river steps and hydraulic jumps regulate hyporheic exchange!

Jan 2011: Our EWB Club members are deeply grateful for the generous financial and personnel support provided by Anchor QEA toward our Buena Vista, Yoro, Honduras Community Water Supply project. It is an extreme event, and UCAR has celebrated with the release of their extReme values software for modeling nonstationary events. Students are back and our ESF campusis alive with research, outreach, and learning. Our group can celebrate Hanh's student award, Mark's published manuscript in Hydrological Processes, and my papers with Laura and Don in Water Resources Research, among other meaningful accomplishments!

Dec 2010: The AAAS (i.e., publisher of Science) presents the useful study, Step by Step: Your Career from Undergrad to Postdoc. The AGU Fall Meeting 2010 was filled with exiting lectures, several of which are online for public viewing. Students derive incredible learning gains at AGU, and when they take leadership roles, their learning grows rapidly. The Chronicle of Higher Education explores student leadership and learning in this article on the need for leadership training.

Nov 2010: This is once in a decade - SUNY ESF is hiring an Assistant Professor in Water Resources Engineering! Apply here - or find our advertising by searching with key words "SUNY ESF" at the AGU Career or ASCE Job search websites. Spread the exciting news!

Oct 2010: The American Geophysical Union is reporting the rate of groundwater depletion is increasing and outstripping recharge rates. The USA Science and Engineering Festival is taking place on the National Mall (with satellite events throughout New York). The Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded, and the grand engineering prize went to development of a remote helicopter for the collection of whale snot. Our research group was not included in this folly, but former graduate student Mark Fabian's paper on seasonal variation in hyporheic exchange in Honduras (funded by NSF) was accepted to Wiley's journal of Hydrological Processes.

Sep 2010: We are thrilled to have our recent river restoration research considered for publication in Water Resources Research, a flagship publication. Our experiment used a flume to develop dynamic hydraulic forces across the riverbed, which were associated with different patterns of riverbed filtration. We are now seeking more funding to establish firm quantitative measurements of this phenomenon so we can analyze its potential to improve river water quality and help the US meet Clean Water Act (CWA) goals. Right now nearly 500,000 miles of US rivers are impaired and not fishable, drinkable, or swimmable. Thanks to WAMC for hosting our Academic Minute!

Aug 2010: New and returning graduate students are heading to SUNY ESF this month! We have a draft ESF Graduate Student Orientation Handbook and are working on an ERE Graduate Reception Aug 23 at 11:45 am in Baker 408. Meanwhile, three exciting research projects have been written up and are in review at top journals. One additional project is testing a Google Map tool for rain garden design. More soon...

Jul 2010: International water initiatives, such as basin twinning, trans-boundary water sharing, inter-basin transfers, and other marvels of negotiation are well reported by the International Office for Water. I am particularly excited by the coordination of International Water Training Centers and the promise this holds for global water delivery and sanitation, particularly to the poorest villages, where implementation successes are increasingly tested by scientific methods.

Jun 2010: Our work on stream restoration was presented to a general audience and captured by ESF News and Pubs' Dave White for publicity. Here is a video at our flume, and an audio tape heading to the Capital listening area. Several complex wetland restoration projects in the St Lawrence River area are in research and design and build stages, with extensive coordination by Dr. John Farrell of SUNY ESF Thousand Islands Biological Station. TIBS, based out of Clayton, NY, provides scientific and logistical support for partners, such as the US Fish and Wildlife Service, as they enhance Walleye, Muskie and other fisheries. I was fortunate to take a tour of some projects and learn about the clever work coordinated by Dr. John Farrell. Some of the high impact projects are highlighted by the clearinghouse, Save the River.

May 2010: School is out for many of the students in our SUNY system, but research activity has ramped up for some undergraduate and graduate students. Our SUNY ESF ORP coordinates a wealth of research, and thanks to their assistance, I am engaged in several exciting projects with my students Yang, Bangshuai, and Tian, as well as separate projects with colleagues.

Apr 2010: Engineers without Borders at ESF launched a new EWB website, and have an Earth Week Hike / Hike for Honduras outing planned for our Appalachian Plateau. Many talented new graduate students are joining our program, some taking refresher prerequisite courses using open courseware. Brown and Caldwell engineer, Chris Somerlot, gave a lecture on stormwater engineering analysis to our FEG340 students, featuring Syracuse drainage and green infrastructure issues. The Post Standard newspaper has just featured the stormwater as THE community issue.

Mar 2010: Spring showers are examined here with QPF products thanks to the Binghamton NWS offices. Resulting floods can be monitored with the help of the RFC, and we will likely see many river gages heading from non-flooding green colors to flooding colors of orange, red, and purple. ESF ERE is hosting an open house this March 5, with festivities all around campus, including the CoE open house.

Feb 2010: Dave Eichorn, a professional meteorologist, has energized our Hydro-Meteorology seminar with discussions of meso-scale forecasting, basic model products and predictions, and the impact to Great Lakes weather based on anomalous deepening of the arctic 500 mb thickness. Interesting maps and charts are available . On separate news, updates from AGU confirm urban green spaces may warm rather than just cool cities due to land management practices giving off heat; this has impacts on UHI abatement strategies.

Jan 2010: 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 2010: 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 2009: 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 2009: 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 2009: 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 2009: 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 2009: 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 2009: 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 2009: 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 2009: 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 2009: 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 2009: 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 2009: 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 2009: 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 2009: 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 2008: 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 2008: Tian Zhou has FLOW3D and Fluent CFD models simulating meander bend hydraulics. Testing with total station survey for Spafford Creek.

Nov 2008: 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 2008: 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 2008: Jill Crispell's paper on HEF in press at Hydrological Processes and our Green Infrastructure for Stormwater Investigation published in the journal Ecological Engineering

Ted Endreny, P.H., P.E., Professor, Water Resources & Ecological Engineering

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