Category: News
Christian Mooneyham Defends MS
Christian Mooneyham successfully defended his MS thesis this past December. His study was a nice piece of work on the settling of clay suspensions within gravel...
Dancing mud?
Rachel Kuprenas featured in the Virginia Sea Grant news article, Dance of the Mud Particles.
Mohamad Rouhnia Defends PhD
Mohamad Rouhnia successfully defended is PhD dissertation this past August! The title of his work is: Vertical transport of sediment from muddy buoyant river pl...
Rachel Kuprenas wins PhD Fellowship
Congratulations to Rachel Kuprenas, who was recently awarded a Virginia Sea Grant Graduate Research Fellowship! The funding will support her PhD and allow her t...
Tank: Phase 1 completed
The first phase of the fan and delta tank installation is complete.
PhD qualifier
Duc Tran passed his PhD qualifying exam. Congratulations Duc.
New group members
Rachel Kuprenas, Nilay İşcen, and Christian Mooneyham all joined the group for the start of the fall semester.
Phosphorescent particles
A new project looking at using phosphorescent particles for flow visualization was recently started. The project is being led by undergraduate research assistan...
Delta and fan basin
Construction of a new delta and submarine fan tank is now underway in the Baker Environmental Hydraulics Laboratory (BEHL). The tank was gifted to VT by ExxonMo...
Successful theses defense
Hossein Hosseiny successively defended his MS thesis and Paul Hamilton successively defended his PhD dissertation.